August 21, 2007
Craig Gosselin, NewStep Networks, with Carl Ford
A conversation between Pulvermedia's Carl Ford and Craig Gosselin from NewStep Networks about some of the FMC solutions NewStep offers, including of course dual-mode call continuity, but also strong single-mode convergence, and extending the features of the PBX in meaningful ways.
Craig Gosselin, Chief Marketing Officer, NewStep Networks
Craig is responsible for business strategy, offer management, marketing, and communications at NewStep Networks. A leader with 20 years of experience, Craig has successfully led business units, marketing, and sales organizations in corporate, venture capital, and private equity environments. He has worked with leading brands in technology, financial services, and consumer products while also having managed large global operations teams.
Prior to joining NewStep, Craig served as Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at Velocita Wireless. Velocita was a Cerberus Capital portfolio company and a leader in wireless data networking with nearly $150M in revenue. The company exceeded EBITDA objectives and was successfully sold to Sprint Nextel in 2006, representing a significant increase in value.
Prior to joining Velocita, Craig served as Vice President of Sales and Channel Marketing at Virgin Mobile USA. He joined the startup company prior to market launch and led the development of the distribution network and Virgin Mobile presence at over 30,000 locations, resulting in 2 million new customers.
Previous to Virgin Mobile, Craig held the position of Senior Vice President at American Express. In this capacity, Craig was a member of the senior management team and guided a 1000 person sales and service organization that also had responsibility for internet service strategy, new account development, and product development.
From 1998 to 2000, Craig was a Managing Director with Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for creating, building, and leading the worldwide Client Service Organization supporting the Securities Services business. In this role, Craig's organization supported the custody and security transaction needs of asset managers throughout the world. From 1986 to 1998, Craig held multiple leadership roles within AT&T, directing large sales, product management, marketing, and service organizations. In his last assignment at AT&T, Craig led the international consumer long distance business where he had profit and loss responsibility for a $3.5 Billion business unit.
Craig received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a M.B.A. degree from the University of Houston.
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July 31, 2007
Carl Ford with Todd Keefe, pt 2.
The first in a series of two brief conversations between Carl Ford and Todd Keefe, President of For Immediate Release. Todd is trying to help Carl to elucidate from a PR perspective exactly why some of the topics to be discussed at Fall VON are so exciting.
In this podcast: is VoIP over 3g a "Vonage for Wireless"?
Link to part 1 of this series.
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Carl Ford with Todd Keefe, pt 1.
The first in a series of two brief conversations between Carl Ford and Todd Keefe, President of For Immediate Release. Todd is trying to help Carl to elucidate from a PR perspective exactly why some of the topics to be discussed at Fall VON are so exciting.
In this podcast: should the conversation be framed ad HMP's vs. DSP's, or simply Why Voice Is Becoming Free?
Link to part 2 of this series.
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July 18, 2007
Mahesh Lalwani, Ccube, with Carl Ford
In a brief conversation with Carl Ford, Mahesh Lalwani, CEO and Founder of Ccube, explains how his service works, and gives some real world examples (from craigslist to a local deli) of how people are using Ccube to connect to each other.
Mahesh Lalwani, Founder & CEO Ccube, is the former founder and CEO of a successful 28-people technology consulting company. Over nine years leading Pacview Mahesh bootstrapped startup activities while handling business development, new customer acquisition, contract negotiation, and built and managed teams.
A successful, results-driven professional with 14 years of experience in Information Technology, Networking, Databases, and Telecommunications in Silicon Valley. He has authored several white papers, and filed for a Patent in Speech, Internet, Database, and Telecommunications processes. Mahesh has his Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from India.
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July 17, 2007
Ram Fish, Trolltech, with Carl Ford
A conversation between Ram Fish, until recently the CEO and founder of FONAV and now Trolltech's General Manager of VoIP Products, and Pulvermedia's own Carl Ford about Trolltech's recent acquisition of FONAV and the resulting synergy.
FONAV was founded in January 2006 by Ram Fish and Dilip Kenchammana and was acquired by Trolltech in June 2007.
Since its inception, FONAV has focused its efforts on providing the best unified communications experience for Wi-Fi/WiMAX connected devices. Built with Qtopia, FONAV applications offer consumers a unified live inbox – bringing together voice communication with visual voice messaging, email, instant messaging, and text messaging in a presence-enabled mobile environment. Consumers are able to seamlessly move through each of these modes. The solution moves VoIP beyond just inexpensive voice to inexpensive smart and rich communications.
