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August 30, 2006
The most ASTERISK activities at Fall VON ever
This VON is going to show the direct impact of Asterisk in the market. Besides the sessions and activities below we have many companies and groups who are using Asterisk to develop new services. With all these activities we have decided one more part of the program should be highlighted.
We have set up a special user group meeting on Wednesday night for all members of the VON Community in room 211 at 6PM. Anyone who is attending VON in any capacity is welcome to participate. If you want to show what your doing with Asterisk send an email to carl.ford@pulvermedia.com. It is our belief that this will be the richest participation of the Asterisk community ever, so it is my strong suggestion that you identify your desire to participate now. And come early so you can put in for the Digium / Asterisk raffle.
To Register for free access to the Exhibit Floor including the Digium pavilion and to attend the Asterisk User Group meeting use the priority code ASTERVON, or follow this link to register https://secure.pulver.com/von/register.html
But wait there is more.
On Wednesday at 8:30 until 10:00 in the morning Olle E. Johansson CEO of Edvina will be providing a tutorial called Meet Asterisk - The Open Source IPBX. And on Thursday morning Olle will provide a tutorial on the latest release of Asterisk (v1.4).
To view more details click here http://www.pulver.com/asterisk/ . You can use the ASTERVON priority code which will save $100 on the individual sessions and more than that for the combined sessions. To register go here https://secure.pulver.com/asterisk/register.html
Below are all the activities associated with Asterisk.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Monday pre conference - the SIP Tutorial now includes hands -on SIP Asterisk implementation training.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Tuesday VON Theater (near the Digium / Asterisk Pavilion)
Joshua Colp speaking and Schuyler Deerman moderating a panel called Next Generation Networking - Literally. This panel of under 20 types are shaping our future with the development and efforts. Asterisk, SIP Foundry and Skype will be part of the discussion.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Wednesday Asterisk at VON training
8:30 A.M. until 10:00 A.M. Olle E. Johansson CEO of Edvina
Tutorial Meet Asterisk - The Open Source IPBX.
VON Conference 4:45 P.M. - 5:15 P.M. Mark Spencer the President of Digium will give an Industry Perspective called “An Open Source Carol; The Ghost of Open Source; Past, Present and Future.” Note you must be a conference attendee to attend.
Asterisk User Group Meeting
After the exhibit hall closes at 6:00 P.M. an Asterisk User Group meeting will be held in room 211. This will be unstructured and will be a chance for peers to hear each other out.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Thursday Asterisk at VON training
8:30 A.M. until 10:00 A.M. Olle E. Johansson CEO of Edvina
Tutorial an in depth look at the latest release of Asterisk (v1.4)
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August 24, 2006
Terri Griffin / 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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August 22, 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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August 21, 2006
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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August 20, 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 17, 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 15, 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 09, 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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August 08, 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 / 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 04, 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!"
www.gotuit.com
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August 02, 2006
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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August 01, 2006
You got to have a sense of Humor
alwaysoncarl: I am trying to get my arms around mexico
Schuyler Deerman: What's wrong with Mexico?
alwaysoncarl: nothing i am building the session descriptions and i am trying to not sound like a gringo from north of the border
Schuyler Deerman: I actually laughed out loud. Let's not talk about session border control!
alwaysoncarl: a new meaning for the same problem. Something that sticks itself in the middle for no good reason ;<)
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Web Video Wars (Part 1)
If you get a chance to look at the Wall Street Journal today they are highlighting “Web Video Wars” on the front of the marketplace section with the title “Big TV’s Broadband Blitz”. A very distressing point to quote is “This series explores the implications of the Web video boom for all the major players - TV networks, film studios, Internet portals and consumer electronics.” Please note Telecom or Internet Access Providers are shut out from this viewpoint.
Is this a valid view? Is this proof that the Internet has separated facilities from the applications?
At Boston on Sept. 11-14, 2006 we will have both points of view well represented with the Video On the Net conference, focused on the same audience as the Wall Street Journal, and Fall 2006 VON focused the IPTV/Cable industry.
Are these two camps looking for the same pot of gold? What is the value proposition that makes the win / win scenario?
We know that when technology changes as fast as it does with the Internet it’s easy to focus on a tree and miss the forest, but our goal is to give the full view to you.
*To register for Video On the Net, please click here.
*To register for Fall 2006 VON, please click here.
I hope you join us in Boston!
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