Recent VoIP Lab Events: Year 2008 - 2009



October 27-29 , 2009: Fifth Annual VoIP Conference and Expo

The VoIP Conference and Expo at IIT's Rice Campus, home of the IIT VoIP Research Lab, continued its tradition of bringing together technical professionals, industry leaders and members of the academic and research communities in an intense three-tracked meeting at which the characteristics, advantages and challenges of differing technologies, architectures and solutions were presented, debated and discussed.

Participants included developers and professionals from telecommunications carriers, start-ups , NGN service providers, emergency services professionals, vendors of everything from web-based solutions, IP PBXes, carrier grade solutions, and SIP Trunks. This year's conference was preceded by a day-long SIP Tutorial taught by two outstanding technology leaders, Henry Sinnreich and Alan Johnston, who introduced the basics of the SIP protocol, described challenges to the deployment of SIP systems, and outlined alternatives to SIP and VoIP architectures. Below are some photos that highlight aspects of the conference.


Jose De Francisco Lopez of ALU speaks on Emerging 2.0 Communications


Henning Schulzrinne speaking on Scaling up VoIP - Congestion Control for SIP


City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications vehicles demonstrate how the City supports Internet-based services


Keynote addresses and panels where differing points of view are aired

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Kristi Daeda of Twin Sparks Consulting explains how to use and follow twitter messages during the conference


Sponsors and Exhibitors booths provide opportunities to learn and network

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A more detailed look


Lunch provides more opportunities to network and discuss

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September 29 , 2009: VoIP Lab Projects and the Development of VoIP Standards

Recent and on-going VoIP Lab projects were discussed relative to the development of VoIP Standards. Lab Director, Carol Davids, described a set of projects undertaken by students, faculty and industry in the IIT VoIP Research Lab and related these projects to efforts to standardize and specify the VoIP applications and services .   The talk focused on the state of standardization and specification of VoIP services today and indicates how university labs can and do play a significant role in developing such specifications. Examples of projects were given that highlight different types of guidelines and specifications that the labs can and do support.

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July 22nd , 2009: Science Chicago - Build your own phone company

On July 22, students from area high schools, middle and elementary schools spent the afternoon in the IIT VoIP Lab, installing and operating soft phones as part of IIT’s “School Bell” phone company. They got the “411” on what they need to do to install their own IP PBX’es at home or at school and to connect them to the School Bell system to create an Internet-based phone company. Some parents and teachers joined the fun, as Professor Carol Davids explained how a phone system works, starting with tin cans and string, moving to circuit switched networks and now evolving to telephone service over the Internet. This workshop was a part of the Science Chicago program, an initiative the introduces area students in grades K-12 to the joys of science and engineering.

For information about how to join the School Bell project at IIT, please contact Carol Davids.(davids@iit.edu,630.682.6024)


The tin can plays the role of the modem – the string carries the bearer information between the phones


Installing and Operating Wireshark to troubleshoot the VOIP network


Installation and operation of soft phones

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May 6 , 2009: Student Colloquium on VoIP

Students in the Voice over IP and Telecom courses at the IIT Center for Professional Development used posters, demonstrations and presentations to report on their semester projects Wednesday evening, May 6 at the IIT Rice Campus. More than 60 attendees enjoyed pizza and snacks, asked questions at poster sessions and presentations, toured the lab and participated in live demos.  [top]

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Sendil Durairaaj describes porting ICS's ACerted Trust to Asterisk

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Ainur Zhakenova explains how SIP proxies find proxies on distant networks

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Sung Kim peered VoIIT with an Asterisk Server at ITT

CPD honored the organizations and individuals who sponsored this semester's projects, giving certificates of appreciation to the industry mentors who worked with the students throughout the semester . Presentation slides are available below. More photos will be posted to the Photo Album soon. [top]

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Paul Sand, Salare Security's CEO with MS candidate Raghuveer Pesaru receives Cartificate of Appreciation

