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September 29, 2006
XConnect - Exhibiting at Von Europe Autumn 2006
A quick chat between Mike McClenathan and Eli Katz from XConnect about the importance of federation peering vs bilateral peering, XConnect's recent acquisition of IPeerX, and XConnect's upcoming presence at VON in Berlin
Eli Katz is the Founder and CEO at XConnect, an organisation which realises the vision of global end-to-end IP communications. XConnect is the world's first and largest provider of 'Plug and Peer' VoIP interconnection services dedicated to connecting IP communications providers and by-passing the legacy PSTN.
Eli co-founded and is interim chairman of the UK’s VoIP trade body ITSPA - the Internet Telephony Service Providers’ Association and has a distinguished track record in telecoms. In 1996 he joined Telco Global at its inception, and in 1999, as Managing Director, the company grew rapidly offering telecoms, internet & mobile services to one million customers with £250m annual revenue. He was a key player in the IPO of the US parent company.
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September 27, 2006
Jon Arnold's Vidcast from VON
Another video podcast from PPN, this time from our very own Jon Arnold. The voice behind the camera is that of Pulver.TV's Jennie Bourne, and the two spend a little time discussing what Jon's seeing (and regrettably not having time to see) at the show.
Again, we're still experimenting with the video podcasts, so your feedback is welcome and encouraged (not that it isn't for the regular old audio podcasts).
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Jon Arnold / Andrew Hurrell
On this week's Canadian IP Thought Leaders podcast, Jon spoke with Andrew Hurrell. He's with Ottawa-based Atreus Networks, a leading vendor in the OSS arena. Jon and Andrew talked about the role OSS plays in carrier networks, and how this is evolving with the advent of IP. Andrew discussed how IP-based OSS is enabling carriers to customize services and create bundled offerings for vertical markets such as health care and government. He also touched on the benefits of being part of Ottawa's diverse telecom ecosystem as well as the challenges of attracting and keeping good people.
Andrew Hurrell
Director, Marketing
As Director of Marketing at Atreus Systems, Andrew is champion of emerging opportunities for Atreus’ IP Service Provisioning software. With over twenty years of telecommunications experience, Andrew has established a solid track record in launching strategic marketing programs and delivering quality products quickly and profitably. Andrew has been instrumental in marketing leading-edge IP products and helping carriers enable true multi-service communications networks. Andrew maintains a high-level of technology experience where he has held a series of senior management roles with Vibrant Solutions, Acterna, CrossKeys Systems, iSTAR and Bell Canada.
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mywebcalls.com - Exhibiting at VON Europe Autumn 2006
Paul Kapustka spoke with Mark Salvin, Co-Managing Director at Telecomplete Ltd. - the parent company to mywebcalls.com.
mywebcalls offers complete VoIP services supported by technical knowledge and experience. Competitive call rates, free site-2-site calls, per second billing and dynamic reseller management tools make mywebcalls an excellent VoIP partner. With emphasis on QoS, we offer flexible services for home, small business and corporate users.
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Nominum - Exhibitng at VON Europe Autumn 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.
Mikey spoke with Albert Gouyet, the Vice President of Marketing at Nominum.
You can find Nominum at booth #300.
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BorderWare Technologies - Exhibiting at VON Europe Autumn 2006
BorderWare develops application level firewalls for email, VoIP and IM. These products block inbound threats, control outbound content and centrally manage a messaging infrastructure. Borderware’s SIPassure protects SIP application servers and IP-PBX systems blocking denial of service and other threats, ensuring service continuity and safeguarding user confidentiality with encryption services.
Mikey spoke with Peter Cox – CTO International for BorderWare.
Peter Cox co-founded BorderWare. He brings more than 25 years experience to the company as a specialist in network security and e-commerce. Peter heads Borderware’s International technical team and is currently focused on SIP security.
Before founding BorderWare, Peter started Internet Smartware, a European specialist in network security and e-commerce. While serving as the Managing Director, Peter worked on a number of high-profile projects including Fleetweb, the first Internet-based EDI application to receive U.K. Tax Authority authorization for the transmission of tax invoices.
Peter is also one of the leading authorities on the Common Criteria organization, security certification and protection against cyber terrorism, and was instrumental in enabling Borderware to become the first firewall vendor to achieve an EAL 4+ Common Criteria Certification.
Look for BorderWare Technologies at booth # 219.
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September 26, 2006
Jeff Pulver, Ted Leonsis, AOL - VIDEO PODCAST
We're still messing around with this and we're open to your feedback and suggestions, but it seems like now is as good a time as any to post PPN's first ever Video Podcast (Vidcast?). So, without further ado, here's a video of Jeff Pulver and Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of AOL LLC, from the show floor at VON Fall 2006 in Boston.
We're interested to know how this works for you. Would you prefer smaller files, better quality, different file formats? A separate feed for Videos only, or video podcasts mixed right in with audio podcasts? Please send any and all feedback to mikey[at]pulver[dot]com. Thanks!
