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July 31, 2006
IntelliNet Technologies - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Founded in 1992, IntelliNet Technologies is a leading provider of application development software and service enabling applications for wireless, wireline, and IP networks. IntelliNet’s solutions have helped application developers, system integrators, equipment manufacturers, and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) build the necessary application infrastructure for a broad variety of revenue-generating telecommunications services. IntelliNet’s customers include many of the world’s leading telecommunications infrastructure developers and OEMs.
Laura spoke with Anjan Ghosal the President & CEO of IntelliNet Technologies.
Anjan Ghosal is a leading authority on next-generation signaling products and application development solutions to telecommunications companies worldwide. Anjan started his telecom career providing technology consulting to a number of companies including MCI, GTE and Telecordia addressing areas such as wireless fraud, location services, wireless mobility and other relevant technologies.
You can find them at booth #569.
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TelcoBridges - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
TelcoBridges is the inventor of "Everything-on-a-Blade", which is a high-performance switching, signaling and digital signal processing solution allowing system integrators and OEMs to win more business worldwide. Their innovative System-Blade™ provides VoIP, SIP, SS7 HA and H.324M mobile video solutions that offer the highest density, scalability, flexibility and reliability in the industry, and support both wireline and wireless networks.
Laura spoke with Marc St-Onge, Director of Marketing for TelcoBridges. Marc shared his thoughts on the industry and how TelcoBridges is anticipating the changing needs of their clients.
Marc St-Onge is an experienced marketing and sales development professional. With a B.Eng from Montreal's École Polytechnique, his experience encompasses both marketing and product line management. It includes six years with SR Telecom in a variety of positions, including responsibility for the R&D, Sales and Marketing organization in Paris, France and culminating as VP, Product Line Management at SR Telecom's Head office in St-Laurent, Quebec, where he was responsible for the company's product development and promotion strategy. He has held previous product management positions with Gandalf Technologies, a Canadian data networking product manufacturer, and Bell Canada, the largest Canadian telephone operator, where he held the position of Senior Network Design Specialist. He has also worked as a market development consultant and trainer, most recently in the areas of QoS, Softswitches and VoIP.
You can find TelcoBridges at booth #1068.
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July 27, 2006
Sigma Systems - Exhibitng at Fall VON 2006
Sigma Systems is a premier provider and leader in the design, development and deployment of OSS service management solutions. As a global company, Sigma automates Communications Service Providers’ (CSPs) business and operational processes enabling them to define, activate, manage and diagnose subscribed, on-demand and real-time IP broadband and wireless services.
Laura spoke with Preston Gilmer the Vice-President of Product Marketing and Rick Mallon the Director Product Management for Sigma Systems.
You can find them at booth #226.
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Sangoma Technologies - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Founded in 1984, Sangoma Technologies Corporation is a leading provider of connectivity hardware and software products for VoIP, TDM voice, WANs and Internet infrastructure. The company develops and manufactures voice and data communication products including the industry-leading series of Advanced Flexible Telecommunications (AFT) PCI cards. Sangoma Technologies Corporation is publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: STC - News).
Laura spoke with David Mandelstam, Founder/President/CEO of Sangoma Technologies.
As a pioneer in the connectivity hardware and software products for telephony, Wide Area Network (WAN) and the Internet, David Mandelstam, is responsible for overall management of the Company and its future strategic direction. David and his research and development team focuses on Sangoma’s family of AFT (Advanced Flexible Telecommunication) T1/E1/J1 voice/data cards that are engineered for today’s demanding soft PBX, IVR and VoIP applications, such as Asterisk™, Yate™, and others. They offer a new price/performance standard unparalleled in the industry that its competitors are now following. Before starting Sangoma in 1984, David ran an engineering company and was engineering VP of an energy conservation company. David holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, an M.Sc. in aerodynamics from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom and a B.Comm. from the University of South Africa. Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSXV: STC) (www.sangoma.com) is a leading provider of connectivity hardware and software products for VoIP, TDM voice, WANs and Internet infrastructure.
Look for Sangoma Technologies at booth #1012.
