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Enterprise IP Communications (VoIP)
How to design, manage, enable and secure your enterprise for IP convergence

November 16, 2006
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stephens Convention Center
Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

According to industry analysts, over 80% of enterprises will deploy VoIP over the next five years. Has your organization determined strategies and tactics for effective implementation of IP convergence?

The opportunity for productivity gains, cost efficiencies and more exist when you move to IP-based communications in your enterprise. The convergence of voice, video, messaging and collaboration has combined, providing a totally new level of enterprise communication. Open systems and new industry standards have opened the door for more choices that fit your business needs. How will you navigate the choices and ensure your enterprise achieves new efficiencies from IP-based communications solutions?

Conference Program

9:00am-10:00am
Deriving Real Business Value from IP Convergence
Andrew Lauter, President, PSC Group, LLC

Lauter

Implementing IP Convergence for increased costs savings is one side of the coin. The other is enabling new applications that can make your organization more effective and more profitable. But how?

In this session attendees will learn:

How investments in systems and relationships will optimize business processes
How enterprise communications will be thought of as another business application and how it will integrate with other applications
The key elements that are being converged in enterprise communications
How to communicate business value and cost savings for management buy-in to IP Migration

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30-11:30am
Developing, Deploying and Managing an Effective IP Infrastructure
Don Smith, Senior Global Systems Engineer, Infoblox

Smith

To effectively deploy IP Telephony, IT and Telecom managers need to understand the requirements of the specific business requirements of the enterprise. Attend this session and learn how to develop an IP management strategy and what actions to take for effective deployment. In this session you will gain the following:

Gain industry insight on developing a sound IP management strategy to help your organization bridge the divide between IT and Telecom requirements for a successful IP deployment
Determine the right application capabilities that meet your business needs
Understand your scalability needs in the short term and long term
Assess your ability to audit your IP usage
Determine resource needs for deployment and operations
Identify hidden costs associated with IP deployment

11:30am-12:30pm
How to Provide QoS Guarantees for Voice without Jeopardizing Your Data Network
Mark Reid, Vice President, Engineering, Xelor Software

Reid

VoIP/IP Communications can provide for increased productivity but user expectations have to be managed. One way of managing these expectations is by providing QoS guarantees to your users.

The speaker will discuss the tools and strategies you can use to provide QoS guarantees for voice traffic on an enterprise or corporate network.

In this session you will learn:

What is QoS?
Why is it important for enterprise/corporate networks?
What are the industry accepted tools to manage it?
What problems do end-users face to deploy it?
What are they elements to look for in a QoS solution.

12:30pm-1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm-2:30pm
How Effective IP Systems Management Can Drive Business Value
David Palmieri, Sr. Systems Engineer, Spanlink Communications

Far too many companies have marched down the VoIP path to replace like-for-like systems, without thinking through the business opportunities of VoIP, or understanding the unique requirements of building and managing a virtual voice network to achieve these results – until it’s too late. In this session attendees will learn how an effective IP Systems Management Framework can help the enterprise through the following:

How to envision and support a real return on the investment
How to truly break down silos
Requirements for building supporting fundamentally new architectures (i.e. virtualization)
Enterprise-wide reporting requirements and opportunities
How application monitoring supports five 9’s goals

2:30pm-3:00pm - Break

3:00pm-4:00pm
Managing VoIP as a Business Critical Application
Mark Whatmore, Product Manager, Compuware

VoIP is a Business Critical Application running on your network along with your ERP and other data based Business Critical applications. To ensure the high quality expectations of the VoIP users, VoIP needs to be managed like all of the other Business Critical Applications:

understand the what affects VoIP performance (Voice quality)
monitor network utilization of all applications and their impact on VoIP
use tools to troubleshoot VoIP performance problems

4:00pm-5:00pm
What’s the Real ROI of VoIP? It’s More than Just Cost Savings
Joni Ferneau, Director, Voice Services, R.R. Donnelley

Ferneau

When building your business case to move forward with VoIP enterprise IT departments need to understand the true ROI. Cost savings are an important ingredient, however, there are other factors that must be considered. With all the industry hype about cost savings and ROI, IT departments need a dose of reality.

In this session you will hear how one large enterprise made the decision to implement VoIP and the ROI that was determined. Content that will be covered includes:

How to understand your current environment and the projected future needs
Factors to be considered when determining ROI
How to distinguish between cost savings and in-depth ROI
How to avoid errors when calculating ROI
Questions that you should be asking your solution providers

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education,
in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs.
CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Conference price: $179 per person.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

CAMP Conferences, Inc., 540 W. Frontage Rd., Ste. 2205, Northfield, IL 60093
Tel: (312) 527-2800 Fax: (847) 881-0747

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