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May 31, 2006

Jon Arnold / Mathew Ingram

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On today's podcast, Jon spoke with Mathew Ingram, who is a technology writer for the Globe & Mail, Canada's leading national daily. Mathew is one of people behind the Mesh Web 2.0 conference that took place last month in Toronto, and much of the conversation focused the directions Web 2.0 seems to be taking and how much interest there is in this space from so many diverse communities. Mathew also touched on how the Internet impacts his job as a journalist, along with the pros and cons of his writing being so transparent and open to scrutiny from his readers. Be careful what you say - there is always someone out there smarter than you!


Mathew Ingram is a journalist who writes about business and technology for The Globe and Mail, both for the "dead-tree" print edition, and the paper's Web site. He has been working online for the Globe since the site was re-launched as a breaking news site in 2000, and been living and writing online since the early 1990s when a 9600-baud dial-up modem was the hot-rod of the Internet.

Mathew has a personal blog at www.mathewingram.com/work where he writes about Web 2.0 ideas and companies. Mathew also does a business/technology blog for globeandmail.com. He thinks that the kind of interactivity and dialogue that blogs and other Web 2.0 tools provide is already having -- and will continue to have -- a profound effect on the media industry and many other industries.

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Nithya Ruff and Carl Ford on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Carl Ford spoke with Nithya Ruff, the Vice President of Product Management for IP Unity.

Nithya Ruff, has 20 years' experience in the technology product management and marketing domains. Previously, Nithya led an IP-centric services marketing organization at Avaya and launched a breakthrough business communications consulting practice within her unit. She also established high-profile successes leading the company's P&L and product management teams for the messaging and unified communications areas. She was vice president of business development and marketing for Sychron, and director of product and strategic marketing for Tripwire, a security and change auditing start-up.Nithya has an MBA from the University of Rochester, an MS in Computer Science from North Dakota State University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India.

www.ip-unity.com

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Glenn Gaudet with Alistair Woodman on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Alistair Woodman has been working in the telecommunications industry for over 15 years. Alistair has a broad background in defining and marketing products in the data and telephony protocols space. Alistair now works in the Office of the CTO. He joined Cisco Systems in 1996 and was instrumental in the inception of Cisco’s plans for entering the Packet Telephony market place. Since those early days, he has continued to define strategy and product direction for many of Cisco’s Packet Telephony products over the last ten years. Alistair has also been involved with the Voice over IP Service Provider industry since the market started. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Trinity College, Oxford and an M.Sc. in Industrial Robotics & Manufacturing Automation from Imperial College, London.

www.cisco.com

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May 30, 2006

Philip Vanhoutte and Carl Ford on Location at Fall VON 2006

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Carl Ford spoke with Philip Vanhoutte, the Managing Director, EMEA, at Plantronics.

Mr. Vanhoutte joined Plantronics as Managing Director, EMEA in September 2003 after previously serving as Corporate VP Marketing at Sony Mobile Communications for two years. From 1998 to 2001 Mr Vanhoutte was VP, Strategic Market Development at Ericsson’s Personal Communication Division.

Mr. Vanhoutte’s career was launched at Arthur Andersen’s Benelux Information Consulting division in 1977 and subsequently held various marketing and senior management positions at Dell Computer Corporation, Wang Laboratories and Nokia Data, where he was VP Marketing which was merged into Fujitsu-ICL’s Personal Systems and Client-Server Division.

Mr. Vanhoutte studied Applied Economics and Engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium.


www.plantronics.com

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Alan Duric with Carl Ford on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Alan Duric is co-founder and CTO at Telio AS, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider. Mr. Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP with almost a decade of active contribution in VoIP, through his sw development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards). As a developer and senior systems architect at Ericsson, Mr. Duric took part in the early deployment and development of the world's largest VoIP networks such as Deltathree. At Global IP Sound, Mr. Duric was Senior Systems Architect, where he steered standardization efforts and was responsible for iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec), an IETF and CableLabs standard codec for VoIP. He serves as Director of Sipfoundry.org BoD and is an Advisor at XTEN´s and Kayote´s Board.

www.telio.no

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May 25, 2006

Jon Arnold / Stephen Marshall

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On this week's Canadian IP Thought Leaders series, Jon spoke with Stephen Marshall, President of Toronto-based Zonez Wireless. This company is focused on providing wireless connectivity solutions, and is working closely with cablecos. Jon and Stephen talked about why cablecos are interested in wireless connectivity, and some of the market opportunities it opens up for them. Stephen cited interesting examples such as RV trailer parks, landing docks for cruise ships, and resorts based in mountainous areas. Closer to home, his company has deployed one of Canada's first WiFi zones run by a cableco, and they discussed how that is working out.