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July 26, 2006
Jon Arnold / Tom Flak
On this week's podcast, Jon spoke with Tom Flak, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy with Soma Networks. Soma is based primarily in Toronto and San Francisco, and is a leading provider of WiMax solutions. Tom provided an overview of the state of both fixed and mobile WiMax, and where it differs from WiFi. Mobile WiMax was discussed at greater length, especially about its merits for handling higher end applications rather than just supporting voice. Tom also talked about the importance of a complete end-to-end WiMax solution to properly support these high end applications.
Tom Flak is the Senior Vice President of Product Strategy & Marketing at SOMA Networks. Tom oversees global product strategy, marketing, market analysis, and business development for the company. Prior to joining SOMA Networks, Tom was Vice President of Marketing for Verilink Corporation, a supplier of transmission equipment to carrier and enterprise markets where he managed all aspects of marketing and product management. Prior to that, Tom worked in a number of key sales and marketing positions with Network Equipment Technologies, a leading supplier of private enterprise networks. He began his career in telecommunications with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in St. Louis, Missouri. Tom holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a Master’s degree in Information Networking from Carnegie-Mellon University.
He has written numerous white papers on the subject of broadband wireless technology and wireless VoIP for publications such as: International Engineering Consortium Comprehensive Report, Internet Telephony, and CommsDesign. He is also a frequent speaker at professional industry events including: Wireless Communications Association International, Broadband Wireless World, VoIPossibilities, WiMAX World, VON, Light Reading-WiMAX, OPASTCO, and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association.
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July 25, 2006
Grandstream Networks - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Grandstream Networks, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of innovative and mass-affordable IP telephone products based on industry standards such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for both wired and wireless networks. Grandstream has become a major supplier of IP telephony CPE terminal products and solutions in the rapidly growing global telephony market.
Laura spoke with Bruce G. MacAloney Director of Sales for Grandstream Networks.
You can find Grandstream at booth #348.
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Carl Ford / Tina Sharkey
Carl Ford spoke with Tina Sharkey the Senior Vice President of Instant Messaging & Social Media at AOL.
Tina Sharkey is a pioneer in the evolution of new media. Her more than 20 years of experience ranges from the introduction of HDTV in 1986 to the forefront of Web 2.0. Today, Sharkey oversees the Instant Messaging and Social Media groups at AOL, which includes AIM, ICQ, AIMPages, Weblogs Inc. and Netscape.com. Previously she ran Network Programming where she managed daily programming across the AOL network.
Prior to joining AOL, Sharkey served as Group President of Sesame Workshop’s Online Services, creating their award-winning Internet business, and collaborated with Barry Diller on a new home shopping channel, Q2, a division of QVC. Sharkey also helped launch the Adobe Acrobat and New York 1 brands and has managed corporate brand strategies for Time Warner, QVC and Sony. Having coined the phrase “Social Media” in 1995 as co-founder of iVillage, Tina now leads all of AOL’s social networking initiatives.
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Carl Ford / Michael Stanford
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products, and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Explore the many ways Intel's belief in innovation has defined our corporate identity.
Michael Stanford is Intel's Director of VoIP Strategy. He joins Carl Ford to discuss Intel's current and future voice and converged communications strategies.
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July 20, 2006
Jon Arnold / Owen Matthews
On this week's podcast, Jon spoke with Owen Matthews, CEO of NewHeights Software. Based in Ottawa, NewHeights is one of several IP-based companies in the Terry Matthews fold, and is focused on enabling advanced features and call management capabilities for enterprises. Owen spoke with Jon about the difficulty end users have in taking advantage of existing features, and how companies like NewHeights address this along with enabling new features as well. The role of SIP was also discussed, especially in terms of how it has evolved to become a key technology for supporting advanced applications.
Owen Matthews,Co-Founder and CEO, NewHeights Software
In his role as Chief Executive Officer, Owen Matthews is responsible for NewHeights Software’s overall corporate growth and ensuring that the company delivers the most evolved personal communications management (PCM) solutions in the industry. Owen is active in driving the NewHeights sales process, both domestically and internationally, and regularly engages in technology strategy sessions with carriers, customer-premise equipment vendors and PC equipment manufacturers.
