Please note that there can still be updates to the structure of the schedule.
Pre-Conference Technical Workshops: May 18, 2016
| 12:00-12:40 ♦ Registration |
| 12:40-13:00 ♦ Welcome Note |
| 13:00-14:00 – Workshop 1 ♦ Kamailio for Building IMS Core Platforms and VoLTE Coordinator: Carsten Bock, NG Voice, Germany |
| 14:00-15:00 – Workshop 2 ♦ Continuous Integration and Automatic Deployments for Kamailio Coordinator: Giacomo Vacca, RTCSoft, Italy |
| 15:00-15:30 ♦ Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:15 – Workshop 3 ♦ Analyzing SIP Traffic with Homer SIP Capture Coordinator: Lorenzo Mangani, Liberty Global, Netherlands |
| 16:15-17:00 – Workshop 4 ♦ Troubleshooting Kamailio Configuration File Coordinator: Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Kamailio, Germany |
| 17:00-17:30 ♦ End of Workshops – Closing Remarks |
More details about the workshops can be found in the Workshops Page.
NOTE: As an alternative option during the workshops, it is very likely to offer a trip by shuttle bus to Fraunhofer Fokus Institute during the pre-conference day to visit the research laboratories and playgrounds for Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI). More details, including the departure times for the trips, can be read here.
Conference – Day One: May 19, 2016
| 08:30-09:00 ♦ Registration |
| 09:00-09:10 ♦ Welcome Note |
| 09:10-09:30 ♦ 2001-2016: Kamailio – Fifteen Years Of Development |
| Elena-Ramona Modroiu, Co-founder Kamailio, Asipto, Germany |
| It has been a long way for the project born as SIP Express Router (SER), rising as OpenSER and maturing as Kamailio. A look at the history highlighting the relevant moments of its evolution as well as the people behind it, many being not much involved in the public activity, but their decisions made possible the development of the project. |
| 09:30-10:00 ♦ Research And Innovation Ecosystems With SDN, NFV and Cloud |
| Thomas Magedanz, Prof. Dr. (Professor at Technische Universität Berlin and Head of NGNI at FhG Fokus Institute), Germany |
| Fraunhofer Fokus, the place where Kamailio was started as SIP Express Router project back in 2001, continued for the past two decades to be one of the leading world wide research institutes in real time communications, influencing and shaping the technologies and markets. From bare SIP and VoIP, to IMS, EPC, Fokus continues to explore how to evolve, optimize and scale communications between humans as well as machines. With the reach experience of successful projects at all layers of communication stack, the team of researchers at Fokus is now leveraging SDN, NFV and Cloud to offer a complete 5G playgrounds to industry players. The talk is revealing the current hot topics in research and gives a perspective of what to expect in the near future in the RTC evolution. |
| 10:00-10:30 ♦ Building a Programmable Mobile Core Network |
| Werner Eriksen, VP Communication Services at Telenor Digital |
| Introducing the flexibility developers want, and opening up the required APIs in a running multi billion dollar operation is not trivial. In a response to this Telenor Digital has built a full stack MVNO setup which from the ground up provides programmability that enables us to build products and services with internal and (soon) external developers. |
| 10:30-11:00 ♦ Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 ♦ Open Discussions Panel – Design And Evolution Of SER-Kamailio Architecture And RTC Services |
| Moderator, To Be Announced |
| Discussing the reasons behind SER-Kamailio architecture, what was done right or bad, which of those past decisions will stand today and what can be improved in the future.
Among panelists:
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| 11:30-12:00 ♦ Update Your SIP! A Journey Beyond RFC 3261 |
| Olle E. Johansson, Owner Edvina, Sweden |
| Much has happened and a few things still need to happen with the SIP protocol since the original v2.0 RFC was published over ten years ago. This talk takes you beyond RFC 3261 and highlights a few additions to SIP that solves issues – and a few we may want to look into soon. |
| 12:00-12:30 ♦ Bridging Kamailio To The Matrix Ecosystem |
| Matthew Hodgson, Co-founder of Matrix.org, UK |
| Matrix is an open standard for decentralised persistent communication over IP. It provides simple HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting JSON over an open federation of servers. Matrix can be used for decentralised group chat, WebRTC and VoIP signaling, Internet of Things data transfer, and anywhere you need a common data fabric to link together fragmented silos of communication. Our focus is on simplicity and security.One of the goals of Matrix is to connect all open communication services together – either natively or via the Application Services (AS) API. This API makes it easy to bridge existing services and protocols into the Matrix ecosystem. Last year, we tried to hack together a Kamailio bridge just before Kamailio World 2015 – this time we have built a proper one by extending the Kamailio server directly!
