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April 28, 2006
Pulverizing Your Market - Carl Ford, Barbara Gavin
This second episode of our new series contains an interview by Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer at Pulvermedia, with Carl Ford and Barbara Gavin, who are the VP of Community and Content, and the Director of Conference Programs at Pulvermedia, respectively.
This podcast serves to demystify the different types of speaking opportunities at a Pulvermedia Conference.
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Pulverizing Your Market - Bill Sell
Marketing in today's world combines science, art and data.
Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer at Pulvermedia, will host a new series of podcasts that will explore ways to get the most out of your marketing efforts.
The series begins with industry veteran, Bill Sell, VP & General Manager of VON Events discussing the important elements that a company should consider to maximize the value of trade show participation.
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April 27, 2006
Tom Evslin - The Next Huge Thing – Base Assumption
Tom Evslin tells why he thinks that all American cities will have free WiFi available within three or four years.
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IP Unity - Exhibiting at VON China 2006
IP Unity is the leader in carrier–grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications over IP and TDM networks. The company’s open and modular Mereon™ solutions let service providers rapidly deploy services, from simple media-enabled information services like IVR and voicemail, to complex multi-modal personal communications like videomail.
Laura spoke with Jerri Barrett, the Director of Marketing for IP Unity.
Jerri is responsible for defining marketing communications, product marketing, events management and public relations. Prior to joining IP Unity, she was vice president of customer service and executive director of sales and marketing at HighWired Technologies. In this role, Jerri set strategic direction for marketing and sales, developed the company business case for its second round of investment and directed all aspects of customer service. She has held senior marketing positions at LinkAir, Nortel Networks, Glenayre and Frontier Communications. Jerri has a MBA in marketing from the University of Rochester and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.
You can find IP Unity at booth #B009.
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April 26, 2006
Jon Arnold / Mark Farmer
On this week's podcast, Jon spoke with Mark Farmer, Director of Marketing for QuickPlay Media. Based in Toronto, QuickPlay is emerging as a strong enabler of mobile media applications for both Canadian and U.S. carriers. Mark provided some background on how mobile media has evolved and the kinds of applications that are driving demand today. Of particular note was his discussion about the variety of mobile media offerings they are enabling for VH1, and the characteristics that have made them successful amidst other larger and better-financed competitors.
Mark Farmer – Director Marketing
Mark is the Director of Marketing for QuickPlay Media, which he joined in September of 2004. Originally Mark was brought on to help manage the launch of the first mobile video on demand service in Canada with Telus Mobility. As the company quickly grew, he has shifted focus to the marketing and positioning of QuickPlay Media. Before joining QuickPlay Media, Mark was the Director of Marketing for Amdocs, the global leader in customer care and billing solutions for the top wireless carriers where he marketed their portfolio of outsourcing and system integration services. He came to Amdocs by way of acquisition of Solect Technology Group in 1998 where he was the Director of Product Management for Solect’s IP Customer Care and Billing product. Mark has an engineering degree from University of Toronto.
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Sylantro Systems Corporation - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Sylantro Systems provides the premier software platform for business, consumer and mobile hosted VoIP solutions. Sylantro allows network operators to rapidly deliver high-value, high-margin managed telephony services without the cost and complexity of today’s in-house PBX and key systems, and gives consumers new flexibility in their communications services.
Laura spoke with Ronald Raffensperger the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Sylantro Systems.
Ron has over 30 years of experience in product management and ma rketing positions in the telecom industry, most recently at Network Focus, Inc., which provides advanced outsourced voice and data services for small businesses, including provisioning of IP telephony systems. He has also held senior positions at Siemens, ROLM/IBM, Telebit Corporation and General Telephone. He was also vice president, Marketing at Objectivity (a leading provider of object-oriented databases) and vice president, Sales and Services at Upshot (the first web-based CRM application provider -- purchased by Siebel). Ron earned a BSEE from Iowa State University and attended the MBA program at Santa Clara University.
You can find Sylantro Systems at booth #308.
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April 25, 2006
Cisco Systems - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.
Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP)networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.
Laura spoke with Patricia Lopez-Weigal, Head Service Provider of Marketing for Europe and Emerging Markets at Cisco.
You can find Cisco at booth #200.
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Global Crossing - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Global Crossing provides telecommunications solutions over an integrated global IP-based network that connects more than 300 cities and 30 countries, and delivers voice, video and data services to over 600 cities in 60 countries on 6 continents.
Laura spoke with Jos Martens, Segment Manager for Global Crossing Carrier Data Europe.
You can find Global Crossing at booth #314.
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April 24, 2006
Tom Evslin - Instead of Foreign Aid
Tom Evslin thinks almost all foreign aid should be abolished – there better ways for the West to help the Rest. The success of China and India is a hint.
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April 20, 2006
Pirelli Broadband Solutions - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Pirelli Broadband Solutions is made up of two business units. Access provides a range of end-to-end broadband solutions based on CPE such as access gateways, set-top boxes, handsets, and remote management systems while Photonics leverages nanotechnology and its use of tunable and pluggable solutions to deliver components, modules and subsystems
Laura spoke with Corrado Rocca, the Senior Vice President, Broadband Access Products, Pirelli Broadband Solutions S.p.A.
Corrado Rocca is responsible for product marketing and management and all development projects for three product lines: access gateways, multimedia devices and element management systems.
He also represents Pirelli in the broadband access community, working with organizations such as Home Gateway Initiative and DSL Forum and participating in Plug Fests.
An 11-year veteran of the Pirelli Group, Rocca has held several senior level R&D positions within Pirelli Submarine Telecom Systems. In 2003, he was director of R&D, responsible for DWDM terminal equipment, underwater devices, power feeding equipment, and management software, and director of Manufacturing responsible for underwater products. He also managed joint co-operations with Siemens, Alcatel, Tyco, and NEC. Rocca joined Pirelli in 1995 as a member of the Optical Systems Design team.
From 1990 to 1995, Rocca worked in the R&D Transmission Department for Marconi Communications.
Corrado Rocca is speaking at the session: Triple Play from the Upstarts
Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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April 19, 2006
Tom Evslin - Should You Go to Business School?
Tom Evslin thinks nerds and entrepreneurs don’t need an MBA.
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Jon Arnold / Michel Laurence
On today's podcast, Jon spoke with Michel Laurence, CEO of Montreal-based Octasic, one of the IP sector's leading semiconductor vendors. Michel shared his views on the things that make Canada - and Montreal in particular - attractive for world-class technology companies. Jon and Michel also talked about some key industry trends, such as the rising demand for video applications and the shift toward software-based solutions - and how these will impact companies like Octasic.
In 1998 Michel Laurence co-founded Octasic, a company that designs its own proprietary silicon for Voice over Packet (VoP) applications. CEO since 2001, Mr. Laurence oversees research and development and determines strategic direction. Prior to Octasic, he co-founded InnoMediaLogic (IML) in 1996, and within a span of four years, as chairman and president, he developed the company into a thriving mutli-million dollar vendor of VoIP solutions. NMS Communications purchased IML in 2000 and Mr. Laurence was appointed VP and General Manager of NMS Communications’ Network Access Business Unit. Previously, Mr. Laurence held a variety of engineering positions, with companies such as Nortel Networks and Bell Canada.
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April 18, 2006
Global IP Sound - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Founded in 1999, Global IP Sound develops embedded voice processing technologies for real-time communications over packet networks. GIPS SoundWare™ provides better than PSTN voice quality and fidelity in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss. Global IP Sound’s world-renowned speech processing and IP telephony experts deliver these solutions to applications developers, gateway and chip manufacturers. Companies using GIPS SoundWare™ products include Nortel Networks (NYSE: NTL), Skype (NASDAQ: EBAY), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Yahoo!(NASDAQ:YHOO), AOL (NYSE: TWX), EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK) and other key players in the VoIP market. Global IP Sound is a member of the Intel® PCA Developer Network, the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partners and Texas Instruments’ (NYSE: TXN) third party developer network. Global IP Sound has headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Stockholm, Hong Kong and Boston.
