Completing the IP Transition: Confronting Technical Challenges and Maximizing Consumer Benefits

Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
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Completing the transition of today’s analog telephone network to the all-IP infrastructure of the Internet will reap tremendous consumer benefits in enhanced services. A successful transition will dramatically improve operating efficiency, contributing to economic growth for decades.

So far, however, too little attention has been paid to either the underlying technical challenges or new consumer value. Getting over the finish line requires policymakers and stakeholders to understand better the remaining engineering hurdles inherent in the on-going process, as well as the benefits that be fully realized only with full implementation.

Please join the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and the Security and Software Engineering Research Center for lunch and robust discussion with technologists, consumer and public safety leaders, and policy leaders on technical challenges and solutions and the value proposition for consumers.

This event will feature a keynote address by Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University and former Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission followed by two moderated panel discussions.

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