Trolltech has seen tremendous success in the VoIP market with more than 40 VoIP/WiFi devices in the market today. FONAV’s offerings deepen Trolltech’s product expertise in this arena and widens the product capabilities of emerging consumer connected devices space. For device manufacturers, the combination of FONAV technology with Trolltech’s Qtopia ensures quick time to market and cost efficiencies for creating innovative connected devices and services.
Ram Fish was recently appointed the General Manager of VoIP Products for Trolltech after Trolltech acquired his company, FONAV. Ram led FONAV as its CEO and founder.
His previous roles include Vice President, Software Product Marketing at IXI Mobile (creator of AT&T OGO) and Chief Product Strategist for the Client Group at Openwave Systems. He started his career as a product marketing manager at PCSI, where he worked on the world's first mobile phone with Internet access.
He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his MBA from Yale University.
His blog is at pelp.wordpress.com.
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June 05, 2007
Per Björklund, Efftel, with Carl Ford
As is the usual in Carl Ford's podcasts, this conversation with Per Björklund from Efftel covers a lot of ground, from Sweden's place in the high-tech world, to mainstream acceptance/adoption/understanding of VoIP services, to the ever-decreasing price of phone calls and the resulting focus on flexibility and features rather than simple dialtone for Efftel.
Per Björklund founded Efftel in 2004 together with Håkan Lund. Efftel (www.efftel.com/english.htm) is a rapidly growing service provider and operator delivering complete and extremely flexible VoIP solutions to small and medium enterprises in Northern Europe. Prior to founding Efftel, Per had over 13 years senior telecoms and venture capital experience from e.g., Telia and Telenor. Already in 1997 he initiated and managed Telia Light AB, Telia’s pioneering VoIP spear head company publicly launched at VoN 1998 in San José. He then as the VP Products had the P/L responsibility for Telia/Telenor’s 4 Bn EUR consumer services portfolio. After 9 years at Telia, he was a Director and co-owner of the Nordic VC Startupfactory for three years and then spent a year on the build-up of Sweden’s fastest growing and 4th largest mobile operator Telenor/djuice as the Product Portfolio Director.
Per holds an MSEE from the Royal Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has contributed as a speaker to several VoN conferences from 1998 and onwards. In his spare time, Per chairs the VoIP Section of the 27.000 member Swedish Computer Society, that was proud having Jeff Pulver as their guest speaker a month ago.
Catch up with Per and others from the Efftel team at Von Europe Spring.
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May 21, 2007
Fabien Maisl, Thomson, with Carl Ford
Thomson’s NIS is leader in offering softswitch solutions (Cirpack) and IPTV service platforms (Smartvision) enabling telecom operators to deploy broadband telephony, IPCentrex, 4Play and Fixed-Mobile Convergence with a migration path to IMS/TISPAN architecture. Thomson’s Smartvision services platforms enable operators to offer interactive video services over fixed and mobile networks.
Both are closely integrated with Thomson’s STB, phones, modems and gateways. Thomson owns over 100 telco, broadcaster and internet service provider customers in 35 countries.
Thomson will be exhibiting in booth #201 at VON Europe Spring 2007.
Fabien Maisl is Director of Marketing and Partnerships for Thomson’s Network Intelligence Solutions, the company’s business unit developing VoIP softswitches, IPTV middleware and IMS core-network platforms. Fabien brings over 15 years of international experience in positioning and launching innovative products in the telecom market.
In prior position, he was Product Marketing Manager with CS Telecom, Director of Marketing with Netopia Europe and Product Marketing Manager with Apple Europe. Fabien holds a master degree in networks engineering from the French National Institute of Telecommunications.
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May 17, 2007
Tomer Treves, deltathree, with Carl Ford
Carl Ford spoke to Tomer Treves from deltathree about the new joip service, and the new phone from Panasonic that will bring joip into homes around the world.
For more on joip and deltathree, visit them at booth #212 at VON Europe Spring in Stockholm next month.
Tomer Treves, Consumer Group Managing Director, deltathree, Inc.