Laura spoke with Gary Hermansen, the CEO of Global IP Sound.
Gary Hermansen brings to Global IP Sound over 20 years of sales and business experience from the telecommunication, Internet and semiconductor industries. In addition to his experience as CEO of Brightmail, Mr. Hermansen was President and General Manager of Glenayre Consumer Products and held senior positions at Wireless Access, Cypress Semiconductor and Intel.
You can find Global IP Sound at booth #520.
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IP Unity - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
IP Unity is the leader in carrier–grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications over IP and TDM networks. The company’s open and modular Mereon™ solutions let service providers rapidly deploy services, from simple media-enabled information services like IVR and voicemail, to complex multi-modal personal communications like videomail.
Laura spoke with Jerri Barrett, the Director of Marketing for IP Unity.
Jerri is responsible for defining marketing communications, product marketing, events management and public relations. Prior to joining IP Unity, she was vice president of customer service and executive director of sales and marketing at HighWired Technologies. In this role, Jerri set strategic direction for marketing and sales, developed the company business case for its second round of investment and directed all aspects of customer service. She has held senior marketing positions at LinkAir, Nortel Networks, Glenayre and Frontier Communications. Jerri has a MBA in marketing from the University of Rochester and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.
You can find IP Unity at booth #408.
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April 17, 2006
Tom Evslin - Amnesty for European Settlers
Tom Evslin is not sure his ancestors had a valid visa. He knows the people on the Mayflower didn’t. He supports amnesty for illegal immigrants who have worked and obeyed other laws and an immigration policy which avoids the incentive for illegal migration.
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April 13, 2006
Tekelec - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Tekelec develops advanced network signalling, next-generation switching, business intelligence and revenue-generating applications for wireless and wireline operators. Tekelec is the leader in hosted IP telephony with its integrated, scalable and standards-based T6000 VoIP Application Server, which is also an essential part of Tekelec’s fixed mobile convergence solution.
Laura spoke with Neil Tomlinson, AVP EMEA Marketing for Tekelec.
Neil Tomlinson joined Tekelec in 1998 and is based in the UK where he is currently responsible for all aspects of EMEA Regional Marketing including the go to market strategies for Tekelec’s “EAGLE” Signalling (SS7 and IP), Next Generation Switching and Application product lines into the European, African and Middle East Market.
Before Neil joined Tekelec he held a number of senior positions with DSC (Now Alcatel). His final position was the marketing director for switch products where he was focussed on Signalling and Network Intelligence.
You can find them at booth #506.
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Aculab - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
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.
Laura spoke with Mike Matthews, Aculab's Head of Product Marketing.
Mike manages product lifecycles and customer feedback, and is responsible for the positioning of new products. He manages the link between customers and Aculab's R&D, oversees Aculab's product roadmap, and supports the company's global sales force. Mike has represented Aculab in various conferences, seminars and road shows around the world. Over the past 25 years, he has had several roles in telecommunications industrial consortia responsible for ensuring equipment interoperability.
You can find Aculab at booth #600.
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Swyx - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Swyx is a recognised market leader for IP telephony and is renowned for product innovation. Swyx's flagship product - SwyxWare - is a software-based IP telephone system which not only handles all the tasks of a traditional telecommunications system but also offers many new telephony functions.
Conference and Expo visitors will be able to see the breadth and depth of the SwyxWare product platform and understand the benefits that our new release will bring to multiple customers.
Laura spoke with Dave Smith the Senior VP Marketing for Swyx.
Dave joined Swyx as Senior VP Marketing in April 2005 from Cisco Systems, where he was previously responsible for Cisco‘s EMEA Product & Technology Marketing across a $5Bn+ business. Prior to this, Dave spent 10+ years at Nortel Networks in various leadership roles in Marketing, Customer Support & Technology in Public Switching and Enterprise Telephony.
You can find Swyx at booth #330.
