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WELCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

AGENDA AT A GLANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3

THINGS TO KNOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

HOTEL MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 7

KEYNOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 & 14

CONFERENCE SESSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 - 18

SPEAKER BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 - 27

EXPO FLOORPLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

ASTRICON SPONSORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 -31

ALL THINGS ASTERISK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 - 33

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October 8, 2013

Greetings, and welcome to our 10th AstriCon!

Ever since those ancient days, back in early 2004, when the young Steve Sokol and Olle Johansson met up with Mark and Malcolm Davenport, and conspired to run the first AstriCon later that year in Atlanta, Asterisk has gone from strength to strength – both as an Open Source technology and communications engine or platform.

That first AstriCon was staffed by a very small number of people – in addition to Olle and Steve, Jared Smith and Leif Madsen also helped out.

NETXUSA was amongst the eight ‘exhibitors’ at the event (they had a table in the hall), and over the course of 10 years, AstriCon has been supported by over 100 different sponsors!

This year, we are delighted to welcome attendees to this AstriCon from North America, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia – the individual countries are almost too numerous to list.

While Asterisk was once viewed as a hobby-project by some of the large incumbent PBX vendors, they have (over time) had to concede that the project Mark started has become at least a peer to their offerings, and in some cases they have had to look on as Asterisk grew in parallel with their decline, or even demise.

As you know, Asterisk has given rise to a whole ecosystem of people and companies delivering products and services around it – and this conference is packed with those people, so do mingle at the Exhibit Hall Opening Reception, All Conference Party or any other great social opportunities over the next few days. It’s these people who have made AstriCon what it is today, so thank you to all the attendees and sponsors that have supported AstriCon over the last 10 years.

There cannot be many annual conferences where so many of the community participate at such an involved level. Each year it is astonishing to see the contributions that everyone brings to AstriCon, whether it is a talk to deliver, a demo to show, outfits to wear to the all-show party, beverages to consume(!) or just lively participation in the varying sessions on offer.

While Asterisk as a project continues to evolve and improve due to the work of a very talented collection of people, we should also show our appreciation for the folks who got AstriCon going – and that’s easy to do, because they are all still here! Ten years later, and everyone named above is at this event (so look ‘em out and say “Hi!”). Now doesn’t that show that Asterisk is a project worth sticking with?

Enjoy your AstriCon! David DuffettWorldwide Community Director, Asterisk

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013 - PRE-CONFERENCE DAY (pg. 6)

9:00 am - 4:55 pm

Asterisk 123 Grand Ballroom I

Digium Commercial SessionsGrand Ballroom II

Session 1: 9:00am - 10:35am Intro to Asterisk & Asterisk Architecture

Session 2: 11:00am - 12:15pm Installing Asterisk & Intro to Dialplan

Session 3: 1:45pm - 3:00pm Configuring Endpoints & Interactive Dialplan

Session 4: 3:30pm - 4:55pm

Advanced Dialplan

9:00am - 9:35am: Gateway Application, xCALLY

9:35am - 10:05pm: Switchvox API

10:05pm - 10:35pm: Switchvox Cloud by Digium Cloud Services

11:00am - 11:30am: Wrapping Services around Switchvox

11:30am - 12:05pm: Why Partner with Digium?

1:45pm - 2:20pm: Digium Phones with Asterisk

2:20pm - 2:55pm: Custom Apps on Digium Phones

3:00pm - 4:00pm: FreePBX Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

4:00pm - 5:00pm: Elastix & Asterisk, A Successful Combination

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EXPO Hall Opening Reception & Fastest Dudes Contest, Garden Court

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2013 - CONFERENCE DAY 19:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE - Asterisk: Views from the Community Front Line: Phillippe Lindheimer, Olle Johansson, Alistair Cunningham, Mark Spencer --- Grand Ballroom III & IV

Security Master Class - Chambers (pg. 10) Business & Case Studies - Grand Ballroom II (pg. 11) WebRTC/Cloud - Kennesaw (pg. 13) Tutorials/Development - Grand Ballroom I (pg. 14)

10:00am - 10:35am Session 1 - Intro to VoIP Security -

They know who you are and how to find youEric Klein

Best practice for SMB IP telephony in AsiaKwangsik Kim

Asterisk, a key building block for great solutionsJames Body

The experiment is over - time to get serious about realtime communication!

Olle E. Johansson

11:00am - 11:35am Session 2 - Hardening your systemEric Klein

Increasing Security for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Mexico through a Creative Multi-Technology Approach

Juan Carlos Fernandez

WebRTC? What’s the use?Jakub Klausa

Asterisk for Web DevsDavid M. Lee, Jared Smith

11:40am - 12:15pmSession 3 - “Compromised” a hacking tutorial and lab

Phillip Mullis

Using Social Media to Build Your Business

Susan Elder

Get and keep the right people for your Asterisk-based business

Pete Cheslock

A deep dive into WebRTC mediaTim Panton

T1/E1 fundamentalsRuss Meyerriecks

1:45pm - 2:20pm Session 4- PBX Hacking 101Phillip Mullis

When to sell hosted vs. CPE AsteriskAryn Nakaoka

The new SIP stack in AsteriskJoshua Colp, Mark Michelson

Spice Up your Asterisk Server with KamailioKlaus Darilion

2:25pm - 3:00pmSession 5 - Automated Hacker Mitigation

Using Fail2ban and Cisco Access ListJR Richardson

Asterisk-based Distro PanelHear from the creators of FreePBX distro, Elastix, PBX in a Flash and

AsteriskNOW

Using PHP/mySQL to Extend AsteriskDavid Martin

SIP over WebSockets and load-balancing on KamailioPeter Dunkley

3:30pm - 4:05pmSession 6 - VoIP Security Panel

Eric Klein, Phillip Mullis, JR Richardson, Nir Simionovich, Flavio E. Goncalves

DR & BC - the Asterisk AdvantageDennis Little

Bringing Real-time VoIP metrics to 2013Dan Jenkins

Kamailio: The story for AsteriskDaniel-Constantin Mierla

4:05pm - 6:00pm EXPO Hall Open & Fastest Dudes Contest, Garden Court

8:00pm - 11:00pm All Conference Party, Grand Ballroom III & IV - Light munchies & Drink and a Live DJ! Air Hockey, Arcade Games, Pinball, Pool table, Ping Pong and Foosball table.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013 - CONFERENCE DAY 29:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE - WebRTC: How it will shape the communications industry, and implications for the Asterisk community: Phil Edholm --- Grand Ballroom III & IV

Security Master Class - Chambers (pg. 16) Business & Case Studies - Grand Ballroom II (pg. 17) WebRTC/Cloud - Kennesaw (pg. 18) Tutorials/Development - Grand Ballroom I (pg. 19)

10:00am - 10:35am Session 7 - How to detect and prevent frauds on Asterisk ServersFlavio E. Goncalves

Key Aspects of the Largest Asterisk-based Retail Roll-out in the United States

Steven Porter

AGI/AMI to ARIMatt Riddell

Distributing call queues for Asterisk using Python and RedisPaul Belanger

11:00am - 11:35amSession 8 – CSI: VoIP -

Analyzing a VoIP fraud case, hands on caseNir Simionovich

Taking over the world on a budgetCassius Smith

Implementation Lessons using WebRTC in AsteriskMoises Silva

Getting creative with AsteriskWarren Selby

11:40am - 12:15pm Session 9 – CSI: VoIP Analyzing a Hack AttemptNir Simionovich

Building a hosted, multi-tenant contact center environment for thousands of agents

Matt Florell

Asterisk 12 OverviewMatt Jordan

Asterisk and DatabasesFrancesco Prior

1:45pm - 2:20pmSession 10 - Automated Hacker Mitigation Live Demonstration

Hands-On LABJR Richardson

World DominationJon “Maddog” Hall

Stylin’ n’ Profilin your Asterisk installShaun Ruffell

Apps on the phoneTom De Moor

2:25pm - 3:00pmSession 11 - Overcoming Security Challenges of IP

Communications by Using SIP EndpointsWei Tang

Stop The Presses! Asterisk at Berkshire Hathaway Media (Part 1)Corey McFadden

What’s Next: How to charge more by reinventing cloud PBX servicesBen Klang

Developing a state-of-the-art, audio-related Asterisk Application ModuleThomas Arimont

3:30pm - 4:00pmSession 12 – VoIP Security Panel

Eric Klein, Phillip Mullis, JR Richardson, Nir Simionovich, Flavio E. Goncalves, Wei Tang

Stop The Presses! Asterisk at Berkshire Hathaway Media (Part 2)Martin Conroy

APIs beyond Asterisk 12Max Schroeder

Discover Session Description Protocol (SDP)Clod Patry

4:00pm - 5:00pm AstriCon Recap and Asterisk Project Updates - Grand Ballroom III & IV

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Registration Open7:30am - 7:00pmOutside Expo Hall

7:30am - 6:00pmOutside Expo Hall

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Continental Breakfast7:30am - 9:00am

Grand Ballroom corridor7:30am - 9:00am


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Atrium12:15pm - 1:45pm

Atrium12:15pm - 1:45pm

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Grand Ballroom corridor3:00pm - 3:30pm

Garden Court/Expo Hall3:00pm - 3:30pm

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Registration7:30am - 7:00pm

Outside the Expo Hall7:30am - 6:00pm

Outside the Expo Hall7:30am - 3:00pm

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EXPO5:00pm - 7:00pm

Garden Court10:00am - 6:00pm

Garden Court10:00am - 3:00pm

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General Sessions

9:00am - 9:45am Asterisk: Views from the

Community FrontlineGrand Ballrooms III & IV

9:00am - 9:45am WebRTC: How will it shape the communications industry and

Asterisk community.Grand Ballrooms III & IV

Conference Sessions9:00am - 4:55pm

Grand Ballroom I (2nd floor)Grand Ballroom II (2nd floor)

10:00am - 4:05pm Grand Ballroom I (2nd floor)Grand Ballroom II (2nd floor)

Kennesaw (1st floor)Chambers (1st floor)

10:00am - 4:00pm Grand Ballroom I (2nd floor)Grand Ballroom II (2nd floor)

Kennesaw (1st floor)Chambers (1st floor)

dCAP Testing (by appointment only)

8:30am - 11:30am1:00pm - 4:00pm

Stately

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Parties and NetworkingEXPO Opening Reception

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Garden Court

All-Conference Party 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Grand Ballroom III & IV (must show your AstriCon

Conference Badge to attend)

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General Sessions/Keynotes/All-Conference Park/Asterisk Recap - Grand Ballroom III & IV

Asterisk 123 and Tutorials/Development Track - Grand Ballroom I

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Asterisk 123 9:00am - 4:55pm | Grand Ballroom IBilly Chia: Asterisk Marketing Manager, Digium

The Asterisk 123 Seminar is intended to provide a well rounded and informative introduction to the Asterisk Project. All are welcome! Whether you are managing a team deploying an Asterisk implementation, evaluating potential replacements for a legacy telephony solution that’s on its last leg, or are simply new to Asterisk, excited to learn what Asterisk is capable of, then this talk has something to offer you. This all-day seminar is broken into multiple sessions, beginning with background information such as the history of Asterisk, followed by methods of installing Asterisk and examples of fundamental configuration for call flow and features such as Voicemail and IVR. Lecture will immediately be followed by a Question and Answer Session.

