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1 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Bridging the Chasm Between Legacy and Next-Generation Networks Internet Telephony Conference Miami, Florida February 5th 2003 France Telecom R&D: Far ahead and close to you

2 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida France Telecom Who we are n n France Telecom More than 108.4 million clients around the world* 34.4 Billion € revenues** ( 40.9% generated outside of France) n n France Telecom R&D More than 3,000 researchers and engineers ( 130 in the US) 13 sites across the world More than 200 new patented inventions every year Approximately 15 start-ups created * in controlled subsidiaries, at September 30, 2002 ** for the nine months ended September 30, 2002

3 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida The SIP and Web Services Project n n Development of innovative IP-based telecommunications services At the proof-of-concept stage No deployment plans yet n n Convergence of IP communications with Web Content

4 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida The End User Experience Today n n Traditionally segmented silo-type services offering PSTN services: voice, voice mail… Mobile Services: voice, voice mail (different), Internet access, e-mail, SMS, MMS Internet Services: Internet browsing, email, IM n n Deployed over a mosaic of access networks PSTN network (France Telecom) Mobile Network (GSM - Orange) Internet Access (Wanadoo) n n Results in a fragmented user experience

5 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida The Project Goal n n Offer France Telecom end users rich communications services IP multimedia communications: Voice, Video, Data, Gaming Event Notification, Instant Messaging and Presence Web content n n Converged and accessed across all communications networks IP phones Desktop Mobile phones, PDA POTS phones through PSTN gateway

6 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida The Project Goal n n Provide the end-user a federated offer of services The service is deployed on IP core network The service can reach/be accessed by the user from different access networks The user experience is now unified across so far fragmented networks

7 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida The Project Objectives n n Go beyond PSTN Services n n Consumer market oriented n n Personalization n n Convergence of voice, video, data & multi-access n n Change of media within a session n n Device specific treatment of a request n n Combine SIP and Web services n n Intermediation n n Orchestration and brokerage of services n n Reusable building blocks

8 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Technical Background n n IP Communications n Using SIP: Session Initiation Protocol n For Voice, Video, Data, Instant Messaging and Presence Extendable to non-IP devices through PSTN gateway n n Web Services Bundle and orchestration of web services Offers the ability to differentiate communications services

9 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Technical Background n n Use and combine these technologies to create and deploy innovative services Innovate rather than duplicate PSTN features SIP: for multimedia session establishment and event notification Web Services (SOAP, UDDI, WSDL) to provide the content VXML (then SALT) to allow speech integration in Web- based application

10 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Technical Background n n SIP components SIP User Agents: Fixed-line IP phones Soft-phones PDA: radio access emulated over WLAN SIP Registrar, Proxy Server, Presence Server SIP Application Server B2BUA for third party call control

11 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Technical Background n n Web Services Component Use off-the shelves internet-hosted web services Free WS – implies no guarantee of service Commercial WS – QoS, high availability Accessed through SOAP protocol n n Speech integration Automatic Speech Recognition Text-To-Speech VXML 2.0

12 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Technical Background n n Java application developed on SIP application server and web server n n Integration with Microsoft Exchange Server n n No development on the terminal side

13 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Network Architecture

14 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Conclusion n n SIP is a protocol of choice to create converged IP services Voice, Video, Data, Event Notification, IM, Presence, Third Party Call Control n n Web Services allow for easy and swift service creation Reducing overall cost and time to market Allowing to create application on demand Enbling the use hosted services on the internet with minimum CAPEX n n The emergence and leveraging of these new technologies, through development of innovative services, could be the trigger for faster deployment and adoption of MoIP services

15 France Télécom R&D – February 5th 2003 Internet Telephony Conference – Miami, Florida Conclusion n n Stabilization of the SIP protocol and extensions Different versions implemented create interoperability issues n n Deployment issues Nat/firewal traversal Service Management Consolidated accounting information Fault Management QOS guarantee to the end user Service Provisioning n n Web Services immaturity


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