K9 Forum Speech
May 24, 11:00am – 11:35am
Topic: “Beyond Voice - Web 2.0 for Telecommunications”
Speaker: Dr. Eric Burger, Board Member of IMS Forum
Abstract
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is now a reality. Most
carriers use VoIP for long-distance trunking and many offer business and
consumer voice services. For a few years, we have been discussing how Web-based
technologies, such as SIP and XML, transform application development. These
technologies are successful, reducing typical application development time from
two years to twelve weeks. However, it still takes quite a while to deploy these
services and capture revenue from them. Moreover, new Web 2.0 technologies based
on Web Services, such as Mashups, create the possibility of entirely new ways of
creating products This address will give an update on advances in the IMS,
Service Delivery Platforms (SDP), and how this enables totally new product (as
opposed to simply application) launches.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Eric Burger is Deputy Chief Technology
Officer for BEA Systems, Inc., which provides the world’s #1 Java application
server and transaction monitor, installed at 100% of the Fortune Global 500
Telecommunications and Network Communications companies. Dr. Burger’s research
interests, and his work with academic and research laboratories, include
real-time multimedia applications, edge computing, and sensor networks.
Prior to BEA, he was CTO for Cantata Technology,
where he oversaw corporate research, cross-product architecture, intellectual
property generation, and standards initiatives for the company. Dr. Burger
contributes to and holds leadership positions in several standards bodies,
including having written most of the SIP media RFC’s in the IETF and
contributing to VoiceXML and CCXML in the W3C. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the IMS Forum, where he is also VP Asia; the SIP Forum; and he is
an advisor to the Voice-over-IP Forum of Japan. Dr. Burger co-founded SnowShore
Networks, where he served as CTO and invented the SIP-controlled multi-function
media server. He has also held senior positions at companies such as Cable &
Wireless, MCI, Texas Instruments, and Centigram. He holds over eleven issued
U.S. patents and has numerous patents pending. He has taught at George Mason
University and George Washington University and holds degrees from MIT, Catholic
University of Leuven, and Illinois Institute of Technology.
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