Session 1 (9:00am - 10:35am) Intro to Asterisk & Asterisk Architecture

Session 2 (11:00am - 12:15pm) Installing Asterisk & Intro to Dialplan

Session 3 (1:45pm - 3:00pm) Configuring Endpoints & Interactive Dialplan

Session 4 (3:30pm - 4:55pm) Advanced Dialplan

Gateway Application - xCally 9:00am - 9:35am | Grand Ballroom IIDiego Gosmar, CEO and Sales Marketing Director,Giuseppe Innamorato, CTO and Product Manager,Xenialab By using the Digium Gateway API, Xenialab has full integration between our Asterisk Contact Center solution, and the E1/T1 Digium media gateway. This session outlines our use of Digium VoIP Gateways and the Gateway API with the xCALLY call center solution.

Switchvox API 9:35am - 10:05am | Grand Ballroom IIJim Watt, President & Chief Executive Officer Dynamic Solutions GroupFor years developers have been using the robust Switchvox API to build tight integrations with Switchvox and third party software and web services. Join us and learn from one of the top Digium Partners to hear about how they have used the Switchvox API to solve customer problems and build a unique revenue stream.

PRE-CONFERENCE DAY: Tuesday, October 8th

OVERVIEW:

Breakfast 7:30am - 9:00am Grand Ballroom Corridor

Pre-Conference Sessions

Asterisk 123 Track:Grand Ballroom I 9:00am - 4:55pm Commercial Track:Grand Ballroom II 9:00am - 5:00pm

Box Lunch 12:15pm - 1:45pm Atrium

EXPO Opening Reception 5:00pm - 7:00pm Garden Court

Fastest Dudes Competition 5:00pm - 7:00pm EXPO Hall - Booth 26

This year the Fastest Dudes con-test requires two people to work together, and each of you could win an iPad! This collaborative contest times you to see how quickly you and a friend can set up a trunk between two servers and route a call from one Digium IP Phone on server ‘A’ over the trunk to another Digium IP Phone on server ‘B’. You can choose between using Elastix, FreeBPX or vanilla Asterisk on each of the servers. The fastest dudes and/or dudettes win!

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Switchvox Cloud Powered by Digium Cloud Services 10:05am - 10:35am | Grand Ballroom IIBrian Ferguson, Switchvox Product Marketing, Digium Digium is at the forefront of the Cloud revolution in the industry. This year, Digium has rounded out its Switchvox Anywhere strategy with Switchvox Cloud. The robust power and extensive feature set of Switchvox is now available in a hosted environment as well as on-premise to give customers and partners a solution for every situation. Come learn about the power of Switchvox Cloud and how it can help your organization.

Wrapping Services Around Switchvox 11:00am - 11:30am | Grand Ballroom IIDavid Johnson, Co-Founder and Vice-President, The Fulcrum GroupWith its unique architecture and seamless integration into existing networks, Switchvox has become not only a substantial revenue driver for Digium Partners, but has also provided a great platform for those partners to wrap other products and services around to be successful. Come learn ways to wrap services around Digium products from a top Digium Partner and take your business to the next level.

Why Partner with Digium? 11:30am - 12:05pm | Grand Ballroom IIJim Butler, Channel Director, Digium As a Digium Authorized Channel Partner, you can sell the full line of Digium’s award-winning Switchvox Unified Communications systems, or a complete solution built on Asterisk, the world’s most popular open source communications engine. Digium has the field-proven solutions you need to win more business.

Digium Phones with Asterisk1:45pm - 2:20pm | Grand Ballroom IIMalcolm Davenport, Employee #4, Digium Lifer Digium IP Phones are the only phones specifically designed to work with Asterisk and Asterisk-based phones systems. Come learn about the unique custom integration options available with Digium phones that no other phones allow.

Custom Apps on Digium Phones 2:20pm - 2:55pm | Grand Ballroom IIShaun Ruffell, Linux Kernel Developer, DigiumThe Digium IP Phone App Engine allows native apps to run directly on the phone. Through an intuitive JavaScript-based API, custom integrations with Digium phones allow unique phone apps to be built that are simply unavailable on XML-based IP endpoints. Join this session to learn what can be done with the Digium IP Phone API and some of the technical details surrounding it.

FreePBX Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Grand Ballroom IIThe FreePBX TeamFreePBX has been the single most influential project within the Asterisk ecosystem with an install base of end users counted in the millions. This session will start with the past 8-year history that’s resulted in the world’s predominant open source PBX system. It will then discuss the 12-month future plans of FreePBX, what we’ll be doing to help the adoption of Asterisk 12 and the exciting WebRTC standard that is sweeping our industry.

Elastix & Asterisk, A successful combination 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Grand Ballroom IIJuan Pablo BustosA brief introduction to Elastix, key details on the project, and its integration with Asterisk, leading to a powerful tool for adding functionalities through services, on top of the traditional PBX utilities. Also, a sneak peek at new Elastix features.

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Keynote Address 9:00am - 9:45am Grand Ballroom III & IV

Conference Sessions 10:00am - 4:05pm

EXPO Open 10:00am - 6:00pm Garden Court

Lunch 12:15pm - 1:45pm Atrium

Fastest Dudes Competition 4:05pm - 6:00pm EXPO Hall - Booth #26

(See sidebar on page 6 for more information.)

All-Conference Party* 8:00pm - 11:00pm Grand Ballroom III & IV (must show your AstriCon Conference Badge to attend)

GENERAL SESSION DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9th9:00am - 9:45am | Grand Ballroom III & IV

Asterisk: Views from the Community Front Line

Phillippe Lindheimer Project Leader, FreePBX

Olle Johansson, Open Source Contributor and Co-founder of AstriCon

Alistair Cunningham General Manager, Integrics

Mark Spencer, Chairman and CTO, Digium

Celebrating the tenth year, AstriCon remains the longest running conference devoted to Asterisk, the most widely used open source communications platform. AstriCon brings together the world’s open source enthusiasts – from code developers and Asterisk integrators, to service providers and enterprise IT professionals – who all share an interest in Asterisk.

Lindheimer, Johansson, Cunningham and Spencer will present “Asterisk: Views from the Community Front Line” at 9 a.m. on October 9. In this session, each of the speakers will share reflections on the past, and more importantly, give their thoughts on the future of Asterisk.

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9thSecurity Master Class | 10:00am - 4:05pm | Chambers

10:00am - 10:35amIntro to VoIP Security: They know who you are and how to find youEric KleinWho is out there looking for your system and why do they want to hack it? An introduction to telecom fraud and attacks using real-world examples from the press, with explanations of common problems in configuring Asterisk PBXs.

11:00am - 11:35amHardening your systemEric KleinBasic methodologies and best practices for configuring Asterisk PBXs. What have we learned from monitoring and auditing Asterisk PBXs and how can you avoid the common mistakes?

11:40am - 12:15pm“Compromised” a hacking tutorial and labPhillip MullisAn introduction to SIP hacking, see and gain hands-on knowledge of how to use the various SIP penetration testing and hacking tools available.

Bring a laptop and join in for a live learning session.

1:45pm - 2:20pmPBX Hacking 101Phillip MullisIn this presentation and lab you will see a live dem-onstration of a PBX hack and learn about the other non-SIP hacker attack vectors. Not to be missed, bring a laptop if you wish to participate in the lab. Also see how fail2ban can fail to save you.

2:25pm - 3:00pmAutomated Hacker Mitigation Using Fail2ban and Cisco Access List JR RichardsonVoice networks connected to Internet are constant targets for Voice Hackers trying to compromise sys-tems to make free phone calls. This paper explores the implementation of the log scanner ‘Fail2ban’ in con-junction with custom Perl scripts to add IP Access List entries to Cisco routers and switches to block hackers.

3:30pm - 4:05pmVoIP Security PanelEric Klein, Phillip Mullis, JR Richardson, Nir Simionovich, Flavio E. GoncalvesAsk the experts or listen to their tales of attacks and horror stories from the past. Based on the successful security panels from 2011 where experiences and sto-ries were shared by both the panel and the audience.

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9thBusiness & Case Studies | 10:00am - 4:05pm | Grand Ballroom II

10:00am - 10:35amBest practice for SMB IP telephony in AsiaKwangsik Kim• Enterprise VoIP Market in Korea• What is DCS(IP-PBX) in LG U+(Carrier)?

- System Architecture - Model Line-Up - Features • User-Friendly Web UI • Auto-Provisioning • Security

• Use Case for SMB customer - Shipbuilding Industry • mVoIP - Smart hotel • real-time billing • openAPI (RestFul API)

• Roadmap for Our Service - Interoperability for IMS - HD Voice call(G711.1, AMR-WB) - video call between Fixed (VoIP) and Mobile

11:00am - 11:35amIncreasing Security for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Mexico through a Creative Multi-Technology ApproachJuan Carlos FernandezDue to the increasing insecurity faced by journalists and human rights workers in Mexico, the Mexican government passed a law in 2012 calling for the rapid implementation of measures to help protect them. In response, Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de Mexico provided an innovative, practical, reliable, and cost-effective solution using an Asterisk-based system in conjunction with other technologies. The system was in place and operational by the end of 2012 and has been used successfully to defuse dangerous situa-tions to its users.

