2007 VoIP 2.

0 Project

Thomas Howe
http://www.thomashowe.com
 Short VoIP History
• 1990 - H.320 and Px64
• Compression, packets and multimedia
• PictureTel, CLI and DSP SE
• 1994 - H.323
• IP, Shared network resources, heterogeneous
• PictureTel, NetMeeting, Intel
• 1997 - SIP and H.324
• Internet, applications integration, dumb networks
• PingTel, Columbia, DynamicSoft
• 2001 - MGCP
• Centralized control, real PSTN over IP
• Softswitches, Softswitches, Softswitches, Softswitches
• 2007 - Web 2.0
Web 2.0 - 60 Second Intro

• Web as Platform
• Platform is no longer the server or application
• Not the Win32 API - the Google and Amazon APIs
• Double click - 2000 users. Google Adsense - 1MM
• Vonage - 1 million users - Skype - 75 million
• Harness Collective Intelligence
• You’re open source guys - you should know this
• Data is the new asset
• How you do it is less important as solutions vary
• End of the release cycle
• Lightweight programming models
• Software spans devices, networks, companies
 A Fundamental Shift
• Applications
• Today everybody has the same voicemail
• Little personalization and customization between services
• Tomorrow’s long tail; personalization; niche services
• Architecture
• Today we have stove pipe architectures...
• Tomorrow we have loosely coupled web services, generic
resources
• Development
• Today we have IMS architecture, large company view
• Tomorrow we have disaggregated two pizza teams
• Developers and Business Model
• Today we have discrete and defined vendors, carriers and
enterprises
• Tomorrow we have open source, open opportunity, fuzzy
participants
 2007 VoIP 2.0 Project

A series of small projects

designed to explore the
integration of
Web 2.0 and VoIP technology
in an open source setting
 Our Goals

• To explore the undiscovered country

• There’s a lot we don’t know
• Very interesting real time issues
• To educate ourselves and our peers
• Who and what you know
• To move our industry forward
• So sick of replicating the PSTN
• Phones suck; communicating doesn’t.
• To do some real geeking
 Our Format

• One interesting problem

• One small group of geeks
• Two pizza teams
• Try to mix them up each time
• Projects no greater than 10 days total
• Each geek gives a few days
• Publish the result to the community
• Wiki documentation
• Podcast
• Full Source code
First Project : Turk Integration
• Integration of Asterisk based voice mail messages
with Amazon Mechanical Turks
• Chop up voice mail into ten second increments
• Human transcribes
• Asterisk already forwards you a copy of the voice
mail… why not a transcription?
• Excellent Web 2.0 Mashup
• The asset? The message, not the voice mail system.
• Uses the Web as the platform, not just Asterisk
• Truly harnesses collective intelligence!
• Solid business driver
• Transcriptions are searchable
• Read them; forward as SMS?
• May be start of larger applications, like conferencing
 Second Project : ECC
• ECC : Elastic Computing Cloud
• Large supply of on demand processing
• Today’s switch engineering relies on Herr Erlang
• What happens when we deploy a simple, but massive SIP
application?
• Use simple UA and proxy servers
• Excellent Web 2.0 Mashup
• Leverage web based resources for optimal deployment
• End of the release cycle? End of the whole thing!!!
• Lightweight model - the network does the heavy lifting
• Solid business driver
• Hardware costs lower, more manageable, better cash flow
• Excellent underpinning for DDOS resiliency
• Disaggregation + ECC == Infinite Linear Scalability?
 For more information

• Check out the web site :

• http://www.thomashowe.com
• Smtp: howethomas@aol.com
• Start to go deep on Digital Utilities
• Google APIs
• Amazon
• Check in with us early next year
• Still have a few spots open
• Send an idea!
• Take what we do and extend it. Please.