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January 31, 2006
Tom Evslin - It’s Time to Worry About RBOCs – Unwire!
Continuing to worry about the power of the baby bells, Tom Evslin describes the wireless antenna on his roof through which the local ISP provides Internet access to a few dozen of Tom’s neighbors who can’t get DSL or cable broadband access.
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Mediatrix Telecom - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Mediatrix develops and markets advanced VoIP access devices, gateways, routers and value-added software enhancements for the enterprise, SOHO, and residential markets. Its products provide an ideal migration path for end users wishing to protect their current CPE investment (analog/digital phones, fax machines, PBX and Key Systems) while migrating to a converged IP network. Mediatrix products and solutions are widely interoperable and have received commercial endorsement from some of the world's leading manufacturers of telecommunications equipment as well as from large telecommunication carriers. Mediatrix is a wholly owned entity of Media5 Corporation, a Montreal-based high technology holding company.
Laura spoke with Helene Chartier regarding their exhibit at Spring VON.
Ms. Chartier joined Mediatrix in March 2005 as Vice President, marketing and PLM. Mrs Chartier brings more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing for the telecom industry. Prior to joining Mediatrix, Ms Chartier was Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for Quelis ID Systems, an RFID micro-electronic component manufacturing start-up. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Chartier was Vice-President, Marketing and Business Development for ITF Optical Technologies, an optical component manufacturer. Before then, Ms. Chartier worked in sales and marketing for Alcatel in Paris (France) and in engineering for Bell Canada in both Montreal and Casablanca (Morocco).
Ms. Chartier holds a MBA from INSEAD in France and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal (Quebec).
You can find them at booth #434
For more information contact:
Mike Spooner
Marketing Communications Manager
Mediatrix Telecom Inc.
Tel: 514-285-0058 ext: 424
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January 27, 2006
Tom Evslin - It's Time to Worry About RBOCs
Tom Evslin worries about the growing power of the baby Bells now that they are no longer opposed by the lobbies of AT&T and MCI and now that we have a much less Internet-friendly FCC.
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Carl Ford / Duane Sword
Empirix helps organizations adopt complex communications solutions with confidence. We combine the industry’s deepest knowledge of telecommunications and self-service applications with award-winning testing and monitoring solutions to ensure our customers realize the promise of their technology investments. Empirix is the only company with expertise that spans the evolution of these advanced technologies across multiple markets – from testing in R&D labs through monitoring the end-user experience. For over a decade, thousands of quality-conscious network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises worldwide have trusted Empirix to reduce the time and cost of integrating new technologies into existing environments.
Carl spoke with Duane Sword, the Vice President of Marketing for Empirix.
Visit www.empirix.com
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January 26, 2006
Commetrex Corporation - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Commetrex Corporation develops and markets enabling technologies designed to shorten the time to market and reduce the development cost of integrated-media telecommunications equipment.
Long known for its market-leading
fax and other licensed technologies, Commetrex has recently completed a multi-year development effort to offer the equipment developer middleware software products and a media-stream framework, plus a comprehensive line of PCI and CompactPCI DSP-resource and network-interface boards.
Laura spoke with Mike Coffee, President and CEO of Commetrex Corporation. They discussed such products as Blade Ware and HMPturbo.
You can find Commetrex at booth #130.
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January 25, 2006
Trinity Convergence - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Trinity Convergence, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is a developer of embedded software solutions for VoIP-enabled devices and equipment. The company licenses its software to consumer electronics manufacturers, as well as OEMs of telecom infrastructure and enterprise equipment.
Founded in 2000, the company today has more than 100 employees among its U.S. corporate headquarters and international R&D and support facilities that are based in the United Kingdom, Taipei and India.
Laura Spoke with Mark Felice, Vice President of Sales and Business Development. They discussed the difference in the industry today than in past years and the advances we have to look forward to from Trinity.
You can find them at booth # 940.
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January 24, 2006
Tom Evslin - Foodstuff Benefits
Tom riffs on what would happen if food were a corporate benefit like healthcare is today. “Preexisting cravings are not covered.”
