When: Tuesday October, 12 – Thursday October, 14
Where: Hermann Hall on IIT’s Mies Campus, or Virtually on SignalWire Events
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The cloud is one of the defining technologies of the twenty-first century. By virtue of increased flexibility and cost-effectiveness relative to traditional IT, it has put vast computing resources at the fingertips of billions of people. At the same time, rapidly rising mobile data consumption, coupled with the high costs for deploying 5G are forcing operators to re-examine how they deploy next generation networks. This is leading network operators to begin transitioning to advanced technologies such as a cloud-native 5G mobile core architecture, virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRAN), and increased reliance on machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) to enable network automation.
This evolution makes it possible to build, deploy, and operate new communications services quickly and with relative ease. It increases the number of communications developers and ushers in an era of “programmable real time networks” that are focused not only on technologies such as 5G, virtualization, and machine learning (ML), but also on potential future intersections with technologies such as dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS), blockchain distributed ledgers, quantum computing, and many others.
This transition toward programmable networks gives rise to a new class of developer, network engineers armed with the ability to programmatically interact with the networks they administer. Programmatic interfaces enable network engineers to automate the creation of new network services, rapidly accelerating real time network creation and service activation functions, and to monitor and scale existing network services in real time to meet the rapidly increasing demands of the applications that run on top of them.
This track will focus on the technologies behind the shift to programmable real time networks, new skills required for the emerging class of network developers, and how these technologies are democratizing the way developers and network engineers create value and solve problems in disparate verticals. We will also delve into the intersection of voice, video and messaging technologies with other disciplines to examine potential threats and opportunities as developers and customers define new cutting-edge services and create new, disruptive applications.
Track highlights include:
Energy Efficient VoIP systems – Altanai Bisht
Network services as code made possible by collaboration across standards and open source – Charles Eckel, Cisco
XDN (Experience Delivery Network) as an Architecture for Our New Interactive World – Chris Allen, Red5 Pro
Network “biodiversity” – why visions of 5G ubiquity & monoculture miss the mark – Dean Bubley, Distruptive Analysis; Sander Rotmensen, Siemens AG
TVWS – Turning Spectrum Scarcity into Spectrum Opportunity – Hender Jimenez, Microsoft
Achieving herd immunity against robocalls – Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
A multisided marketplace platform for telco enabled products – Marius Waldum, Working Group Two AS
Global RTC in a Post-COVID World – William King, Subspace
About the Conference
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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