Fall Boston 2007 Follow Up

Another major VoIP event just ended. Time spent there was too short, or I was too busy in those few hours I could roam freely to get the real pulse of the show. The next day was full for me with the OpenSER Admin Training Session and BoF.

Those interested in the materials, follow next link and download the slides from the course of BoF session:

http://www.openser.org/events/2007-VoN-Fall-Boston/

Beside OpenSER-dedicated day on the 1st of November, I attended the "Asterisk & OpenSER: A balanced network strategy", part of the Digium Asterisk World, and I was pleased to see large interest in using the two applications together. It is clear to more and more people that the two are completing each other, not competing. The efforts to make the integration easier show now the results.

As usual, several active members from the community showed up, being nice to associate names with faces and chat a bit.

OpenSER BoF at VoN Fall Boston 2007

Along with the OpenSER admin training session, the project has the opportunity to show its presence in the market within 1h15 session, just after the lunch on the 1st of November, starting with 12:45.

The panelists are:

Alan Crosswell, Senior Director - Network Infrastructure, Columbia University
Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Co-Founder OpenSER
James Body, Director - Networks, Truphone
Jim Dalton, CEO, TransNexus
Norman Brandinger, President, GOES.com
Xavier Casajuana, CEO, VozTelecom - OIGAA

I will do a short update of the project status, where we are and what should make you move to upcoming 1.3 release as soon as it is released. Alan will share his experience in using OpenSER and Open Source to build the VoIP communication platform in one of the most famous Universities in IT, James will continue his story with OpenSER and Mobile VoIP, while Jim comes to present the OpenSER and OSP, a true solution for peering. Norman, old OpenSER folk, very active in the community, will speak about what is keeping him connected to the project and how the project helps his business. Xavier is just to speak about his latest VoIP innovation, OIGAA, where O is from OpenSER ( ;-) )

More details here...

OpenSER Admin Course at VoN Boston 2007

Last minute arrangements allowed to host one day of OpenSER Admin Training session within VoN Fall Boston, Nov 1, 2007. Despite of late notice, I hope that those interested in the topic can make it to the event. The course is covering hot topics as scalability, HA and security.

For more details about the course and registration, see:

http://www.openser.org/mos/view/OpenSER-Admin-Course---Boston-2007/

OpenSER Admin Course and VoN Rome 2007

I hope it is general opinion that the OpenSER admin course at VoN Rome was successful. The room was full, about 35 attendees. Time was pretty short to get deeper in OpenSER configuration tricks, but should give the base of knowledge to build proper and well-designed VoIP platforms using OpenSER.

It started with introduction of configuration file architecture, going through common components of it, touching the very important aspects of a VoIP environment: NAT traversal, accounting, authentication and authorization, load balancing and high availability. The last topic of the tutorial was integration with Asterisk media server, towards a lot of good steps were done in the past for a straightforward solution.

The day ended with an open discussion, revealing hot questions about DNS balancing and black-listing, NAT traversal, present and future of the project.

VoN Rome itself was pretty well represented by the local market, with nice SIP-enabled video solutions for security and surveillance at Video on the Net section. Otherwise, usual debates SIP-P2PSIP-IMS, etc. Personally I have met for the first time a lot of people using OpenSER, also meeting old friends (e.g., Andreas of sipwise.com, Georgios, Federico, Adrian, ...) from the past events. Photo available at: flickr.com.

OpenSER Admin Course - Rome 2007

During the VoN Autumn 2007, in Rome, Italy, will be one full day of OpenSER Admin Training sessions, on the 26th of September. The target are the VoIP administrators that are managing OpenSER-based platforms. The price is 315Euro till August 31 and 360Euro afterwards. Within this price, the participants will get access to other technical and social events of VoN, also some meals on the course day.

The teachers are two of the co-founders of OpenSER project, Daniel-Constantin Mierla (myself) and Bogdan-Andrei Iancu.

The content of the course try to cover most of the delicate aspects of configuring and managing OpenSER, such as accounting, security, high availability, as well as integration with media server Asterisk.

More details you will find on the OpenSER project web site:
http://www.openser.org/mos/view/OpenSER-Admin-Course---Rome-2007/

Details are available on VoN Europe web site:
http://www.von.com/2007/rome/web/index.php
http://www.von.com/2007/rome/web/confSchedule.php#os
http://www.von.com/2007/rome/web/attendRegister.php

Worth to mention that Rome is an amazing city, VoN is a reference event for VoIP and OpenSER a great application :-) .

VoN Europe 2007

The last VoN in Europe provided another great chance to meet people around the project, learn about latest trends in VoIP and discuss latest businesses in the area.

OpenSER had itself one hour session in the main theater of VoN Exhibition, giving opportunity to present a summary of the project, the status of WeSIP application server, FMC solutions based on OpenSER, as well as the strong bullets brought by 1.2.x release.

The VoN seemed quite this time, some noise around P2PSIP and peering, a lot of FMC discussions, less and less IMS interest. Despite that, we had very nice meetings with VoIPUser friends and open source VoIP developers.

Slides from OpenSER BoF and photos from the event to be made available soon.