Panel 1
What do you mean "Secure VoIP?"

Panel Chair:
Choon Shim (CTO, Qovia, Inc.)
Panelists:
Roger Farnsworth (Sr. Systems Marketing Manager, IP Communications Security, Cisco Systems)
Richard E. Wheeler (President & CEO, Wheeler Network Design, Inc.)
Peter Flynn (Director of Engineering, Qovia Inc.)
Ram Dantu (Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas)
Gary Meyer (Acterna DNS)

This panel will discuss threats for an Enterprise VoIP network and the best-known ways to protect against them. The type of threats covered will include VoIP Specific Protocol Vulnerabilities/Protection, VoIP specific Denial of Service (DoS), Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT), Eavesdropping, Spoofing and Fraud. The session will also cover the best practices and tips from experts who have experience protecting against these threats in the real deployments.

Panel 2
Preparing for Next Generation e-Commerce Networks and Applications

Panel Chair:
Daniel Minoli (Senior Infrastructure Architect, Capital One Financial)
Panelists:
Rafal Dziedzic (Sr. Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP)
Brian Van Steen (Senior Analyst, RHK)
John Katzianer (Executive Director, Solutions Architect Team, Verizon)

There is of late a well-documented trend in favor of a shift of back-office-, support-, and development-functions to a sourced paradigm. Contact Centers using integrated VoIP and CTI are becoming the norm. Partners and suppliers may be across town, the country, or the world; a typical F500 firm may have several dozen directly-connected suppliers. IT planners are looking for secure, reliable, and cost-effective extranet connectivity. This panel discusses extranet technologies, techniques, solutions, trends, and challenges.

Panel 3
Worm and Virus Defense: How Can We Protect our Nation's Computers?

Panel Chair:
Lundy Lewis (Southern New Hampshire University)
Panelists:
Gerhard Eschelbeck (CTO & Vice President of Engineering, Qualys, Inc.)
Andy Ellis (Senior Director of Information Security and Chief Security Architect, Akamai)

This session will address the threats posed to national IT infrastructures by worms and viruses, and the ways that companies can detect and remediate their infrastructure vulnerability using techniques such as security auditing and risk assessments, vulnerability assessment and management, and automated detection and patch management.

Panel 4
Optical Networking: It's Not Just for Carriers Anymore

Panel Chair:
Walt Magnussen (Director for Telecommunications, Texas A&M University)
Panelists:
Willis Marti (Texas A&M University)
Wayne Wedemeyer (University of Texas)
Jim Williams (LEARN)

With an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth, enterprises, including higher education are able to justify optical networking. This panel discusses the reasons for buying dark fiber and lighting it with DWDM. The panel will share the experiences of the Lone Star Educational and Research Network (LEARN) in contract negotiations, building a 34 University consortium, resolving last mile build out issues, creating a service organization and developing a sustainable funding model.

Panel 5
Voice, Video and Data: How Do We Bring It All Together and Provide Real QoS?

Panel Chair:
Lawrence Roberts (CEO & President, Anagran Inc.)
Panelists:
Richard Dingess (VoIP Technologist, Office of the SunIT CTO)
John Adams (Office of CTO Wholesale, British Telecom)
Jack Brassil (Research Scientist, Internet and Computing Platforms Research Center, HP)
David Liddle (General Partner - USVP Venture Partners)

This panel discusses how to achieve quality voice and video over IP network. Todayís IP networks cannot support real time interactive services due to their lack of per call preemption, rejection, rate control and jitter control. Recent advancements in semiconductor industry will enable IP networks to support data, voice, video and even raw TDM with high utilization and low cost while maintaining any balance of all forms of traffic including P2P.

Panel 6
IPv6: Enabling the Two-Way Internet and End2End Innovation

Panel Chair:
Latif Ladid (President, IPv6 Forum Chair, EU IPv6 TF)
Panelists:
Latif Ladid (President, IPv6 Forum Chair, EU IPv6 TF)
Jim Bound (CTO, IPv6 Forum, Chair North American IPv6 Task Force, HP Fellow)
Yanick Pouffary (IPv6 Forum Fellow, Technology Director North, American IPv6 Task Force, HP Distinguished Technologist)

New Internet applications and services require a symmetric/interactive Internet, end2end connection, end2end QoS, end2end security, active mobility, a functioning multicast, and configuration on the fly. This panel discusses IPv6 leading the Internet where it should go and where it has not gone before, and enabling new business models beyond the current web model. IPv6 is a vital plumbing upgrade for building of the New Internet. Itís the investment of the 21st century for innovation.

Panel 7
Challenges and Solutions: Converged Voice-over-Wi-Fi™ and Cellular Access for the Enterprise

Panel Chair:
Donald M. Fye (Principal Fye Associates, LLC)
Panelists:
Hari Haran (VP of Global Sales, LongBoard)
Steven Shaw (Marketing Director, Kineto Wireless)
Alan Klein (Director (Converged Solutions Technology and Assistance Center, Avaya)
Louis Holder (EVP of Product Development, Vonage)

Dual mode WiFi/cellular terminals will facilitate access to SIP-based calling features on enterprise and residential WLANs, while also supporting seamless hand-off with wide-area cellular networks. Selecting the most appropriate convergence architecture requires consideration of both the services and business models that the solution must support. This panel brings together representatives from key stakeholders in a discussion of technology solutions, enterprise applications, and business models for converged Wi-Fi/cellular services.