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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.
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September 22, 2006
Pardon our mess...
Playing around a bit with the site layout this afternoon. Please pardon the mess :)
UPDATE: all done!
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September 21, 2006
Jon Arnold / Joe Parent
Jon's guest on this week's podcast was Joe Parent, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Vonage Canada. Joe has been with Vonage Canada since their VoIP service was launched in April 2004, and he spoke with Jon about how the Canadian market has slowly but surely come to embrace VoIP. Jon and Joe spoke more broadly as well about the Canadian telecom environment, and how it differs from the U.S. market. Joe also addressed several of the challenges facing Canada's VoIP providers, as well as the growth opportunities Vonage sees ahead.
Joe Parent, Vice-President, Marketing & Business Development, Vonage Canada
Joe Parent, Vice-President of Marketing & Business Development is responsible for the marketing and brand management of Vonage Canada and to assist in sparking consumer interest in Internet telephony.
Mr. Parent’s prior experience has prepared him well for his role at Vonage Canada. At Primus Telecommunications Canada, Mr. Parent helped develop VoIP, Teleconference and Wireless Access product offerings. He also worked with Sprint and directed the Voice Long Distance Service, championing new initiatives for product enhancements, market expansion and segmentation and call centre improvements. Mr. Parent has a BA in Economics from the University of Windsor and an MBA specializing in international marketing from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Chad Agate, SIPBox - Live at Fall VON
SIPBox designs, implements and supports end-to-end telephony solutions for medium to large enterprises. With a specialty in Asterisk, the industry’s first open source telephony platform, SIPBox differentiates itself from other solutions providers by offering a complete solution, starting with on-site network design and integration.
Paul sat down with Chad Agate, Co-Founder & CEO, SIPBox.
Chad Agate is the Co-Founder and CEO of SIPBox, a provider of end-to-end telephony solutions for medium to large enterprises (200+ users).
As a student at The DeVry University in Chicago in 2001, Chad co-founded Cipher, building IT services solutions for businesses and education organizations. Within four years, Cipher grew to $1.5 million in service revenue. In 2006, Agate created SIPBox, focusing solely on enterprise telephony implementations. Currently, Chad is responsible for the day to day management of SIPBox including business development, infrastructure design, and business partnerships.
Prior to the formation of Cipher, Agate worked as a network engineer, maintaining and supporting DeVry’s university network of over 4,000 users. Within six months, he was promoted to a senior network engineer. Shortly after, Chad met Cipher and SIPBox co-founder Bob Weiss.
Chad attended the University of Illinois and The DeVry University. Currently, Chad is a member of the DeVry Telecommunications Management Advisory Board, a Digium certified Asterisk professional, and a Polycom Sound Point IP professional.
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Eric Herneaz, Solegy - Live at Fall VON
Paul sat down with Eric Herneaz, the CEO of Solegy.
Solegy offers a managed platform that allows network operators, service providers and content developers to achieve their business objectives more effectively. We do this by creating unique, forward-thinking software that solves real problems, and providing it with the industry-leading expertise that comes only with years of practical experience.
The Solegy platform, called ServicePDQ, solves the universal need to realize competitive differentiation quickly, cost effectively, and in a way that anticipates a continuing evolution of next generation networks.
More than ever, end users expect a combination of services and content to be delivered across multiple technologies, often involving many partners in the value chain. These and other market trends are driving industry participants to introduce new services, enhance the user experience and reduce operating costs.
In this context, ServicePDQ addresses the three key pain points felt by all operators: integrating disparate systems, managing third-party content and relationships, and creating a compelling customer proposition.
By integrating solutions for VoIP, content distribution and intelligent session management with standards-based telecommunications middleware, ServicePDQ makes the overall processes of launching new services and applications easier. The result is unprecedented openness and flexibility, lower total cost of ownership, quicker time-to-market, and reduced risk from managing a rapidly-evolving set of technologies.
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September 20, 2006
Mark Spencer shows off Digium Asterisk Appliance at VON
Paul Kapustka sat down with Mark Spencer of Digium at VON to check out the new Digium Asterisk Appliance. Released with a Developer's Kit, this compact Asterisk PBX implementation remains true to Digium's open source roots. Read more information here.
Mark Spencer founded Linux Support Services in 1999 while still a Computer Engineering student at Auburn University. When faced with the high cost of buying a PBX, Mark simply used his Linux PC and knowledge of C code to write his own! This was the beginning of the world-wide phenomenon known as Asterisk, the open source PBX, and caused Mark to shift his business focus from Linux support to supporting Asterisk and opening up the telecom market. Linux Support Services is now known as Digium, and is bringing open source to the telecom market while gaining a foothold in the telecom industry.
Mark strongly believes that every technology he creates should be given back to the community. This is why Asterisk is fully open source. Today that model has allowed Asterisk to remain available free of charge, while it has become as robust as the leading and most-expensive PBXs.
