7:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Registration Desk | Registration Desk Open
Check in and get your badge, t-shirt and other AstriCon goodies. |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Solana Ballroom Foyer E | Continental Breakfast
Enjoy a selection of pastries, coffee, tea and juices. |
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Solana Ballroom FGHI | Keynote
Keynote Presentation TBD |
9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Solana Ballroom CD | Business Track
Learn about Asterisk from the Business perspective. |
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9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
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Speech Recognition and Asterisk - Gerd Graumann
Over 700 Asterisk developers are now creating dynamic speech recognition solutions with LumenVox speech technology. The LumenVox Speech Engine is integrated directly into Asterisk Open Source and Business Edition, can be deployed directly on an Asterisk server, and is included "in the box" for developers to get started with speech. Enterprise and SMB's are adopting speech technology because:
- Lower cost Licensing Models
- The successful creation of ""Packaged Applications""
- Industry Standards
In this session the participant will go away understanding the breadth of Asterisk-based Spech Recognition solutions, the incentives for providing ""packaged applications"", and how influences like lower license models and the introduction of industry standards is changing the adoption of speech recognition. |
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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Building on the Promise of Asterisk - Jeff Dworkin
Commoditization at the core has caused many companies to make the move to open source and, ultimately, to Asterisk, the world's leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. With the current trend of computing converging on communication, Asterisk's ability to deliver new services is notable. Like any PBX, Asterisk allows a number of attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the PSTN. But Asterisk is unique in that by supporting a mix of both traditional and VoIP telephony services, it allows developers to build new telephone systems, or gradually migrate existing systems to new technologies. Asterisk's development environment features a rich and flexible platform designed to deliver a variety of voice-enabled services, resulting in a quick and efficient way to prototype and deliver new carrier-grade voice applications. Some sites are using Asterisk servers to replace proprietary PBXs while others use them to provide additional features such as voicemail or phone menus, or to cut costs by carrying long-distance calls over the Internet. But Asterisk itself is not a stand-alone solution; for an application to be successful it requires the support of superior hardware in order to maximize its impact on the industry. This presentation will discuss how Asterisk has revolutionized the world of proprietary communications by offering unheard of flexibility - empowering developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions, and what this means for the future of the industry. It will also explore the benefits of developing on specific platforms that take advantage of advanced media processing and signaling technologies and their crucial role in enabling Asterisk's success. |
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
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Mixing Open Source Telephony and Proprietary Code for Best of Breed Solutions - David Mandlestam
As a leading provider of PC-based hardware and software products for proprietary and open source based telephony solutions, David can address topics surrounding open source telephony, specifically, how carriers and service providers can leverage open source to roll-out their VoIP solutions and develop their next generation services. As an industry expert, David can provide an insider's perspective on the state of open source telephony, offering practical enterprise knowledge on mixing Open Source Telephony and Proprietary Code for Best of Breed Solutions. |
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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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Selling Asterisk Based Systems in a Legacy World - Tony Lewis
The marketplace for selling and marketing PBXs has changed surprisingly little since the vast move to IP telephony. In fact, as you sell PBXs you will rarely be competing with each other. Instead, you will be competing with the goliath big name incumbents and be selling an IP-PBX solution in a legacy world. Your ability to differentiate yourself and sell a solution that is on par with the big name vendors will be key to your success.
First we will discuss the PBX market, including the presentation of a competitive analysis, market trends, and market statistics. These form the basis of your market potential now and in the years to come.
The next portion of the Marketing & Sales section will be focused on branding and image. We will discuss how to portray your brand to customers and translate your brand into sales. In addition, we will present how to push your brand and image deep into your product, from the PBX itself to phones, interfaces, and product feature cards.
We will present your competition, who they are, what their capabilities are, their strengths, weaknesses, and how to sell against them. You are not selling consulting. You are selling an enterprise product and you need to understand the mechanics of the vendors that comprise your competition.
We will then get into proven strategies for selling Asterisk-based PBXs, including demonstration kits, what to talk about in your sales pitch (and what NOT to talk about), demonstrating credibility, feature selling, and the overall sales cycle and what to expect.
The PBX market is huge and there is substantial money in the market, so knowing your competition and product pricing models is extremely important. We will discuss product pricing and how to make good money without leaving any on the table.
