Paul E. Jones
I spend much of my time working in the IP Multimedia Communications
(▲IPMC) area, including ▲VoIP and
▲videoconferencing products based on
ITU Recommendation ▲H.323,
IETF ▲SIP and other
packet-based conversational protocols. I am also a co-founder of
Packetizer.
I have been actively involved in work related to IPMC (or,
"▲IP telephony") for quite some time now and I really enjoy it.
As part of my work, I have attend the meetings or participated in
discussions with groups such as the
ITU SG16 ,
IMTC ,
ETSI TIPHON ,
and the IETF .
I have served as editor of Recommendation H.323 and am currently
serving as Rapporteur of
Question 2
(▲H.323)
and
Question 12
(▲AMS) in
ITU-T SG16 .
I have also served as editor several other ITU Recommendation and
made numerous contributions to the work in the ITU. I have also
authored or co-authored several Internet drafts and RFCs published
in the IETF. It keeps me very busy, but it has been a great experience.
IPMC is a very active area, allowing a convergence of
PSTN, mobile systems, and packet-based communication.
More importantly, I suppose, is that IP telephony is opening the
door for the broader area of "multimedia communications."
Prior to joining doing a lot of work on ▲VoIP, I did work
in the multipoint data conferencing area, focusing primarily on
on the ITU-T standard ▲T.120.
As we go forward, I expect to see more convergence of voice
telephony with video and data conferencing technologies.
People will not only be able to talk, but also see the other people
in a conference and, perhaps, edit a document together in real time.
H.323 is the only standards-based protocol that enables precisely
this type of multimedia conferencing and collaboration today.
Most recently, I started research on ▲AMS, which
is destined to be the next generation multimedia
system. This is still extremely early in development and
is not likely to be ready for a few years, but that depends on
industry interest. In any case, most experts in the real-time
communication industry recognize that there is a need for
something revolutionary. H.323 and SIP are not it: they merely
took us from TDM to IP. Now it is time to take full advantage of
the IP network. AMS will enable, not only voice and video,
but also file sharing, application sharing, "screen sharing",
video gaming, etc. Today, these technologies operate as isolated
functions, but AMS will tie them all together quite naturally.
Life will be a whole lot simpler with AMS.
I have also been fortunate to have had the opportunity to speak at
a number of industry events, including ones sponsored by
IMTC ,
UpperSide ,
VON ,
FCC ,
TDI ,
H.323 Forum ,
ViDe ,
and the ITU . I have also had articles
published or been interviewed for articles in
numerous publications, including
Internet Telephony ,
CPMNet Asia ,
ComputerWorld China ,
ComputerWorld Hong Kong ,
Telecom Asia ,
Voice and Data ,
and
Light Reading .
Outside of multimedia communications, I enjoy talking walks
through cities in various countries I visit. So far, I've had the
opportunity to visit
Australia ,
Canada ,
Chile ,
China ,
Belgium ,
Brazil ,
England ,
France ,
Germany ,
Hong Kong ,
Ireland ,
Israel ,
Italy ,
Japan ,
Norway ,
Singapore ,
South Korea ,
and
Switzerland .
Of course, since almost all of these countries were visited on
business, I don't often get to do too much touring.
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