The system allows the journalists to send alarms of distress from their mobile phones in case of emer-gency by simply dialing a pre-programmed speed-dial number. The alarm activation automatically triggers a series of events and has the capability of notifying family members, colleagues, government officials, and security forces within a matter of seconds. Depend-ing on the device used to send the distress call, the system is capable of distributing the audio of the sub-scriber or the GPS location of the phone from which

the call was made, the latter being extremely useful when dangerous circumstances prevent the subscriber from being able to communicate verbally.

This multi-technology system can be applied not only for journalists but also in many types of security or emergency situations. It is only one of the many examples in which Asterisk, when used creatively and in conjunction with other technologies, can provide an endless possibility of state-of-the-art applications in response to real-life problems.

11:40am - 12:15pmUsing Social Media to Build Your BusinessSusan ElderNo matter the size of your business, you’ve got to be where your customers are. In today’s economy, that means being active in social media. In this session, learn about the various social media sites, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Foursquare and more. Learn which sites will help you build and de-velop your brand image, and which can actually help you prospect for and capture leads.

Get and keep the right people for your Asterisk-based businessPete CheslockWe all talk about how to recruit and hire DevOps- minded people, but something we don’t often talk about is how to manage and retain them once you have hired them. There are lots of studies and statis-tics that discuss how expensive it is when you lose an employee. Often times the business side believes the only way to keep employees is via monetary compen-sation, and this is a terrible way to motivate. I have found that motivating through autonomy and purpose can yield a much higher benefit to all parties. Most important to startups as they often are more cash con-strained and need to compete with more profitable and established companies.

The Theory of Constraints states that an hour lost at a bottleneck essentially shuts down your organiza-tion. What happens when your constrained group (most likely your evolving operations team) loses a highly valued engineer? In this presentation, I want to discuss some of the techniques that were helpful for me when trying to keep my team motivated, when the world was coming down on our heads. Techniques

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found within process and culture changes such as Agile and DevOps, collaboration and cross-functional teams, help everyone to feel as though they are part of something greater than themselves.

My talk will expand and focus on the specifics of what has worked for me, and hopefully provide enough options that most any company could cherry-pick and start using within their organization; With the ultimate focus of keeping people happy and productive mem-bers of your team.

1:45pm - 2:20pmWhen to sell hosted vs. CPE AsteriskAryn NakaokaDiscussion on when to sell hosted vs. on-site Asterisk solutions. Also we will discuss how to create a phone company and make revenue from all parts of the Asterisk sale.

2:25pm - 3:00pmAsterisk-based Distro Panelthe creators of FreePBX distro, Elastix, PBX in a Flash and AsteriskNOWSession information to be announced.

3:30pm - 4:05pmDR & BC - the Asterisk AdvantageDennis LittleDiscover how Asterisk can be a key part of any busi-ness’ disaster readiness and recovery plan and why VoIP makes the most sense in this theater. Attendees will explore:• Business and engineering questions to ask before

building an Asterisk solution• How VoIP beats traditional telecom in disaster

planning• Disaster-tested VoIP solutions that work for com-

petitive businesses today• Example configurations, tip and tricks that can be

put to use immediately following the talk

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9thWebRTC/Cloud | 10:00am - 4:05pm | Kennesaw

10:00am - 10:35amAsterisk, a key building block for great solutionsJames BodyFrom tiny embedded devices to thousands of call cen-ters and international mobile networks, Asterisk is now undoubtably the most widely deployed PBX applica-tion ever. Its flexibility, coupled with the innovative nature of members of the Asterisk community, have led Asterisk to be incorporated at the heart of a range of systems both large and small. In this session, James Body will take the audience through a whistlestop tour of Asterisk uses in order to inform, interest, energize and electrify the audience.

11:00am - 11:35amWebRTC? What’s the use?Jakub KlausaThis presentation will touch both parts of a few real-life solutions where Asterisk and WebRTC play key roles. The technical aspects of solutions mentioned will be covered during the technical part of the talk, with all the important details explaining how those so-lutions were built, what components were used, what is the future development planned. The other part of the talk will cover non technical aspects of those solu-tions – organizations, laws, and other things involved.

11:40am - 12:15pmA deep dive into WebRTC mediaTim PantonAn estimated 1 billion browsers will support webRTC this year, providing a rich new pool of endpoints for Asterisk systems. There has been much talk about suit-able signaling mechanisms for WebRTC calls. This talk is different – we look at the media side of the equa-tion. Our aim is to help firewall admin and the asterisk gurus to understand exactly what sort of packets they can expect to see arriving on their RTP ports when they adopt WebRTC.

(Hint, only some of them are RTP).

1:45pm - 2:20pmThe new SIP stack in AsteriskJoshua Colp, Mark MichelsonSIP is almost always a critical part of any Asterisk deployment. This role has traditionally been filled with the chan_sip Asterisk module but with

Asterisk 12 a new player is in the game, chan_pjsip. This new module is built upon the widely deployed PJSIP SIP stack and brings with it a new avenue for expansion and rapid development. This talk will focus on the overall design concepts, how it works, and the configuration involved. If you have ever used SIP in Asterisk (we know you have) you will not want to miss this talk.

2:25pm - 3:00pmUsing PHP/mySQL to Extend AsteriskDavid MartinA number of Web-based interfaces have been devel-oped to help end users leverage the power of Asterisk. If you haven’t found one that meets your spe-cific needs, how about developing one of your own?You don’t need an advanced programming degree to create an interface that’s tailored to your company and/or clients’ unique way of doing business. This presentation will include a quick overview of the main features of a site developed in PHP, including:

• Real-time Call History display• Creating an using a Blacklist• Maintaining a Speed Dial list• User authentication• Forwarding calls from afar• Patch-me-through logic: using call files to improve

productivity

Then we’ll explore the basics of integrating mySQL with the dial plan, and walk through downloadable examples of how to use PHP to bring it all together.

3:30pm - 4:05pmBringing Real-time VoIP metrics to 2013Dan JenkinsTrying to bring wallboards and dashboards up to today’s standards can be tough. Finding the right tools and technologies can be difficult. When you try to find something that’s customizable and lets you see deep into Asterisk’s statistics, the available options let you down. We’re about to change all of that, expanding on HTML5 and Node.js to create a fully scalable, web orientated view into Asterisk – changing the future of real-time telephony metric reporting forever.

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9thTutorials & Development | 10:00am - 4:05pm | Grand Ballroom I

10:00am - 10:35amThe experiment is over – time to get serious about realtime communication!Olle JohanssonThe SIP protocol as well as many open source implementations like Asterisk and Kamailio are more than 10 years old. It’s implemented, in production and done. What’s the lesson learned and what should we focus on in the coming 10 years?

We’ve replaced the PBX with a PBX and we’ve replaced the wires with insecure and unreliable communication over IP networks. How do we move forward into new services and platforms? What’s the role of the customer, how can you help building the next generation of communication tools?

11:00am - 11:35amAsterisk for Web DevsDavid M. Lee, Jared SmithAsterisk 12 introduces the Asterisk REST Interface (ARI). This is a set of modern, RESTful API’s for controlling Asterisk.

This session will walk attendants through these new interfaces, and demonstrate how to use them to build Asterisk-enabled applications.

11:40am - 12:15pmT1/E1 fundamentalsRuss MeyerriecksIn this presentation we dig down deep and find out how T1/E1 works at the signal level. We will cover frequencies and speeds, how data is framed and error- checked, how digital and analog channel signalling is carried, and how timing is propagated and recovered in the system. This will be a live demonstration using various mechanisms in DAHDI to explore these topics.

1:45pm - 2:20pmSpice Up your Asterisk Server with KamailioKlaus DarilionKamailio is a highly generic and versatile SIP proxy which can improve your Asterisk installations by adding lots of in-depth protocol features. This talk presents typical problems which evolve in Asterisk setups and shows how they can be solved with Kamailio. The talk covers the following scenarios:• SIP load balancing for performance and high

availabilty using Asterisk’s SIP Path support• Fix interoperability issues and support broken

devices – nice hacks• Detect and mitigate VoIP hacking• Kamailio as multi-purpose Session-Border-

Controller• High performance NAT Traversal and Media

Relaying• Adding a SIP presence server to your VoIP system

2:25pm - 3:00pmSIP over WebSockets and load-balancing on KamailioPeter DunkleyAsterisk now has excellent SIP over WebSockets and WebRTC media support, but what happens if you need more than one Asterisk server?

The traditional answer is that you put Kamailio in front as a load-balancer and now that Kamailio supports SIP over WebSockets this is still a good answer.

This session will show how to build a Kamailio load-balancer that supports SIP over WebSockets. I plan to deploy this load-balancer on a Raspberry Pi and build a small network of Kamailio and Asterisk with WebRTC support.

3:30pm - 4:05pmKamailio: The story for AsteriskDaniel-Constantin MierlaSession information to be announced.

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CONFERENCE DAY 2: Thursday, October 10th

OVERVIEW:


Keynote Address 9:00am - 9:45am Grand Ballroom III & IV

Conference Sessions 10:00am - 5:00pm

EXPO Open 10:00am - 6:00pm Garden Court

Lunch 12:15pm - 1:45pm Atrium

Asterisk Project Updates/ AstriCon Recap 3:00pm - 4:00pm Grand Ballroom III & IV

GENERAL SESSION DAY 2: 9:00am - 9:45am | Grand Ballroom III & IV

WebRTC: How will it shape the communications industry, and implications for the Asterisk community.

Phil Edholm Founder and President of

PKE Consulting

Leading WebRTC Expert

Edholm, a seasoned industry insider and former enterprise CTO at Nortel, will present his ideas on how WebRTC is expected to shape the communications industry and discuss the implications for the Asterisk community.

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10:00am - 10:35amHow to detect and prevent frauds on Asterisk ServersFlavio E. GoncalvesSession information to be announced.

11:00am - 11:35amCSI: VoIP - Analyzing a VoIP fraud case, hands on caseNir SimionovichLearn about the tools and methods for analyzing a VoIP attack and hacked PBX.

