Web seminars offer business and technical information on topics of interest to both application developers and telecom operators. These regularly scheduled interactive presentations on today's hottest communication solutions are brought to you by industry-leading experts from NMS, our partners and customers. Listen to archived recordings of seminars on the following topics:
AdvancedTCA
ATCA vs. MicroTCA: Options For Developing Highly Available Telecom Solutions
April 24, 2007
Recording l PDF 711 KB
Jack Chase, Director of Product Management, and Joanne Babbitt, Product Marketing Manager discuss the need for highly available telecom solutions, the features of AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA, and the markets for which each is best suited.
Building Media Servers and Gateways with AdvancedTCA
June 13, 2006
Recording l PDF 532 KB
David Asher, Director of Business Development, discusses how AdvancedTCA components can be used to create highly available solutions within new application architectures like the IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS and also network component architectures based on media servers, VoiceXML servers, gateways, and other elements.
Making Enhanced Services Applications Highly Available with Natural Access MX
May 9, 2006
PDF 859 KB
Jack Chase, Director of Product Management and Keith Leo, Software Architect, discuss Natural Access MX, the MG 7000 Series of ATCA media processing blades, and the changes that help developers make systems "highly available." Topics include autonomous operation, redundancy strategies, board failover, application requirements, and platform trade-offs between PCI, CompactPCI, and ATCA for reliable operation.
Ready for the Mainstream: AdvancedTCA Solutions Become Reality
June 14, 2005
Recording l PDF 807 KB
NMS' Jack Chase and Kirk Mosher of Sun Microsystems discuss the advancements of AdvancedTCA technology and how it is positively affecting companies like Sun Microsystems, NTT Comware Corporation, and NMS.
Boards & APIs
Media Processing: Host vs Hardware-Based Approaches / Commodity Computers vs. Purpose-Built Hardware
October 30, 2007
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Brough Turner, Senior Vice President and CTO discusses the suitability of HMP- and DSP-based media processing solutions for meeting a variety of system requirements and attributes.
Making Enhanced Services Applications Highly Available with Natural Access MX
May 9, 2006
PDF 859 KB
Jack Chase, Director of Product Management and Keith Leo, Software Architect, discuss Natural Access MX, the MG 7000 Series of ATCA media processing blades, and the changes that help developers make systems "highly available." Topics include autonomous operation, redundancy strategies, board failover, application requirements, and platform trade-offs between PCI, CompactPCI, and ATCA for reliable operation.
Migrating to Second Generation CG Series Boards
December 13, 2005
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David Asher, NMS's Director, Product Marketing discusses the CG 6565's higher performance and increased capacity, as well as comprehensive use cases and testing that help characterize these boards for a variety of applications.
Contact Centers
Connecting Your SIP-Based Hosted Contact Center to the Rest of the World
May 22, 2007
Recording l PDF 1.85 MB
Brough Turner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, talks about how media and signaling gateway resources can be configured to address global connectivity for hosted enterprise contact centers, explains the problem and typical solutions, including SIP to ISUP signaling, and how they are adapted for different global conditions.
Using Natural Access to Add New Speech Services
January 11, 2005
Recording l PDF 578 K
NMS' Jack Chase & Jerry Gavin present Natural Access, a powerful, easy-to-use development environment for creating advanced communications applications — regardless of computing platform or operating system. A full complement of simple and consistent application programming interfaces API give developers the flexibility they need to develop new applications, or add new services to existing ones with minimal impact on working code.
Fixed Mobile Convergence
IMS and Fixed Mobile Convergence
November 15, 2005
Recording l PDF 433 KB
Brough Turner, NMS's Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, discusses emerging applications like video and IP Centrex in the Fixed Mobile Convergence context and also examines the likely evolution of network architectures to support these applications as Fixed Mobile Convergence rolls out.
IMS
IMS—What Does an Application Developer Need to Know
February, 20, 2007
Recording l PDF 1.33 MB
Brough Turner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer talks about the evolving world of IMS, the current status of deployed IMS applications, and the key end-to-end technical requirements needed.
Demystifying IMS
July 11, 2006
Recording l PDF 1,799 KB
IMS represents a huge opportunity for operators, network equipment providers NEPs and application developers, and consumers. George Kontopidis, NMS's SVP, Products and Technology and Chad Hart, Product Manager, Empirix discuss IMS today from a business and technical evolution standpoint, and discuss future needs to enable full market deployments.