In this talk we will look at this new bridge and demo calls from Kamailio to Matrix and vice versa. We will also discuss further features and extensions we can add to the bridge, and look at new features in Matrix, such as conferencing and anonymous access. Matrix is managed by Matrix.org: a non-profit open source project acting as the neutral custodian for the standard. |
| 12:30-13:30 ♦ Lunch Break |
| 13:30-14:00 ♦ The Architecture Of Asterisk 13 |
| Matthew Jordan, Lead Developer Asterisk Project, Digium, USA |
| While Asterisk has been around since 1999, the project is not static, and the open source developers contributing to Asterisk have not been idle. At different points in the project’s history, major architectural improvements have been made that have radically changed the capabilities Asterisk provides to its users. In this presentation, the architecture of Asterisk 13, the latest Long Term Support release, will be discussed. In particular, the talk will focus on Asterisk’s bridging core, message bus, and other internal frameworks that can be used by developers to extend and enhance the open source project. |
| 14:00-14:30 ♦ Your whole network as a [SIP] IPS |
| Simon Woodhead, CEO Simwood, UK |
| Simon has spoken at many Kamailio World events, usually about VoIP Fraud and his extensive research into the subject, coupled with live experience from Simwood’s day-to-day operations. After a quick update on VoIP Fraud, Simon will talk about using open source technologies combined with evolving network infrastructure trends to deliver distributed dynamic network protection at any scale. |
| 14:30-15:00 ♦ Interconnecting With Deutsche Telekom Using Open Source Software |
| Sebastian Damm, Sipgate, Germany |
| Over the next years, more and more carriers will be urged to switch their interconnections with Deutsche Telekom from SS7 to NGN/SIP. In this talk I will show you how this can be done using just Open Source software. I will also cover some behaviour changes that arise from the switch to the “new next generation world”. |
| 15:00-15:30 ♦ A Tale Of Two Worlds: Bridging SIP And WebRTC With Janus |
| Lorenzo Miniero, Co-Founder and Main Developer Janus Project, Meetecho, Italy |
| … or why gateways don’t necessarily have to be seen as pure evil! Janus is an open source, general purpose, WebRTC gateway. Its modular and extensible nature allows it to be used in several different real-time multimedia applications and contexts, ranging from more traditional scenarios like streaming and conferencing to more innovative ones involving heterogeneous devices. One of the available modules enables Janus to act as a WebRTC-to-SIP gateway, thus providing WebRTC users with an easy option for interacting with an existing SP infrastructure. The presentation will first introduce Janus and its architecture in general, to then describe in better detail how the SIP gatewaying feature can be used, and the ongoing efforts to make this even more seamless from a protocol perspective. An overview on existing applications exploiting this functionality will also be presented. |
| 15:30-16:00 ♦ Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:30 ♦ A Look Back At 9 Years Of Friendly Scanning And Vicious SIP |
| Sandro Gauci, Enable Security, Germany |
| A talk about how the most used and abused VoIP security toolset was conceived and what happened next. He will explain how, from his point of view, the release of SIPVicious (a.k.a. friendly-scanner) affected VoIP security. He will also speak about his attempts to rewrite the test suite to support new transport protocols, and then show off his latest try. |
| 16:30-17:00 ♦ RTC:Engine – Signaling And Media Handling In Modern Communication Systems |
| Andreas Granig, Co-Founder and CTO Sipwise, Austria |
| Offering the opportunity to connect anytime from anywhere is more important that ever, being either from home with classic SIP phone, on the go through a mobile app or from a co-working space via a WebRTC browser. The talk will present a solution that offers the ability to deal in a flexible way with the constraints of each of these connectivity mediums in term of security and encryption, bandwidth or power limitations and make possible that the customers connect to each other independent of where they are and what they use, still relying on the scalability of proxy architecture offered by Kamailio, along with RTPEngine media relayer. |