11:40am - 12:15pmCSI: VoIP Analyzing a Hack AttemptNir SimionovichWatch Nir analyze the hack attempt that Philip did in Session 4. Nir will demonstrate how to analyze the attack while narrating his efforts. 1:45pm - 2:20pmAutomated Hacker Mitigation Live Demonstration Hands-On LABJR RichardsonThis session will demonstrate a live SIP hacker attack with and without automated hacker mitigation. We will change configuration settings within Asterisk to demonstrate response messages to hackers to see how they numerate extensions to exploit.

2:25pm - 3:00pmOvercoming Security Challenges of IP Communications by using SIP EndpointsWei TangSession information to be announced.

3:30pm - 4:00pmVoIP Security PanelEric Klein, Phillip Mullis, JR Richardson, Nir Simionovich, Flavio E. Goncalves, Wei TangAsk the experts or listen to their tales of attacks and horror stories from the past. Based on the successful security panels from 2011 where experiences and sto-ries were shared by both the panel and the audience.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 2: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10thSecurity Master Class | 10:00am - 4:00pm | Chambers

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10:00am - 10:35amKey Aspects of the Largest Asterisk-based Retail Roll-out in the United StateskSteven PorterCost Plus World Market replaced their existing store telecom infrastructure with largest known retail based Asterisk solution. Spanning 4,000 extensions across 265 locations, the solution delivered companywide extension-to-extension dialing, in-store paging, call park/pickup, central greeting and speed dial manage-ment as well as many other features. This case study will cover the system architecture, highlight the key Asterisk features that contributed to the successful deployment, review the scripts and customizations made to streamline implementation and maintenance, and discuss some of the pitfalls to avoid.

11:00am - 11:35amTaking over the world on a budgetCassius SmithIn 2010 TWR, a global nonprofit media ministry, began replacing its mélange of proprietary PBX systems with Asterisk. The challenges, issues and resolutions of this project will be discussed. Also very importantly, the cost savings realized as a result of this deployment will be discussed. As TWR matures in its use of Asterisk, ongoing maintenance and issue resolution will be another aspect of this talk. This session will be of interest to anyone considering a multi-site deploy-ment of Asterisk, especially on a limited budget.

11:40am - 12:15pmBuilding a hosted, multi-tenant contact center environment for thousands of agentsMatt FlorellThis session will go over the hardware and software components, as well as the architecture used to create an open-source based multi-tenant contact center sys-tem capable of supporting thousands of agents. Topics will include dealing with hardware failure, inbound and outbound load balancing, carrier issues and more.

1:45pm - 2:20pmWorld DominationJon “Maddog” HallIt was 2004, and an “old telephone guy” (OTG) went to a conference in Atlanta, Georgia to investigate a piece of code he had only heard about a couple of days before. He was introduced to a young man who had

spearheaded that coding effort and who informed the OTG that it was his speech a number of years previ-ous which had caused Asterisk to be a “Free and Open Source Software” (FOSS) project.By the end of the conference the “old telephone guy” stated that “Asterisk would generate as much money as all of the rest of FOSS combined.” It is now ten years since that conference, and 65,000 members in 170 countries seem agree with this premise. This talk will look at some of the reasons why Asterisk and FOSS together were successful where other strategies might have failed, and why in today’s market FOSS is still the right answer for telephony and for Asterisk.

2:25pm - 3:00pmStop The Presses! Asterisk at Berkshire Hathaway Media (Part 1)Corey McFaddenWith more than 68 newspapers and other titles, Berkshire Hathaway Media Group has challenging telecommunications needs. Having selected Asterisk and Digium’s Switchvox solution to replace many of its aging legacy systems, the last 12 months have repre-sented many changes and interesting projects. Voneto will present a selection of case studies from its work with BH Media, including:• using Digium Swithvox and Asterisk to replace

legacy PBX platforms.• Asterisk and Kamailio to facilitate enterprise-wide

centralized VoIP routing.• an enterprise-wide fax sending and receiving

solution based on Digium’s Fax for Asterisk (FFA) module.

• and much more!

2:25pm - 3:00pmStop The Presses! Asterisk at Berkshire Hathaway Media (Part 2)Martin ConroyBerkshire Hathaway Media Group’s management team faced many challenges in charting its telecommunica-tions strategy. From convincing open source skeptics of Asterisk’s bonafides to building a business case for it--as well as selecting a partner to implement and support things – it was an uphill battle. Learn why one of the world’s most successful companies selected Digium and Voneto to help it remake its telecom infra-structure. Explore the business case for open-source, ROI, risk-analysis, and many other topics.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 2: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10thBusiness & Case Studies | 10:00am - 4:00pm | Grand Ballroom II

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10:00am - 10:35amAGI/AMI to ARIMatt RiddellSession information to be announced.

11:00am - 11:35amImplementation Lessons using WebRTC in AsteriskMoises SilvaDuring this session you’ll learn several valuable lessons about implementing WebRTC services with Asterisk. From tips and tricks to troubleshooting and useful utilities.

Sangoma has used Asterisk as a WebRTC gateway interfacing with the company’s own Session Border Controller (SBC). This integration allows the creation of applications such as client-less click-to-contact email signatures, context sensitive click-for-support (where the SIP headers of an inbound call to support contain information to help route the call to the best support person for that issue) and other innovative web-based communications applications.

In creating this functionality Sangoma has uncovered a number of techniques that are helpful when implementing WebRTC, interesting information about the internals of the Asterisk WebRTC module and a number of debugging and troubleshooting tools that work well for this kind of implementation.

In this presentation, Moises Silva, manager of software engineering and the chief architect of this project at Sangoma, will share his experience in designing, implementing and debugging WebRTC services using Asterisk.

11:40am - 12:15pmAsterisk 12 OverviewMatt JordanSession information to be announced.

1:45pm - 2:20pmStylin’ n’ Profilin your Asterisk installShaun RuffellIf you’re comfortable around C code and you need to get every last ounce of performance out of your Asterisk installations then this is the session for you. The most important before making performance improvements is having a good understanding of where all the time is going currently. In this session

I’ll provide a survey of different techniques used for figuring out “Why can’t my Asterisk system process more calls?” and show how tools like LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit - next generation) can allow you to trace multiple processes on a single system and across systems, like when you have Asterisk running on one box and your call control scripts running on another.

2:25pm - 3:00pmWhat’s Next: How to charge more by reinventing cloud PBX servicesBen KlangWith a low barrier to entry, the market very quickly became crowded, and prices fell to the basement. Now anyone off the street can get sub-1-cent per-minute US LD with no minimums. That business model is dead. For many companies, salvation came in the form of moving upstream to offering virtual PBX, or the more buzz-wordy “Cloud PBX”. But once again, the field is full of competitors and with very little to differentiate. Why should any customer choose you? If you answered “price”, you’re going to lose. This presentation is all about solving that problem: how to create differentiated real-time communication services that allow you to charge your customers for the value you create, rather than for the minutes they use.

3:30pm - 4:00pmAPIs beyond Asterisk 12Max SchroederSession information to be announced.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 2: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10thWebRTC/Cloud | 10:00am - 4:00pm | Kennesaw

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS DAY 2: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10thTutorials & Development | 10:00am - 4:00pm | Grand Ballroom I

10:00am - 10:35amDistributing call queues for Asterisk using Python and RedisPaul BelangerIn this talk we’ll be exploring an alternative method to providing distributed call queues for Asterisk. We’ll be talking about and demo’ing how Python and Redis can provide distributed queues outside of Asterisk.

11:00am - 11:35amGetting creative with AsteriskWarren SelbyAn homage to Leif Madsen’s “5 Things You Didn’t Know Asterisk Could Do”, we’ll look at several ways that the creative Asterisk admin can use Asterisk to do things you wouldn’t normally associate with your phone system.

11:40am - 12:15pmAsterisk and DatabasesFrancesco PriorA very practical discussion on how to connect Asterisk with Relational Databases using ODBC database abstraction layer. This session will cover the basics of MySQL/ODBC installation, configuration and integration with Asterisk.

Additionally will be made practical examples about the benefits of this union: improving dialplan with SQL Queries, store Call Detail Records (CDR) in DB, implementing Realtime Architecture (ARA).

Proposed session is for those who do not yet know benefits of connecting an Asterisk box to a database or are interested to learn about it through a very simple step-by-step demo.

1:45pm - 2:20pmApps on the phoneTom De MoorIn this session we look at the source code of 3 different apps.• The first app displays a twitter timeline on your

phone.• The second app displays stats from the queue to

the display of the agents phone.• The third app integrates an OpenLDAP directory to

the phone.

2:25pm - 3:00pmDeveloping a state-of-the-art, audio-related Asterisk Application ModuleThomas ArimontSession information to be announced.

3:30pm - 4:00pmDiscover Session Description Protocol (SDP)Clod PatrySession information to be announced.

SPECIAL BREAKOUT SESSION AstriCon Recap and Asterisk Project Updates

4:00pm - 5:00pm, Grand Ballroom III & IV

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Alistair CunninghamFounder & General Manager, Integrics

AstriCon Keynote Speaker

AstriCon Session: Asterisk: Views from the Community Front Line

Alistair Cunningham is the founder of Integrics, makers of the Enswitch carrier grade softswitch for commercial telephony services such as hosted PBX, residential ITSP, VoIP for Wifi, and number translation. Originally from Northern Ireland, he gradu-ated from Cambridge University with a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering in 1999. Until 2004, he was an installation engineer for Voicerite, an IBM partner, installing large-scale voicemail and IVR systems throughout Europe and the Americas for IBM and its customers. In December 2004, he founded Integrics, and the Enswitch project was started in early 2005. Since then, Enswitch has grown to more than 50 carrier installations, with systems of more than 150,000 users deployed.

Mark SpencerFounder, Chairman and CTO, Digium, Inc.