Tomer Treves joined deltathree (NASDAQ: DDDC) in 2004 and currently serves as Consumer Group Managing Director. Mr. Treves leads the team that handles business development, sales and marketing for deltathree’s Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) products and services directed for consumers and businesses. Mr. Treves is in charge of iConnectHere, a state of the art Global Internet Phone Service, and joip, the newly formed consumer group that powers Panasonic's GLOBARANGE hybrid phone. Mr. Treves’s business development expertise combined with his experience in legal counseling, specializing in international transactions, he has helped propel deltathree to a top tier global VoIP corporation.
Mr. Treves’s knowledge and experience in various hi-tech industries has enabled him to present at conferences around the world on issues such as migrating to VoIP, the future of telecommunications, consumer VoIP marketing, launching VoIP solutions and other facets of telephony. His distinctive dedication and success in advancing company growth spans his extensive career. Prior to deltathree, Mr. Treves played pivotal roles in providing legal consultation and business development for several leading law offices in Israel.
Mr. Treves graduated with honors from Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law with a Masters of Law, LL.M. He also holds a Bachelor of Law (with honors), LL.B from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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March 30, 2007
Live from VON: VeriSilicon
Mahadev Kolluru is the Director of Application Engineering and Customer Marketing at VeriSilicon, whose booth was right next to our podcasting booth on the floor at VON, and who were wonderful neighbors. Carl Ford and Mahadev speak in this podcast about VeriSilicon's "ZSP" DSP product line, and about the future of IP from the perspective of a silicon solutions company.
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March 29, 2007
Live from VON: LignUp
Kevin Nethercott, President and COO of LignUp talks to Carl Ford about CodeLign, LignUp's new developer environment and community using Amazon's EC2 platform. Kevin predicts that in as little as 5-10 minutes, users can be creating applications and terminating phone calls.
What's interesting, according to Kevin, is the coming of age of the Voice Mashup, thanks to the huge number of people that are developing and playing around in this space.
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Live from VON: Covad and VoIP Watch
Simon McIver, Director of Marketing Acquisition at Covad and Andy Abramson of the well-read blog VoIP Watch stopped in the podcast booth to talk to Carl Ford about the art of marketing and education in this space, be it for VoIP or for broadband.
Simon also speaks to where Covad is heading in the future, with regard to applications, and Andy touches on the current "wow"s out there.
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March 28, 2007
Live from VON: Mu Security
Another one of the folks we caught up with at VON was Adam P. Stein, VP of Marketing at Mu Security. In this podcast he and Carl Ford talk about Mu Security's solution, which Adam describes as a "hacker in a box."
Mu Security helps Triple-play product developers and their service provider customers measure security, product resiliency or service availability methodically to ensure maximum network uptime. Using the Mu-4000 analyzer proactively increases both the service availability and security quality of any IP-based product.
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March 26, 2007
Live from VON: Digium (part 2)
This is the second podcast from VON with Bill Miller from Digium. In this part of the interview, Carl and Bill talk about the evolving Asterisk Pavilion at VON and the recently announced Digium/Asterisk World to be colocated with Fall VON 2007. Very exciting things are afoot!
Part 1 of the interview is here.
Digium.com
Askerisk.org
AsteriskNOW.org
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Live from VON: Digium (part 1)
Bill Miller, VP of Product Management & Marketing at Digium found a few minutes in his busy show schedule to chat with Carl Ford in the Pulvermedia Podcasting Network booth. In this first of two podcasts, Bill talks about where Digium is heading in light of their recent management changes, and reflects on the growth of Asterisk and the numerous facets of the Digium ecosystem.
Part 2 of the interview is here.
Digium.com
Askerisk.org
AsteriskNOW.org
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March 21, 2007
Live from VON: Paradial
Christian Testman, COO of Paradial, begins this conversation with Carl Ford by describing the firewall and NAT traversal Paradial provides with a plumbing metaphor, which served pretty well to illustrate the concept, and had the added bonus, if you take the metaphor further, of stressing the importance of such a service. You wouldn't want to live in a house without plumbing.
Visit Paradial at VON in booth #542.
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Live from VON: Call Tool Box Inc.
Geoffrey Corfield from Calgary's Calltoolbox Inc. stopped by the podcast booth today to fill us in about the wide swath of VoIP-related solutions they have to offer. From call centers to web provisioning systems, Calltoolbox seems to have something to offer to just about anyone.