In 1998, Owen co-founded NewHeights Software in response to the emerging shift towards the development of commercial IP Telephony systems. Foreseeing the widespread adoption of IP PBXs and hosted IP Centrex, Owen launched NewHeights Software to develop an intuitive, next-generation software client that would bring together the power of both the telephony and data networks in an intuitive graphical user interface. This vision has been realized today with the NewHeights next-gen soft-client product line, which provides users with simplicity and usability in the management of their IP communications environment.
Owen Matthews has been extensively involved in the business of telecommunications and delivering innovation to market for over a decade and is also the son of technology magnate Sir Terry Matthews, founder of Mitel Networks and NewBridge Networks. Owen’s business and technology acumen was in part seasoned under various Matthews’ business holdings, including NewBridge Networks and the Wesley Clover Corporation and its portfolio of technology corporations. In addition to NewHeights, Owen serves as Executive Vice President of Wesley Clover.
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July 18, 2006
HelloSoft - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
HelloSoft is the world’s leading provider of VoIP software and silicon solutions for mobile devices. HelloSoft enables mass deployment of low-cost, power-efficient, fully-featured multi-mode mobile devices by providing highly optimized RISC-based VoIP software and silicon solutions with superior voice quality, QoS, and efficient call switching specifically designed for next generation wireless end-points. HelloSoft's wireless products are the world's first RISC-only single-chip baseband solutions for VoWiFi and dual-mode handsets. These highly integrated products include a comprehensive software suite for call-processing, seamless hand-off and IMS applications.
Laura spoke with Krishna Yarlagadda the Founder, President & CEO of HelloSoft.
Krishna is responsible for setting HelloSoft's mission, formulating corporate strategy and executing a plan for the company's overall growth. Under Krishna's leadership, HelloSoft developed core IP (intellectual property) in communication technology areas such as Voice-Over-Packet, xDSL, 2.5G/3G wireless, Bluetooth and WLAN. HelloSoft's IP portfolio includes components such as echo cancellers, and vocoder, which are currently deployed on mission critical voice gateways handling voice calls in several major US cities.
Prior to starting HelloSoft, Krishna was Chairman, President & CEO of ZSP, where he pioneered the development of DSP's based on RISC technology. ZSP was acquired by LSI Logic, and it’s industry leading DSP architecture has been adopted by major semiconductor companies including Broadcom, IBM, Connexant, GlobespanVirata, Skyworks and Brecis.
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July 17, 2006
Super Technologies DIDX-VoIP Solutions - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Super Technologies, Inc. is a privately held corporation incorporated in Delaware, USA with corporate headquarters in Beautiful Northwest Florida area of Pensacola, FL.
The dream became a reality in year 2000 when the first voice call was made over IP, from a public network using a US phone number. This led to great progress with the final product www.superphoneunlimited.com the same year.
Laura spoke with Suzanne Bowen, Vice President of Super Technologies, Inc. DIDX & VoIP Solutions.
Suzanne is the author of "How to Startand Run a Successful Call
Center Abroad" and has been a VoIP peering panelist at VoIP exhibitions.
You can find Super Technologies at booth #463.
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July 14, 2006
Data Connection Limited (DCL) -Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of VoIP, Routing, SBC & IMS portable protocols, as well as Web Conferencing, Voicemail, Unified Messaging, and Directory applications. The company's MetaSwitch division supplies the industry's leading Class 5 Softswitch.
Net profits have exceeded 20% of revenue every year since the company was founded in 1981. Customers include BT, Cisco, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft and Verizon. With over 340 employees, Data Connection is headquartered in London, UK.
Laura spoke with Tony Downes, the Principal Technologist for Data Connection's Networking Protocols.
Tony is responsible for the strategic direction of Data Connection's Networking Protocols, including VoIP, MPLS, IP Routing, VPN and ATM software. During his 23 years with Data Connection, Tony has designed and supported many of its products from development to deployment.
Look for Data Connection Limited (DCL) at booth #661.
