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

Guest Speaker: 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.)