You've got one last day to check out Calltoolbox at booth #1649 here at Spring VON 2007 in San Jose!
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Exhibiting at Spring VON 2007: technoCo
Carl Ford spends a few minutes with Rick Spielrein from technoCo chatting about their first product, the Vdex 40.
TechnoCo was founded by pioneers of the voice over Internet (VoIP) industry. Their previous company, Ozemail Interline, was the first in the world to provide Internet telephony (VoIP) to the public on a global basis. In fact, The Honourable Paul Keating (ex Prime Minister of Australia) released the OzEmail Interline VoIP services at a media event in Australia on the 16th January 1997.
Identifying a need and opportunity to empower small and medium developers who require specialised hardware platforms in order to bring their software products to market, Howard and Spielrein created "TechnoCo".
TechnoCo's first product is Vdex, a telephony platform that provides the necessary electronics to run the popular Asterisk PBX open-source software. Vdex is a highly sophisticated, hybrid telephony platform integrating multiple microprocessors and multiple digital signalling processors with numerous industry-standard voice codecs and telephone line interfaces.
Please visit technoCo on the web at technoco.biz, at VON at booth #751.
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March 20, 2007
Live from Spring VON 2007 - Welcome! (part 3)
Carl Ford and Mike McClenathan speak a little more about Niklas Zennstrom's portion of the Plenary Session, and a bit more about what their other initial impressions of VON are. It's going to be a great show!
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Live from Spring VON 2007 - Welcome! (part 2)
Glenn Gaudet joins the conversation in part 2 of our Spring VON 2007 welcome podcast, and as the Chief Marketing Officer of pulvermedia, he has interesting perspectives about the direction of the market at the onset of VON this year.
Check out part 1 here.
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Live from Spring VON 2007 - Welcome! (part 1)
Welcome to our first podcast from the floor of SPRING VON 2007! In this podcast, Mike McClenathan and Carl Ford talk about the opening Plenary Session, in which Jeff Pulver removed the "IP" from "IP Communications," and informed the members of the VON Community that they are now, themselves, the incumbents.
Welcome to VON!
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March 07, 2007
Carl Ford's interview with Keith Pigue from CGI (director's cut)
This is a longer, less concise version of the conversation posted a little earlier today between Carl Ford and Keith Pigue from CGI. Please visit them at VON in booth #1637.
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February 09, 2007
Carl's Corner 2/7/07
After an illness-induced week off, we're back this week with a vengeance here at Carl's Corner. Sit back and enjoy...and if you feel the need to skip around, below you'll find a guide (of sorts).
0:00 - Carl and Mikey on global warming, the fascinating Mexican marketplace (VON Mexico), a brief look at some stocks (Rich Erb will return soon to save us from ourselves here), SIP Trunking, possibilities for next phase of integration with Skype, and some mildly incoherent philosophizing about photographs.
15:02 - Carl's conference call about the recent IMS Forum Plugfest with Michael Khalilian and Manuel Vexler from the IMS Forum, and Lincoln Lavoie from the UNH Interoperability Lab.
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January 30, 2007
Carl's Corner 1/24/07
Welcome back, ladies and gents. Please, everybody, take your seats. We have a lot to get through.
0:00 - Catharine Trebnik, analyst with FTN Midwest Securities. Catharine will be moderating a session on Purple Apps at VON.
10:57 - Carl and Mikey on EMC, Vonage and the rapidly expanding local calling plan,
18:35 - The Market with Rich Erb
24:00 - Gordon Cook, from gordoncook.net and The Cook Report.
We'd love your feedback on this show. Too long? Too short? Too wonderful? Comments are always welcome on this blog, and on Carl's blog.
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January 19, 2007
Carl's Corner 1/17/07
The 2nd episode of the Carl's Corner podcast. Heaping helpings of rampant speculation, some measured irreverence, and a dash of useful information. You know, the norm. See the syllabus below:
0:00 - Is Google evil? (cont'd)
- Mobile social networking
- The future of advertising?
- Verizon selling off VT, NH, and ME
- iPhone?
15:29 - The Market with Rich Erb
21:18 - Alec Saunders (saunderslog.com, Iotum) on the iPhone and Talk-Now.
We'd love your feedback on this show. Too long? Too short? Too wonderful? Comments are always welcome on this blog, and on Carl's blog.
