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The Future of Enterprise Communications
Henning SchulzrinneChief Scientist, SIPquest
Associate Professor, Columbia University, New YorkSeptember 2003
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Enterprise Communication Needs
Factory/Plant
TeleworkersBranch Office
Mobile Professionals
Main Office
Enterprise
Evolving business models and workforce environments
Partners/Suppliers Customers
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The Future of Enterprise Communication
Integrated Multimedia Communication System
Enterprise
Application SharingCo Web-browsing
Instant Messaging
Video Conferencing
Audio Conferencing
Rich Presence Context Aware
Mobility & Multidevice
Scheduled & Ad hoc
PersonalizationSynchronous and
Asynchronous
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Overview
• Advanced enterprise multimedia communications – beyond the IP PBX next-generation VoIP
• Core characteristics and requirements• Using wireless LAN technology as an enabler for ubiquitous communications• Roaming beyond the enterprise• Challenges: E911, management, scaling, reliability
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Context-aware multimedia communications
• Most teams and groups need two forms of collaboration:– real-time (synchronous) telephone, ISDN video conferencing, IM– non-real-time (asynchronous) mailing lists, shared calendars, shared
document folders, project-internal web pages, …• But…
– each team or group needs to set up complex set of ad-hoc tools• difficult often, collaboration = long cc email list• access control tedious, particularly for external partners
– no integration of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration• send email of documents during meeting• versioning problems• difficult for late joiners or management to catch up
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Solution: integration of “phone” and “email/web” world
• Create a single, task-oriented group• Records and structures all interactions
– ad-hoc and scheduled (repeating) multimedia conferences: voice, video, text chat, guided web browsing, application sharing
– presence for coordination and presence-enabled ad-hoc conferences– bulletin board– shared, protected web pages– mailing list– access to recordings of conferences, including IM and application sharing interactions
• SIP as integrating component– multimedia communications– event notification, IM and presence– easily supports cross-enterprise collaboration
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Context-aware communication
• Diversity: Participants with many different devices
– temporarily only access to analog hotel phone or cell phone
– borrowed computer at remote site• Human context:
– How interruptible am I?– Where am I – home? movie theatre?
office? driving?– What time zone am I in?– How much privacy does my environment
offer?• Use “sensors” to determine context information
– data: calendars– device interaction: which device am I
using? been typing lately?– environment: badges, PIR sensors, RFID,
…
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Context-aware communications
• Working within IETF to standardize descriptions for “rich presence” information– activity, privacy, future activities– multi-device presence– assistants and associates
• Also, related to geographic location information– facilitate face-to-face collaboration– guide user to appropriate resources (“a conference room with video camera is
just around the corner”)• But needs to respect need for user control and privacy
– IETF is defining privacy policy language– allows user to control access and propagation of information
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Context-aware communication
• “Opportunistic communications”– old style: lug around devices – projector,
speaker phone, laptop, …– new: service discovery borrow networked
(wireless) devices in environment• video projector, echo-cancelled
microphone, plasma display, …• Move live sessions from single, mobile device to
multiple local devices session mobility• Keep configuration information even when moving
and changing devices service mobility• Many devices, one address user mobility
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Requirements for context-aware collaboration
• Cross-platform– users may temporarily use devices from copy service– devices from smart cell phone and hotel TV web browser to desk top PC– participants from different organizations
• Thus, importance of standards– beware of “our improved version of standard”– here, web and Internet technologies
• SIP for multimedia communications, IM, presence, events• RTSP for access to streaming media (media resources, conference recordings)• HTTP and web services for user interface, conference control and web-based
collaboration• SMTP (and related) for asynchronous collaboration• RTP for multimedia content• XML for cross-platform document sharing and whiteboards
– not just protocols, but also configuration and management
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Wireless LANs as a key enabler
• Ubiquitous and context-aware communications requires integrating all modes of wireless communications:
– 2G and 3G cellular networks – low-speed data, but broad coverage
– cluster of hotspots with roaming • e.g., within corporate campus or in
convention center or airport)– sparse 802.11 hotspots
• Need to be able to roam across systems:– with authentication, authorization, accounting
hand-off– real-time hand-off for on-going multimedia
conversations• maybe across devices
• SIP can support mobility even if network not fully mobility-enabled
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Concerns and Issues
• E-911– E-911 difficult for VoIP (and other networked multimedia)– locate nearest emergency service, not the one on the other end of the VPN– IP address does not provide location– Emergency service needs to determine user location
• efforts in North American Emergency Number Association (NENA) to provide architecture
• Management of these capabilities from a variety of devices– basic configuration via phone– human configuration via web page– automated configuration and scripting via web services and standardized configuration
files• Security, Authentication and authorization
– prevent VoIP spam• QoS for WLAN, primarily
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Conclusion
• Convergence is more than just the conversion of analog phones to packets– just transport convergence misses opportunities for productivity enhancements
and doesn’t solve the lack of use of most tools– need to do more than replicate dial tone
• Converge synchronous and asynchronous collaboration• Make capabilities available without configuration – but users only see tools they
need and want• Needs to work in mobile environment – 2G, 3G and 802.11
– single device and multiple mobile devices• Cross-platform and standards-based – otherwise, always fall back to least-common
denominator phone conference