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September 25, 2006
Carl Ford - Lincoln Lavoie - Steve Edwards - Live at Fall VON
Carl Ford sat down with Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer, and Manager of the VoIP Consortium for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), and Steve Edwards, Chief Marketing Officer for Sonus. The topic of discussion was this press release about the new ways these organizations are working together.
Lincoln Lavoie began working for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in the early spring of 2000, with the asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) consortium. Lincoln has worked to develop and improve the testing methods and implementations for ADSL and other related technologies. This work includes the development of custom hardware and software tools to actively monitor and decode the electrical signals present on DSL lines. These tools have allowed the ADSL consortium to develop conformance testing for the handshake and initialization procedures of ADSL transceivers. Lincoln has also developed new methods for power spectrum measurements on active ADSL lines. These new methods were presented to the DSL Form Testing and Interoperability Workgroup, where Lincoln has actively participated since 2002. Currently, Lincoln is involved with the up and coming VDSL2 technologies and manages the voice over IP (VoIP) consortium at the UNH-IOL.
As chief marketing officer (CMO), Steve Edwards is responsible for Sonus Networks' global marketing, product management and business alliances activities. Prior to joining Sonus, Edwards was most recently an executive officer at AT&T. As the vice president of indirect sales and strategic alliances, he was responsible for over 1200 channel partners, AT&T's strategic alliance and partner program and overall responsibility for the distribution strategy supporting AT&T Business, a $17 billion operation. Previously, Edwards spent four years at Concert (a global joint venture company) where he held the positions of chief operating officer (COO) for global services and vice president of service delivery responsible for marketing and delivering voice and data services in over 50 countries via regional service providers. Prior to joining Concert in 1998, as president of BT Visual Images, Edwards led the videoconferencing company through a successful IPO and ultimate acquisition by Tandberg ASA, a Norwegian technology company. Edwards spent 17 years with British Telecommunications (BT) in the UK and held various positions in product management, marketing, R&D and as general manager of BT Videoconferencing. Edwards holds an honors degree in electronic and computer systems engineering from Loughborough University of Technology.
Posted at September 25, 2006 02:53 PM
