Thomas Howe

Next Monday, I’m really pleased and excited to be running the “Voice Mashup Business Models” panel and the “Service Delivery Platforms” panel at the Voice Peering Forum in San Francisco. The REASON I’m so excited is because the caliber of speakers we have is simply excellent. To prepare for the panel, I asked a number of the speakers spend a few minutes with me on the phone, and I recorded it for you to hear….

• Garry Galinski is the Director of Product Innovation for Call Genie. If you have fifteen minutes, you really need to take a listen to this podcast, because Call Genie is providing an excellent platform for deploying services for carriers that follow the “two sided market” ideas championed by the smart guys at Telco 2.0. If you are unfamiliar with two sided business models, or think that the only business model for telephony is termination, listen up. Just like I think that Backflip has really solved the go-to market problem for CEBP enablement software, I think Call Genie is spot-on with providing enhanced services to carriers.
• Pankaj Shroff is the Chief Applications Architect for Sonus Networks. You could view Sonus as the smallest of the major switch vendors, or the largest of the next generation vendors. Either way, when somebody high up talks, I’m focused in. In this interview, Pankaj hints about how the larger carriers view the battle of the future.
• Irv Shapiro is the CEO of Ifbyphone, a service provider targeted towards enabling voice mashups for SMB, mid-market and smaller workgroups in the Enterprise. In our conversation, Irv and I touch on a bunch of topics… listen for Irv’s understanding of what workgroups need successfully deploy voice mashups.
• Shai Berger is the founder of Fonolo, the quintessential Telco 2.0 service provider. If you are a company that provides an API and targets the consumer, I would study Shai and Fonolo… it is the best example I can come up with when people ask me what voice mashups look like for the consumer.
• Bill Binnig is the VP of Marketing from Jaduka, a service provider targeted a bit higher on the food chain, providing voice APIs for the Enterprise. In our conversation, Bill and I talk about people confuse VoIP and next generation voice applications, which might have nothing to do with VoIP.