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More detail about these and other projects in the VoIP Lab is available at the current projects page of this site. [top]

April 7 , 2009: Authenticated Identities in VoIP Call Control - Opportunities and Challenges

A talk about the verification of identity in VoIP networks was presented by John Nix of InCharge Systems (ICS). The talk provided a detailed analysis of the benefits and challenges associated with the solution proposed in the IETF standard “Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol” (RFC 4474). Commercial applications and the limitations of many current network deployments were emphasized. A lively discussion and a demonstration of the ICS solution in the VoIP Lab followed the presentation. The presentation slides and photos of the event are available below. [top]

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John Nix of ICS speaking about SIP certificates

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Roundtable Discussion participants

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Lab demonstration supported by IIT student team

February 21, 2009: Engineers Week at IIT

VoIP Student volunteers created and operated a booth at Engineers Week again this year. Our booth invited the children to "get Voipanized." Children placed audio/video calls and then watched as others morphed their video images, turning them into strange creatures, adding silly hats, bizarre eye-glasses, and other disguises. Children received print copies of their morphed-selves as souvenirs. Seeing yourself turned into a large green lizard may help you remember that the new capabilities we get with VoIP come with new vulnerabilities! [top]

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Student Volunteer Team

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Students help children made video calls

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Children got souvenir photos of their morphed-selves

 

February 10, 2009: Unified Communications for the Mobile Enterprise

An audience of over 50 people attended this presentation by Nokia's Maureen Stillman as she explained the challenges and advantages of Unified Convergence (UC) and its impact on the rapid and global adoption of VoIP services by enterprises and institutions. She described how UC supports mobility and the adoption of VoIP technologies and suggested ways to address some of the security and management challenges posed by their adoption. Her talk, based on her own recent work with Fortune 500 enterprises, Ivy League Institutions and Big Ten universities resulted in a lively discussion and Q&A session. Slides from the presentation should be available here shortly.  [top]

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Mobile Unified Communications, Round Table, Feb 12, 2009

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Maureen Stillman of Nokia

 

January 14-15, 2009: IIT Students support InCharge Systems Demonstration

IIT VoIP students Noman Ansari and Ainur Zhakenova, pictured below, work with InCharge Systems, supporting the development of that company's ACerted Trust offering. The product is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) validation system that authenticates and validates originators of VoIP communications, ensuring security and privacy and protecting against identity related threats. Demonstrations of the product were held in the ChicagoLand area on January 14 and 15, 2009. [top]

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Demonstration of ICS system Jan 14, 2009

October 23 and 24 , 2008: VoIP Conference and Expo IV

Illinois Institute of Technology's Fourth Annual VoIP Conference and Expo took place on Thursday and Friday, October 23 and 24, 2008. For two full days, professionals and executives from the telecommunications industry, its standards bodies and government agencies, as well as students and members of the business community shared their views, technical expertise and experiences in both formal talks and informal gatherings. New partnerships, projects and opportunities resulted from this conference. Photos of the event are shown below.

This year's conference featured mini-conferences on "NGN and VoIP" and "E911 VoIP Emergency Services". Enterprise VoIP solutions, research and development, web-based VoIP solutions, test and measurement, and QoS and Performance issues were discussed, debated and demonstrated in panels, talks and live demos. You can view the web site, speakers and abstracts and the conference schedule by following the links below.

The Fifth Annual VoIP Conference and Expo is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, October 28-29, 2008. [top]
Conference Web Site
Speakers and Abstracts
Conference Schedule

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September 16, 2008: Securing VoIP Communications with mykryptofon

Peter Rung, IDRank Security's CEO, presented an overview of the data-leak prevention industry, with a specific emphasis on VoIP security issues, mitigation techniques and industry products that address these issues. Following the presentation a demonstration of IDRank's myKryptofon product, in use today by the U.S. military in war theater, was provided, demonstrating one method for providing a high level of security for voice, chat and file transfer.

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