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Bill Efthimiou and Leon Li

SIP Workshop - AARNet

AARNet
Date: Tuesday 12 July 2011
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a mechanism becoming increasingly prevalent in Internet Multimedia Communications. SIP is an IETF standard that is well defined and understood, yet its implementation can vary between vendors. Despite these varying implementations we see value in the opportunity to forming peering relationships.

The objective of this workshop is to give participants an Introduction to the Session Initiation Protocol. We aim to teach the fundamentals of SIP while reinforcing the teaching with experiential learning using practical lab work reflecting the theoretical teaching material. We hope that this knowledge can then be taken back to the workplace by participants and be applied to:

  • the institution’s chosen vendor platform,
  • assist in the understanding of making more informed telephony platform decisions.
  • deploying their own trial SIP servers,
  • peering with other interested parties (AARNET) and demonstrate applications which can be used across the AARNET network or greater Internet community.

Attendees are required to bring their own laptops with a webcam, USB headset (preferred), and wireless networking. Wireshark is required for packet analysis from the client’s perspective. Some webcams will be made available, but we may not be able to cater for a full class.

Facilitators

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Bill Efthimiou, Unified Communications Engineer, AARNet
Bill Efthimiou joined AARNet in May of 2010 after having worked the previous 5 years as the Principal Consultant at a Sydney based Systems Integration organisation, designing, implementing and managing Unified Communications solutions and networks for businesses. Previous to this Bill worked for Cisco Systems Technical Assistance Centre in Sydney for 5 years. Here he spent much of his time troubleshooting and supporting some very large and complex customer networks. Bill's IT career spans over 20 year during which time he has held many System Administration and Consulting roles.
Since joining AARNET Bill has been busy designing and deploying Next Generation Multimedia Infrastructure services, based on SIP and H.323, using Session Border Controller technology from ACME Packet.

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Leon Li, IT Engineer, AARNet
Leon Li joined AARNet as a member of the Applications & Services team responsible for the management, operation and development of infrastructure to support real time communications (Gateways, Gatekeepers, Call Manager). Leon is also an active participate in eduroam project group and manages Australian national eduroam servers. Leon formerly worked for Cisco as a contractor in supporting Cisco Call Manager.