Finally we will discuss sales and marketing channels from direct sales to sales through your own chain of resellers. Included will be discussions on direct internet sales, yellow pages, online referral services and customer referrals. If you choose to sell through a reseller chain, we will tell you how to find resellers, structure a reseller agreement, train, and support your resellers. |
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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Intellectual Property Issues Surrounding the Use of Asterisk - Michelle Petrone-Fleming
The trademark issues surrounding the use of the word "Asterisk" and other Digium registered words is sometimes confusing. In this talk, Michelle will go over the various trademark issues, GPL specifics, and answer questions on how Digium tries to protect their trade assets while still allowing the community to use the right terms in descriptions and apply the right methods when creating software. |
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4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
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Asterisk at the Heart of the Enterprise - Russell Clarkson
The presentation is based on the migration of all internal PSTN-based systems at Matrix, to an IP-based infrastructure built on the Asterisk open source platform. These systems include 4 Asterisk PBX systems at remote locations, 2 call center IVR platforms, an outdialer and a voicemail platform for 40,000+ customer accounts generating over 1MM transactions per month. The discussion will include how to gain executive team buy-in for deployment of Asterisk at the enterprise level. |
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9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Solana Ballroom B | Technical/Intro Track
New to Asterisk? Want to know what's been done with Asterisk? This is the track for you. |
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9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
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Introduction to Asterisk - Greg Boehnlein
Asterisk is both an open source toolkit for telephony applications and a full-featured PBX application or call-processing server. This session provides an overview of Asterisk, its features and functionality and examples of applications of deployments. It also touches on the business ramifications of adding this powerful tool to your network and provides the information in a fun and non technical manner suitable for beginners. |
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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Building Asterisk Under OpenWRT - Brian Capouch
OpenWRT is a distribution of Linux designed for embedded systems. It runs on many different models of inexpensive commodity hardware. In this proposal I will demonstrate the process of setting up a build environment for Asterisk under openWRT's latest version, known as Kamikaze. I will also demonstrate a build and subsequent install onto a Netgear WGT634U router. |
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
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AGI Porn: Eight Things We Built with AGI - Troy Davis
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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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Check in Asterisk Into A Hotel - Ahmed Sharifinejad
In this presentation Ahmed will share his experience from network design to implementation of IP telephony networks using Asterisk deployed in hotels. There will be a series of do's and don'ts for deploying Asterisk in hotels or any other similar type of establishment in need of a telephony solution. This session will also include a review of some of the more durable products used in this process. You can use this information to optimize your Asterisk system for better performance and a more reliable telephony network. |
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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Connecting Your Enterprise with Asterisk: IAX to Carriers - Dayton Turner
SIP trunking has become the next generation of choice for PBX interconnection, and Asterisk fully supports the strategy. For many, the IAX protocol has special merit in PBX trunking and support of services and is overcoming issues with firewalls and network address translation problems. This panel takes a looks at the meet point for interconnection and the considerations needed in developing a strategy to enable carrier-to-business communication. |
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4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
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Asterisk Off The Shelf - Ovidiu Sas
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9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira A | Carrier/Large Scale Track
Come learn tips and tricks on Asterisk in large scale set-ups. |
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9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
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Voice Recording Challenges - Bruno Haas
1. Why do people record phone calls? 2. Traditional voice recording systems3. VoIP Recording implementations - easy as 1-2-3. Followed by a Q and A session. |
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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Why Cluster? - Leif Madsen
This session will describe the various tools currently available for creating large federations of servers by utilizing tools such as func_odbc, database integration using realtime, and DUNDi. |
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
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Multi-Server Conferencing - Matt Florell
This presentation will go over how to set up conferences that span across multiple servers, including large listen-only conferencing and other applications of mass-conferencing. Configuration, capacity, recording and call control as well as the option of using app_conference instead of meetme will be discussed. |
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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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The Elastic Call Center - Jason Goecke
Through the innovative use of Open Source and Virtualization it is now possible to realize the 'Elastic Contact Center' within enterprises small and large. The Elastic Contact Center brings the concept of software solutions running on commodity hardware for both voice and data which leverages innovative business models to allow companies true flexibility in their organizations. |
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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Using Asterisk in a Carrier Scale Unified Messaging Platform - Alex Kurganov
This session will discuss lessons learned building an Asterisk based carrier grade, highly scalable platform and high level application middle-ware for hosting Unified Communications applications. |
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4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
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TBD- Serge Kruppa
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9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira B | Advanced Track #1
Experienced with Asterisk? This is the track for you. |
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9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