Media Servers
Building IP Media Servers with Natural Access
March 8, 2005
Recording l PDF 771 KB
Media servers are at the heart of efficient network topologies for enhanced services in both telecom operator and enterprise environments. They help improve scalability and lower the cost of speech-enabled applications. They also play a key role in the support of converged services that integrate live media, messaging, and data with location and presence information. NMS' David Asher talks in depth about application development based on media servers.
SS7
The Evolution of Signaling
November 20, 2007
Recording l PDF 617 KB
Jeff DeMent, Principal Architect, discusses the basics of Sigtran and BICC and how companies, like NMS, can provide enabling technologies to address evolving network architectures.
Developing High Performance SS7 Applications
October 5, 2004
Recording l PDF 1.86 MB
Dan Rothschild, NMS Director of Engineering, SS7 and Protocols and Tom
Baumgartner, NMS Director of Product Marketing, Platforms discuss trends, intelligent platforms, solutions, and development strategies supporting SS7.
Video
Mobile Video Made Easy
June 26, 2007
Recording l PDF 2.05 MB
Maggie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, and John Nicol, Director of Technology, Video Products discuss hot applications, market size, technical challenges, and the development and deployment of Mobile Video.
Interactive Video Applications Using VoiceXML
November 14, 2006
PDF 2.0 MB
Maggie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, and Dan Kozin, Director of Product Management hit upon the three great trends in telecom: 1 the widespread use of 3G mobile networks, 2 the emergence of video for wireless and IP devices, and 3 the use of high-level environments for rapid development and deployment. All of these trends come to play in the Vision VoiceXML server which provides a simplified package for interactive multimedia applications in 3G and broadband networks.
VoIP
Connecting Your SIP-Based Hosted Contact Center to the Rest of the World
May 22, 2007
Recording l PDF 1.85 MB
Brough Turner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, talks about how media and signaling gateway resources can be configured to address global connectivity for hosted enterprise contact centers, explains the problem and typical solutions, including SIP to ISUP signaling, and how they are adapted for different global conditions.
Building Successful VoIP Products: DSP, HMP, and Other Things to Think About
September 14, 2004
Recording l PDF 1.85 MB
David Asher, NMS Product Manager, Platform Solutions, focuses on VoIP... how it is exploding in the enterprise, public networks, and how telecom will be affected by it.
VoiceXML
A Close Look at Service Creation Tools for Accelerating Application Development
January 29, 2008
Recording l PDF 2.3 MB
Maggie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, NMS Communications, and Craig Ashmole, VP Alliances & New Markets Vicorp Group, discuss the benefits of using service creation tools for speech enabled applications and present tools and services that allow value added solution suppliers to bring these applications faster and cheaper to market.
Enabling Call Control for IVR Applications
September 18, 2007
Recording l PDF 1.1 MB
Maggie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, and Dr. Roland Auckenthaler discuss the CCXML standard, various usage models for IVR applications, and NMS solutions for developing CCXML based applications.
Development Tools for Converged IVR Systems
March 27, 2007
Recording l PDF 1.1 MB
Maggie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, and Graham Slieker, Senior Product Manager discuss the converged IVR market, how self-service applications are created, benefits of VoiceXML, and the development process needed to launch converged IVR services today.
Interactive Video Applications Using VoiceXML
November 14, 2006
PDF 2.0 MB
Maggie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, and Dan Kozin, Director of Product Management hit upon the three great trends in telecom: 1 the widespread use of 3G mobile networks, 2 the emergence of video for wireless and IP devices, and 3 the use of high-level environments for rapid development and deployment. All of these trends come to play in the Vision VoiceXML server which provides a simplified package for interactive multimedia applications in 3G and broadband networks.
Creating Hosted Voice Applications for Business
September 12, 2006
Recording l PDF 1.5 MB
David Asher, Director of Business Development, discusses how innovative voice services that are attractive to business customers can be deployed by mobile operators, and the kinds of applications that are well suited for this kind of service delivery.
Transforming Speech Applications with NMS's New VoiceXML Server
July 12, 2005
Recording l PDF 352 KB
David Asher, NMS' Product Manager, Platform Solutions discusses the features of the new VoiceXML Server and how it can be designed into new or legacy applications. A software product based on SIP, the VoiceXML Server is a very flexible, carrier grade, and high performance network service that can interoperate with a wide variety of equipment.
Voice SMS
Voice SMS
January 9, 2007
Recording l PDF 402 KB
Brough Turner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, talks about the Voice SMS service, how it works, how it’s implemented, where it’s deployed and what the prospects are for evolution of Voice SMS and/or adoption of MMS.