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July 12, 2006
Nominum - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Nominum is a global provider of ENUM-based IP-application routing directory, DNS, and DHCP solutions that enable communication providers to deliver high quality always-on broadband internet and innovative services to their customers, including VoIP, push to talk, fixed-mobile convergence, IPTV, and triple-play.
Laura spoke with Albert Gouyet, the Vice President of Marketing at Nominum.
You can find Nominum at booth #969.
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FirstHand Technologies - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
FirstHand Technologies is the leading developer of Converged Multimedia Client software for desktop, WiFi, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environments. The company’s solutions are embedded or bundled into the world's largest equipment vendors, systems integrators and service provider’s products to quickly and seamlessly deliver rich multimedia services to their end-users.
Based in Ottawa, Canada, the company differentiates its mobile VoIP offerings by enabling the broadest available market through a range of leading channel partners and the widest array of mobile devices. This provides enterprises with extensive choices of their preferred solutions Partners include 3Com, BroadSoft, Cisco and Nortel among others.
Laura spoke with David Hattey, President & Chief Executive Officer at FirstHand Technologies.
Dave's 24 years of technology and leadership experience range from small business to Fortune 100 enterprise and spans the entire value chain including end user, reseller, operator, and OEM.
Prior to joining FirstHand Technologies, Dave served as Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Voice Solutions at 3Com, overseeing the defining, marketing, and implementing of 3Com's voice solutions to enterprises of all sizes. Dave also served as President of EFJohnson Company, a provider of wireless communications systems for public safety, commercial, and government customers, leading a turnaround of the company resulting in the company's first profitable year since going public 5 years earlier. Before EFJohnson, Dave served as Vice President, Operations for RACOM Corporation, a privately held mobile operator, overseeing the company's deployment and maintenance of a digital network covering more than 40,000 square miles. Previously, Dave held executive and managerial positions in General Electric, the Ericsson/GE joint venture, and Ericsson Inc. He led their North American Utility and US Federal business segments and also held leadership roles in sales, product management, marketing, and engineering. Dave earned bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan and his master's degree in business administration from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Dave holds 11 patents.
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July 11, 2006
Jon Arnold / Dilshan De Silva
This week's guest was Dilshan De Silva, Director of Marketing for Espial, an Ottawa-based middleware vendor focused on IPTV. Dil spoke with Jon about the emerging IPTV market, and how IP is creating a new viewer experience for subscribers. Various trends were discussed, including the use of IPTV as part of a bundle vs. being a standalone, as well as how carriers are succesfully deploying IPTV over both fiber and DSL. Espial is yet another Ottawa-based vendor, and Dil shared his thoughts on what makes this a great market for tech and telecom.
Dilshan De Silva, Director of Marketing, IPTV Applications & Middleware, Espial
Dilshan has been working with Espial for 7 years in both technical and product management positions, focusing the majority of his time on the Espial Escape Web browser. He holds a bachelor of computer science from Carleton University and has worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Corel Corporation and Entrust. Dilshan provides an exception blend of both industry insight and technical knowledge that helps lead Espial’s involvement in the IPTV market.
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July 06, 2006
Carl Ford / Mikey McClenathan
Carl and Mikey sit down for a state-of-the-union type chat about Carl's recent fascination with Feature Interaction (or as he plans to call it going forward, Feature Transfer).
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Carl Ford / Martin Geddes pt. 2
Enclosed is the latter half of the two-part conversation between Carl and Martin Geddes that began here. Martin is the proprietor of Telepocalypse, a vast telecom-based blog. Martin is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, but consults independently worldwide.
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RADCOM - Exhibiting at Fall Von 2006
RADCOM develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative network test and service monitoring solutions for communications service providers and equipment vendors. The company specializes in Next Generation Voice, Data and Video over IP and cellular networks. Its solutions are used in the development and installation of network equipment and in the maintenance of operational networks. The company’s products facilitate fault management, network service performance monitoring and analysis, troubleshooting and pre-mediation.
Laura spoke with Avi Zamir, President of RADCOM Equipment, Inc.
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.
You can find Radcom at booth #364.
