Empirix invites you to join Chad Hart Wednesday, May 23rd at 11:00 AM EDT for a practical and informative discussion on Testing for Real World VoIP Problem Scenarios.

VoIP networks are subject to a number of known issues that are just beginning to become relevant as VoIP reaches the mainstream. Some of the most common issues include:

• Mass calling events – when an atypically large number of users attempts to make calls within a specified time period, stressing the network beyond its planned utilization;
• Power outage restoration – a flood of registration messages occurs when power is restored after an outage;
• Peer network floods – peer networks can unintentionally overload other networks if interconnecting equipment is not configured properly; and
• Malicious attacks – hackers can mimic the above scenarios and cause a number of other nuisances and security breaches. Surprisingly, many Tier 1 carriers have already found themselves unprepared for these scenarios and as a result, they have experienced major outages and service degradation.

Drawing off actual carrier experiences, this webinar will examines each of these VoIP issues in detail and provide guidelines on how to set up tests, simulate, and analyze each one in the lab so that they can be avoided in the field.

Speaker: Chad Hart, Product Marketing Manager, Empirix Inc. Mr. Hart is responsible for internal and external marketing of the Hammer Testing Portfolio of products. He has held various product management, marketing, and engineering positions with telephony and wireless technology suppliers and operators. Chad has a BSEE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Moderator: Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulvermedia conferences. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. His professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.

Title: Testing for Real World VoIP Problem Scenarios
Date: May 23, 2007
Time: 5:00 PM Brussels CEST
11:00 AM New York EDT
8:00 AM Los Angles PDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE

Register NOW at http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/mult001/22377/