Stephen Marshall is co-founder and CEO of Zonez Wireless, a private Canadian company delivering wireless communications systems to the cable and broadcast industries.

Stephen’s career began in the film and television industry, with 18 years spent both in front of, and behind, the cameras. A brief stint as a lawyer was followed by senior management positions at Tridel Corporation, Canada’s largest residential developer and Elysium Broadband Inc., a leading edge broadband telecommunications equipment provider, where he led the development of new standards in communication infrastructure design.

In his current role Stephen has been responsible for the development and launch of a new line of wireless broadband equipment for cable companies and large network operators, and a related subscriber management and billing solution for wireless Internet service providers (WISPs).

Stephen lives in Toronto with his wife Krista and their twin daughters.

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Andy Huckridge and Kate Cronin with Carl Ford on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Carl Ford spoke with Andy Huckridge, Product Marketing Manager for Spirent and Kate Cronin from the show floor at VON Europe.

Spirent's IMS & IP Telephony Test Systems bring all the testing needs together and eliminate the complexity of IMS and VoIP testing. Spirent addresses needs from wireline and wireless perspectives, supporting all necessary functional and performance tests for IMS and VoIP developers as well as interoperability/load/performance testing for service providers.

www.spirentcom.com

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Glenn Gaudet with Edmond Osstyn on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Glenn Gaudet sat down with Edmond Osstyn, Director of Portfolio Management for Alcatel.

Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world.

To meet today’s quest for increased personalized and interactive services, Alcatel helps operators worldwide transform their networks and deliver a better consumer experience – one that is simple, personalized, and predictable.

www.alcatel.com

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May 24, 2006

Richard Elliot - Band-X, Tim Anker - The Colocation Exchange, Carl Ford at VON Europe

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Tim and Richard stopped by the PPN Booth to chat with Carl Ford about service hosting and interconnection.

Richard Elliot is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Band-X. From its inception in 1997 Band-X pioneered new ways of buying and selling data and voice services and was instrumental in moving industry practices towards those of traders of other commodities. Prior to founding Band-X, Richard spent eleven years at Kleinwort Benson. During that period, Kleinwort Benson was the pre-eminent investment bank in the UK telecoms sector, taking a lead role in a number of high profile corporate transactions including the flotation of BT, Telewest, Orange and Energis. Before his time in the City of London he spent eight years in the Armoured Corps of the British Army after graduating from the University of Edinburgh.

Tim Anker is Director and founder of The Colocation Exchange Ltd, an agency specialising in the colocation and managed hosting sectors that he established in September 2004. Previously Tim had spent five years as Director of IP and Colocation Services at Band-X Ltd which he joined in 1999 when it comprised of just four people. In his time at Band-X Tim established relationships with hundreds of colocation providers around the world and was involved deals ranging from a rack up to 50,000 sq ft. Tim also ran Band-X’s IP sales team in London during 2003 and 2004 and was responsible for the company’s 150 wholesale IP customers, prior to the sale of this business in 2004. Before joining Band-X Tim had spent 14 years in the City with firms such as BZW, Smith New Court and Kleinwort Benson and for seven years he specialised in the emerging UK utility sector, being involved in much of the industry’s consolidation and floatations. Tim graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1985 with an Honours Degree in Economics.

www.band-x.com
www.colo-x.com

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Roberto Mestriner with Carl Ford on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Carl Ford spoke with Roberto Mestriner, the Chief Technology Officer at Telsey Telecommunications.

Telsey, an Italian company founded in 1993, is a worldwide leading provider of access gateway, IP STB and Home Networking solutions for the delivery of broadband interactive services on FTTx and xDSL networks to residential and SOHO end users.

www.telsey.it

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May 23, 2006

James Body, Truphone with Carl Ford at VON Europe

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James Body, Networks Director at Truphone, took some time on the show floor at VON Europe to explain to Carl what Truphone means when they say they are "The World's first 4G network operator."

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May 22, 2006

Tom Evslin - The Voice of AOL and Me

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Tom Evslin explains why he heard David Lawrence’s voice twice in the same day. The second time was David interviewing Tom about his novel: that interview’s available for a quarter here. Two free clips are here and here.

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Loki Jorgenson, Apparent Networks with Carl Ford at VON Europe

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Loki Jorgenson, Chief Scientist for Apparent Networks, took some time out of his busy conference schedule to have a chat with Carl Ford at the PPN booth in Stockholm.

