Jim Van Meggelen
E-Mail: jim.vanmeggelen@gmail.com
Biography
Jim is one of the authors of O’Reilly’s Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, and an old school PBX guy. Jim is probably a bit of a masochist, which would explain why he got into the telecom business in the first place, and why he now loves open source telecom. Jim is pretty friendly, kinda like a puppy that gets your shoes dirty. His enthusiasm is infectious, but also a little bit frightening if you stand too close. Jim is a partner in Core Telecom Innovations Inc, and iConverged Inc. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three kids, and loves writing, photography, speaking, improv, and old shoes.
List of already given talks
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Five Nines in an open source PBX
Using Sangoma Wanpipe and Linux Heartbeat it is now possible to build a PBX with full hot-standby--including the PRI circuit. This means that using inexpensive hardware, it is possible to bring a higher level of redundancy to the enterprise.
List of talks in the future
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Saving Big on a VoIP deployment
by Jim Van Meggelen - Core Telecom Innovations Inc.
The art of using existing Category 3 network cabling to save a ton of money on a VoIP rollout.
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Replacing the PSTN - why wait?
by Jim Van Meggelen - Core Telecom Innovations Inc.
Most of the technology required to replace the PSTN already exists, so what's holding things up?