The Asterisk community has ambassadors and contributors from every corner of the globe.
Mark Spencer holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Auburn University, and is now president of Digium, Inc. He has also led the creation of several Linux-based open source applications, most notably Asterisk, the Open Source PBX, and Gaim Instant Messenger.
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Eli Katz, XConnect - Live at Fall VON
Paul sat down with Eli Katz from the show floor at Fall VON to discuss XConnect's recent acquisition of IPeerX. This podcast also serves as a fantastic primer for anyone unfamiliar with Peering and why it's important.
Eli Katz is the Founder and CEO at XConnect, an organisation which realises the vision of global end-to-end IP communications. XConnect is the world's first and largest provider of 'Plug and Peer' VoIP interconnection services dedicated to connecting IP communications providers and by-passing the legacy PSTN.
Eli co-founded and is interim chairman of the UK’s VoIP trade body ITSPA - the Internet Telephony Service Providers’ Association and has a distinguished track record in telecoms. In 1996 he joined Telco Global at its inception, and in 1999, as Managing Director, the company grew rapidly offering telecoms, internet & mobile services to one million customers with £250m annual revenue. He was a key player in the IPO of the US parent company.
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Sue Delaney - A Proud Mom at Fall VON
Laura Nembach took a moment to sit down with Sue Delaney, they discussed her son Kevin, and his achievements at such an early age.
Kevin Delaney is the Co-Founder and Project Manager at KhaosLabs, a software development firm based out of Ontario, Canada. He has a passion for Skype, and has worked on their Closed Beta-testing team for more than a year and is an active member of Skype's exclusive Developer Advisory Council. Currently attending high school in Burlington, he's interested in telecommunications and wishes to obtain a degree in Software Engineering.
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September 19, 2006
Jon Arnold / Jim Courtney - Best of Canada from Fall VON
Jon Arnold and Jim Courtney hammer out a quick podcast about some of the best Canadian Companies they see on the show floor at Fall VON in Boston.
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Paul Kapustka - Gianluigi Ferri - Live at Fall VON
Paul sat down with Gianluigi Ferri of Wireless s.r.l. to discuss VON Italy 2006 taking place on October 25th and 26th.
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Paul Kapustka - Nathan Franzmeier, Stratus - Live at Fall VON
Paul sat down with Nathan Franzmeier the Vice President of Emerging Network Solutions for Stratus Technologies, formerly of Emergent Network Solutions, a recent acquisition of Stratus.
FALL VON CONFERENCE, BOSTON, September 12, 2006 – Stratus Technologies, Inc. of Maynard, Massachusetts announced today the acquisition of Emergent Network Solutions of Allen, Texas, an innovator in advanced telecommunication software and services that enable carriers and service providers to integrate current and emerging network technologies. The purchase amount is $11 million, with provisions for additional performance-based payments.
Stratus Technologies supplies a suite of next-gen convergence solutions to service providers, equipment providers and operators worldwide. Solutions for fixed mobile convergence as well as service mediation and brokerage among others are based on Stratus SS7 and SIP layered software and fault-tolerant servers with solutions services focused on continuous availability.
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September 18, 2006
Carl Ford - Lisa Doyle - Laura Nembach - Live at Fall VON
We would like to welcome Lisa Doyle, Senior Marketing Manager of Exhibitor Communications, to the Pulvermedia Team. Carl, Lisa and Laura discussed the day at Fall VON.
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September 14, 2006
Michael Donoghue, Vice-President of Sales, Americas at Aculab - Live from Fall VON
Kathleen Cronin sat down with Michael Donoghue from the show floor at Fall VON.
Michael Donoghue has joined Aculab, taking responsibility for leading the growth of Aculab's sales and customer support activities in the Americas region.
Michael brings to Aculab over 18 years of experience growing both established and emerging companies in the communications industry. His initial experience was gained at Brooktrout Technology where his responsibilities over a 13-year period included National Sales Manager, Managing Director - Europe, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and General Manager. Prior to joining Aculab, Michael was the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for iMPath Networks.
Aculab is a privately owned company that offers solution providers a wide range of communications hardware and software for integration into high performance communications solutions ranging from contact centres and IVR to prepaid services.
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Michael McClenathan / Mike ter Maat / Paul Agranat - Live at Fall VON
Mikey sat down with Mike ter Maat, Principal and Director of Program Development and
Paul Agranat, Vice president of Business Development for Foreword Financial to discuss what 2007 will hold for Foreword Financial. Stay tuned for more details as they develop.
Foreword Financial is a leading developer of conventions, trade shows, conferences, seminars and client meetings for financial service professionals. We partner with leading associations and corporations to create information experiences that propel participants toward greater profitability and personal success.