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January 17, 2007
Carl's Corner 1/10/07
Welcome to the first of what will be a weekly series of podcasts from our own Carl Ford. What makes this different than the podcasts we've been doing with Carl in the past is that it's produced in a slightly more show-ish way. Segments and everything. Believe it.
So the whole deal will usually clock in (we hope) between 30 and 45 minutes, and will regularly feature PulverMedia's own Rich Erb with a look at the market in our space, conversations between Carl and myself, and interviews with guests from all over the community.
The entire show is available for download by clicking the "podcast" button above, and the segments are available individually by clicking the times in the rough syllabus provided below. (There's a more detailed description of the content on Carl's blog.)
0:00 - Intro, Xbox360 IPTV, iPhone, Samsung and Qualcomm MediaFLO
15:13 - Who's on the move?
20:27 - Rich Erb on the market
26:28 - Link Hoewig from Verizon (poliblog.verizon.com)
38:07 - Wrap-up (Google is evil???)
Stay tuned...
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December 22, 2006
Carl Ford / Kfir Pravda pt. 2
Carl Ford and Kfir Pravda spent some time together in our studios. Kfir is the VP of Marketing for the IMTC. His email is kpravda -at- gmail -dot- com. This is the latter half of a two part conversation.
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Carl Ford / Kfir Pravda
Carl Ford and Kfir Pravda spent some time together in our studios. Kfir is the VP of Marketing for the IMTC. His email is kpravda -at- gmail -dot- com. This is part one of a two part conversation.
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December 14, 2006
Hjalmar Winbladh, Chief Executive Officer at Rebtel / Carl Ford
We're a group of mobile technology experts based in Sweden and Luxembourg. Rebtel is an innovative company focused on bringing you the future of mobile telephony. We’re here to help you make cheaper, better, and easier calls to the world – global calls at local rates. Our ethos is that we won’t promise what we can’t deliver, and that we’ll always deliver what we promise.
Carl Ford spoke with Hjalmar Winbladh, the Chief Executive Officer at Rebtel.
Hjalmar is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. He co-founded Rebtel because he wanted to use his wealth of mobile Internet expertise to start a revolution in international mobile calling.
Prior to co-founding Rebtel, Hjalmar was a strategy consultant and entrepreneur-in-residence at Investor AB, providing counsel for investments in the mobile/fixed convergence arena. Hjalmar’s stint at Investor was his way to ease back into the corporate life after three years spent with his family, including two years sailing across the Pacific and Indian oceans in 2003–2004.
What precipitated Hjalmar’s sabbatical was his seven years of co-founding Sendit AB, a company based on a vision to bring new, disruptive mobile Internet software platform technologies to the projected convergence market between mobility and the Internet. Hjalmar served as president and chief executive officer of Sendit, and successfully took it public before being aquired by Microsoft for $150 million USD. Following the Microsoft acquisition, Hjalmar remained for two years as general manager of Microsoft’s Mobile Internet Business Unit. A highlight during his Microsoft tenure was playing a central role in creating telecom alliances for Microsoft with Ericsson and Vodafone.
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December 01, 2006
Dan Hoffman, M5 Networks, with Carl Ford
M5 Networks is one of the country's leading outsourced IP phone system providers. Trustworthiness is at the heart of M5's philosophy and business model. By outsourcing to M5 instead of buying another phone system and signing more local and long distance contracts, businesses save valuable time and hard dollars. M5 was founded in 2000, and since inception has been entirely focused on delivering the most reliable business phone system service in the industry.
M5 is continually innovating to improve our outsourced phone system solution. M5’s core technology partners include Cisco, Verizon, Sun, AboveNet, Sprint, Qwest, Focal Communications and VocalData. M5 has been named to the Pulver 100 list for four consecutive years (2002-2005), VoIP Magazine’s 20 Companies to Watch in 2006, and FierceVoIP's Fierce 15 list in 2005 and has received Frost & Sullivan's 2004 Entrepreneurial Company Award and the 2004 & 2005 VoIP Service Provider Award and Best SMB Provider Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine. In addition, the strong demand for M5 services has enabled M5’s management team to run the business conservatively, regularly reinvesting profits and maintaining financial stability.
Carl Ford spoke with Daniel Hoffman, President & CEO of M5 Networks.
