{"id":7203,"date":"2008-09-05T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/60_crucial_ip_communications_interviews.html"},"modified":"2008-09-05T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:42:13","slug":"60-crucial-ip-communications-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/60-crucial-ip-communications-interviews.html","title":{"rendered":"60 Crucial IP Communications Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from the people I meet at the show. I really enjoy the impromptu networking which takes place at events as it allows me to learn so much about what is happening in the market. Ironically, I generally learn things I didn’t think I would learn ahead of time. Quite often, I wish I would have known more about peoples’ experiences before I met with them as it would allow me to be better prepared to ask pertinent questions.<\/p>\n

I further wish I knew who was coming to events and and moreover I wish I could get a “brain dump” from them before the event so I could have a frame of reference before our conversations take place.<\/p>\n

Imagine how much better networking at a show would be if I had an idea what people were generally thinking about the market before I even say hello.<\/p>\n

In less than two weeks the world with gather at ITEXPO<\/a> — The World’s Communications Conference to help select products for purchase, learn about the latest events in the telecom market and network with peers.<\/p>\n

It is this last area where this blog entry should be of maximal benefit. You see, over the past month or so I have been interviewing the telecom movers and shakers who will be coming to ITEXPO. I certainly didn’t interview every mover and shaker (exactly what is a telecom shaker <\/i>anyway  ;)  ) but this list should give you a good idea who some of the speakers and exhibitors will be at this year’s show.<\/p>\n

The questions each person answered below may be slightly varied but what is common is the person’s thoughts on their markets and where they think things may be going. I truly hope you find these interviews useful and I hope to see you at the show September 16-18, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n <\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NAME<\/b><\/td>\nCOMPANY<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Don Palmer<\/a><\/td>\nSip Print<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jim Beuoy<\/a><\/td>\nOKS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Stacy<\/a><\/td>\nTouchstone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Nam<\/a><\/td>\nPhonevite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jim Beuoy<\/a><\/td>\nOKS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barry Sher<\/a><\/td>\nIVR Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ari Raban<\/a><\/td>\nPhone.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Doyle<\/a><\/td>\nCommuniGate Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Mandelstam<\/a><\/td>\nSangoma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sharone Ben Levi<\/a><\/td>\nAudioCodes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rupesh Chokshi<\/a><\/td>\nAT&T<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeff Gallino<\/a><\/td>\nCallminer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. David K. Schrader<\/a><\/td>\nTeradata<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Ricca<\/a><\/td>\nIntellicom Analytics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xuedong Huang (XD)<\/a><\/td>\nMicrosoft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rick Dell<\/a><\/td>\nMitel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Lepko<\/a><\/td>\nAltitude Software North America <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liz Amaral <\/span><\/a><\/td>\nEnkata<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Francis Carden<\/a><\/td>\nOpenSpan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kevin Murphy<\/a><\/td>\nNEI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Gravett<\/a><\/td>\nAculab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brian Schwarz<\/a><\/td>\nRedSky Technologies, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Konczal<\/a><\/td>\nSterling Commerce <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stefan Winkler<\/a><\/td>\nSymmetricom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Thomas<\/a><\/td>\nFreedomVoice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Albert Chu<\/a><\/td>\nACCESS Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bill Miller<\/a><\/td>\nDigium (corrected — sorry<\/span>)<\/td>\n

   
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Randy Busch<\/a><\/td>\nJazinga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeff Hicks<\/a><\/td>\nNetQos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Charter<\/a><\/td>\nWBS Connect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jim Slaby<\/a><\/td>\nAcme Packet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dean Jordan<\/a><\/td>\nTelesphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Justin McLain<\/a><\/td>\nEndeavor Telecom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asif Rehman<\/a><\/td>\nMitel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steve Safley<\/a><\/td>\nVoIPConsultants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/p>\n

Frank Paterno<\/a><\/td>\nIntelliverse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Warren Sonnen<\/a><\/td>\nEpygi Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jim Jenkins<\/a><\/td>\nIQ Services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jonathan Christensen<\/a><\/td>\nSkype<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark De Clerq<\/a><\/td>\nSitel Semiconductor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ken Kuenzel<\/a><\/td>\nCovergence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Lyman<\/a><\/td>\nFonality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Hermann<\/a><\/td>\nCincinnati bell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brough Turner<\/a><\/td>\nNMS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shelley Veazie<\/a><\/td>\nCTI Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abdul Kasim<\/a><\/td>\nCritical Links<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eran Gal<\/a><\/td>\nXorcom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Messer<\/a><\/td>\nABP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Todd Woodstra<\/a><\/td>\nSpinVox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mike Coward<\/a><\/td>\nContinuous Computing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura Serna<\/a><\/td>\nDialexia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Rafferty<\/a><\/td>\nDialogic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ken Lowe<\/a><\/td>\nSigma Designs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rob McDougall<\/a><\/td>\nUpstream Works Software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Boyd<\/a><\/td>\nIntrado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Henry Danser<\/a><\/td>\nAspect Software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gregory Giagnocavo<\/a><\/td>\nVitelity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vikram Saksena<\/a><\/td>\nSonus Networks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alastair Westgarth<\/a><\/td>\nTango Networks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Greg Rothman<\/a><\/td>\nCbeyond<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vivek Khuller<\/a><\/td>\nDivitas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from the people I meet at the show. I really enjoy the impromptu networking which takes place at events as it allows me to learn so much about what is happening in the market. Ironically, I generally learn things I didn’t think I would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,170,171,179,180,181,201,202,172,215,1,182,160,162,196,163,1674,212,199,218,197,186,1677,188,1676,198,1679,1673,220,1672,221,209,116,1678,156,189,203,206,211,118,1670,1109,1671,177,174,190,204,191,205,219,175,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}