Foreword Financial provides leading-edge payment and technology consultation in check processing, ACH operations, outsourcing and payment management. As the complexity of payment management increases, Foreword Financial stands ready to position your bank to capitalize on increased opportunities for both revenue enhancement and cost control.
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Dan Dearing, Vice President of Marketing at NexTone - Live from Fall VON
Kathleen Cronin sat down with Dan Dearing, Vice President of Marketing at NexTone.
NexTone provides the intelligent session management system giving service providers and other network operators seamless, secure and scalable session connectivity between diverse IP networks. NexTone’s IntelliConnect™ System includes a range of edge devices: the SBC, a standalone Session Border Controller for securing bilateral interconnects; the MSX, a Multiprotocol Session Exchange platform for interconnecting SIP and H.323 networks; and the IMX, an IP Multimedia Exchange platform for interconnecting VoIP and IMS networks. All NexTone devices are centrally controlled by the Real-time Session Manager (RSM) in the network core. NexTone’s advanced system enables IP network operators to accelerate revenue.
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September 13, 2006
Kathleen Cronin - Bahaa Moukadam - Andy Huckridge - Live at Fall VON
Kathleen sat down with Bahaa Moukadam, the Vice President of Next Generation Networks, and Andy Huckridge, the Director of IMS Solutions at Spirent Communications.
Spirent Inspires Innovation Advancing Next-Generation Communication
At Spirent Communications we work behind the scenes to help the world communicate faster, better and more often. The world’s leading communications companies use Spirent’s lab test solutions to evaluate performance of the latest technologies. As new communication services and applications are introduced in the market, Spirent provides tools for service management and field test to improve troubleshooting and quality. Spirent also enables large companies and governments to secure and manage their networks.
From wireline to wireless to satellite, Spirent offers a complete portfolio of solutions to enhance customer Quality of Experience.
www.spirentcom.com
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Jon Arnold / James A. Courtney - Live at Fall VON
Jon Arnold sat down with Jim Courtney, Associate Editor at Skype Journal, to talk a bit about what topics have been hot thusfar on the floor at VON in Boston.
Recorded Tuesday afternoon at VON.
Jon's Blog
www.skypejournal.com
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Kathleen Cronin, Anthony D. Christie and Mark Fedor Live at Fall VON
Kathleen sat down with Anthony D. Christie the Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President at Global Crossing and Mark Fedor the Chief Technology Officer at SunRocket.
Anthony D. Christie oversees Global Crossing's marketing organization and its Agent Channel, comprising enterprise resellers and VARs. The marketing organization is dedicated to assessing customer needs, evaluating Global Crossing's position relative to competitors in satisfying those needs, and developing, positioning and managing the products and services Global Crossing offers. As chief marketing officer, Mr. Christie is responsible for product development, product management, pricing, strategic marketing and market development. In his role overseeing the Agent Channel, Mr. Christie focuses on expanding relationships with Global Crossing's Agent partners and developing new ways to support their growth.
Mr. Christie joined Global Crossing as senior vice president for business integration and strategic planning in November 2001, and moved to lead the offer and product management organization in February 2002. In the latter role, Mr. Christie managed global product strategy development, deployment, and profit and loss for all wholesale and retail products for the company.
Mark S. Fedor is currently Chief Technology Officer at SunRocket, Inc. Prior to joining SunRocket, Mark held the position of Network and Distributed Systems Principal Engineer at MITRE Corp.
From 2000 to 2004, Mark was Director at Schoffstall Ventures where he oversaw new and existing investments in the Schoffstall group of funds. Prior to joining Schoffstall Ventures, Mark was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at PSINet. He had been with PSINet since it was formed in 1990 as an original member of the operations and engineering team. He held various positions inside of PSINet including Software Engineer, Network Engineer, Director of Special Projects, and VP of Engineering.
Prior to joining PSINet in 1990, Mark was a member of the technical staff at NYSERNet where he co-authored the Internet Standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). From 1986 through 1987, Mark was a member of the networking group at the Cornell Theory Center, which developed and operated the first phase of the NSFNET backbone. At the Cornell Theory Center, Mark designed and implemented “gated,” the first multi-routing protocol process for the NSFNET backbone. “gated” technology is still embedded in many present day routers.
www.globalcrossing.com
www.sunrocket.com
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Carl Ford's quick chat with Michael Khalilian, IMS Forum
In between meetings, presentations, and clandestine operations Carl Ford and Michael Khalilian, Chairman and President of IMS Forum, found a few moments to chat. Recorded on the show floor at VON Fall 2006.
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September 12, 2006
Congressman Ed Markey Live at Fall VON
This is Congressman Markey's address at Fall VON.
Edward J. Markey has constructed an extraordinary legislative record since his first election to the United States Congress in 1976. As the highest Ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, he has shaped more than 20 years of telecommunications policy while continuing to champion consumer rights, health reform and disease prevention, the elimination of large monopolies, the conservation of environmental resources and the reduction of nuclear threats.
