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IP Telephony

with guest experts Charles Morrow-Jones & Russell Morrison

November 18, 1999

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How can you get started with IP telephony? Is cheaper long distance the only reason to move to IP telephony? How much does it cost? Is it secure? Do IP telephony packets clog pipelines? Our guest experts this week will answer your questions and describe their experiences at Ohio State University, answering questions about protocols on the WAN and LAN, the convergence plan, the deployment strategy, and the major IP telephony hurdles so far.

Guest Experts

Charles Morrow-JonesCharles Morrow-Jones is the Director of Enterprise Networking within University Technology Services at Ohio State University. He and his group are responsible for data connectivity both to and within the OSU campuses, including Internet and Internet2 services, connections for off-campus users and 20,000+ connections to the campus backbone network. Chuck has been involved with various aspects of information technology for 25 years. He holds a Masters degree from Ohio State.

Russell MorrisonRussell Morrison is a Customer Service Engineer, Enterprise Networking, The Ohio State University His primary responsibilities include campus wide support for customer network design, consultation, and configuration. Russell's description of his job: "As a Customer Service Engineer my goal is to assess a departments "As Is" and "Desired" technological positions. Once this information is gathered a customer profile is developed. From the profile a technical solution is engineered for the customers desired state, subject to the risk, financal and other constrants based on information from the customer profile."

Co-Hosts

Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.

Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director. Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.

 

Background & Resources

Here are some interesting sites: If you want to go the book route, Chuck and Russell recommend Computer Telephony and Wireless Technologies: Future Directions in Communications by Emmerson and Greetham.