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Flextronics Software Systems - Exhibiting at Spring VON
Flextronics Software Systems is the largest vendor of SIP enabling technology worldwide. We have a range of mature, widely interoperated and field proven SIP toolkits and frameworks that have enabled OEM’s to rapidly bring to market next generation SIP based products that have been deployed extensively in the largest IP based networks worldwide.
In our endeavor to increase our touch points in the telecom qquipment market to hasten the deployment of SIP based networks, we have launched the SIP Network Server (SIP NS), an offering that enables Service Providers to quickly deploy a host of revenue enhancing, feature rich services like Video, Prepaid and IP Centrex. We will be showcasing this Product at the VON Spring, 2006.
Laura spoke with Ajay Gupta, Assistant Vice President and Head of Products Business and Corporate Marketing.
Ajay is responsible for global business development, marketing, product management, and strategic relationships for FSS’ products in IMS, VoIP, GPRS / GSM, and UMTS domains. Ajay has contributed significantly to generate products business for FSS by introducing products based on SS7, VoP, GPRS, softswitch, and SIP among other cutting-edge technologies.
Ajay is also actively involved with the SIP Marketing Working Group to promote SIP and converge various organizations working on SIP.
Ajay is an engineer by qualification and has worked on several PBXs, Mobile TDMA, and GSM-based systems.
You can find Flextronics Software Systems at booth #538
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January 20, 2006
Tom Evslin - The Brand Bank
Tom says that, while at AT&T (the old one), he learned how a brand bank should be managed. He describes how the brand was essential to the launch of AT&T WorldNet Service and how WorldNet repaid the brand bank with interest.
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January 19, 2006
Nortel - Exhibiting at Spring VON
Laura spoke with Steve Brock, Senior Manager for VoIP and Multimedia Marketing at Nortel.
Steve has helped service providers all over the world introduce new capabilities into their networks. Steve has worked in the communications industry for over 18 years, providing leadership in the areas of switching (developing international signaling protocols), optical networking, wireless networking, consumer and enterprise communications products, and Voice over IP and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services. Recently, Steve directed extensive market research to understand the value of SIP and IMS services in residential and business markets. Steve has a B.S. in Computer Science from East Carolina University and a Masters in Business Administration from Campbell University.
For information regarding Nortel and their exhibit at Spring VON 2006, the contact is Tami Timperio. You can email her at ttimper@nortel.com
You can find Nortel at booth #1645
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Telesoft International - Exhbiting at Spring VON 2006
At VON Spring 2006 TeleSoft’s focus will be on their VoIP Software solutions for 3GPP Mobile Phones and IETF SIP-ISDN Gateway products.
The IMS compliant 3GPP CompactSIP source code stack for handsets supports IP Multimedia Call Control, 3G Security Access, IPv6, AKA and Port Switching IPSec Security Association. The 3GPP CompactSIP Solution enables developers and manufacturers of Smart Mobile phones, PDAs and WiMAX devices to accelerate product time-to-market while decreasing development costs and technical risks.
The IETF SIP-ISDN Gateway is a source code stack that combines TeleSoft’s CompactSIP, PRI/BRI/QSIG ISDN and SIP-ISDN Interworking Software to form a modular, integrated software solution. This solution enables manufacturers of IP PBXs, Hybrid PBXs, Set-top Boxes and ATA/VoIP Gateways to accelerate product time-to-market while decreasing development costs and technical risks.
TeleSoft International has been supplying proven protocol stacks to industry leaders including AT&T, Apple, Lucent, NTT, IBM, Cisco, 3Com, Fujitsu, NEC, Polycom and TelcoBridges since 1992.
Christopher A. Cox - Vice President, Marketing for TeleSoft International Inc.
Chris has been involved with high tech development for many years in engineering design and management and senior marketing roles at companies ranging from AMD to Wayne Kerr. Currently he heads up sales and marketing at TeleSoft International, a division of Broadframe Corporation and is a principal in both companies. Chris received his undergraduate education in England and postgraduate studies in the US.
Contact info:
Christopher A. Cox
Tel: 1.512.373.4324
Fax: 1.512.373.4181
ccox@telesoft-intl.com
You can find Telesoft International at booth #545
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Signate - Exhbiting at Spring VON 2006
Signate is the leading provider of VoIP telephony solutions that utilize industry standard hardware and open source software to deliver great price/performance. Whether you need a turnkey system or just our state-of-the-art software, Signate enables capable, highly reliable, VoIP telephony for service providers, contact centers and enterprises that scale to tens of thousands of simultaneous calls.
