Atlanta Asterisk Users Group

Last Saturday, April 26th, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Atlanta Asterisk Users Group (AAUG) at their annual Asterisk Installation Fest and Conference. The conference was held at the Georgia Tech Klaus Advanced Computing Building which is becoming a landmark for innovative computing activity in Atlanta. I was impressed with the vitality of the AAUG. They prepared an excellent program and had a strong showing of Asterisk users spending a beautiful spring day inside discussing various Asterisk topics.

Presenters included representatives from Pika and Sangoma. Mike Hunter, a Georgia Tech research scientist, briefed the audience on VoIP security work that is being done at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. I followed Mike with a presentation on secure VoIP peering with Asterisk.

I recommend that any new or experienced Asterisk users in North Georgia to check the AAUG web site to learn more about this growing Asterisk community.

VoIP Peering Architectures & Strategies

The link below is a video of the "VoIP Peering Architectures and Strategies" presentation I gave at the VoIP Peering Forum in December 2007.

VoIP Peering Architectures & Strategies - Video

VoIP Peering Architectures & Strategies - Powerpoint

Spring VON Presentations

I have received several requests for copies of the presentations I made at Spring VON in San Jose. Here they are:

Secure Peering with Asterisk

OpenSER Summit - Commercial Business Models

Importance of Open Source Software

VoIP OSS and Billing

TransNexus & MetaSwitch

I just returned from the MetaSwitch Customer Forum V in New Orleans. The MetaSwitch folks ran a great a conference for for their customers. A lot of good information and a good time. MetaSwitch has done a really great job of penetrating the small telco market. They really understand the phone business and know what telephone people want from a switch. More importantly, however, the MetaSwitch is a VoIP platform from the ground-up, not a TDM switch with a SIP interface

I have been too busy this year to announce on this blog that TransNexus is MetaSwitch partner. The TransNexus platform provides a really neat and clean least cost routing solution for the MetaSwitch. We are very happy to be associated with MetaSwitch - they have great operation.

TransNexus success story with MetaSwitch