| 17:00-18:00 ♦ Open Discussions Panel – VUC Visions |
| Randy Resnick, Founder VoIP Users Conference, France |
What is new and exciting in the real time communications? What will be there in one or two years from now? Open discussions with a selected group of guests. Among panelists:
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| 18:00-18:30 ♦ End of Day One – Closing Remarks |
| 19:00-22:00 ♦ Cocktail Party – Social Networking Event |
Conference – Day Two: May 20, 2016
| 09:00-09:10 ♦ Welcome Note |
| 09:10-09:30 ♦ Agile RTC Services With Lua |
| Mathias Pasquay, CEO Pascom, Germany |
| The Lua scripting language is known to have a fast interpreter with small footprint, one of the reasons it is provided as an embedded option by many RTC server applications, including Kamailio and Asterisk. Along with the benefits of Lua, some tips and tricks that can help to integrate closely Asterisk and Kamailio, the presentation will show a real use of how to build a scalable and flexible call queuing system leveraging Lua and Asterisk. |
| 09:30-10:00 ♦ Diameter Online Charging – not only for VoLTE! |
| Carsten Bock, CEO NG Voice, Germany |
| The latest Kamailio IMS Extensions includes an “ims_charging” module. The name may suggest, that it is supposed to be used with IMS deployments, but that’s not entirely true. Apart from various VoLTE deployments, it’s increasingly beeing used in non-VoLTE and non-IMS setups, too. This talk will show the architectural design behind Diameter-based Online Charging and explain the benefits and integration into Kamailio (both IMS/VoLTE and non-IMS). |
| 10:00-10:30 ♦ Kamailio In A Mobile World (Revisited) |
| Federico Cabiddu, Senior VoIP Developer of Libon Project, Orange, France |
| Mobile devices present specific challenges with respect to traditional SIP services . This presentation focus on how Kamailio can be setup to manage mobile scenarios, to optimize resources’ usage, to dynamically adjust call routing based on push notifications and to provide a platform that scales to several millions of mobile users. |
| 10:30-11:00 ♦ Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 ♦ VoIP & RTC Monitoring Using The SIPCAPTURE HEP Stack |
| Alexandr Dubovikov, Founder Homer SIP Capture Project |
| The SIPCAPTURE stack has greatly evolved over the last years migrating from a SIP-only application into a dynamic, modular and fully programmable RTC “framework” for capturing, monitoring and troubleshooting real-time protocols. Learn how to integrate and correlate SIP signaling, webRTC sessions, application logs, media reports and custom metrics using the latest modules, components and capture agents from the HEP/EEP ecosystem, and how get your own capture stack up and running in minutes using Docker and native HEP/EEP integrations. |
| 11:30-12:00 ♦ Open Discussions Panel – The State of SIP Endpoints: Phones and Media Servers |
| Moderator: TBA |
Among panelists:
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| 12:00-12:45 ♦ Dangerous Demos |
| James Body, Head of Research and Development, Truphone, UK |
Interactive session:
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| 12:30-13:30 ♦ Lunch Break |
| 13:30-14:00 ♦ High Quality Telephony Using A Fail-Safe Media Relay Setup |
| Pawel Kuzak, Core Developer VoIP Infrastructure, 1&1 Germany |
| With more than 3 millions VoIP customers and over 9 millions registered VoIP numbers, 1&1 is one of the biggest VoIP providers in Germany. For years, we have been focusing on SIP signalling only, using a high-availability Kamailio setup supported by some Asterisk servers providing for comfort services. With the rising number of customers and the advent of possibilities for provisioning Quality of Services (QoS), we had to deal with RTP traffic also. Furthermore, the upcoming IPv6 requires bridging from IPv4 to IPv6 customers. Hence, in 2014, media relays were introduced into our VoIP backend. This talk will show the challenges that arise with this setup, how they have been solved using the Sipwise rtpengine together with a Kamailio (control) proxy, and future perspectives. |
| 14:00-14:30 ♦ Scaling VoIP Network – The good, The Bad And The Down Right Ugly |
| Nir Simionovich, CEO of Greenfield Tech, Israel |