William Boehlke is CEO of Signate. He joined the company after fifteen years spent building one of North America's largest technology marketing firms, where as CEO he led teams that worked with leaders such as Adobe, Borland, Knight-Ridder, Lucent, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Tibco Software.
Laura spoke with William about the products they will be showcasing at Spring VON.
You can find Signate at booth #1043
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January 18, 2006
Jon Arnold / Andrew Hansen
Today's Canadian IP Thought Leaders podcast featured Andrew Hansen, whose company Jyve is one of the most popular Skype applications. Jon Arnold talked to Andrew about the culture of Skype, both in terms of what makes them successful, and how things will change under eBay. Andrew also shared his insights about CES, which he recently attended.
Andrew J. Hansen – Owner/Founder Virtual Communications
Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and is; as his blog says (beyondthebleedingedge.blogspot.com) on or beyond the bleeding edge with upcoming and new communication technologies. As an active participant in the Skype community, and member of the Skype Developer Advisory council, he has consulted with many established hardware and web startup companies on embracing presence and VoIP communication into there overall strategy. Clients include Jyve, KhaosLabs, Skype, Multi-link Inc, Skylook and many other Fortune 500 companies based in NA and Europe.
Prior to starting Virtual Communications in 2003, Andrew had a storied career in IVR and CTI development and deployment internationally, working with companies such as Nortel, Lucent and Excendia developing emerging sales channels for VoIP and unified messaging solutions worldwide.
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RADCOM - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Mr. Avi Zamir, president of RADCOM Equipment, Inc., from its incorporation in February 1993 until 1999, rejoined the company in May 2004 to resume its presidency and to serve as one of its directors.
In 1999, Mr. Zamir co-founded Business Layers Inc., a company that originated eProvisioning solutions that transformed HR decisions into automated, corresponding business practice transactions. The company was acquired by Computer Associates in 2004.
The 1973 Israeli Judo Champion, Mr. Zamir also holds a place in the 1985 Guinness Book of World Records for inventing the world's smallest modem. He holds a practical engineering degree from Ort Yad-Singalovski, Tel Aviv.
Emigrating from Israel to the United States in 1987, Mr. Zamir currently resides in New Jersey with his wife, Malka and their 3 children.
Avi Zamir provides an overview of Radcom as a company and the products and services they provide.
You can find them at booth #440.
To contact RADCOM prior to Spring VON 2006, please direct all calls or emails to Jacqueline McDonald, the Director of Marketing at 561-483-3635 or email at jacquim@radcomusa.com
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Integra5 - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Integra5 is a leader in converged quad-play messaging and communications.
The company's I5 Service Delivery Platform allows telco, cable , wireless and eTelecommT service providers to offer innovative new products and services, including Picture Caller ID, Call Log, and Voicemail Message Waiting, and deliver them to TVs and PCs throughout the home. The company was founded in January 2000 by experts in unified messaging and image processing and is backed by leading venture capitalists, including Benchmark Capital and Lauder Partners. The I5 Service Delivery Platform features patented and patent-pending technology and has been commercially deployed in service provider networks since 2004. Integra5 is based in Burlington, Mass., USA, and has a research and development office in Rehovot, Israel.
Israel Drori has 17 years experience working with early stage companies and established publicly traded organizations in the telecom industry. As President and CEO of Integra5, he provides the vision and direction to help Integra5 capitalize on the advanced services opportunity with telecom, cable, Internet and wireless operators.
Laura spoke with Israel on how Integra5's solutions are different from competing products. If you would like to contact him directly, you can reach him by phone at 781-302-3101.
You can find Integra5 at booth #1738.
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XO Communications - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
XO Communications is a leading provider of national and local telecommunications services to businesses, large enterprises and telecommunications companies. XO offers a complete portfolio of services, including local and long distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking, data transport, and Web hosting services, as well as bundled voice and Internet solutions. XO provides these services over an advanced, national facilities-based IP network and serves more than 70 metropolitan markets across the U.S.