Mark Spencer founded Digium, Inc., in 1999 as Linux Support Systems while still a computer engineering student at Auburn University. When faced with the high cost of buying a PBX for the company, Spencer simply used his Linux PC and knowledge of C code to develop his own PBX. This was the beginning of the worldwide open source phenomenon known as Asterisk. As Asterisk gained in popularity, Spencer shifted his business focus from Linux support to sup-porting Asterisk and opening up the telecom market. Mark renamed the company Digium and transformed the fledgling upstart into the leading open source telecommunication provider in the world today. As the Chairman and CTO of Digium, Mark Spencer continues to drive the strategic vision and technology direction of the company, as well as focus on the development and growth of the Asterisk Community at large. Spen-cer is widely regarded as the pioneer of open source telephony and gives frequent keynote addresses to large technology audiences.

Olle E. JohanssonFounder & President, Edvina AB


Olle E. Johansson more than 25 years of experience of working with TCP/IP network technologies in his own Swe-

den-based company Edvina. He is an advisor to many companies, as well as a consultant. Platforms designed by Olle carry millions of phone calls every day. As a long-term contributor to the Asterisk and Kamailio Open Source projects, he has a lot of insight into these leading platforms. Olle is the president of the Swedish IPv6 Forum, co-chair in the SIP Forum IPv6 work group and is active in the IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force. As the co-founder of AstriCon and author of the first Asterisk trainings and dCAP certification tests, he has a lot of experience speaking with large audiences and is a source of inspiration to many.

Phil EdholmFounder & President, PKE Consulting


AstriCon Session: WebRTC & Implenta-tions for Asterisk Community

Phil Edholm is a seasoned industry insider and former CTO at Nortel.

Philippe LindheimerFreePBX Project Leader and CTO, Schmooze Com, Inc., Schmooze Com, Inc.



Philippe Lindheimer is CTO of Schmooze Com, Inc and has been the Project Leader and primary Devel-oper of FreePBX since 2006. Philippe’s interest in telecom began in the early 1990s when he worked at Hewlett Packard’s European Headquarters help-ing leading telephone companies re-architect their Business Support Systems. For almost three decades he has worked in the Engineering industry in a range of technical consulting roles with Fortune 500 Com-panies and has helped grow FreePBX into the worlds most widely deployed Open Source PBX. Philippe has been involved in creating and presenting numerous technical training events on a worldwide basis and has spoken at many past Astricon developer conferences and Asterisk World. He is co-founder of the popular Open Telephony Training Seminar series focused on real-word Asterisk/FreePBX technical and marketing/sales training.

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Aryn NakaokaTelecom, BeThePhoneCompany.com

AstriCon Session: When to sell hosted vs. CPE Asterisk

Aryn Nakaoka was born and raised in Hawaii. Aryn has worked in telecom

since 2000. Achievements include:

Family founded Progressive-hi.com which was the 3rd largest 3com NBX dealer nationally. In 2001, founded Tri-net Solutions - www.trinet-hi.com In 2005, found-ed Aloha Tone. In 2011, purchased Lava.net (Hawaii’s oldest ISP).

Ben KlangFounder, Mojo Lingo

AstriCon Session: What’s Next: How to charge more by reinventing cloud PBX services

Ben Klang has been involved in the Open Source community since 1996, when he first installed Linux for his high school’s web server. Since then, he has contributed directly to many open source projects, including Asterisk, Horde, ldap2dns, and many others and most recently has taken over lead-ership of the Adhearsion project. With experience in diverse technology disciplines such as telephony, system administration, software development and networking, he enjoys solving broad problems. He founded a company, Mojo Lingo, in 2007 with a mis-sion to create voice applications that work like magic. His interests include hacking competitions, informa-tion security, making phones do unexpected things, playing music loudly and asking lots of questions.

Billy ChiaAsterisk Marketing Manager, Digium, Inc.

AstriCon Sessions: Asterisk 123

Billy is the Asterisk Marketing Man-ager for Digium, Inc. Digium is the primary sponsor and maintainer of

Asterisk, the world’s most popular open source com-munications platform. Additionally Digium provides products and services designed to resource compa-nies using Asterisk in their communications infra-structure. Billy is responsible for Digium’s Custom Communications product lines including Asterisk, IP Phones, VoIP Gateways and Telephony Interface Cards. A long-time Asterisk geek, he is also a dCAP certified technical trainer. You can find Billy on twitter: http://twitter.com/billychia

Cassius SmithSenior Project Consultant, TWR (Trans World Radio)

AstriCon Session: Taking over the world on a budget

Cassius Smith has been with TWR since June 2010 as a second career missionary along with his wife, Valerie. Cassius retired in 2009 after 32 years as a software developer and project manager in the aerospace industry. Cassius is a Senior Project Consultant at TWR and works in the Cary, NC office. As the resident dCAP, he is also responsible for deploy-ment and maintenance of the worldwide network of Asterisk systems, which support TWR’s regional of-fices in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Clod PatryAsterisk Enthusiast, AMUG

AstriCon Session: Discover Session Description Protocol (SDP)

Clod Patry has worked full-time with Asterisk for over 7 years. He has

made many contributions to the code and is currently working with SDP.

Corey McFaddenFounder & President, Voneto LLC

AstriCon Session: Stop The Presses! Asterisk at Berkshire Hathaway Media (Part 1)

Corey McFadden is the founder and President of Voneto LLC, a communication solutions firm that ranks among the top national IP telephony integrators. He brings more than 18 years of industry experience to Voneto with a unique background that includes experience in call center operations, field-consulting, project management, IP telephony, and software development. Corey has been a featured lecturer at numerous business conferences, published articles on business and technology, and been the subject of a television program profiling visionary businesspeople in Pennsylvania.

Dan JenkinsSoftware Engineer, Holiday Extras

AstriCon Session: Bringing Real-time VoIP metrics to 2013

Dan Jenkins is a Software Engineer at Holiday Extras, specializing in web

technologies Node.js, PHP and Javascript, creating RESTful APIs and bringing VoIP to the web platform.

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David JohnsonCo-Founder and Vice-President, The Fulcrum Group

AstriCon Session: Wrapping Services around Switchvox

Mr. Johnson is Co-founder and Vice-President of The Fulcrum Group, a North Texas-based IT and Voice Solutions Provider. The Fulcrum Group is a Digium Pinnacle Award winner for Business Com-munications Systems for 2012 and 2013. David has more than 15 years experience in the design and implementation of voice and data networks, and has been actively involved in the design and implementa-tion of various IT and voice projects in areas such as VoIP, security, and storage. He is a leader in developing Managed Services offerings for IT and Voice systems. Mr. Johnson has been active in local Chambers of Com-merce, organizational boards and has spent more than 20 years in small business.

David LeeSr. Software Developer, Digium, Inc.

AstriCon Session: Asterisk for Web Devs

David has worked at Digium for three years; the last year of of which he has spent implementing the Stasis Mes-

sage Bus and Asterisk REST Interface that are new in Asterisk 12. In the years prior to joining Digium, Dave has built his share of web applications, lead the archi-tecture of a datacenter infrastructure management ap-plication, worked in telecom, dabbled in data security, and lots of other stuff he’s forgotten by now. He has been coding since he was a kid, and still loves doing it. Dave lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his fabulous wife and three kids.

David MartinOwner, I/O Technologies, Inc.

AstriCon Session: Using PHP/mySQL to Extend Asterisk

David Martin’s company writes busi-ness software. He set up his first

Asterisk PBX in 2007, and has been learning and in-corporating its functionality into his own office. David thoroughly enjoys working with Asterisk, and actively looks for ways to leverage and extend its power at his own company and to his customers. David has devel-oped a site that extends Asterisk’s functionality (using func_odbc, mySQL and PHP) – in ways to help make his office more productive. He enjoys sharing what he has learned so that others may see that it’s really not hard to create powerful, user-friendly solutions. It just takes

a little PHP programming knowledge (plus a few spare hours of time).

Dennis LittleFounder, ReliAvail I.T. Company

AstriCon Session: DR & BC - the Asterisk Advantage

Technology Translator Dennis Little (KeyCruncher.com) is fascinated with

all things engineering and has found a niche empow-ering business stakeholders and IT engineers towards collaborative innovation. During his career, he has driven multiple and diverse IT projects to quantifiable success with Fortune 500, non-profit and SMB compa-nies alike. Dennis travels worldwide for technical and non-technical audiences, educating them on emerging threats and communications security. His past presen-tations include Astricon 2012 (Atlanta), Asterisk World at ITEXPO 2013 (Miami), and classroom instruction in Hawaii (U.S. military at Pearl Harbor), Pennsylvania, Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. He has also authored the industry’s first week-long Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) course, now being delivered to the U.S. Dept. of Defense and affiliated community worldwide.

Diego GosmarCEO, Xenialab (xCALLY)

AstriCon Session: Gateway application: xCALLY

Diego Gosmar and Giuseppe Innam-orato started to work in the Voice

over IP market during the early 1997, leading some research projects for Telco carriers. They approached the Asterisk development in 2004 and in early 2007, together with a team of passionate VoIP experts, they exploit the world’s most widely used open source tele-phony platform, Asterisk, to launch a flagship software solution for the global Contact (Call) Center market called xCALLY. Founded in the technology department at the Polytechnic University of Turin, the xCALLY team is currently led by Diego Gosmar CEO, and Giuseppe Innamorato, CTO and product manager for Xenialab.”

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Eric KleinSr. Consultant / VP Sales and Marketing, Greenfield Technologies Ltd

AstriCon Sessions: Intro to VoIP Secu-rity - They know who you are and how to find you, Hardening Your System, VoIP Security Panel

Eric has more than 23 years of experience in the Telecom industry. In addition to his experience in VoIP security at Greenfield Tech and fraud prevention at Humbug Telecom, he has worked for carriers MCI Com-munications (now part of Verizon) and Cellcom. He has co-authored RFC4864 - Local Network Protection for IPv6 and served as a grant reviewer for the US Depart-ment of Commerce Broadband Initiatives (BIP) Program and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).

Flavio E. GoncalvesCEO, SipPulse Routing and Billing Solutions for SIP

AstriCon Sessions: VoIP Security Panel, How to detect and prevent frauds on Asterisk Servers

Flavio E. Goncalves is the author of two books, Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS and Configuration Guide for Asterisk PBX. He is also one of the first Digium Certified Asterisk Professionals, achieved in May 2006. He is currently CEO of SipPulse Routing and Billing Solutions for SIP, a company that specializes in SIP softswitches.

