Voice over IP: The State of the Art and a Look to the FutureMerit Network presented a one-day seminar on the current state and emerging futures of voice over IP technologies. The seminar was held on Thursday, April 3, 2008, at the Michigan Information Technology Center in Ann Arbor.You may purchase access to an online video archive of the seminar and the presentation slides. Purchase instructions are in the box on this page headed "Access to the VoIP Seminar Archive." As part of the purchase process you will create a userid and password that you will use to access the archive. This event was of special interest to:
While VoIP has become an accepted technology, understanding the state of the art in VoIP remains essential for those who provide voice and data services for organizations. To help meet this need, Merit will present a one-day seminar on the current state of the art in enterprise voice over IP implementations in education, providing expert-level information for professionals who make decisions about telephony and networking for their organizations. The agenda included topical presentations by experts in the field; several case studies from organizations that have adopted VoIP either fully or as a partial solution; examinations of particularly important technical and policy issues; discussion of disruptive technologies; and opportunities to discuss issues with the presenters and other attendees. View the complete agenda. Featured speakersWe welcomed as our keynote speaker Walt Magnussen, director of telecommunications at Texas A&M University. Magnussen is an adjunct faculty member at TAMU, associate director for the university's Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technology, and the co-director of the TAMU VoIP Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). He is also the chair of the Internet2 VoIP Working Group, the president elect for the Association for Communications Professional in Higher Education (ACUTA), and principal investigator for a United States Department of Commerce grant to demonstrate a next-generation 911 VoIP-based emergency call center.Also appearing was Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of computing, eLearning, and information technology in American higher education. The project is widely cited by both campus officials and corporate executives as the definitive source for information about information technology issues affecting American higher education. Green is also visiting scholar at School of Educational Studies of The Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Other speakers were Brenda Helminen, Director, Telecommunications Engineering, Michigan Technological University; Dennis Baron, Senior Strategist for Integrated Communications, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dewitt Latimer, Deputy CIO & Chief Technology Officer, University of Notre Dame; and Pradip Patel, Data Engineering Manager, University of Michigan. For more information, please contact More Merit Events. Access to the VoIP Seminar ArchiveAccess to the video archive and presentation slides for the seminar is available for $195. The videos are in Windows Media format and the slides are presented as PDFs.Purchase access to the archive Go to the archive (after making purchase) |