On top of traditional SIP deskphones and softphones, WebRTC let us extend the reach of SIP to all browsers, and to smartphone apps that wake up with a server push. OpenSIPS has superb SIP and WebRTC support and can protect, balance and scale FreeSWITCH insuperable conferencing, video MCU, media switching/mixing, SIP SIMPLE message processing capabilities. We will see how to build and implement such a complete platform, touching both on servers and on clients. Hint: SIMPLE, the SIP Instant Messaging Protocol, can be leveraged to transport statuses, commands and chats between participants and administrators of SIP audio/video calls/conferences.
Giovanni is a consultant for the Telco sector, developing software and training courses for FreeSWITCH, SIP, WebRTC and Kamailio. He is heavily engaged with FreeSWITCH, of which he wrote the interface with Skype and with cellular phones. An Internet tech pioneer, in 1996 Giovanni was cofounder of Italia Online, the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP, and architect of its Internet technologies – www.italiaonline.it Then supervisor of Internet operations and architect of the first engine for paid access to www.ilsole24ore.com , the most read financial newspaper in Italy and to its databases (migrated from mainframe). After that, he was CEO of venture capital funded Matrice, developing Telemail unified messaging and multi language phone access to email (Text To Speech), and CTO of incubator funded Open4, an open source managed applications provider. Then he was for two years in Serbia as Internet and Telecommunication Investment Expert for World Bank – IFC. Since 2005 he’s based in Italy, and serves ICT and Telco companies worldwide.