Please notice the location for this meeting is one we haven't used before - Computer Upgrades 2000 Ltd, in the court behind McDonalds Te Rapa (on Pukete Rd). There's plenty of signage, and you'll see people you know floating around.

The topic for this meeting is VoIP (Voice Over IP)

Our guest speaker is NathanWard.

PerryLorier has asked me to put in some kind of list of stuff I'll cover in here, so here goes:

• Servers

  • Asterisk
  • OpenH323 / GNUGK / Open Gatekeeper
  • 'blackbox' / hardware

• Protocols:

  • SIP
  • H.323
  • MGCP
  • Skinny

• Endpoints

  • Hardware Phones
  • 'Soft Phones'

• People

  • What WLUG people have been doing so far
  • What WLUG people can do
  • Other people doing VoIP
  • What I am doing with VoIP

• Demos (or, things I'd like to demo...)

  • VoIP -> PSTN call
  • PSTN -> VoIP call
  • VoIP -> VoIP call
  • PSTN -> PSTN (over VoIP)
  • Voicemail stuff
  • IVRs

• VoIP applications

  • Carrier level:

    • Toll Bypass
    • Calling card
    • Virtual PABX/Voicemail/IVR networks

  • Business level:

    • Toll 'Hopoff'
    • PABX/IVR/Voicemail

  • Personal Level

    • Long distance calling
    • Amusing IVRs

(Note - it won't be in this order, and contents will definately change, etc.)

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