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UCLA short course on "Internet Telephony"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Goodin, Bill)
Wed Oct 21 21:03:57 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:18:18 -0500
From: "Goodin, Bill" <bgoodin@unex.ucla.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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> On January 20-22, 1999, UCLA Extension will present the short course,
> "Internet Telephony", on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.
>
> The instructors are Partho Misra, PhD, Principal Member of the
> Technical Staff, AT&T Labs-Research; and Mani Srivastava, PhD,
> Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA.
>
> Internet telephony has emerged as an exciting new technology over the
> last few years. The packet-switched network infrastructure used by the
>
> Internet may offer distinct economic advantages over the circuit
> switched PSTN. Several small companies already offer cheap
> long-distance and international voice telephone service using the
> public Internet, and even AT&T has announced a new IP telephony
> service. In the not too distant future, large service providers such
> as
> AT&T and MCI may support their telephony services solely over a
> packet switched network. Cellular service providers and equipment
> manufacturers, looking beyond the third generation systems, are also
> considering moving to packet switched networks. Novel service
> concepts such as web-enabled call centers and unified messaging are
> also motivated by Internet telephony. However, significant technical
> hurdles remain for scaling and call quality.
>
> This course covers key technical aspects of Internet packet telephony
> including architectural models, compression algorithms, transport
> protocols, quality of service issues, Internet multicast, middleware
> services, packet telephony standards, and Internet telephony products
> and services. Emerging issues such as mobile and wireless Internet
> telephony, and video packet telephony are also presented. The
> comprehensive treatment of this multidisciplinary topic is coupled
> with
> background material covering the necessary fundamentals of networking,
>
> multimedia, and digital signal processing. The course includes a
> hands-on demonstration of Internet telephony in a laboratory to
> illustrate
> the user experience with packet telephony over the Internet.
>
> The course is intended for practicing engineers who are interested in
> the
> fundamentals as well as managers interested in recent developments in
> Internet telephony. System architects and developers, computing and
> communication service providers, equipment manufacturers, and
> researchers should also find the course useful.
>
> The course fee is $1195, which includes extensive course materials.
> These materials are for participants only, and are not for sale.
>
> For a more information and a complete course description, please
> contact Marcus Hennessy at:
>
> (310) 825-1047
> (310) 206-2815 fax
> mhenness@unex.ucla.edu
> http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses
>
> This course may also be presented on-site at company locations.
