Hello, Over the past eight years or so, Evariste Systems has run a commercial SIP fundamentals training and Kamailio training curriculum around 15 times for various customers, predominantly in the North American market, but also a few times overseas.
As a premier provider of Kamailio consultancy and open source-focused SIP expertise in North America, we have also published numerous technical articles on SIP and Kamailio-related topics that have become somewhat canonical for their subject matter: http://www.evaristesys.com/blog/kamailio-as-an-sbc-five-years-on/ http://www.evaristesys.com/blog/server-side-nat-traversal-with-kamailio-the-definitive-guide/ http://www.evaristesys.com/blog/tuning-kamailio-for-high-throughput-and-performance/ http://www.evaristesys.com/blog/sip-udp-fragmentation-and-kamailio-the-sip-header-diet/ Along with the leverage afforded from nearly a decade and a half of open-source SIP platform engineering consultancy, we have had the opportunity to refine it, incorporate rich customer feedback on what works and what doesn't, and gain an improved understanding of how to add the most bottom-line business value through a relatively short training engagement. I wanted to take a moment to introduce it to a broader audience in the hope that perhaps it could help other companies. SIP fundamentals training ========================= The SIP fundamentals training is available as a separate module, but is prerequisite to Kamailio training, which is what most customers ultimately request--though we have had numerous engagements for SIP training stand-alone. While we have run the SIP training for entry-level audiences entirely fresh to IP telephony, the ideal audience is a Tier 1 to Tier 3 support organisation of an ITSP or VoIP infrastructure company; that is, it best serves technicians who have some "folkloric" exposure to VoIP troubleshooting and enough context for what it entails that they could really benefit from some extensive formalisation of that knowledge. For those types of customers, the commentary we've received is that it really helps technical and nontechnical stakeholders make conceptual connections and illuminate relationships that improve their troubleshooting ability, as well as arming them with the terminology and vocabulary to efficiently communicate with equipment vendors and carriers, articulate interoperability quirks, file bug reports, and report service-affecting issues with the immediacy and precision of deeper SIP experience. Because of the ITSP focus of our consulting work, the SIP training fundamentals curriculum--while sufficiently broad--gives special attention to topics of interest to service providers, including PSTN interworking, fax, early media, NAT/ALGs, TLS, etc. Kamailio fundamentals training ============================== Our approach to Kamailio training is, I would like to think, a bit distinctive: "teach a (wo)man to fish". The design of our Kamailio fundamentals curriculum is enlightened by the key recognition that there is a lacking in high-level, conceptual orientation about how Kamailio works, how to get started, and, most importantly, how to learn to put its many pieces together for onesself. Thus, the curriculum has no pretense of making a Kamailio expert out of anyone in a short time or conferring an elusive "mastery"; the focus is on giving the audience an awareness of the tools and setting up a mental ontology of the things they need to empower themselves to learn and develop their Kamailio knowledge further, as well as to traffic fluently in the vocabulary and concepts required to ask the right kinds of questions of the user community from a place of superior awareness. We've had great success with this approach from a pedagogical point of view, and have received positive feedback from many customers for whom this was just the jumpstart they needed to metabolise Kamailio on an enterprise level and wire it into their organisation's "technical DNA". Many have gone on to build advanced SIP service delivery infrastructures using Kamailio, including load balancers, NAT traversal gateways, registrars, redirect servers, and SIP application-specific gateways. To speak the language of Kamailio requires speaking the language of standards-based SIP, so the SIP fundamentals training is ordinarily prerequisite to the Kamailio training. They are most often delivered in succession as part of one engagement, but both have been delivered on an a la carte basis. Interested? =========== If you are interested to learn more about what these training options can do for you, please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly, or via the contact details below: -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz