This is what Hot Stage looks like: a lot of gear, a lot of cables, and a lot of geeks. Except the geeks are out drinking beer now.
More Hot Stage photos. A few geeks are back from the beer run.
The phones are a bit overwhelming at times.
This is how we put it all together: draw pictures and try and make sense of it.
Not all the pictures make that much sense, even to us.
At Hot Stage, our racks are pretty full with gear.
No rack-mount servers for us: real desktop systems were what we had available to build the network.
We don't pay as much attention to the back as we do the front. And we don't pay any attention to the front.
An example of a demonstration showing a regular house phone plugged into an ATA device from Multi-Tech.
Here's a close-up of our Asterisk system as well as the T1s going to the Cisco gateway.
A fairly dull picture, at least it's well exposed.
Here was some T1 testing going on using a Fluke box to diagnose issues with our ISDN circuits.
A reach-out pedestal running ClearSight's protocol analyzer at the show before all the carpet was laid.
The SIP iLabs table in construction at the show in Las Vegas CC
More SIP iLabs table under construction in Las Vegas
The SIP iLabs racks as we actually showed them in Las Vegas.
Here was a PowerBook 17" running XTen's soft phone SIP client.
More phones, both hard phones and a regular phone plugged into a D-Link ATA we got from AT&T as part of a beta program
The iLabs white paper stacks. A great idea, and now everyone is doing it!
The 2004 SIP iLabs team in Las Vegas. Dustin Goodwin, Craig Watkins, Joel Snyder, Jan Trumbo, Doug Moeller, and John Balogh with the astonished look on his face.
The 2004 SIP iLabs team in Las Vegas. Dustin Goodwin, Craig Watkins, Joel Snyder, Jan Trumbo, Doug Moeller, and John Balogh.
The Interop tattoo. Some are more committed to the show than others.