Francesco PriorSoftware Developer, Freelancer

AstriCon Session: Asterisk and Databases

Francesco Prior is Italian, has lived many years in Angola, and now resides in Argentina. Through these experienc-

es, he has learned to speak Portuguese, Spanish and English. He is self-taught with 10+ years of program-ming experience and a passion for learning. Francesco discovered Asterisk in 2009 and received his dCAP cer-tification in July 2012. He has spent the last two years developing irVoice, a web application for call centers. He is now a freelancer eager to work, learn and enjoy as an Asterisk consultant.

Giuseppe InnamoratoCTO, Xenialab (xCALLY)

AstriCon Session: Gateway application: xCALLY

Diego Gosmar and Giuseppe Innam-orato started to work in the Voice

over IP market during the early 1997, leading some research projects for Telco carriers. They approached the Asterisk development in 2004 and in early 2007, together with a team of passionate VoIP experts, they exploit the world’s most widely used open source tele-phony platform, Asterisk, to launch a flagship software solution for the global Contact (Call) Center market called xCALLY. Founded in the technology department at the Polytechnic University of Turin, the xCALLY team is currently led by Diego Gosmar CEO, and Giuseppe Innamorato, CTO and product manager for Xenialab.”

Jakub KlausaCTO, SS7 Technologies

AstriCon Session: WebRTC? What’s the use?

Jakub Klausa has worked in the telecom industry for more than 10

years and is always interested in emerging trends in the technology market. He was on the team to build one of the first all-IP carrier grade networks in Poland. Jakub has experience with both carrier level technolo-gies and consumer accessed solutions. He is currently working with SS7 Technologies, where he’s responsible for the technical projects that make convergence not only a buzzword, but also a reality.

James BodyHead of R&D, Truphone

AstriCon Session: Asterisk, a key building block for great solutions

James Body is currently employed as Head of Research and Development

at Truphone, the Global Mobile Network Operator. He is a ‘veteran’ telecommunications guy, whose long career includes some 22 years as a Regular Officer in the Royal Corps of Signals (UK Army) and more recent involvement with VoIP and other real-time communica-tions systems. As an enthusiastic supporter of open source applications, he has been responsible for a string of novel and innovative projects, many of which straddle the boundary between the ‘Old School’ tele-communications world and more modern application-based services.

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Jared SmithDirector of Open Source Outreach, Bluehost

AstriCon Session: Asterisk for Web Devs

Jared Smith is the Director of Open Source Outreach at Bluehost. Jared has

a long history of involvement with open source com-munities, most recently as the Fedora Project Leader, and before that as the community relations manager for the Asterisk project. His technical background includes programming, large-scale systems adminis-tration, telecommunications, and technical training. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Utah State University, and currently resides in Virginia.

Jim WattPresident, CEO, Dynamic Solutions Group

AstriCon Session: Switchvox API

Jim serves as President, CEO and IT Consultant for Dynamic Solutions Group (DSG) a Microsoft Gold Certified

Partner. With DSG, he has worked on a wide array of business IT solutions including unified communica-tions, mobile workforce automation, network security, network wide threat assessments, project management and many other business technology solutions.

Jon “Maddog” HallProgrammer, Linux International

Astricon Session: World Domination

Jon “Maddog” Hall has been in the computer field since 1969, when he first learned how to program in

FORTRAN as a Co-Op student at the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. Later, Maddog learned Unix as a systems administrator at Bell Laboratories, and learned Linux after meeting Linus Torvalds in May of 1994. He has been talking about making money or saving money with FOSS ever since.

Maddog had a grandmother, aunt, uncle, brother and sister-in-law that also worked for “The Telephone Com-pany”. Only his father and mother escaped.

Joshua ColpSr. Software Developer, Digium, Inc.

AstriCon Sesion: The new SIP stack in Asterisk

Joshua Colp is a long time Asterisk contributor, Asterisk SCF developer,

and Digium Senior Software Developer. He has devel-oped numerous designs for underlying core aspects of both Asterisk and Asterisk SCF such as the new bridg-ing design and Confbridge application for Asterisk and the media architecture for Asterisk SCF.

JR RichardsonCTO, Ntegrated Solutions

Astricon Sessions: Automated Hacker Mitigation Using Fail2ban and Cisco Access List, VoIP Security Panel, Automat-ed Hacker Mitigation Live Demonstration Hands-On LAB

JR Richardson has been working in Telecommunica-tions for 18+ years and with VoIP technologies for 12+ years. He has held engineering, operations and man-agement positions with several companies, large and small. JR is currently serving as Chief Technical Officer for Ntegrated Solutions in Dallas, TX. As an active As-terisk community user and contributor since 2002, he has been privileged to be a speaker at Astricon in ‘04, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘11, and ‘12. His current Asterisk ap-plications include deploying Asterisk Cluster systems used in large carrier environments and virtualizing Asterisk for hosted PBX Services.

Juan Carlos FernandezCo-founder & COO, Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de Mexico SA de CV

AstriCon Session: Increasing Security for Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Mexico through a Creative Multi- Technology Approach

Juan Carlos Fernandez serves as Co-founder and COO of Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de Mexico, a Mexican company established in 2004 that is devoted to bring-ing Asterisk and web solutions to SMB’s in Mexico. As Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for new prod-uct development and architecture. He has previously worked as a consultant for the United Nations in Kenya developing web applications for different UN organiza-tions like UNEP, UNON, UNDP and UNESCO. Education: Computer Engineering, ITAM University, Mexico, 1996, and a Master of Engineering in Internetworking, Dal-housie University, Canada, 2002.

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Juan Pablo BustosElastix Instructor

AstrICon Session: Asterisk and Elastix, A Successful Combination

Juan Pablo is an Instructor in the Elastix Certification Program where

he participates as coordinator and collaborator in the content review. He is implementing Elastix since 2009 and organizing Elastix training in the US. He has collaborated on the book Unified Communications with Elastix with Edgar Landivar and is Co-author of the book Implementing Call Center in Elastix with Paul Estrella and Alfio Muñoz. At the present moment he develops systems with phone support based on Elastix and several types of integrations such as SAP-based solutions.

Klaus DarilionAsterisk Consultant, IPcom

AstriCon Session: Spice Up your Asterisk Server with Kamailio

Klaus Darilion joined the VoIP com-munity in 2001 starting with the SIP

Express Router (SER), and shortly later joined the Aster-isk community, too. He developed several SIP and ISDN features for Asterisk, and SIP presence and TLS related features for Kamailio (former Openser) SIP proxy. Cur-rently, Klaus is very active in SIP penetration testing and consulting in Kamailio and Asterisk based systems.

Kwangsik KimAssistant Manager, LG U+

AstriCon Session: Best practice for SMB IP telephony in Asia

In his current role, Kwangsik Kim is responsible for security, HA (High

Availability), and mVoIP (Mobile VoIP) for Asterisk IP-PBX developments. He received a masters degree and bachelors degree in Computer Science from POSTECH in South Korea.

Martin ConroyIT Director of Infrastructure, Berkshire Hathaway Media Group

AstriCon Session: Stop The Presses! Aster-isk at Berkshire Hathaway Media (Part 2)

IT Director of Infrastructure and Com-munications for BH Media Group, a Berkshire Hathaway company. Responsibilities include data centers across multiple state area, telecom systems and contracts,

VOIP systems, project management and other IT gover-nance related areas.

Matt FlorellPresident, Vicidial Group

AstriCon Session: Building a hosted, multi-tenent contact center environment for thousands of agents

Matt Florell has more than 14 years experience in building and managing corporate IT sys-tems specializing in Call Center systems, IP telephony, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, databases, scalable applications and system optimi-zation. Matt is currently the President of the ViciDial Group in St. Petersburg, Florida and is the creator and maintainer of the Open Source ViciDial Contact Center Suite.

Matt JordanEngineering Manager, Digium, Inc.

AstriCon Session: Asterisk 12 Overview

Matt Jordan is an Engineering Manager for the Open Source Software team at Digium, working on Asterisk. Matt

joined the team in 2011, and since then has been involved in the development of both Asterisk and the Asterisk Test Suite. His background in software devel-opment can best be described as “eclectic”, having worked in a variety of industries. Uniting the various experiences, however, is a firm belief in good software development practices and methodologies and the effect they have on producing quality software (and keeping software developers from going insane).

Matt RiddellManaging Director, VentureVoIP

AstriCon Session: AGI/AMI to ARI

Matt Riddell has been writing soft-ware since the age of six and working with telephony software since around

1996. He started working with Asterisk in 2003 and started the Daily Asterisk News in 2004. The Daily Asterisk News has since had over 2,600 articles on various topics in the Asterisk community. He is the founder of VentureVoIP, a company that provide cus-tom telephony solutions to businesses worldwide as well as consulting on various projects.

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Max SchroederTechnical Director, STARFACE

AstriCon Session: APIs beyond Asterisk 12

Born near Munich, Germany, Max Schroeder studied computer sci-

ence at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Germany and Gothenburg, Sweden. After graduating with a degree in computer science in 2007, he joined the German company STARFACE as a software engineer. He is now the technical director of STARFACE and respon-sible for the development of software & hardware. He has more than 6 years of experience working with Asterisk based solutions.

Moises SilvaEngineering Manager, Sangoma Technologies

AstriCon Session: Implementation Lessons using WebRTC in Asterisk

Moises is an engineering manager at Sangoma Technologies. He is responsible for leading the development efforts of several projects involving scalable SIP SBC’s, VoIP transcoders, TDM gateways, Linux/Windows kernel drivers and embed-ded systems. He is an open source developer and enthusiast and author of the open source OpenR2 library, used by Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and other vari-ous telephony switches and gateways for MFC-R2 signaling. He is also an active developer member of open source telephony projects such as FreeSWITCH and Asterisk and has a deep understanding of the ar-chitecture internals of these projects, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Moises holds a Bachelor of Electronics and Communications degree from the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico and loves to speak at conferences about open source, telephony and Linux.

Nir SimonovichCEO & Founder, Greenfield Technologies Ltd

AstriCon Sesions: VoIP Security Panel, CSI: VoIP - Analyzing a VoIP fraud case, hands on case, CSI: VoIP Analyzing a Hack Attempt

As an open source integration expert and evangelist, Nir Simionovich has delivered memorable confer-ence speeches and participated in panels in many parts of the world. These include North America, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Africa

and, of course, Israel – where Nir is based. He is a professional Asterisk application and platforms develeoper with a flare for platform development in various fields. He is also an established author, hav-ing written two books about Asterisk.