| We’ve all designed a VoIP network that required a re-design or a major re-factor at some point. The purpose of this talk is to discuss several methodologies and evolutions of VoIP platforms, specifically, in the service delivery world. We will discuss issues relating to application scaling and not network scaling, as network scaling is fairly simple.This is an in-depth discussion of development methodologies and technologies, targeted mainly towards developers, architects and engineers. |
| 14:30-15:00 ♦ Telephony Evolution At CERN |
| Francisco Valentín Vinagrero, VoIP Architect, CERN, Switzerland |
| Sharing the experiences at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) for migrating its legacy PABX-based telephony system towards a software-based architecture designed to meet tomorrow’s communication needs. With the introduction of open-source call routers and Session Border Controllers (SBC), it is expected to foster the introduction of new services and increase the agility of the telephony network to adapt to new requirements and standards. |
| 15:00-15:30 ♦ Solving the Class 4 Interface with Kamailio |
| Alex Balashov, Evariste Systems, USA |
| This presentation will have emphasise the ways in which Kamailio was used to build a class 4 softswitch, to offer a unique port density and throughput proposition on commodity hardware, and discussion of techniques for handling various kinds of commonplace call processing challenges. These details reveal how CSRP, a SIP routing/rating/accounting solution with Kamailio at the core, was tailored over the years based on the evolution and the new challenges of the telephony market. |
| 15:30-16:00 ♦ Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:30 ♦ The Control Access And Quality Of Voice In 4/5G |
| Dragos Vingazan, Core Network Dynamics, Germany |
| The talk about the technologies needed to deploy 4/5G networks, using as much as possible open source, ensuring proper security and the best possible services based on signal coverage. |
| 16:30-17:00 ♦ Project Phoenix – Testbed Platform Evolution Beyond SER-Kamailio-Wharf-5G |
| Marius-Iulian Corici, FhG Fokus, Berlin |
A journey about how Fokus developed its testbeds platforms, what’s currently available and the plans for the future, highlighting:
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| 17:00-17:15 ♦ Lightning Talk: High-throughput disk-less CDR Rating using CGRateS |
| Dan Bogos, CGRateS Project, Germany |
| Internet Telephony has evolved over the years from simple office PBX to clustered voice services. CGRateS project was born out of today’s market demand for performance and scalability when it comes to Real-Time Charging. In this talk Dan will describe CGRateS mechanisms for optimized CDR processing in terms of speed using technologies like in-memory CDR queues with real-time individual replication to multiple sites. CGRateS is a battle-tested, real-time Charging Engine which supports 4 different charging modes: Prepaid, Pseudo-prepaid, Postpaid and Rated. |
| 17:15-17:50 ♦ Kamailio 5.0 |
| Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Co-Founder Kamailio, Asipto, Germany |
An open discussion panel featuring the Kamailio developers to reveal what is the state of Kamailio 5.0 and the roadmap to the stable release. Among participants:
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| 17:50-18:00 ♦ End of Event – Closing Remarks |
Please note that there can still be updates to the structure of the schedule.
The biographies of the speakers have been published – click here to jump to speakers page.
You can also look at the agenda of the previous edition to get an idea of what to expect during the conference days.
Overview of the event structure
May 18, 2016 – 12:00-18:00 – Technical Workshops
Several technical tutorials with duration between one and two hours, with content focusing on more practical approach on how to do design and deployments of large real time communication systems.
May 19, 2016 – 09:00-18:30 – Conference and Exhibition – Day One
Typical conference presentations, blending topics from business cases and technical aspects to research and innovation. Exhibition hall is open.
May 19, 2016 – 19:00-22:00 – Social Networking Event – Cocktail Party
A pleasant environment letting attendees to peer between them as well as enjoying good drinks and tasty food.
May 20, 2016 – 09:00-18:00 – Conference and Exhibition – Day Two
Typical conference presentations, blending topics from business cases and technical aspects to research and innovation. Exhibition hall is open.