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July 05, 2006
Jon Arnold / Sean Wise
On today's podcast, Jon spoke with Sean Wise of Wise Mentor Capital. Sean works very closely with startups and is very active in the mentoring and funding of new businesses. He is well regarded, not just in Toronto but across Canada and the U.S. as a thought leader in this area, and Sean shared his perspectives with Jon. He provides an insightful overview of the trends he's seeing in how companies are getting funding, and the differences between U.S. and Canadian funds. To close out, he emphasized key success factors for startups looking for money, and among them, the importance of getting proper referrals to get the attention of prospective investors.
Sean Wise, BA, LLB, MBA
Sean Wise is one of Canada’s leading experts on raising Venture Capital. According to the September issue of Profit magazine, he is one of the country's leading mentors for emerging growth companies.
Over the last 6 years, he has lectured at more than 70 Bootcamps, financing forums and industry conferences. He has trained dozens of CEOs who collectively raised more than $800M from a wide variety of investment sources.
Sean brings 5 years of professional services and 15+ years of entrepreneurial services, having helped found 5 ventures of his own to date, the first at age 16.
Sean helped found Ernst & Young’s Venture Capital Advisory Group in Canada and now undertakes selective engagements from young tech companies looking for strategic guidance on capital raising and growth through Wise Mentor Capital (WMC).
In addition, he acts as an advisor to several seed funds including the BC Advantage Funds, who have officially named him a mentor to their portfolio. Sean also sits on the boards of several young technology companies, as well as on the board of the Toronto Venture Group. He is the Chair of the 2005 Canadian Venture Forum selection committee and a member of both the Canadian Venture Capital Association and the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Recently, Sean began contributing a column for the Globe and Mail entitled Wise Words: Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, you can find it online by clicking here. Wise Words is also the name of Sean's blog and podcast. Both of which can be found at: www.SeanWise.com.
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Carl Ford / Martin Geddes pt. 1
This is the rather lengthy and broadly-scoped first part of a two-part conversation between Carl and Martin Geddes, proprietor of Telepocalypse, a vast telecom-based blog. Martin is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, but consults independently worldwide.
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July 03, 2006
Centile - exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Centile is one of the leading global Application Software vendors for VoIP,fixed-mobile and multimedia networks. Centile's Application Server "IntraSwitch" delivers the world's richest pre IMS VoIP platform to Service Providers and Operators wishing to offer unique value-added and cost-effective new multimedia services to both Business and Consumer markets."IntraSwitch" provides the most comprehensive range of powerful applications in the industry. The platform comes fully loaded with ready to market service functionality such as Business Trunking-VoIP VPN, Hybrid IP Centrex, IP Centrex, Residential VoIP, Hosted Enterprise and offers value-added Class 5 features, CTI (Computer Telephony Integration), a full Media server with IVRs (Interactive Voice Response), ACD (Automatic Call Distribution), Conferencing, Presence Management, Instant Messaging and Video support. It provides the scalability, reliability and manageability to support hundreds of thousands of customers in a highly distributed architecture. Centile's customer base of 20 network operators is one of the leading vendors in the VoIP industry with more than 1,000,000 lines deployed.
Laura spoke with Shahal Khan, the CEO of Centile.
Shahal Khan has over ten years of experience in Senior Management, Business Development and establishing new ventures in the international Telecommunications sector in Europe and the Middle East. Before joining Centile, Shahal was actively involved in pursuing emerging opportunities in Europe since deregulation, with a focus on VOIP and GSM technologies. He founded Global Voice Telecom in 1998 in the US, and founded Global Voice Portugal (2001) and G Voice Iberia Spain (2003), one of the first VoIP operators in each country. The group built over 7 VoIP networks worldwide in wholesale as well as retail service segments. Prior to Global Voice, Shahal was Managing Partner at Global Voice Data Communications which built over 5 telecom networks in the Middle East and Asia. He was Head Project Manager of IP projects for PSInet based in Virginia, and Financial Analyst for a private company supporting the Naval Air Command. Shahal holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and Conflict Resolution from the American University in Washington DC, USA. He studied Finance at masters level at John Hopkins in Washington DC, USA. Shahal is a published advocate on VOIP and is a commentator at industry events.
You can find Centile at booth # 230.
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