NEWSLETTER Enter your email and get the latest IPVoice Meeting News		>>Agenda >>From Plain Old Telephony to Converged Networks: A Technical Introduction to Modern Communication Systems >>Ir para a Versão Portuguesa 13 - 03 - 2007 13.03.2007 (09.00-17.30) 1. From analogue Telephony to Web2.0               * Fixed Telephony - Circuit Switching                 * the world in the 70s - analogous telephony                 * ISDN - digital telephony                 * Private Networks                 * Encoding and Transporting the Spoken Word                 * Signalling & Media                 * Supplementary Services               * Mobile Telephony                 * Architecture                 * Voice over the Air                 * Data over the Air               * The Internet - Packet Switching                 * de-centralized Architecture                 * Transporting the data - switching the packet                 * Access Technologies                 * a protocol per service                 * non-realtime services (WWW, FTP)                 * Web2.0               * The Role of Standardization   2. Convergence             * Data & Telephony Convergence                 * One Network                 * Advanced Services                 * One Technology (but which?)                 * Quality of Service                 * Supplementary Services               * Fixed - Mobile Convergance                 * Same Services for Access                 * An Access Independant Real-Time Network               * The Solution                 * Early Ideas: ISDN & ATM                 * Telephony driven Idea: H.323                 * Data driven Idea: SIP                 * The IMS               * The Challenges                 * The open Network                 * The open Phone                 * Technological Evolution                 * User vs Technology                 * Operator vs Internet Instructor: Georg Mayer, Nokia Georg Mayer joined Nokia in November 2001.Before that he worked for seven years within Siemens Private and Mobile Telecommunication Networks divisions on ISDN,SIP and IMS related protocol standardisation. Since 2000 he has been attending the 3GPP IMS CT1 standardisation group,in which SIP and other IETF-based protocols are adopted for the usage within the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).Since 2003 he has also been responsible for SIP and IMS interoperability testing with other vendors. He is currently working as a Senior Specialist at Nokia Helsinki and is co-author of the book "The IMS. IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain".