TechTalks Event
Telephony over IP�
with guest expert Doug Gale, Director of OARnet
January 28, 1999
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Tips)
- What is IP telephony?
- Are there advantages/disadvantages to IP telephony versus using the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)?
- Is IP telephony cheaper than PSTN.
- How much cheaper and how is that possible?
- Who pays for IP telephony?
- Are there tricks to keeping the costs down (e.g., least cost routing, ???)
- Will there soon be an IP telephone that just connects to the IP telephone network without the user needing to buy anything else?
- What are the key university applications for IP telephony?
- How do we get started?
Guest Expert
Doug Gale is internationally renowned
for his expertise on building and finding funding for campus networks
of all types and sizes. He is currently the Director of OARnet,
an Internet Service Provider located in Columbus Ohio that provides
Internet access to over a million people. Before that, he was Assistant
Vice President for Information Systems and Services at George
Washington University. He has been actively involved in the
Internet2 Project since its inception and was the editor of
the Monterey Futures Group White
Paper on the Technical Requirements for the Virtual University
that serves as the requirements document for Internet2. He has led
many workshops on campus networking strategies, including CREN's
Campus Communications Strategies Virtual Seminars CD.
Background Resources
There's a really good article in the latest issue of Network Magazine entitled IP Telephony: What Does the Future Hold? by David Essex. You may need to establish a complimentary username and password to access the article. The paper from a presentation at last month's EDUCAUSE conference in Seattle entitled IP Telephony: The End Of The World As We Know It? by Scott V. Street is also available online.
If you really want to dig deep and go the full book route, here are a couple of recent books available from Amazon.com: Voice Over IP Networks by Marcus Goncalves and Delivering Voice Over IP Networks by Daniel Minoli and Emma Minoli.