Competition remains Rep. Markey's economic mantra–in his words, "ruthless Darwinian competition that would bring a smile to Adam Smith." Accordingly, he has been instrumental in breaking up anti-consumer, anti-innovative monopolies in electricity, long-distance and local telephone service, cable television, and international satellite services. He was one of the only members of the Commerce Committee to fight AT&T's monopoly in the early 80s and is a principal author of the requirement that the Bell Operating companies accept local telephone service in the 90s. His pro-competition policies have directly benefited job creation in Eastern Massachusetts and throughout the country.
In the 108th Congress, Rep. Markey remains very active on telecommunications issues, working to protect children on-line, to penalize unsolicited "spam" emails, to establish a Do-Not-Call list for telephone users, and to prevent the listing of cell phone numbers without the subscribers consent. Moreover, he is leading the House effort to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness and to protect the air of New England against pollution from industrial smokestacks.
Ed Markey was born in Malden, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1946. He attended Boston College (B.A., 1968) and Boston College Law School (J.D., 1972). He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and was elected to the Massachusetts State House where he served two terms representing Malden and Melrose.
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Michael McClenathan - Mike ter Maat - Live at Fall VON
Today at Fall VON, Mikey sat down with Mike ter Maat the Principal and Director of Program Development for Foreword Financial. They discussed Foreword Financial's 4th annual Bank Card Conference taking place from October 11th through the 13th at the Omni Orlando Resort in ChampionsGate, FL.
Foreword Financial is a leading developer of conventions, trade shows, conferences, seminars and client meetings for financial service professionals. We partner with leading associations and corporations to create information experiences that propel participants toward greater profitability and personal success.
Foreword Financial provides leading-edge payment and technology consultation in check processing, ACH operations, outsourcing and payment management. As the complexity of payment management increases, Foreword Financial stands ready to position your bank to capitalize on increased opportunities for both revenue enhancement and cost control.
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September 11, 2006
Intelliverse - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Intelliverse specializes in creating hosted communications solutions that enable businesses to better communicate with their customers. With over 20 years experience providing telephony based solutions to the Enterprise market, we are drawing on this experience to offer service providers turnkey VoIP solutions targeted at the SMB and residential markets.
Laura spoke with Frank Paterno, VP of Marketing for Intelliverse.
Mr. Paterno is responsible for all of Intelliverse's Marketing activities including marketing communications, product management, and strategic development. Frank and his team strive to generate maximum sales activity by continually evaluating market conditions and creating industry-focused service offerings that effectively meet the demands of Intelliverse’s customers.
Before moving into his current role at Intelliverse, Frank was most recently the Director of Product Management and previously the Channel Manager for Wholesale Services. Prior to joining Intelliverse in 1999, Frank worked for MCI and Arthur Andersen.
Frank received a Bachelor of Sciences in Accounting from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
You can find Intelliverse at Booth # 912.
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September 07, 2006
Ranch Networks - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Ranch Networks manufactures Network appliances built to advance VoIP telephony deployments. The RN series of products provide security, reliability, and scalability to VoIP applications, specifically Asterisk. Features include NAT traversal, per call bandwidth allocation, security, 1+1 HA redundancy, media bridging, per call firewall control and QoS.
Laura spoke with David E. Gombos the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ranch Networks.
David E. Gombos is Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Ranch Networks, the first IP telephony appliance provider to integrate security and voice quality for all IP-based applications.
David brings over 15 years of sales and marketing leadership experience primarily in the telecommunications industry. Most recently, he was Vice President of Global Sales for Quintum Technologies, a leading voice-over-IP switch manufacturer, where he built a strong global distribution channel, achieving sales growth of 2,351% from 1999-2003. During his tenure, Quintum Technologies was recognized in Forbes Magazine’s “Top Ten Companies to Watch in 2005” and listed #205 on Inc. Magazine’s list of “500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2005.”
Look for Ranch Networks at booth #819.
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Tekelec - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Tekelec develops high-performance network applications for next-generation fixed, mobile and packet networks that help service providers around the globe transition to IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. With its experience at the intersection of network applications and session control, Tekelec creates highly efficient platforms for managing media and delivering network solutions
Laura spoke with Mark Whittier from Tekelec.
Look for Tekelec at booth #929.
www.tekelec.com
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LogicaCMG - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Global leader in telecoms for messaging, payments, and content management products, services and solutions. Its Next Generation messaging and payments solutions are deployed by 300 top network operators and service providers. LogicaCMG has successfully deployed on five continents, across many different networks, serving more than 800 million active users.
Laura spoke with Oswin Eleonora the Senior Vice President of North America at LogicaCMG Telecoms.
As the Senior Vice President, North America, Mr. Eleonora, overseas strategic direction for LogicaCMG’s complete product and solution portfolio. Oswin has over ten years of experience in telecommunications.