Paul BelangerTechnical Lead, PolyBeacon, Inc

AstriCon Session: Distributing call queues for Asterisk using Python and Redis

At PolyBeacon, Paul Belanger pro-vides consulting services for IP Telephony, VoIP and Asterisk PBX. Specific interests include open source development for Asterisk, OpenStack and Puppet.

Pete CheslockDirector of DevTools, Dyn

AstriCon Session: Get and keep the right people for your Asterisk-based business

As the Director of DevTools, Pete Cheslock is responsible for fostering collaboration between all of Dyn’s technical teams. His team is responsible for providing the tools to make it easy for everyone to easily develop and deploy changes across all testing and production systems. Pete also brings his extensive system automation, infrastruc-ture engineering and system monitoring experience to help scale Dyn’s rock solid Internet infrastructure. Prior to Dyn, Pete was the Director of TechOps at Sonian, leading the efforts around managing a pet-abyte scale email archiving platform running across four public cloud providers and managing the team that built the open source monitoring framework Sensu. Before that, Pete worked as an infrastructure consultant for Fortune 500 companies at McGladrey. Pete graduated with a BA in Communications from Michigan State University and an MBA from Babson College.

Russ MeyerriecksLinux Kernel Developer, Digium, Inc.

AstriCon Session: T1/E1 fundamentals

Russ Meyerriecks has been working on the DAHDI project for 4 years now. His daily job consists of fielding

a variety of questions that arise from fundamental mis-understanding of how this technology works. As this is an older and somewhat obscure technology, and since standards aren’t available on the Inter-

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net and exist only in dusty archives, Russ aims to educate the masses on this neat technology that so many have come to rely on.

Shaun RuffellLinux Kernel Developer, Digium, Inc.

AstriCon Session: Stylin’ n’ Profilin your Asterisk install

As a Linux Kernel Developer at Digi-um, Shaun follows the development

of the kernel relatively closely. Through customer support escalations and following the Asterisk-users and developers list, he is knowledgable of perfor-mance issues that affect users and developers of Asterisk-based systems.

Steven PorterEnterprise Architect, Cost Plus World Market

AstriCon Session: Key Aspects of the Largest Asterisk-Based Retail Roll-out in the United States

Steven Porter is an Enterprise Architect for Cost Plus World Market. He has always had a passion for technology and emerging trends. By the time he was 10 years old, Steven had built a kit computer and written his first assembly program. Today, he uses his broad and deep understanding of technology to establish tactical and strategic goals, determine the organization’s long-term systems needs, and develop an architecture blueprint to communicate direction and standards to IT and other key business units. Steven focuses on the enterprise as a whole now, but still enjoys ripping the cellophane off of a new product and taking a deep dive. He has been working in IT for 30+ years with the last 16 focused exclusively on retail.

Two years ago, Cost Plus started looking for a re-placement phone system for the stores. Steven evaluated many of the major VOIP telephone sys-tems including Cisco, Avaya, ShoreTel, and Microsoft Lync. Long story short, he selected an Asterisk-based phone system and rolled it out to 265 locations. The deployment was a huge success and delivered more value than originally expected. He learned a great deal on this journey and feels it is important to share his experience to encourage others to deploy an Asterisk based system, and to help avoid some of the pitfalls encountered.

Susan ElderDirector of Marketing, Jenne, Inc.

AstriCon Sessions: Using Social Media to Build Your Business

Susan Elder serves as the Director of Marketing for Jenne, Inc., a value

added distributor of IP telephony, data, audio and video conferencing, and security technology prod-ucts, including equipment for the Enterprise and SMB markets. She has more than 25 years experi-ence leading marketing and communications for major organizations, including Invacare Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufactor of non-acute care medi-cal produts, and the American Red Cross of Greater Cleveland as its Chief Marketing Officer. Susan has lauched social media marketing initiatives for both the Red Cross and also for Jenne, Inc. Jenne now has a robust social media presence that has enhanced the company’s brand, image and reputation with customers and potential customers. Jenne’s LinkedIn Group, which Susan launched in February 2012, is a growing and dynamic group of CEOs/owners, head of sales, purchasing and other IT deicision-makers. She regularly consults with Jenne’s reseller customers on how they can launch social media marketing initia-tives for their own businesses.

Thomas ArimontTechnical Consulting & Engineering, DATUS AG

AstriCon Session: Developing a state-of-the-art, audio-related Asterisk application

Born in Cologne, Germany, Thomas Arimont studied telecommunications engineering at the Universitiy of Aachen, Germany. Since 1996 he had worked with DATUS AG, a German specialist for network and tele-phony solutions. Starting as software developer for Voice, ISDN and VoIP products - and accompanying the first VoiP hype in the late 90s – today he is still enjoying the work ‘close to the source’ playing the role as software engineer and technical consultant.

Tim PantonSenior Engineer, Voxeo Labs

AstriCon Session: A deep dive into WebRTC media

Tim Panton is a long-term Asterisk fan and a supporter of open source.

He has recently been working on webRTC and help-ing to shape the associated standards.

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Tom De MoorIT, Control Alt Dieliet

AstriCon Session: Apps on the phone

Tom De Moore has worked for more than 10 years in IT in a non-profit or-ganization. He has experience writing

programs in PHP, JavaScript and Java.

Warren SelbyOwner, SelbyTech, LLC

AstriCon Session: Getting creative with Asterisk

Warren has been an IT professional for the past 16 years. He has been

working with VoIP for the past 8 years and Asterisk specifically for the past 5 years. He is the owner of SelbyTech, a consulting firm that provides IT support to small and medium businesses in and around the Houston area since 2009. SelbyTech originally focused primarily on setting up and maintaining Asterisk based phone systems. Their largest and oldest client, uses an Asterisk-based phone system to support 150 local users and about 50 remote users.

Warren’s blog, located at www.selbytech.com, is a leading site when it comes to describing how to install Asterisk in a manner that makes the process very simple, and has been referenced by other speakers in the past.

Warren received his dCAP at the 2010 Washington DC AstriCon.

Wei TangVP of Business Development North America, Yealink Inc.

AstriCon Sessions: Overcoming Security Challenges of IP Communications by Using SIP Endpoints, VoIP Security Panel

Wei Tang has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, from UC&C applica-tions, 4G wireless infrastructure, mobility and security software, to telecom OSS/BSS systems. He has worked for startups and multinational companies in the US, China and Korea for engineering, marketing, BD and sales positions. He led the development of the world’s first P2P Mobile-IP secure communication system, the design of small cell product for MSO and successful trials with major cable operators such as Comcast and TWC. Wei Tang received his MS degree from University of Virginia and his BS from Beijing University – both in Electrical Engineering.

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Premier SponsorDigium - Booth #41/42www.digium.comDigium, Inc. provides Asterisk software, telephony hardware, and on-premises and hosted Switchvox business phone systems that deliver enterprise-class Unified Communications (UC) and UC as a Service (UCaaS) solutions at an affordable price. Digium is the creator, primary developer and sponsor of the Aster-isk project, the world’s most widely used open source communications software. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a feature-rich communications server. A community of more than 80,000 developers and users worldwide uses Asterisk to create VoIP commu-nication solutions in more than 170 countries. Since 1999, Digium has empowered developers to create innovative communications solutions based on open standards and open source software, providing an alternative to proprietary phone systems. Digium Switchvox Cloud and other cloud-based products and services are offered through Digium Cloud Ser-vices, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digium, Inc. Digium’s business communications products are sold through a worldwide network of reseller partners.

SponsorsAlgo - Booth 30http://www.algosolutions.comAlgo SIP endpoints simplify voice paging, loud ring-ing, visual alerting, notification, and security intercom for premise or cloud. Ease migration from legacy phone systems to a VoIP environment and turn ob-stacles into opportunities. See the latest innovations from Algo and learn what is coming next.

Cepstral - Booth 34www.cepstral.comCepstral LLC is a leading Text To Speech software company based in Pittsburgh , PA. Providing the Al-lison TTS voice and other speech technologies for the spoken delivery of information through Asterisk. Our high quality, natural sounding voices run on server, cloud, and even Raspberry Pi environments.

Elastix - Booth #37www.elastix.comElastix is an Open Source Software to establish Uni-fied Communications. Elastix’s goal is to incorporate all the communication alternatives, available at an enterprise level, into a unique solution.

Escene - Booth #27www.escene.cnEscene is a professional designer & manufacturer of IP Phones & IP-PBX, focused on the IP-Telephony market all over the world. SayHi IP Phones deliver superb sound quality, rich telephony features, full compliance with industry standards(SIP), and broad interoperability with other IP-Telephony Systems like Avaya, Cisco, Alcatel and Siemens etc. They are also perfectly integrated with the Asterisk IP-PBX, Broad-soft call center and many IMS systems.

Grandstream - Booth #31www.grandstream.comGrandstream Networks, Inc. is an award-winning designer and manufacturer of innovative IP voice, video, and video surveillance products. Grand-stream’s products deliver superb sound and picture quality, rich telephony features, full compliance with industry standards, and broad interoperability with most service providers and third party SIP based VoIP products.

IntelePeer - Booth #28www.intelepeer.comIntelePeer, Inc. is a leading provider of on-demand cloud-based communications services to service providers and enterprises. IntelePeer is transforming communications by delivering multimodal commu-nications like voice, video, SMS, etc., across devices, networks and geographies.

Jenne Distributing - Booth #17/18www.jenne.comJenne Inc., is a leading value-added distributor of business telephony, data, audio and video confer-encing, and security technology products for the SMB and Enterprise markets. Jenne is committed to providing installers, dealers and resellers with a broad product selection, competitive pricing, on-time accurate delivery, outstanding technical support plus ongoing sales and technical training.

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QueueMetrics - Booth #33http://queuemetrics.com/Since 2004, Loway Switzerland develops complete, reliable and customizable call-center solutions.Our renowned QueueMetrics set up modern stan-dards in performance measurement, statistics and reporting. WombatDialer is a flexible, easy-to-use outbound dialing platform. Our mission is to put Swiss passion for precision and reliability at your service. Measure. Improve.