Laura spoke with Don MacNeil, the Vice President of Carrier Service Operations regarding a new product they will be launching at Spring VON. If you would like to contact Don MacNeil directly, you can reach him at:703-675-0495
XO Communications will be at booth #2027
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January 17, 2006
Tom Evslin - Relaunching the at&t Brand
Tom says that a billion dollars would be better spent promoting services which would actually benefit the users of at&t services than in pure brand promotion for the new, lower-case at&t. he gives some examples of what at&t could do.
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January 13, 2006
Eyeball - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Laura spoke with a freshly landed Chris Piché from Eyeball Networks.
Eyeball Networks Inc. is a pioneer and world leader in VoIP, video telephony & instant messaging software for service providers and device makers.
Eyeball’s endpoint and server software supports more than 18 million VoIP and video telephony subscribers with over 10 billion call minutes, for more than 100 service providers in North America, Europe and Asia.
Founded in 2000, Eyeball Networks Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with offices in the U.S., U.K. & Japan.
Chris Piché, Chairman and CEO
Chris is an expert in networked media technology and is a frequent featured speaker at industry conferences. Chris was named one of Canada's Top Young Leaders by the Globe & Mail and one of Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" business people by Business in Vancouver magazine in 2000. Chris was selected to represent Canada at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Information and Communications Technology Forum in Shanghai in 2001.
Prior to founding Eyeball Networks, Chris worked at Simba Technologies (acquired by Pivotal Corporation) and Oracle Communications in software engineering and marketing. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of British Columbia (Canada).
Find Eyeball at booth #1143.
For more info, contact Rachel Scott: rachel.scott@eyeball.com.
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Tom Evslin - Full Ellipse
Tom describes the 14 year ellipse his family took from Vermont to Vancouver to Seattle to New Jersey and back to Vermont again.
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January 12, 2006
Oracle - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Laura Spoke with John Trembley, Director of Business Development for Oracle, regarding their vision for the future of telecom.
John Trembley
Mr. Trembley has over a decade of telecom industry experience. As director of business development at Oracle, he has responsibility for the company’s strategy and execution to achieve market leadership in telecom. His expertise extends from traditional service providers to new breed optical carriers, as well as value added services, and OSS/BSS. Mr. Trembley is frequently quoted by industry press and has spoken at many industry conferences, including Supercomm, IEC, IIR, and VON. He holds a BA in Economics from Willamette University.
Find Oracle at booth #235 at Spring VON.
www.oracle.com/industries/communications
For further questions please contact John Trembley at (503)525-3164.
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January 11, 2006
Jon Arnold / Alec Saunders - CES recap
On this week's edition of Canadian IP Thought Leaders, Jon's guest was Alec Saunders, CEO of Ottawa-based Iotum. Alec attended CES last week and shared his impressions of both CES and the Pulvermedia Consumer VoIP Summit. In addition to talking about his experiences as an attendee, Alec also touched on what's it like being a Canadian startup trying to do business in Las Vegas.
Alec Saunders, CEO - Iotum
Alec Saunders is a visionary technology evangelist with 15 years of leadership in technology marketing and product management. During his nine years at Microsoft Corporation Alec launched Internet Explorer, created and launched the Microsoft Plus! Windows companion, launched the MS-DOS 6 Upgrade in Canada, created the first known commercial opt-in mailing lists on the Internet, and pioneered the use of direct-email as an e-commerce vehicle.
Prior to Iotum, Alec was VP of Marketing for Versatel Networks, a developer and manufacturer of applications platforms for voice networks. In 2001, Alec also served as VP of Marketing at QNX Software Systems where he spearheaded the creation and launch of the critically acclaimed QNX Momentics development suite.
Alec is a graduate of the University of Waterloo Mathematics Faculty.
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January 09, 2006
Tom Evslin - Evolution's not religion, and vice versa
The problem with the current debate is that Intelligent Design advocates claim that Intelligent Design is science AND that scientists and others are acting as if Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a religion. The latter is as much a mistake and as much a hindrance to good education as the former, according to Tom Evslin.
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January 06, 2006
Tom Evslin - A service that needs to exist
Tired up signing up separately for every web service you want use? Or looking for a new business opportunity? Tom Evslin has a suggestion for a new service.