Chief Scientist for Apparent Networks, Loki Jorgenson, PhD, has been active in computation, physics and mathematics, scientific visualization, and simulation for more than 18 years. Trained in computational physics at Queen's and McGill Universities, he has headed research in numerous academic projects from high-performance computing to digital publishing. Dr. Jorgenson has distinguished himself as a regular contributor to SearchNetworking.com’s Networking & Systems Management Tip site as well as the lead columnist in SearchNetworking.com’s High-Performance Networks Info Center. At Apparent Networks, Dr. Jorgenson leads network research in high performance, wireless, VoIP and other application performance, typically through practical collaboration with academic organizations and other thought leaders such as BCnet, Texas A&M, CANARIE, and Internet2.

www.apparentnetworks.com

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Gábor Hauser with Carl Ford on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Carl Ford spoke with Gábor Hauser, the Managing Director of hIPer™ Billing Systems.

EuroMACC, the European headquarters of Mid America Computer Corporation presents hIPer™ Billing System, the ultimate integrated billing, rating and CRM solution for the IP-based communication industry, along with it’s new WebCare™, a fully customizable Web-based CRM application, for companies ranging from telcos through local governments to utility providers.

www.hiperbilling.com

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May 18, 2006

Eric Bruno, Verizon Business with Glenn Gaudet on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Eric Bruno is vice president of Strategy for Verizon Business. Based at the Verizon Business offices in New York, he is responsible for Strategic & Business Planning, Business Development and Alliance Management.

Mr Bruno has more than fifteen years of experience in the communications industry with significant assignments in business market strategy, competitive planning and response and market management.

www.mci.com

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May 17, 2006

Brough Turner and Carl Ford on Location at VON Europe 2006

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Brough Turner is SVP, CTO and co-founder of NMS Communications, where he 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 here.

www.nmss.com

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May 16, 2006

Carl Ford is joined by Scott Marcus and Adrian Georgescu on Location at VON Europe

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J. Scott Marcus is a Senior Consultant for WIK-Consult GmbH in Bad Honnef, Germany. He previously served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology for the FCC. Prior to that, he was CTO of Genuity, Inc. (GTE Internetworking). For the first half of 2004, he was attached to the European Commission in Brussels, where he worked on their public consultation on VoIP. Mr. Marcus has served as a trustee of ARIN, holds several posts in the IEEE, and is the author of numerous papers and of a book on network design. He holds a B.A. in Political Science (Public Administration) from CCNY, and an M.A. in engineering from Columbia University.

www.wik.org
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Adrian Georgescu is founder of AG Projects where he focuses on implementing systems for the convergence of the Internet and Telecom. He is an active member of the Open Source community and member of ENUM special task force committee that has been established by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Prior starting of his own enterprise, Mr. Georgescu had accumulated experience in Telecom with Tomrad Communications, Esprit Telecom, Global Tele Systems (GTS) and Internet with Ebone and KPNQwest. Adrian's expertise spans DNS and ENUM, signaling protocols, provisioning systems, CDR mediation solutions and implementation of disaster recovery plans for large infrastructures. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Electrotechnics at the Polytechnics University of Bucharest.

www.ag-projects.com

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May 15, 2006

Carl Ford is joined by Kingsley Hill on Location at Von Europe

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Kingsley Hill, President & Chief Executive Officer, IPeerX
Mr. Hill is an accomplished technology company executive in both large companies and smaller start-up companies. He has been involved in Voice-over IP nearly since its inception. His experience as CIO at Frontier Communications led him to write a seminal white paper on the Voice over IP in 1994. Mr. Hill served as the Chief Operating Officer for Planetactive GmbH in Duesseldorf, Germany, one of Germany's premier internet companies, and the operator of the country's largest online interactive gaming platform. Mr. Hill is a recognized leader among peers, setting standards for excellence company wide and piloting organizations to new levels of performance. Mr. Hill is a creative thinker known for driving leading-edge technology and business solutions. He is a strong communicator, capable of building top-producing teams, delivering world-class customer service, and strengthening key relationships at all levels. Mr. Hill is a graduate of George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and holds a BS in Econometrics.

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*This podcast has some starts and stops. Blame it on the background noise of a show floor being erected. Or blame it on jetlag. Or blame Carl Ford. Thx.

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May 11, 2006

Tom Evslin - Why a Great Programmer is Worth Fifty Good Ones

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Tom Evslin opines that a great programmer is worth fifty merely good ones.

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May 09, 2006

Jon Arnold / Brian Cappellani

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On today's podcast, Jon spoke with Brian Cappellani, CTO of Sigma Systems. Sigma is based in Toronto, and is a leading OSS/billing vendor. Brian provided an overview of how carriers are adopting IP in their back office systems, and the challenges they face trying to integrate services across platforms along with moving away from the silo approach to operations. Cable is a strong market for Sigma, and Brian commented on how Canadian MSOs differ from the US, but also their common need to add wireless to their bundles. Finally, Brian shared his thoughts on the factors that work in favor of Canadian companies competing in the global IP market.

