Telephony-Summit (Di, 02.05.2006)

Using Open Source VoIP Technologies to Build a Carrier-Class Telephony Switch

von David Zimmer (teresto media AG)

Dienstag, 02.05.2006, Raum 1A-3, 15:15-16:00 Uhr

Traditional telcos and carriers as well as large enterprises have very high demands and expectations towards a telephony switch or PBX as these services are assumed to run reliably all the time. Phone service today is synonymous with 99,999% availability.

In this presentation the author will show you how his company built an infrastructure purely on open standards and with Open Source technologies to extend and eventually replace a traditional public telephony switch. You will learn which tools have been used to achieve this ambitious objective, which problems had to be resolved, which drawbacks exist and where there is still room for improvement.

The presentation features all recent and cutting edge protocols and technologies, including: SIP, ENUM, wideband codecs, Skype, Asterisk, DUNDI, SER, encryption and legal requirements.

Über den Autor David Zimmer:

David Zimmer, born 1973, is CEO and Founder of teresto media AG based in Merzig, Germany. Ever since buying his first Apple Macintosh at the age of 11 years in 1984 he has been involved with different kinds of computing and networking activities. In 1996 he founded SaarGate, one of the first commercial ISPs in the German state of Saarland. He grew SaarGate into the largest ISP in Saarland and sold part of it to RWE Group, one of the leading german power utility companies. The company was renamed to teresto media AG in 2002 and David still serves as the CEO.

Apart from this David is active in several commissions for the state government and chambers of commerce regarding new technology and telecommunications regulation.