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Tom Evslin - Better Communication in Disasters – One Step Closer
Tom Evslin asks people to file comments on the petition he and Jeff Pulver filed with the FCC to try to assure that communications are better in the next hurricane than they were in Katrina. The form for commenting is here and you need to insert the code RM-11327 in the first line to identify the petition you are commenting on. The petition itself can be read here.
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April 11, 2006
NMS Communications - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
NMS Communications (NASDAQ: NMSS) is a leading provider of technologies and solutions for mobile applications and infrastructure. NMS develops products that enable new mobile voice, data and video applications and improve the performance and quality of wireless networks, helping our customers grow their revenues and profits.
Laura spoke with Brough Turner the SVP, CTO and co-founder of NMS Communications
Brough Turner oversees the evolution of NMS's technology and product architectures and works on business strategy and new market development. Mr. Turner has broad business experience, but focuses on engineering, technology and products. His current interests include user-created content and communities, mobile content delivery and wireless infrastructure.
Mr. Turner writes and is quoted widely on telecommunications topics in both trade and general business publications and he is a frequent speaker at telecom industry events around the world. He holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more of Brough’s writings on the technology, economic and social issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet., check out his blog at http://blogs.nmscommunications.com/communications.
Mr. Turner will be speaking at the General Session: What Industry Are We In? Monday, May 15, 2006, 5:15pm - 6:30pm and will participate on the panel: Access Reverticalization, Wednesday, May 17, 2006,
9:00am -10:15am.
You can find NMS Communications at booth #660.
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April 10, 2006
Jon Arnold / Salim Teja
On this week's Canadian IP Thought Leaders series, Jon Arnold spoke with Salim Teja, VP at Toronto-based Brightspark Ventures. Brightspark is a well-known Canadian VC, with a strong focus on early stage financing.
Salim spoke with Jon about the realities of this space, especially in Canada, which has fewer angel investor options than the U.S. He also addressed the characteristics of successful startups as well as the promising sectors that Brightspark sees in the IP communications market.
Salim Teja - Vice President, Brightspark Ventures
Salim brings over 10 years of operational and venture capital experience in the technology industry to his role as Vice President. Prior to joining Brightspark, Salim was appointed as Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Mosaic Venture Partners. Salim was responsible for evaluating all in-house technology investment opportunities in the areas of Internet security, communications and electronic commerce.
Prior to Mosaic Venture Partners, Salim was Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Business Development for MobShop Inc, a pioneer in procurement software funded by GE Capital, Visa International, Mayfield Fund and Marc Andreessen. Salim's depth of experience also includes senior roles with MSI Consulting Group (a WPP Company) and IBM.
Salim has advised senior management at technology vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, SAP and Cisco on major corporate strategy initiatives. Salim is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario.
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April 06, 2006
Texas Instuments - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
As the market leader in VoIP silicon and software, Texas Instruments products offer complete, field-proven solutions to the world’s top equipment providers. TI’s programmable DSPs, Telogy™ software for VoIP and other services, enable equipment manufacturers to develop high-quality products that send real-time voice, fax and data over packet networks. TI integrated VoIP silicon and software solutions target all three segments of the gateway market - residential/SOHO, enterprise, and high density - as well as IP phone, DSL and cable modem applications. www.ti.com/voip.
Laura spoke with John Warner Strategic Marketing Manager for
Texas Instruments, Communications Infrastructure.
John Warner is a strategic marketing manager for Texas Instruments’ (TI) Communications Infrastructure (CI) group and has over 25 years experience in the communications industry. At TI, Warner is responsible for evaluating and determining industry trends while marketing the company’s various CI products, including wireless infrastructure and high-density voice applications. Warner has been with TI for seven years and is based in Germantown, Md. Prior to joining TI, Warner served as the director of pre-sales engineering for several optical companies including Kirana Networks, Lucent Technologies and Chromatis Networks. Previously, Warner held the position of senior sales engineer for Nortel's remote access server and SS7 gateway products. He has also held positions in technical support, operations, engineering and systems analysis for Computer Sciences Corporation and GE Spacenet.
Warner earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pa.
Texas Instruments will be giving a power presentation on the show floor on Wednesday, May 17th @2pm.