As President and CEO of M5, one of America's leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers for small and midsized businesses, Hoffman has redefined the business phone system market by replacing traditional phone systems and phone company arrangements with an outsourced VOIP solution that businesses truly trust.
Personable, approachable and a true visionary, Hoffman was named one of 18 nationwide winners of the 2006 Best Bosses Award by Winning Workplaces, a nationally known clearinghouse for best practices in workplace excellence and innovative people practices, and FORTUNE Small Business. This national honor recognizes the most dedicated, passionate, innovative, inspirational and driven leaders of small and midsize businesses nationwide for creating tightly knit workplaces and inspiring intensely loyal workers.
Dan will be at Von Enterprise:
Hosted Voice Solutions
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
There is a clear trend for many companies to outsource, especially technologies and infrastructure they believe can be more efficiently managed elsewhere.
• What is the best model to determine if outsourcing is the right approach?
• Which technologies lend themselves best to this approach?
• What are the ramifications if outsourcing fails?
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November 16, 2006
Linda Gottfried, Graffitiwall.com, with Carl Ford and Mike McClenathan
Carl and Mike had a candid conversation with Linda Gottfried of Graffitiwall.com when she stopped by the pulver.com offices to visit.
Listen in to get a good idea of what Graffiti Wall is capable of, and for some light discourse on the future of collaborative media.
Keep your eye on the Pulver Video Vault for more!
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October 30, 2006
Carl Ford / Jeff Black
TalkPlus provides advanced Voice 2.0 services over mobile networks and was founded in February, 2004. In winter 2006, TalkPlus will unveil its first offering, the TalkPlus Number, an additional mobile number that works on a subscriber’s existing mobile phone. TalkPlus subscribers benefit from increased flexibility, privacy, and control over their mobile experience.
Affiliates partnering with TalkPlus can gain additional revenue streams from their user base, while mobile carriers partnering with TalkPlus can offer enhanced mobile services to their customers without extensive infrastructure updates.
Carl and Laura spoke with Jeff Black the CEO and Founder about some new announcements and exciting products available from TalkPlus.
Jeff has over 27 years in high-tech. Black is a 14-year veteran of Digital Equipment Corp (HP) and is a founder of IMI, iAtlas, Resorts.com, Hotels.com and PartnerVision Ventures. Black holds multiple issued and pending patents.
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October 25, 2006
Carl Ford / Stig Skaugvoll
GoIP Global Provider of "VoIP in a Box" Solutions.
The world of telecom is changing into complete IP based services and systems. GoIP International will be the # 1 global provider of “VoIP in a Box” solutions. GoIP International intends to win the Application Service Provider Market, offering them fast VoIP deployment, proven technology, low capex and operational costs.
Carl Ford spoke with Stig Skaugvoll the Senior Vice President of
GoIP International ApS.
Prior to co-founding GoIP, Stig has held a number of executive positions in the international telecom industry: Vice President for Primus Telecommunications. Responsible for the Global VoIP Service Provider Division, with the focus in selling services to Carriers, Service Providers & ISP's around the world. He was also Managing Director Primus Telecommunications GmbH and prior to that, Regional Manager for TDC, Carrier Services.
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September 13, 2006
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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August 17, 2006
Carl Ford / Prem Uppaluru
Carl Ford spoke with Prem Uppaluru the CEO and Co-founder of Transera.
Prem brings to Transera his 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and networking industry and his keen entrepreneurial instincts. Prior to joining Transera, Prem was Executive Vice President, Voice Portal Solutions at Genesys, where he was responsible for strategic direction and development of the company's Voice Platform and Managed Service solutions. As a result of his efforts, the Genesys Voice Portal products were awarded the top ranking in worldwide market leadership from the Gartner Group for completeness of business vision and ability to deliver compelling value to the marketplace. Prem joined Genesys in mid-2002 when the company he co-founded, Telera, was acquired by Genesys and its parent company, Alcatel. While at Telera, Prem served as Chief Executive Officer, and was the driving force behind the company's success in the emerging VoiceXML platform and solutions market. Prior to co-founding Telera, Prem co-founded VOIS Corporation where he served as Chief Executive Officer. Before launching into his entrepreneurial efforts, Prem held Vice President and General Manager positions at Novell. He also served as Vice President of Engineering at Fluent and Samsung Software America. Prem also held engineering management positions with Bell Labs and Bellcore during his tenure in telecommunications, network management, multimedia and telephony. Prem holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his masters and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
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August 16, 2006
Carl Ford / Bryan Smith
You might not realise it yet, but what we called “the information superhighway” a decade ago, just built a bypass near your business. Your customers are just about to find a quicker and easier way to deal with you, or your competitors.