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FreePBX Internals - Philippe Lindheimer
FreePBX is responsible for introducing hundreds of thousands of users to the Asteirsk community with well over 3 Million downloads. As a feature rich dialplan design, trying to integrate your own dialplan features and enhancements into FreePBX can be difficult without understanding how FreePBX implements key parts of its core functionality with important AstDB objects, macros and AGI scripts. This presentation will walk through some of the internal implementation structure of FreePBX and what you need to do when introducing your own enhancements to properly integrate with FreePBX. |
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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CEL: An Introduction to Asterisk's New Call Method - Brian Degenhardt
CEL is an experimental new mechanism for logging calls in asterisk targeted at not only identifying that a call occurred, but actually what happened in the call. This talk will answer questions about what CEL is, what you can do with it, and how to use it. |
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
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Bringing Enterprise Manageability to Asterisk - Jeff Gehlbach
Asterisk has had support for SNMP since the 1.4 release, but its MIB has been structured more for interactive use than for historical data collection, and has covered only basic information from the core of Asterisk. Expanding the Asterisk MIB to provide deeper technology-specific and application-specific data, geared for programmatic use, will bring true enterprise-grade manageability to the Asterisk platform. |
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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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Audio Recording in Asterisk - Matt Florell
This presentation will go over the various methods for recording the audio from calls that are handled by an Asterisk server. Topics covered will include: hard drive issues, using a RAM drive, mixed or separate streams, recording native-bridged calls, recording limits within Asterisk, recording options outside of Asterisk, compression and archiving. |
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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Measuring Signal Quality in Hybrid Systems - Joachim Vanheuverzwijn
How to analyze and improve the quality of the VOIP / FAX conversations with Asterisk.- Network Jitter- MoS- Audio card Jitter- QoS settings- Echo- Packet loss- gain/strength problems- amplitude problems- Phase shifts, Frame slips & other clock related problems- Transcoding related quality loss- PLC. |
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4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
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PBX_LUA: Taking Asterisk Applications to the Next Level - Matthew Nicholson
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9:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Cira C | Advanced Track #2
Experienced with Asterisk? This is the track for you. |
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9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
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Using Asterisk as a B2BUSA- Jim Dalton
TransNexus has a growing number of customers interested in using Asterisk as a B2BUA. Leading Session Border Controllers cost $50 per port. An Asterisk B2BUA hosted on quality hardware with a G.729 license from Digium costs about $17 per port. This presentation will compare the features and cost per port of Asterisk as a B2BUA compared to commercial session border controllers. The presentation will also include detailed benchmark test results of Asterisk as a B2BUA. |
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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Introduction to Unified Communications: The Real Fun Has Barely Begun - Jim Van Meggelen
In this session Jim Van Meggelen will provide an introduction to Unified Communications. Jim's talk will deliver a little history on the whole concept, where it has been, where it seems to be today, and where it might be going. The talk will explore how this concept was initially conceived by the traditional telephony industry, the attempts to bring it into reality, and how it is understood within the world of web development today. Asterisk is in a unique position to make sense out a lot of these complex concepts, and perhaps finally accomplish something that the industry has been trying to achieve for decades. Jim wants to stimulate discussion on the topic, so passionate opinions and challenging questions will be more than welcome. A little dose of healthy debate will also be appreciated. |
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
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Asterisk and Two Factor Authentication - Clinton James
There are three recognized factors for authentication: something you know, something you have, and something you are. Web sites are beefing up security by asking multiple questions in addition to a username and password. This is just a stronger form of single factor authentication--something you know--with all the weaknesses exploited by key loggers and sniffers. Asterisk can provide a second authentication factor --something you have--as a second authentication factor. In the time alloted, Clinton will present the architecture and sample code to provide two factor authentication and a live demonstration. |
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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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OpenR2 in Asterisk - MFC/R2 Free or Your Money Back - Moises Humberto Silva Salmeron
For the past years, MFC/R2 signaling has been a PITA for most Asterisk system administrators in all parts of the world, specially Brasil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. Unicall and libmfcr2 are quite good implementations but for several reasons not an out-of-the-box solution for MFC/R2 users. During this session we will cover this reasons and more importantly how OpenR2 is being implemented in chan_zap to address those problems in the hope that will be finally a well supported built-in Asterisk solution for this signaling. |
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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Carrier Class Routing Using Griffin Routing Engine - Chris Tooley
Discuss usage scenarios, set up and configuration and provide technical details on how the Griffin routing engine works with Asterisk and to external services. Griffin being a telecommunications routing engine, it provides call by call route selection using various criteria to filter and rate trunks that are available for any given call. Griffin should be useful to carriers and enterprises with multiple trunks or routes for any given dialed area. |
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Media Center | Expo Center
Come see the newest tools, services and gadgets available for Asterisk! |
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Media Center - Exhibit Hall | Morning Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water. |
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Solana Ballroom E | Lunch
Take a break and enjoy. |
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Media Center - Exhibit Hall | Afternoon Coffee Break
Coffee, tea, juices and water. |
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