Since joining LogicaCMG in 2001, Mr. Eleonora has been promoted to various positions. Prior to being named Senior Vice President, he held the role of Vice President Business Development & Alliances, North America. In this role he directed the identification, establishment and development of strategic third party relationships. Oswin set-up and developed LogicaCMG’s GSM joint venture that focused on international mobile data services as well as negotiated the world's first Mobile .Net Passport Partner agreement. He also established an integral global partnership with Microsoft that includes such technologies as SMS, WAP and MMS.
Look for LogicaCMG at booth #654.
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SPIRIT DSP - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
SPIRIT DSP employs 140 professionals, has been in international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 14 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus is communication, speech and VoIP software products and today SPIRIT counts among its clients Adobe, Agere, Atmel, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Marconi, MediaRing, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NEC, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. Through the brand names SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million voice channels.
SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including Intel(R) Developer Network, ARM(R) Connected Community, Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.
Laura spoke with Fred Wydler, SPIRIT’s VoIP Product Director.
Fred is leading the introduction of SPIRIT Voice Engine to a variety of mobile and enterprise PC platforms by OEMs/ODMs Customers. In this role Fred is keenly interested in voice quality issues and metrics; especially as they apply to impaired and congested networks. Fred’s background is ideally suited for this as he earned a MS degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked in telecommunications for his entire career (30+ years). Before SPIRIT, Fred was product management director at Global IP Sound and Senior Product Manager at 3Com’s wireless division.
Look for SPIRIT DSP at booth #1365.
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Jon Arnold / Kevin McCracken
On today's podcast, Jon spoke with Kevin McCracken, Director of Product Management with Toronto-based NewStep Networks. NewStep is a leading vendor in the FMC space, and Kevin shared his thoughts on the current state of FMC, as well as its bigger cousin, IMS. Kevin also talked about NewStep's roots in Bell Canada, and how this heritage has spawned a number of successful Canadian IP companies. He also commented on how this legacy provides credibility in the eyes of carriers, especially Tier 1s. Jon and Kevin also touched on the differences between Canadian and U.S. wireless operators in their approach to FMC and the challenges of bringing these solutions into their networks.
Kevin McCracken, Director, Product Management, NewStep Networks
As director of product management at NewStep Networks, Kevin is part of a team focused on establishing NewStep as a leader in delivering fixed-mobile solutions that enable the delivery of profitable new services across fixed, Wi-Fi, and mobile network environments. An experienced speaker at industry events, Kevin has over 14 years in the Internet and telecommunications marketplace.
Before joining NewStep, Kevin led Nortel’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and location services product marketing team focused on GSM/UMTS service providers. Prior to this, he held positions within Nortel’s data networking and wireless business units, including roles in product management, marketing, business development, and network engineering.
Kevin holds an MBA from Queen’s University and a B. Sc. Eng. from the University of New Brunswick.
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CosmoCom - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
CosmoCom, the global leader in Unified Customer Communications, is revolutionizing customer interactions across the whole enterprise. One all-IP, multi-channel platform supporting many independent virtual contact centers can be internally deployed or hosted by a network service provider. CosmoCom is the most-selected platform for hosted contact centers by top-tier telcos globally.
Laura spoke with Steve Kowarsky, the Executive Vice President and one of the founders of CosmoCom.
Stephen R. Kowarsky is the Executive Vice President and one of the founders of CosmoCom. He came to CosmoCom from Comverse Technology, which he joined in early 1985 as its second U.S. employee after a distinguished career in software development and IT management. At both Comverse and CosmoCom, Mr. Kowarsky has played a key role in major account selling, key relationship management, product strategy and positioning, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. He now has primary responsibility for CosmoCom's marketing communication activities. He is an industry authority and thought leader on the subjects of Contact Center On-Demand and Contact-Center-in-a-Box.
Look for CosmoCom at booth #1637.
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CounterPath Solutions - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
CounterPath Solutions Inc. is a leading provider of VoIP and Video over IP SIP softphones and multimedia applications for service providers, cable operators, Internet telephony service providers, IP PBX manufacturers and OEMs.
Laura spoke with Jason Fischl is the CTO of CounterPath Solutions (formerly XtenNetworks) - the leading provider of SIP softphones.
Mr. Fischl was the co-founder and CTO of TelTel. Before PurpleComm, he was a founder and CTO of Cathay Networks, which developed a SIP-based IP Centrex system. Mr. Fischl is on the Board of Directors of both SIPfoundry and Vovida.org. In 2002, he helped create the reSIProcate open source SIP stack project and has been one of its key contributors. Currently, he is focusing his open source development efforts on a carrier-grade open source SIP proxy called repro and the dialog usage manager user agent library. Jason is an active member at the IETF and is working on a number of Internet Drafts in the areas of SIP security and payment mechanisms.
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Netcentrex Converged IP Communications - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Laura spoke with David Michaud the Chief Executive Officer of Netcentrex Americas.
