Martin Geddes Raises Three Key Items for the Forum:
My key point is a simple one: is the proposed policy congruent with the actual constraints and operation of broadband networks? This includes what they are capable of doing in principle, as well as in practise based on deployed technology.
Secondarily, much of the thinking is mired in legacy circuit thinking, and has not caught up with the reality of distributed computation on a statistically shared set of resources. We need regulation that is fit-for-purpose for this new era.
"Toll free" is a term that should be used lightly in the context of data, since with voice performance was already assured (in theory), so the market was just for connectivity. With data, you have distinct needs for connectivity and assured performance. Who should pay for each?
Tim is a futurist with a strong pragmatic instinct.
He takes new technologies and combines them to create something that meets an unmet need.He does this by extensive prototyping and experimentation to see if a thing works and is desirable.Tim is currently looking at how to apply web technology, thinking and metrics to the entrenched voice communications market (aka the telephone).
He has a bright red rotary dial phone on his desk to remind him how little things have improved in 100 years.
Tim alternates between running startups and consulting for larger companies. He's currently in a consulting phase.Past projects have included training simulation for oil platforms, time management of a space telescope and running a mobile phone network at the Burning Man festival.
Westhawk is a software and network consultancy. We mostly do fixed price software and network development projects, often integrating into telephony or other legacy systems. My role is as architect and prototyper.
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Tropo Inc.
October 2011 – September 2013 (2 years)
I worked on the Phono project (see phono.com) As part of which I wrote most of a webRTC server side media stack. This stack is a fresh implementation, sharing no code (except opus) with the Firefox or Chrome implementations. It comprised of STUN+ICE+DTLS+SRTP layers implemented according to the relevant RFCs.
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Dr. Henning Schulzrinne co-developed the key protocols that enable Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other multimedia applications. These included the Real Time Streaming and Real-time Transport Protocols, which enable real-time transmission of multimedia across the Internet; and the Session Initiation Protocol, which sets up and configures VoIP telephony communications in enterprises and carrier networks. Since December 2011, Dr. Schulzrinne has been the Chief Technology Officer for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In this role, he guides the FCC’s work on technology and engineering issues, together with the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology. Dr. Schulzrinne, who earned his PhD at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, also advises the agency to ensure that FCC policies are driving technological innovation. Dr. Schulzrinne is Levi Professor and former department chair in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and former member of the Internet Architecture Board. He has published more than 250 journal and conference papers, and more than 70 Internet Requests for Comment.
Hank joined AT&T (then SBC) in 2004. He represents AT&T at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a number of issues including broadband and Internet policy, video and media policy, intercarrier compensation, and universal service. He is a member of the Board of Directors and of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) and serves on the North American Numbering Council (NANC). Prior to joining AT&T, he was with MCI for eight years. Hank is a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Toll Free Data via carrier service offerings similar to AT&T’s Sponsored Data (announced Monday, January 6, 2014 at the Consumer Electronics Show,http://www.att.com/att/sponsoreddata/)
how will sponsored or toll free data work?
when will it be available?
where can a toll free or sponsored data icon appear (i.e., website, app, VoIP)?
who will be able to develop applications and use cases for carrier toll free data services?
how can companies incorporate toll free or sponsored data into their customer connections?
how much will toll free or sponsored data cost and how will it be priced?
How will the recent Net Neutrality ruling impact sponsored data service offerings?
NRENum.net is an end-user telephone number mapping service for academia run by NRENs (national research and education networking organisations) and coordinated by TERENA. NRENum.net uses special DNS (Domain Name System) record types to translate a telephone number into a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that can be used in Internet communications. It provides a solution for seamless dialling interconnection between multiple video communication infrastructures based on SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) or H.323 protocols, and it facilitates services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), videoconferencing and telepresence.
Dr. Cullen Jennings currently serves as Co-Chair of the IETF RTCWeb working group and is co-editor for the WebRTC specification at W3C. Cullen has authored many industry standards and is an author of Practical VoIP, published by O'Reilly. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of VoIP, security, and the web.
Dr. Jennings is a Fellow in the Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco. He is responsible for setting the technical direction for the next generation of Cisco's communication and collaboration products, including VoIP, SIP, security and peer-to-peer technologies. Cullen also participates in Cisco's development efforts for the Internet of Things.
Cullen's current focus is on moving voice and video communications into the cloud, so that they become an integrated part of Web applications and can be used in everything from business process software to collaboration applications and games. This involves smoothly integrating a number of technologies ranging from HTML5 to highly scalable cloud services and federated authentication. Previously, Cullen played a key role in developing Cisco's technical strategy in voice/video security, media quality, NAT traversal, and peer-to-peer services.
“Voxeo Labs is committed to putting the untapped potential of the carrier network into the hands of developers,” said Voxeo Labs CTO Jose de Castro. “In the coming months, web and mobile developers will have access to a new breed of carrier network capabilities, complete with rich media and deep mobile device and WebRTC integration. The world is changing and AT&T understands what it will take to push their industry forward.”
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Aelea Christofferson founded ATL Communications in 1991. Currently ATL serves almost 300 companies including carriers (landline and IP), resellers, enterprise customers, and consultants. Not only is ATL the largest, oldest outsource option for toll free RespOrg work, ATL also specializes in building routing options for disaster recovery and least cost routing for toll free services and training carrier’s and reseller’s sales people to make use of multi-carrier routing to increase sales. Most recently Christofferson has organized and managed the SMS 2011 group, a group that is working with the FCC to expand the management and control of the national database (SMS) and the RespOrg tariff.
Before starting ATL Communications Christofferson spent ten years in management positions at Pacific Bell. While at Pacific Bell she managed the team that introduced complementary toll-free service and served as the company’s representative on the national toll-free Database Committee, the committee that designed toll free number portability including RespOrg requirements. Prior to that Pacific Bell position she managed carrier account teams including AT&T’s special access account.
Since 2007 Christofferson has represented small business as a member of the Oregon Governor’s Committee for Health Care reform. She has served as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from California State University, Hayward, and an MBA in Marketing from Golden Gate University.
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Box Top's mission is to bring free broadband - "FreeBand" - to households globally by enabling an open and rich ecosystem whereby application providers subsidize the cost of broadband by directly reimbursing the broadband carrier for wireline and cellular connectivity.
Our team of engineers and broadband specialists utilize the patent-pending FreeBand Platform to allow the development of native web applications for virtually any service including commerce, health care, job boards, education, entertainment, government and community programs, and much, much more (see "Why Freeband Now" for more info). By using the FreeBand Platform, the application providers are able to easily and thoughtfully subsidize the bandwidth consumed by the user of the application. The FreeBand Platform is the market's first scalable and commercially sustainable solution for providing toll-free Internet connectivity (just like a "1-800" number on your voice line).
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