Cyberspace isn’t a fictional world in a Sci-Fi novel anymore. It’s a real world where people do billions of dollars in business each year. Clique Communications is here to make sure that you understand the changes that are occurring, and start using the Internet to begin meaningful dialogues with your customers.
Carl Ford spoke with Bryan Smith the Vice President of Marketing at Clique Communications.
Bryan Smith was most recently the Vice President of Broadband Services at Insight Communications, the ninth largest cable operator in the country. In this role he was responsible for all aspects of Insight’s high-speed Internet service including creating the product vision, developing marketing strategies, and leading the implementation of projects. Bryan joined Insight in 2002 as Vice President of Marketing Strategy and Analysis and in this role he led several initiatives including the launch of HBO, Showtime and Starz! On Demand service and he gained distribution for Insight Broadband service into retail outlets like Best Buy.
Prior to joining Insight, Bryan worked at AT&T where he held various marketing roles in AT&T’s Consumer Services Business, including leading the launch of AT&T local phone service, managing the AT&T True Rewards and developing the communications strategy for AT&T’s advertising campaigns.
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August 11, 2006
Carl Ford / Bill Joll
On2 Technologies is a premier developer of advanced video compression and streaming technologies. On2 Video codecs are widely used in the Internet, VoIP, mobile media and video-on-demand markets. On2's software is used by such leading global companies as Adobe/Macromedia, AOL, Skype, XM Satellite Radio, Sony, CTTNet, and Brightcove.
Carl Ford spoke with Bill Joll the CEO of On2 technologies.
Bill joined On2 in May 2006 after serving as Vice President of marketing, Carrier Solutions, at RealNetworks, Inc. He spent 18 years at Nortel, where he served as President of Marketing for Europe, General Manager of two different carrier product lines, and Director of Product Management for enterprise products for both Asia and Latin America markets. In 2000, Bill left Nortel to serve as CEO of two successive technology start-ups, Maple Optical and Threshold Networks. Bill earned a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Manitoba and has brings an international perspective having lived and worked in Singapore and Europe.
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August 04, 2006
Carl Ford / Krishna Yarlagadda
Carl Ford spoke with Krishna Yarlagadda 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.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Krishna was also the founder of CoWave, a broadband wireless company, nBand (sold to Proxim), a communications processor company, vEngines (sold to Centillium) and eSilicon. In addition, Krishna also served as an advisor to start-ups such as Silicon Spice (sold to Broadcom) and Intoto.
Krishna held key management and technical positions in the SPARC processor division of Sun Microsystems and was a key player in successful launch of four SPARC processors (UltraSPARC I & II, SuperSPARC I & II).
Krishna is a frequently invited speaker on DSP architecture and technology, and a contributor on DSP to industry journals such as Microprocessor report, Computer design, and EEtimes.
Krishna has a B.S and MS in Electrical Engineering.
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August 02, 2006
Carl Ford / Mark Pascarella
Listen as Carl Ford sits down with the President of Gotuit Media Corp., Mark Pascarella. Watch videos, make your own playlists, share videos with friends. Innovative ideas that provide "A new way to watch!"
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July 25, 2006
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 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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July 05, 2006
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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June 27, 2006
Eli Katz, XConnect, with Carl Ford
As the Globalcomm floor was closing down, Carl and Eli rose above the din of the breakdown to bang out a quick podcast about Eli's various activities with ITSPA and his own company, XConnect.
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June 22, 2006
Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet, with Carl Ford
Carl sat down with Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet’s vice president of marketing and product management to for a general state-of-the-union style talk. Seamus had to be fairly tight-lipped as a result of a pretty significant announcement Acme Packet recently made. Listen in for details. This is still another podcast from Globalcomm.
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June 21, 2006
Catharine Trebnick, ThinkEquity Partners LLC, with Carl Ford
An introduction to an old friend of Carl's, Catharine Trebnick, analyst at ThinkEquity Partners LLC. In this short segment, Cat explains her role at ThinkEquity and how to obtain more information.