LumenVox - Booth #40www.lumenvox.comLumenVox has won numerous awards for innovation and technical excellence. Based on industry stan-dards, LumenVox’s core Speech Software is certified as one of the most accurate, natural sounding, and reliable solutions in the industry. The Speech Recog-nizer, Text-to-Speech Server, and Speech Tuner are the foundation of a successful speech solution. The LumenVox technology provides tools for you to ef-fectively connect and communicate with your users, increase user satisfaction, and improve employee productivity.

NETXUSA - Booth #35www.netxusa.comA true value-added distributor of industry lead-ing manufacturer products and recognized largest distribution partner of Digium products. NETXUSA supports more than 5,000 resellers and service pro-viders with our comprehensive solutions powered by ChannelWare®, that includes a new free service specifically for Digium Switchvox resellers, the Switchvox System Builder Wizard.

OpenVox - Booth #20www.openvox.cnOpenVox has now evolved to become a global lead-ing provider of open source telephony hardware and VoxStack VoIP Gateways. OpenVox serves the small and medium business and open source market with superior quality products that lower communication costs and enhance productivity in building PBX, call center, IVR and firewall applications.

OrecX - Booth #32www.orecx.comThe most affordable and easy-to-use call recording software on the planet. Companies record customer interactions today for quality assurance purposes, to resolve disputes and to comply with industry and/or governmental regulations. These same companies want a recording platform that they can count on and one that is affordable, easy to use and requires little to no maintenance. There is only one provider, however, that can prove it truly offers the most affordable, easy to install, maintain and use call re-cording software on the planet – designed primarily for contact centers, Asterisk users and ITSPs (Internet Telephony Service Providers). That company is OrecX.

Sangoma - Booth #22sangoma.comSangoma is a leading provider of hardware and soft-ware components that enable or en hance IP Commu-nications Systems for both telecommunications and data communications applications. Sangoma’s latest innovations and expanded product portfolio in clude Analog, Digital and GSM Interface Boards for Asterisk, SBCs, VoIP Gateways, Video MCUs, and other media processing products.

Schmooze - Booth #38/39www.schmoozecom.comWe offer a wide range of communication products ranging from Open Source FreePBX development and support to commercial PBX hardware, software and OEM platforms that allow both end users and system integrators from SOHO to Fortune 1000 companies to communicate.

snom - Booth #21www.snom.comsnom technology AG was founded in Berlin in 1996, and is one of the pioneers of the Voice-over-IP sector (VoIP). snom develops and produces VoIP telephones for business communication which are based on the open standard SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). Quality, security, interoperability, design, attractive pricing and above all functionalities that are entirely tailored to modern business communica-tion needs – these are the standards snom strives at all times to meet. snom maintains a presence in more than 40 countries around the world, with its own branches and through sales partners.

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TeleDynamics - Booth #24www.teledynamics.comTeleDynamics, established in 1981, is a wholesale supply house and fulfillment company based in Austin, Texas. They stock products from more than 150 vendors including their leading brand of Panasonic. Items in inventory include everything from telephone accessories, cordless telephones, general audio products, personal care items, outdoor gear, computer/telephony products, managed rout-ers and data switches to the most advanced digital business phone systems, SIP phones and IP phone systems on the market today.

Thirdlane thirdlane.comThird Lane Technologies established in 2003 and located in Northern California offers products and services enabling the adoption of Voice Over IP tech-nologies and services including VoIP PBX solutions for companies and service providers.

Vitelity - Booth #43/44www.vitelity.comWe understand you have a choice when it comes to VoIP providers and with more and more starting up every week it can make finding the right provider almost impossible. For almost ten years Vitelity has been providing VoIP, Fax, SMS, and hosting services to tens of thousands of customers worldwide. We have spent those ten years building the most reli-able, feature-rich service offering available today.

Xorcom - Booth #45www.xorcom.comXorcom designs and manufactures business telepho-ny solutions that support both traditional PSTN and VoIP. All products are based on Asterisk, making them easy to install and maintain, and cost-effective. Xor-com utilities maximize uptime: backup and restore, dedicated redundant power supplies, TwinStar™ – a unique hot failover solution for the entire PBX.

Yealink - Booth #36www.yealink.comFounded in 2001, Yealink is the Global Top 3 SIP Phone Provider. Yealink focuses on VoIP products characterized by high cost-performance, easy deployment and affordable price. Based on solid core technology, Yealink benefits customers with its flexibility and broad interoperability with the major IP-PBX, Softswitch and IMS in the market. Chosen by famous carriers, enterprises and clients from more than 80 countries, Yealink delivers SMB and diversi-fied customers worldwide with the best choice for extending their value of network communication.

Zycoo - Booth #25www.zycoo.comZycoo is one of the leading designer and manufac-turer of SME IP phone systems around the world. Zycoo provides an innovative modular PBX appliance for businesses up to 500 extensions. Zycoo has a research and development department that is con-stantly designing and developing new products for the market and has developed FXO, FXS, GSM, T1 and BRI modules for use with Asterisk-based products.

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Asterisk Essentials | Learn Asterisk online at your own pace.

This video course is designed to rapidly guide a new user through the installa-tion and basic configuration of Asterisk. Key telephony concepts are introduced, explained, and implemented. The course is heavily example-based, with a focus on the practical knowledge required to successfully administer an Asterisk system. Though some time is given to architecture and theory, we’ve only included the most helpful information. We’ve left out the non-essentials so that you can get up to speed with Asterisk as quickly as possible. Best practices are described through-out, and many examples are supported with Asterisk documentation.

A FREE Video Sample and Course Outline are available online at: www.digium.com/en/training/asterisk/essentials

Asterisk Fast Start | Get up to speed quickly on Asterisk!

Asterisk Fast Start is a three-day hands-on course, designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary for an entry-level Asterisk Administrator to be suc-cessful on the job. Using a combination of information-rich lectures and practical lab exercises, this course familiarizes you with Asterisk and the environment in which it operates, both in terms of operating system and telephony (traditional and IP) connections. This course will take you from a freshly installed Linux PC through to a fully configured and working Asterisk implementation. You do not need to have previous experience with Linux, telephony or Asterisk.

Course Outline and Schedule is available online at: www.digium.com/en/training/asterisk/fast-start

Asterisk Advanced | Expand your knowledge of Asterisk.

The Asterisk Advanced course is a five-day hands-on course, that covers the knowl-edge and skills an advanced Asterisk administrator should know to be effective at his or her job. It is a combination of both lectures and labs designed to give the students both the theory behind the concepts and the hands-on experience to be able to effectively deploy Asterisk-based solutions. This course is the successor to the wildly popular Asterisk Bootcamp, which was retired in 2008. In Asterisk Advanced, students will learn to create advanced dial plans and innovative tele-phony solutions by using the features of Asterisk. Along the way, students will also get important insight into VoIP. Students will also explore connecting Asterisk to a variety of devices, including analog phones and phone lines, digital phone lines, VoIP phones and VoIP providers.

Browse the Course Topics and Schedule online at: www.digium.com/en/training/asterisk/advanced

Upcoming Course Locations Include:

Las Vegas, NV, USOxford, UK

Huntsville, AL, USCape Town, South Africa

Upcoming Course Locations Include:

Bologna, ItalySantiago, Chile

Las Vegas, NV, USHuntsville, AL US

Dubna, RussiaKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaCape Town, South Africa

Oxford, UK

Asterisk TrainingWhether you want to learn a little more about Asterisk or become certified, Digium offers a variety of online and instructor-led training to meet your needs.

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What type of products are listed? AsteriskExchange™ listings include hardware and software products and components, including: IP phones, soft phones, edge devices, gateways, call center applications, voice prompts, text to speech and speech recognition software, complete PBX systems, gateway hardware and much more.

What are the advantages of being listed? AsteriskExchange™ is the premier marketplace for all things Asterisk. With Asterisk developers and millions of Asterisk users and downloads worldwide, AsteriskExchange™ provides high visibility and drives targeted traffic to your product.

Will products be reviewed and ranked by user popularity or downloads?Yes, AsteriskExchange™ provide provides ranking services, so the most popular and highest rated products will premium listingreceive priority in the listings. Users also will be able to post narrative reviews, sharing opinions and viewpoints from around the globe.

How do I list my company’s product?Digium reserves the right to determine which products may be listed. Submit your product(s) using the online product listing wizard. Your submissions will be reviewed and if approved, you will receive a price quote and instructions for activating your listings.

My application is not a free open source tool and I am not prepared to share source code. Can I still list my product on AsteriskExchange™?Yes. There is absolutely no requirement that you make your source open. Many software products listed on AsteriskExchange™ are proprietary, binary files -- not open source.

I would like to have my product certified by Digium and promote this product on AsteriskExchange™. What is the process?Digium offers exclusive product testing and certification for products that interoperate with Asterisk. Certification is a separate process from listing your product on the AsteriskExchange™, but certified products do receive special billing and users can filter to view only certified products.

AsteriskExchange AsteriskExchange™ is the online marketplace for products built on or integrated with Asterisk.www.asteriskexchange.com

Asterisk CertificationThe Digium-certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) certification is a verification of your knowledge of Asterisk. The certification covers a specific released, stable version of Asterisk. The program is offered at the end of the Asterisk Advanced training course. The dCAP test consists of a 115-question written exam concerning Asterisk and Aster-isk-related technology, and a hands-on practical lab exam in which you are asked to configure a PBX according to a given specification.

The Digium Certified Asterisk Administrator (dCAA) program is intended to validate ba-sic competency with Asterisk. It requires general telephony and VoIP knowledge as well as specific Asterisk knowledge related to installing, configuring, and administering an Asterisk system. dCAA certification lasts 2 years and is awarded after earning a passing score on the dCAA examination. The dCAA exam is administered online and consists of 60 multiple-choice questions testing your knowledge of Asterisk, VoIP, and telephony.

To enroll for certification, locate an Asterisk Advanced course (for dCAP) or an Asterisk Fast Start course (dCAA) in the Training Course Locator online. To take the certification separately, please call Training to schedule a date and location. www.digium.com/training

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