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It Saves You Money. Empowers You To Create More Flexible Telephony Solution. Asterisk Is A Win Win Situation. Asterisk World at ITEXPO addresses "Everything Asterisk" for business users, resellers and executive decision-makers. It focuses on open source telephony business users—and potential users interested in getting more in depth experience with Asterisk. Discover how Asterisk, the world's most widely used open source telephony software, can save you money and empower you to create more flexible telephony solutions. Current Asterisk World Exhibitors Include: Asteria ConnectWise Digium KHOMP INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO LTDA New Rock Technologies Obihai Technology OpenText Orecx Synway Xmartek Asterisk World Educational Programming Includes: Asterisk 1-2-3: The Essential 1-Day Asterisk Training Course (FREE): The Asterisk 1-2-3 Seminar is intended to provide a well rounded and informative introduction to the Asterisk Project. All are Welcome! Whether you are managing a team deploying an Asterisk implementation, evaluating potential replacements for a legacy telephony solution thats on its last leg, or just a general Asterisk newbie excited to learn what Asterisk is capable of, then this talk has something to offer you. This all day seminar is broken into multiple sessions, beginning with background information such as the history of Asterisk, followed by methods of installing Asterisk and examples of fundamental configuration for call flow and features such as Voicemail and IVR. Lecture will immediately be followed by a Question and Answer Session. More Information Conference Sessions Include: Applied VoIP Security & Reliability on Commodity Internet Service Speaker: Dennis Little Business Development Engineer - tapestry technologies, LLC The case study of a 3 year old, $15M lodging startup using high availability Asterisk to connect offices in four states securely and reliably, using commodity internet connections. Participants will learn about the hardware, software Vyatta, FreePBX, DRBD, service providers and design considerations that make this cost effective system a precious and reliable asset. Asterisk Deployment in Large Enterprise and Cloud Solutions Speaker: Ali Pey Sr. Software Engineer Architecht - j2 Global Why Asterisk? This presentation will discuss advantages and best practices for Asterisk deployments. It will walk through different possible Asterisk applications and Network architectures. It will discuss the network components and the most cost effective solutions for providing Security, Redundancy, High availability, Routing and Distribution. Business Case for Hosted vs. Enterprise Service Decisions: "Show Me the Money?" Speaker: Richard Hathaway Principal Consultant - RLH Telecom Solutions, LLC Will contracting with a hosted service provider for reduce your overall telecommunications/technology costs? An effective analysis of the decision points must include an examination of all factors relevant to your specific enterprise operations, infrastructure and corporate culture. A vendors ROI calculator alone may not be the best tool for this task. Attendees will hear and discuss: 1. Specific relevant organizational and financial factors that must be considered in short and long term decisions. 2. The results of recent small, medium and large system case studies. 3. Share their own recent experiences and discuss alternatives. UC in the Cloud - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Speaker: Bryan Johns Community Director - Digium In the last two years there has been an increasing interest in telecommunication services and applications delivered form the cloud. There are plenty of reasons why these offerings are attractive financially and operationally, but theres also plenty of reasons why they might not meet you or your customers expectations. In this session we will cover the most popular use cases and customer profiles for cloud UC and the potential technical and user frustrations that can derail even the most advanced solutions. Come learn what customers are good candidates for UC in the cloud and which ones should spare themselves the agony. Scaling up with Switchvox: Strategies for Larger Deployments Speaker: Corey McFadden, Managing Partner - Voneto Digium Switchvox has become very popular as a phone system solution for small and midsized customers over the past several years but has only recently gained the attention of enterprises. This session will explore various strategies for designing, deploying, and supporting multisite communications solutions based on Digium Switchvox. We will explore dial plan and user status federation, leveraging Asterisk and the Switchvox Extend API, as well as unified system administration techniques. Panel Session: Battle for the Cloud: The Future of Cloud Computing Speakers: Roberto D. De La Mora Sr. Director, Unified Communications - Cisco Systems, Inc.; Lisa Pierce Managing VP, Unified Communications, Network Systems and Services Research Team - Gartner; Peder Ulander, Vice President of Product Marketing, Cloud Platforms Group - Citrix; Kiran Bellare, Director of Product Marketing - HP; Mike McCarthy, Vice President of Cloud Computing for IBM Global Technology Services - IBM; Skip Chilcott, Senior Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft Moderator: Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director - TMC Competition is nothing new to the technology arena – it's what breeds innovation and defines new trends. When new ideas reach the point of becoming disruptive, competition heats up to the point of a tech war, which is where cloud computing has taken the industry, with vendors large and small making a play in the clouds, and businesses of all sizes evaluating their options in the cloud. More Information Panel Session: The Future of Service Providers — Dumb Pipes or Global Leaders? Speakers: Jason Collins, Vice President of Emerging Technology and Innovation - Alcatel-Lucent; Craig Walker, CEO and Founder - Firespotter Labs; Steve Johnson, President - Ingate; Glen Gerhard, Vice President of Product Management - Sansay; David Tipping, Vice President and General Manager, SBC Business Unit - Sonus; Michael A. Rouleau, Senior Vice President - tw telecom Moderator: Peter Bernstein, Senior Editor - TMC In a data driven world, what will be the role of the network operators? Will they be "dumb pipe" companies, or will they leverage their unique assets —communications infrastructure, connectivity, market coverage and customer intimacy — to emerge as the hubs of dynamic global ecosystems? Rhetoric on this subject has been replaced with reality. More Information Asterisk and the Community - Past, Present and Future Speaker: David Duffett Director, Worldwide Asterisk Community - Digium Asterisk is the most established and most successful open source communications engine in the world and that didnt happen by accident! Attend this session for a brief history of the project, followed by a summary of the project as it is right now, swiftly followed by a look at where things are going both in terms of the communications features and functions, and the Asterisk community too. If you are not already part of the community, you'll be itching to get involved by the end of this session. Best Practices for Connecting your Asterisk System to SIP Trunking Services Speaker: David Martin, Vice President - Edgewater Networks Many organizations are adopting SIP trunking services to save money and improve the flexibility of their communications infrastructure. While the IPbased architecture of Asterisk simplifies connecting to these services without requiring a gateway there are other important considerations for any successful deployment. This session will review networking best practices for security, interoperability, quality of service and ongoing maintenance to help ensure you get the most from your SIP trunking service. NEW SESSION: Deployment Planning for Switchvox, Scaling with Growing Market Speaker: Eric Todd, CTO - NETXUSA A discussion on methods for deployment planning and IP PBX implementation that reduce labor cost, provide a consistent structure to reduce errors and provide methods to scale with growing customer demands. Access the Complete Agenda Register Today! Visit Asterisk World or contact Frank Coppola at 203-852-6800 x131. Exhibit At Asterisk World--And Connect With The Official Community of Asterisk Users and Developers The Asterisk World exhibits brings together industry-leading products under one roof. 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