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Empirix - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
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.
Laura spoke with Duane Sword, the Vice President of Product Management for Empirix.
Duane leads the product policy, and strategic and outbound marketing efforts for its suite of Hammer test solutions. Prior to joining Empirix, Duane held product management, business development and functional operations management positions with Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard. He has worked extensively in the telecommunications industry, specifically with manufacturers and service providers of broadband switches and routers in Europe, North America and Japan and has a wide background in international product marketing and business development. Duane holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT).
You can find Empirix at booth #410.
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AudioCodes - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
AudioCodes enables the new voice infrastructure by providing innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet technology and Voice Network products to OEMs, network equipment providers and system integrators. The company is a market leader in voice compression and VoIP technology and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard.
Mikey spoke with Nimrod Borovsky, the Director of Product Marketing for AudioCodes.
You can find them at booth #306.
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April 05, 2006
Jon Arnold at VON Canada
On this week's podcast, Jon Arnold did a walkabout tour of the VON Canada show floor, along with colleague Ronald Gruia of Frost & Sullivan. Jon and Ron gave their impressions of the show and the exhibit space on the fly, including some spontaneous man-in-the-street conversations with exhibitors. Raw radio at its finest!
Hear another podcast featuring Ronald Gruia here.
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Hewlett-Packard - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
HP’s expertise and leadership in the telecommunications industry, enterprise computing, content and consumer access delivers industry leading solutions. Driving market-leading solutions in personal and group communication, advanced messaging, entertainment and information access, HP OpenCall platforms connect to any network and enable instant communication, rich services access and content sharing.
Laura spoke with Steve Dietch, Marketing Director for Hewlett-Packard.
You can find Hewlett-Packard at booth #312.
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Tom Evslin - Verizon PAYS Content Provider
Tom Evslin points out that Verizon is paying CBS for content despite the telcos claim that content providers ought to pay them to reach their users.
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Arkoon Network Security - Exhibiting at VON Europe
Arkoon Network Security is a leading European developer of information, communications, and infrastructure security solutions. A pioneer of unified threat management technology, Arkoon FAST360® UTM appliances protect business and government information systems from network-based attacks in nearly 50 countries around the world.
In April 2006, Arkoon introduces a new release (4.0) of its UTM software. Thanks to this new release, Arkoon delivers the first UTM appliance for voice and data convergence, then enabling the control of telephony and IP merge into Entreprise networks. It enables both administration and enforcement of telephony security policies for VoIP (SIP, MHCP, H323) as a native feature-set of any appliance of the FAST360® family. In addition, Arkoon introduces a security collaboration interface called FireConverge® to complement the convergence offering, allowing additional unique features with the TDM and PBX security solution from CheckPhone.
Laura spoke with Etienne Coulon, the Vice President of Marketing & Business Development for Arkoon Network Security.
Graduated from INSA, Etienne Coulon began his career as project manager within the IT division IT of the PSA group. He has then occupied operational and marketing functions in different companies e.g. Hewlett-Packard, Fore Systems Inc., Xylan Corporation, ACT Networks Inc., Acess360 Inc. and Clarent Corp. Before joining Arkoon in 2005, he was a co-founder and General Manager of Tempo Line, marketing society specialised in the development of companies.
You can find Arkoon Network Security at booth #620.
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April 04, 2006
Quintum Technologies - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
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 #538.
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Tom Evslin - Should The Internet Be Lawless?
Tom Evslin asks whether the should be law on the Internet.
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Trinity Convergence - Exhibiting at VON Europe 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 Brian Lees , Vice President of Sales , EMEA. 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 # 530.
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Tom Evslin - David Isenberg and The Rise of The Stupid Network
Tom Evslin explains David Isenberg’s historic paper on why “stupid networks” like the Internet are far better than the "intelligent networks” favored by telcos.
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April 03, 2006
Freescale Semiconductor - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion.
Laura spoke with Pierre Bernoux from Freescales' Networking and Communications Solutions Group.
You can find them at booth #414.
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