As more and more enterprises and consumers choose cloud-based services to meet their data storage and server needs, some providers of these services have expanded their offerings to include real-time voice and video. Cloud service providers expansion into real-time communications offers attractive opportunities to enterprise and consumer who can pick from a large assortment of communications options, choosing only those they need and avoiding the need to purchase expensive hardware and software with functionality that is not required at the time of purchase. This track explores the challenges as well as the opportunities offered by cloud communications. Security and reliability concerns, planning, best practices and case studies are all topics to be explored in this track.
Track Highlights include:
- Virtualization Comes to IP Communications Infrastructure: Alan Klein, Acme Packet
- The Network Makes the Cloud: Jose de Francisco Lopez, Alcatel Lucent
- Business Communications in a Post-BYOD World: Darren Schreiber, 2600Hz
- Managing the Performance of Cloud Applications: Alan Clark, Telchemy
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED: Early Bird registration has been extended to August 9. Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to cut $100 off the already low cost of conference registration. Early bird registration is set at $300. After August 9, full conference attendance costs $400. http://www.rtc-conference.com/register/
HOTEL RESEVATIONS: This year?s conference takes place during a period of very high demand for lodging in the city of Chicago. The Conference has arranged discounted blocks of hotel rooms at the Chicago South Loop Hotel, and the Club Quarters, which can be accessed on the Travel/Hotels section of our website http://www.rtc-conference.com/travelhotels/. You need to reserve by August 9, 2012 to access these block rates. Failure to do so will likely cause difficulty in securing lodging!
The IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.
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