David leads the overall market strategy and operations for the Americas. Mr. Michaud brings almost 25 years of telecommunications experience, a proven track record of establishing new telecom companies, and extensive experience accelerating their growth. Recently he led sales and marketing initiatives for startups in the IP networking business, including Carrius and NexTone Communications. In 1997 he founded and became Chairman and CEO of Taqua Systems, a telecommunications switch developer sold to Tekelec for $85 million in March 2004. From 1992 to 1995 Mr. Michaud served as head of sales and marketing at Excel Communications where he grew the company six-fold in three years, becoming the leader in the programmable switch market and providing a foundation for the eventual $1.7 billion acquisition by Lucent Technologies. His career also includes positions at DSC Communications, AT&T Bell Labs, Southwestern Bell, and IBM. He holds an MBA from Washington University, St. Louis and a BS from Carroll College, both in the USA.
Look for Netcentrex at booth #1324.
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Aspect Software - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Aspect Software, Inc., the founder of the contact center industry, is the world’s largest company solely focused on providing proven, innovative contact center products and services that enable the key business processes of customer service, collections, and sales and telemarketing. Each day, thousands of in-house and outsourced contact centers around the globe conduct more than 125 million customer interactions using Aspect Software products. We believe in using the power of technology to positively transform the customer-company experience. That belief has led us to accept the challenge of developing the world’s most reliable automatic call distributors (ACDs), most trusted dialers, most widely-used and respected workforce management (WFM) solutions, most flexible voice self-service systems and the industry’s first and most comprehensive unified, multi-channel contact center solution. Headquartered in Westford, Mass., Aspect Software has operations across the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Laura spoke with Michael Sheridan the Vice President of Marketing at
Aspect Software.
By keeping his finger continually on the pulse of the contact center marketplace, as vice president of marketing, Mike Sheridan is charged with making sure the company’s technology and services accurately and distinctively meet market needs, both today and for the future.
Mike fuses the disciplines of architecture, product marketing and marketing communications to ensure Aspect Software’s products and solutions meet the needs of today’s rapidly shifting economic landscape.
With more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications and high-tech industries, Mike serves as Aspect Software’s consummate strategist with a critical eye for identifying emerging and evolving markets and a knack for defining solutions to serve them.
Look for Aspect at booth #1612.
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September 06, 2006
Allworx - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Allworx offers an integrated, feature-rich phone system and a robust data network system with advanced features that substantially improves small business productivity at the lowest installed cost of any VoIP system. Allworx is a “bridge” between today’s analog systems and all of the benefits of VoIP
Laura spoke with George E. Daddis Jr., PhD. the Chairman, CEO, and President of Allworx.
George has extensive experience in leading people in delivering digital products to the marketplace. His business management skills are complemented by his ability to establish a market-focused vision, build highly capable organizations, and manage quick and efficient product commercialization. George has over 20 years of experience in software and digital hardware technologies with a focus in communications and networking, embedded systems, and imaging technologies.
Prior to founding InSciTek, he served as an Engineering Manager in the software and systems division of Xerox Engineering Systems. There he established and managed a multi-functional platform engineering team to create and develop the ground breaking AccXES client/server architecture for the XES family of printers and scanners. This platform earned wide industry recognition, and its development set benchmarks within Xerox in time-to-market, cost, and performance. Previously, George worked at Eastman Kodak where he managed and rapidly expanded a PostScript and raster printer controller platform that powered such award-winning Kodak desktop color printers as the XLS 8600 PS and DCP 9000.
Look for Allworx at Room #209.
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Codima Technologies - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Codima Technologies, provides best in class tools for VoIP Network Management and Infrastructure Management. At VON Fall Boston this year, Codima launches its Toolbox, demonstrating how managing VoIP can be made easy and affordable. The Codima Toolbox for VoIP is enhancing VoIP performance and improving quality of service with modules such as, Flow analyzer, RTP analyzer, Call Playback, Remote Management and One Click Management.
Laura spoke with Christer Mattsson the CEO of Codima Technologies.
Christer is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Codima and has over 20 years of experience in the networking and hi-tech industry, creating start-ups and bringing new products to market.
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September 05, 2006
INFONXX - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
InfoNXX operates the most reliable speech recognition and IP bases network architecture in the industry and provides innovative, industry-leading products and services including 411 PlusÒ enhanced directory assistance; TeleMásSM Spanish-language services; TextDirectSM, the industry’s first 1-Way and 2-Way SMS directory assistance listings in the United States; and txt//ad in the United Kingdom, an innovative Pay-Per-Text ad channel enabling advertisers to reach potential customers via SMS. InfoNXX is the parent company of several European consumer voice directory services companies including The Number (UK), Le Numero (France), and Il Numero (Italy).
Laura spoke with Nitin Krishna the Director of Product Development and Management at INFONXX.
In this role, Nitin is responsible for overseeing product development and product management for the North American market.