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January 05, 2006
Aculab - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Laura spoke with Chris Gravett, the Sales and Marketing Director for Aculab. On January 19th Aculab is launching Prosody X. We look forward to seeing this and many other products that Aculab will be showcasing at Spring VON.
Aculab offers key technology for integration into high performance, wired and wireless, next generation communications solutions - from contact centres and IVR to media gateways and media servers. Enabling technology products for use within telco or enterprise solutions include media processing resources; speech processing, transcoding, fax and conferencing - in IP and PSTN environments, and digital network access including SS7.
Aculab's portfolio includes; Prosody (certified for use with the Asterisk open source IP PBX Business Edition), Prosody S, a software only HMP product, and Prosody X, the award winning, breakthrough media processing card for IP-based networks with optional TDM connectivity.
Visit booth 1209 to find out more about how Aculab technology can enable your business.
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Jon Arnold / Mark Evans
Today's Canadian IP Thought Leaders podcast was with Mark Evans. This is Mark's second podcast with Jon, and today the focus was on the big stories Mark will be following in 2006. The major items discussed were Vonage's future, how Skype will fare under eBay, how the pureplay VoIP operators will survive, and the outlook for Canada's major service providers.
Mark Evans is a senior technology reporter with the National Post, one of Canada's leading national newspapers. He has been covering the high-tech sector since 1995, including the co-authoring of a book called "Investrends:The High-Tech Economy". Mark also co-founded a start-up called Blanketware Corp. that developed natural language navigate software. His blog on technology and telecom can be found at evans.blogware.com.
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Netformx - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Netformx(r) provides Guided Selling Solutions to meet the challenges of selling sophisticated high-technology products. Its solutions enable network equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and enterprise end-customers to design, verify, and acquire network equipment quickly, easily, and accurately. Netformx customers and partners include Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, SBC Communications, Pomeroy, IBM Global Services, Dimension Data, Adtran, Symbol, De Te We, Swisscom, Hewlett Packard, AT&T and others. Netformx is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with distribution partners overseas.
Ittai Bareket, Chief Executive Officer
Bareket is an experienced executive, focusing his career on defining and implementing strategic direction while establishing corporate growth in the international enterprise software market. Bareket joined Netformx in 2000 and has been responsible for business development, sales, marketing and operations, most recently serving as Co-President & COO. Prior to Netformx, Bareket held various positions at Mercury Interactive Corporation including President of Mercury Interactive Japan K.K. and General Manager for Japan & Korea. Bareket also held several command positions in the Israeli Air Force and is fluent in English, Hebrew and Japanese.
Laura spoke with Ittai about Netformx, their target customers and their exhibit for Spring VON.
You can find them at booth #944.
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January 04, 2006
Tom Evslin - Daddy, what's a channel?
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin suggests that cable companies unbundle channels and sell them separately to subscribers. Tom Evslin says channels themselves are obsolete.
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Quintum - Exhibiting Spring VON 2006: What's in store for Enterprise VoIP Access?
Quintum Technologies, Inc., is a leading innovator in VoIP technologies. Quintum’s Tenor VoIP MultiPath VoIP switches and gateways are designed with "integrated intelligence" -- so they're the perfect fit for SMEs and branch offices of large enterprises with traditional, IP-PBX and hybrid enterprise environments, as well as for service providers deploying VoIP-based services directly to enterprises requiring customer premise equipment at the network edge. Tenors’ MultiPath architecture and integrated call routing allow it to be deployed with minimum changes to existing voice networks, thus making it very easy to deploy VoIP. Tenor’s unique SelectNet™ capability also provides monitoring and call routing based on the VoIP Quality of Service, thus providing assurance of high quality voice calls.
Laura spoke with Chuck Rutledge, Vice President of Marketing for Quintum. Chuck shared his thoughts on the future for the industry and how Quintum is anticipating the changing needs of their clients.
You can find them at booth #633.
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January 03, 2006
Pactolus - Exhibiting at Spring VON 2006
Mikey spoke with Kenneth M. Osowski, Vice President of Marketing & Product Management at Pactolus Communications Software Corporation. Ken spoke about the company's success in 2005 and their plans for expansion in 2006. They look forward to showcasing new services and productsa at Spring VON.
You can find them at booth #1033.
Their website is www.pactolus.com.
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