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June 20, 2006
Ken Osowski and Carl Ford on feature interaction
Carl's series of conversations about Feature Interaction continues with Ken Osowski from Pactolus. This was recorded in our booth at Globalcomm in Chicago.
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June 16, 2006
Amir Zmora, Surf Communication Solutions, with Carl Ford
This is a conversation between Carl Ford and Amir Zmora from our booth on the floor at Globalcomm.
Amir Zmora, VP Business Development, Surf Communication Solutions
Amir Zmora joined Surf Communication Solutions in September 2004. In his current position as VP Business Development, Amir is responsible for all Surf’s business development activities, including establishing partnerships with telecom infrastructure hardware manufacturers. Prior to this he served as Surf’s VP Marketing, responsible for all Surf’s marketing activities, including defining new markets and products.
Prior to joining Surf Communication Solutions, Amir served as Director of Product Marketing for the RADVISION Technology Business Unit, specifically focusing on RADVISION’s SIP–related product family. Prior to this, Amir headed RADVISION’s H.323 and 3G-324M product line with responsibility for both R&D and QA.
Previously, Amir performed various telecom engineering roles. Additionally, Amir is a well–known speaker at various VoIP events, and has published articles in industry magazines, such as EE Times ComDesign and Internet Telephony.
Amir Zmora holds an MBA from the Tel Aviv University in Israel, a BA in Economics from the Hebrew University, and a BA in Software Engineering from the Sela Institute.
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Ken Osowski, Pactolus, with Carl Ford
This is a conversation between Carl Ford and Ken Osowski from our booth on the floor at Globalcomm.
Kenneth Osowski, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Pactolus
Ken was a lead developer of the company's business plan to support funding activities and market entry, now directs its product strategy and marketing activities, and has helped Pactolus to become one of the industry's most widely-deployed, flexible and customizable service delivery platforms. A frequent VoIP industry spokesperson and writer, Ken's teamed with executives across the industry to educate the market on SIP-based voice service delivery. A veteran in the enhanced services industry, he directed Boston Technology's introduction and commercialization of its carrier-focused voice messaging platform, and subsequently defined IPeria's market entry strategy as its Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Ken serves on the editorial advisory boards of publications such as SIP Magazine and InteleCard News. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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June 13, 2006
Dale Gantous, InGenius, with Carl Ford
Dale Gantous, who runs InGenius Software, stopped by the PPN Booth at Globalcomm to fill Carl in about the telephony markup language InGenius has developed.
InGenius is a leading software company in telephony application development. InGenius has been developing real-time software since 1986, and has focused for the past 10 years on combined internet + telephony applications development.
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Jon Arnold / Carl Ford
A meeting of the minds between two of our wonderful hosts, Jon Arnold and Carl Ford, from the Globalcomm show floor in Chicago. This isn't like most of Jon's podcasts in that it doesn't directly concern itself with the Canadian market, but as they point out in the recording, Chicago is pretty close.
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June 12, 2006
Jeff Orr, WiMAX Forum, with Carl Ford
A podcast with Jeff Orr from the WiMAX Forum. The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to promote and certify compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products. Their member companies support the industry-wide acceptance of the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN standards. Listen in to find out more.
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Terri Griffin, tekVizion, with Carl Ford
Terri Griffin took a few minutes out of her day on the Globalcomm floor to sit down with Carl Ford and talk about tekVizion.
Terri Griffin, President and COO, tekVizion
Terri brings more than 23 years of experience in management, marketing and engineering to her role. Most recently, Terri was director of marketing at Cisco Systems, responsible for all marketing activities for Cisco’s Southern area with a focus on solutions marketing and selling. Prior to Cisco, Terri was vice president of marketing at Sonus Networks, where she was responsible for the marketing strategy and overseeing all marketing functions. Terri joined Sonus as a result of the acquisition of Telecom Technologies, where she was vice president of marketing. In this role, Terri directed all marketing, product management, and brand-building programs, and was instrumental in the development of telecom technologies’ INIP Powered Partner program, which merged with Sonus’ partner initiative to form the Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA). Terri has also held marketing and engineering positions at ODS Networks (now Intrusion, Inc.), EMASS (a division of E-Systems), and Raytheon Company. Terri holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a minor in computer science from Stephen F. Austin University in Texas.
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