Brian Cappellani - Chief Technology Officer, Sigma Systems
As Chief Technology Officer, Brian is responsible for the architectural and technology vision and deliverables for the company's award-winning Service Management Platform and Solutions Suites.

A 12-year veteran in telecommunications, Brian's extensive background in designing, architecting, and building large-scale operations and billing support systems continues to position the company well. Prior to joining Sigma, Brian worked for Accenture in numerous roles of increasing responsibility, including senior-level architecture, engineering and development management positions, held both internally and with Accenture's telecommunications practice, focusing on the wireless and satellite industries. Brian holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.


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May 08, 2006

Tom Evslin - If You Liked FEMA, You’ll Love BellSouth

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Tom Evslin answers BellSouth’s negative position on providing emergency service to its customers during disasters like Hurricane Katrina. BellSouth was responding to the Pulver/Evslin petition to the FCC.

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May 04, 2006

BEA Systems - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006

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BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, enabling telecommunications companies to improve business responsiveness through Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). With all of the top 50 global service providers using BEA products to run their operations and services, BEA is among the most trusted names in business technology.

Laura spoke with Ken Lee the Director of Web Logic Communications Platform Product Marketing for BEA Systems Inc.

You can find BEA Systems at booth #612.

www.bea.com

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Citel - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006

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Citel is the VoIP Migration Company. Citel offers service providers and enterprises value and business case based VoIP migration options for premise or hosted VoIP deployments leveraging existing infrastructure and resources, while at the same time offering next-generation services and applications.

Laura spoke with Mike Robinson, Chief Executive Officer and Director at Citel.

Michael Robinson is a 20-year veteran of the Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT) industry. Michael joined Citel Technologies in 2000 as director and chief technology officer and was appointed chief executive officer in March 2003. Prior to joining Citel, Michael spent over 12 years with the Active Voice Corporation, where he managed software development and advanced technology products from the company's start-up phase through its IPO, including the patented TeLANophy technology – a pioneering software development in IP telephony in the early 1990s. Later, Michael also served as director of corporate business development at Active Voice until just before the acquisition of Active Voice by Cisco Systems.

www.citel.com

You can find Citel at booth #616.

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May 03, 2006

Jon Arnold / Ray Vilis

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On today's edition of Canadian IP Thought Leaders, Jon spoke with Ray Vilis, VP of Business Development at Versatel Networks. Ottawa is home to many leading IP companies, and Versatel is a good example of this. They are seeing promising opportunities in helping IM platforms develop sticky voice applications, especially in the areas of conferencing and social collaboration. Ray talked about the culture and realities of IM platform companies in terms of being prospective customers, and how this differs from the way traditional telcos making buying decisions. He also provided some interesting examples of the voice applications their technology is enabling.

Mr Vilis has been an active participant in the evolution of the telecommunications industry over the last 30 years. From his initial days at Bell Northern Research and Nortel, he established a proven track record in the definition and delivery of large, innovative, profitable, development projects which included Packet data networks, PSTN voice services, IP solutions (Magellan Passport), Automated Speech Recognition technology, data networks, and more recently VoIP/VoIM services. Moving between Product Management, Product Development and System Engineering roles; and managing teams from 10 to 250 individuals, spread over three continents, provided Mr. Vilis the opportunity to gain a global perspective on the communications industry. In his current role at Versatel Networks Mr Vilis continues to push for the edge on communication services through the definition/deployment of new revenue generating services.

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May 02, 2006

Digium / Asterisk - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006

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Digium is the creator of Asterisk, the first open source PBX. With Digium’s hardware, Asterisk offers a strategic approach to voice over IP, TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures.

Laura spoke with Jim Webster, the Director of Software Technologies at Digium.

Jim manages Asterisk Business Edition, Digum's Software Verification Lab and Product Certification program, and licensing for Digium technologies such as Asterisk.
Jim has over 20 years experience in the software industry as a developer, engineering manager, and product manager. Prior to Digium, Jim was with Conexant Systems, Inc (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor), where he managed embedded Linux distributions for Conexant's Home Network Processor chipset family and was responsible for various R&D, interoperability, marketing, and standards efforts for the Conexant AccessRunner.

Jim has also held positions at Conexant Systems, Inc., Digi International, Motorola and Chrysler Industrial Systems. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Auburn University.

You can look for Digium / Asterisk at booth #300.

www.digium.com

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May 01, 2006

Cantata - Exhibiting at VON Europe 2006

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Laura spoke with Marc Zionts, CEO of Cantata Technology, the new composition of Excel and Brooktrout.

Cantata Technology provides enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications applications. Cantata offers a range of products, along with a network of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers to develop products, new services and cost-effectively transition networks to IP.

You can find Cantata Technology at booth #608.

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