Previously he was the Product Director for PPL Telcom, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation that provides broadband solutions to telecommunications companies, large businesses and institutions that need high-speed data connections among multiple locations. He was responsible for product development, product management, network deployment and process implementation for the company’s IP, Ethernet, Private line, WiLoop (wireless), Broadband-over-power line (BPL) and co-location product lines.
Look for INFONXX at booth #1448.
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JDSU - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
JDSU is a leading provider of communication test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. JDSU, home of Acterna Test & Measurement has solutions to improve customer QoE from the head-end to through the home wiring, and all points in between.
Laura spoke with Roger Lingle the Vice President of Marketing for JDSU's Service Assurance Solutions (Triple-Play) business unit.
Roger Lingle currently serves as the vice president of marketing for JDSU's Service Assurance Solutions business unit, bringing more than 18 years of data communications, and network and service management experience to this role. As JDSU continues to demonstrate leadership in the test and measurement support of triple-play services (IPTV, VoIP) deployments by providers around the world, Lingle has helped bolster the company's reputation for helping ensure reliable, efficient and quality service.
The portfolio of solutions that he helps manage and that will be represented at this year's VON include the instruments, software and systems that manage and troubleshoot QoS in networks today. From the head-end to the home, JDSU tests broadband boundaries by delivering a comprehensive end-to-end solution for service turn-up, fault isolation, problem detection, segmentation, and troubleshooting, active and passive performance management, and capacity planning across voice, video, and data services providing a far-reaching complete view into current and future network and service level performance.
Look for JDSU at booth # 249.
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NBS - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
NBS gives you the tools to become a wholesale VOIP provider. Our V.o.I.C.E. platform allows you to offer private-branded solutions. Provisioning, invoicing, E911, DIDs and customer service are offered on an ala-carte basis. Dealer opportunities are also available. NBS, a full-service provider since 1984: your OneSource for integrated telecom solutions.
Laura spoke with Jon Kaufman the CEO of Network Billing Systems.
Jon founded the NBS family of companies in 1984 with the idea of providing high tech telephone system solutions as an alternative to the then lackluster offerings of the incumbent phone companies. Placing an emphasis on providing first class customer care and applications support proved to be what customers wanted and was missing in the industry. Telephone system sales, installation, and service, was shortly followed by the introduction of programs allowing customers the ability to place low cost long distance telephone calls - a novel idea in the mid-eighties. Jon has continuously shaped NBS as a vehicle to present clients with the latest, most cost effective telecom solutions while always keeping service as a top priority. An Honors Economics graduate of Stony Brook University, Jon has constantly monitored all facets of the business, ensuring customers cutting edge technology while ensuring NBS' profitability and stability, year after year.
Look for NBS at booth #1564.
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Ubiquity Software - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Ubiquity offers deployment platforms, applications, development tools and integration technology for converged voice, video and data services. Ubiquity’s SIP Application Server is the services deployment platform standard for telecommunications carriers. Ubiquity partners with leading NEVs, SIs, ISVs, and developers to bring new multimedia communications solutions to the global market.
Laura spoke with Gary W. Gray the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Ubiquity Software.
Look for Ubiquity Software at booth #237.
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Aculab - Exhibitng at Fall VON 2006
Aculab offers enabling technology for integration into high performance, wired and wireless, next generation communications solutions - from contact centres and IVR to media gateways and media servers. Products for use within telco or enterprise solutions include digital network access, SS7 and media processing resources; speech processing, transcoding, fax and conferencing in IP and PSTN environments.
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, which is currently available in PCI and cPCI formats, with PCIe format coming later this year. Prosody X offers unrivalled benchmarks in density and price, paving the way to a new era in communications building block technology.
Laura spoke with Simon Millard of Aculab.
After graduating from Sheffield University with a degree in Pure Physics, Simon spent seven years working for Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre designing and programming DSP platforms. Simon has been with Aculab for eight years, starting as a DSP programmer before moving to a technical consultancy role within the sales team, and then to his current position leading the global Professional Services team.
Visit Aculab at booth #1230 to find out more about Aculab's enabling technology for the VoIP market, and what it can help you to achieve.
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September 04, 2006
Telco Systems - Exhibiting at Fall VON 2006
Telco Systems is a major provider of carrier-class transport and access solutions for public and private networks. Solutions include a large installed base of VoIP, VDSL, 10/100, Gigabit Ethernet, TDM, and SONET products. Telco Systems is committed to developing products that integrate circuit and packet-switched technologies onto flexible platforms.
Laura spoke with Dave Lee the Vice President of Marketing and Services at Telco Systems.
Dave Lee joined Telco Systems in 1992, and since then has held various positions within the company including VP Product Line Management and Area Vice President Sales and is currently VP of Marketing and Services. Dave is responsible for managing and marketing of current and future product developments worldwide as well as customer and company services.
Look for Telco Systems at booth #1521.
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