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March 15, 2007
Jon Arnold / Yves Laliberte - Aastra Telecom and the State of IP Telephony
This week's Canadian IP Thought Leaders podcast featured Yves Laliberte, EVP of Aastra Telecom. Aastra is based in Toronto, and is one of the leading business telephone OEMs, for both legacy and IP markets. Yves addressed the current state of the market, and compared the differing paths that enterprises and SMBs are taking as they adopt IP.
He also focused on the importance of Open Source and SIP for enabling more flexible and feature rich solutions than were possible in the TDM world. Finally, Jon and Yves talked about the road ahead, and how Unified Communications and FMC will be driving the market, and how that will impact vendors like Aastra.
Yves Laliberte is Executive Vice President of Aastra Telecom Inc. With over twenty years experience in the IT , Telecommunication and Networking industry, Yves has a proven tack record of creating winning business strategies, driving profitable growth, building sound management teams, establishing strategic alliances and implementing effective fiscal management. Yves has earned a BBA from Bishop’s University, an Executive Business program from Queen’s University and an International Executive Business program from INSEAD in France. While in University, Yves achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Canadian Armed Forces.
His career includes over 20 years of senior leadership roles in general management, sales, business development, and strategy formulation with industry leaders such as Avaya, Cisco Systems, AT&T, and IBM Canada. In addition, he has demonstrated the ability to manage and grow start up organizations such as AlphaNet. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and a graduate of the Corporate Director Leadership Program.
Posted at March 15, 2007 03:45 PM
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