VoIP: Not your grandmother's phone any more

Speaker: Prof. Henning Schulzrinne When: Thursday, June 11, 2009 Time: 6:00 PM ~ 8:30 PM Cost: Free and open to the public (registration required). Register: here

Place: JFCC Auditorium, Intel Corporation- Jones Farm, 2111, NE 25th Ave Hillsboro OR 97124

Abstract Since its emergence in the mid-1990s, voice-over-IP products and services have mainly attempted to mimic the "black phone" of decades past, providing cheaper basic phone service. However, VoIP has the potential to significantly improve real-time communications if it is combined with presence, context-aware and location-based services. Peer-to-peer networks can allow building highly-scalable, self-configuring systems. This talk will give a broad overview of VoIP, including its IMS variant, and some of the advanced services that are now in development, standardization or starting to appear as products.

Bio Prof. Schulzrinne co-developed protocols such as RTP, RTSP and SIP, are now Internet standards, used by almost all Internet telephony and multimedia applications. His research interests include Internet multimedia systems, ubiquitous computing, mobile systems, quality of service, and performance evaluation.

On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 the Oregon Computer Consultants Association presents the Pac NW Team of Cisco's Small Business division for an exciting talk about Voice over IP and Cisco's commitment and offerings in the Small Business Space.

We will discuss certification requirements, how to "come to the Cisco SMB VoIP Party", overall product strategy, and marketing programs available for partners. Local Cisco Sales Engineer, John Somm, will also delve into the product families applicable to Small Business partners, and Small Businesses themselves. We will discuss a brand new product that cannot be mentioned as of press time – there is guaranteed to be quite a bit of buzz on the street by the date of this event though around this exciting new product family. We will talk about feature set, how to successfully position, sell, and place these products – and see what "whizz bang" features get end users excited and willing to make investments for. Interspersed throughout the evening will be conversations around SIP and other money saving "game changer" technologies.

Who: Dolly Brantley – Small Business Account Manager for PAC NW – along with her Sales Engineer – John Somm. Both John and Dolly are dedicated Small Business professionals!

The meeting will be held at the Red Lion at the Convention Center. The meeting is free and open to the public, however space is limited so please RSVP at meetup.com/itpro-70.

When: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:00p.m. - 7:00 p.m. No Host Dinner/Networking 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Meeting/Presentation

Where: Red Lion at the Convention Center 1021 NE Grand Avenue Portland, OR 97232 503-235-2100

Bio: Dolly Brantley – Small Business Account Manager for PAC NW – along with her Sales Engineer – John Somm. Dolly has been with Cisco for 3 and ½ years focusing on small business in the Pacific Northwest. Prior she worked as a recruiter at an IT staffing firm in Raleigh, NC. John Somm brings 15+ years of Computer networking experience to the conversation, with a background in Security, along with his current love of the Voice over IP market. Both John and Dolly are dedicated Small Business professionals!

This is an opportunity to see how the brilliantly simple ShoreTel Phone System can enhance your business capabilities and grow with your company. Also it is an chance to meet the faces behind Matrix Networks, the reliable and experienced communication solution provider that delivers unparalleled customer service through innovative solutions from people with true expertise!

Abstract:

In this talk, I describe two side-channel traffic analysis attacks on encrypted voice-over-IP calls and a novel technique for efficiently defending against such attacks. We begin with a review of the basics of speech coding to understand how and why information can leak out of an encrypted VoIP call. We then discuss the techniques for recovering hidden information: first, how to identify the language spoken in the call, and then how to spot particular phrases. Our techniques are completely speaker-independent, and require no recorded examples of the target phrase. Nevertheless, we show that they achieve surprising accuracy on widely-used speech corpora. Finally, we consider methods for limiting this information leakage. Experimental results show that an intelligent, adaptive adversary can convincingly deceive such traffic analyses while incurring much lower overhead than previously expected.

James Aimonetti of 2600hz.com will be joining us tonight to talk about how Erlang powers the Kazoo project and Voice-over-IP products all around the world.

Kazoo is a scalable, distributed, cloud-based telephony platform that allows you to build powerful telephony applications with a rich set of APIs.

Designed to handle anything from large carrier to small countries, the Kazoo infrastructure can do it all. There are no lock-ins and the software is open-source to give you complete freedom.

James will be giving us a high level view of the architecture behind Kazoo, both from a platform perspective and from an Erlang perspective. We'll survey some of the code that is of interest, such as the gen_listener behaviour (for AMQP message consumption), the PropEr tests in various modules, the wh_json module for working with Erlang-encoded JSON objects), and more. No telecom experience required!

F2F Events, Inc. (F2F) produces CPE-accredited educational conferences for IT professionals focusing on the latest developments in information security, IT infrastructure and communications. F2F’s TechJunction conference series is dedicated to providing both attending delegates and sponsors a strong return on their investment of time and resources. With a “by invitation-only” format, cutting-edge content, interactive labs & exhibits, and other complimentary delegate benefits (coffee, lunch, cocktails; etc.) TechJunction has earned the reputation as “THE technology conference” for IT professionals across the country.

IT Professionals: Join Xiologix along with our sponsors Dell EMC and Fortinet for an informative and fun afternoon! TopGolf Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00-3:00pm

Enjoy lunch, mingling with your peers and learning more about Dell EMC, Fortinet and Xiologix while experiencing Top Golf! Space is limited so register today!

(To attend you must have a corporate email address and hold an active role in your organization’s IT department.)

IT Professionals, join us at the Yard House for informal IT conversation, appetizers and tastings with Xiologix, Fortinet and Dell EMC! Just for stopping by, you will receive a complimentary 64 oz growler filled with your choice of beverage on tap from the Yard House!

Thursday, April 18, 2019 3:00-6:00pm

Yard House 888 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2004 Portland, OR 97204

Registration Required – 21 And Over Please - Registration closes 4/17/2019

To attend you must have a corporate email address and hold an active role in your organization’s IT department. Confirmed attendees will receive confirmation within 2 business days.