{"id":8576,"date":"2010-04-14T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/odin_telesystems_update.html"},"modified":"2010-04-14T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:53:33","slug":"odin-telesystems-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/odin-telesystems-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Odin Telesystems Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a while since I met with executives from Odin Telesystems<\/a> but it all came back to me when I sat down a week ago with company<\/p>\n

President & CEO Hanz Johansson to discuss his company’s DSP resource solutions which can act as gateways, transcoding devices and PBX building-blocks when coupled with the right software like Asterisk.<\/p>\n

I first met the company at a trade show in New York in the mid-nineties and followed up later that year by going to the company’s Texas HQ to learn about how they play in the space. At the time, Odin was a relatively new entrant into the US and they were going up against high-flying Dialogic, NMS and Brooktrout – three companies who have been subsequently merged with a bunch more companies added in such as Snowshore, Excel etc.<\/p>\n

Odin fell off my personal radar for a few years and I saw them at Supercomm show many years back but didn’t speak with them there. Then they showed up at ITEXPO<\/a> recently (I think it was Miami this past January where I saw them) but I didn’t get a chance to speak with anyone there either.<\/p>\n

Catching up with Hans was like a trip down memory lane which reminded me of the mid-nineties when I was really innocent – not aware of the impending bubble and bust (rinse, repeat) cycle coming my way.<\/pp><\/p>\n

Getting back to Odin though the company has cards small enough to go into laptops all the way up to a line of PBXs. Generally Odin has cards with more horsepower than a Sangoma or Digium card – more akin to the power of Aculab or Dialogic products. There are also a line of Alvis appliances which can be as small as an access point or reside in a rack mount chassis.<\/p>\n

TMC’s Erik Linask interviewed Hanz Johansson last week and you can see the details below. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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