ARCHIVE: Online Presentations for VoiceCon Spring 2007

Allan Sulkin is president and founder of TEQConsult Group (teqconsult.com), an independent management consult practic focused on the enterprise communications market. Sulkin has more than 25 years telecommunications industry experience, and is widely recognized as the leading IP telephony communications product/market analyst. He is the author of PBX Systems for IP Telephony (McGraw Hill), has been a contributor to BCR for 20 years and has been a featured presenter at VoiceCon since its founding in 1991. Sulkin is an ECA Board Member and researcher/editor of its annual market report. He can be contacted at amsulkin@aol.com

Ken Agress provides consulting services as a part of PlanNet Consulting after over fifteen years working in a wide variety of networking roles. Over the course of his career, he has worked as a consultant, network manager, product manager, and technical specialist,. This breadth of experience provides excellent coverage of many operation and technical issues, generally focusing on designing network environments to support critical applications such as IP Telephony, ERP, and CRM. Mr. Agress?s experience spans a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 100 corporations and large government institutions. His client list includes Qualcomm, California State University Office of the Chancellor, Clark County Nevada, AmerisourceBergen, and Washington Mutual Bank. These engagements have addressed numerous issues, including: ? Developing strategic plans to support Voice over IP, IP Telephony, and similar critical applications. ? Providing a full range of procurement support for network electronics and services capable of supporting IP Telephony, ERP, CRM, and other high-priority applications. ? Assessing network capabilities and defining activities required to address critical application requirements. ? Predicting application performance prior to deployment through network modeling. ? Analyzing the behavior of specific applications and transactions to assist in problem identification and resolution. ? Providing business decision support for technology issues using both quantitative and qualitative data. ? Assisting clients in identifying and remedying operational issues and concerns Mr. Agress holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, bringing a common-sense, results-oriented approach to solution identification and deployment. This approach has provided his clients with cost-effective, useful solutions designed to provide appropriate performance for current and new applications over an extended period of time.

Gary Audin has more than 40 years of computer, communications and security experience. He has planned, designed, specified, implemented and operated data, LAN and telephone networks. These have included local area, national and international networks as well as VoIP and IP convergent networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has advised domestic and international venture capital and investment bankers in communications, VoIP, and microprocessor technologies. Mr. Audin has been published extensively in the Business Communications Review, ACUTA Journal, Data Communications Magazine, Infosystems, Computerworld, Computer Business News, Auerbach Publications and other magazines. Most of his articles can be found on www.webtorials.com and www.bcr.com. He writes a weekly blog on communications subjects that can be found at www.voiploop.com.

E. Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst and Partner at Wainhouse Research, specializes in IP communications infrastructure, telephony-based unified communications, and strategic consulting. He has over 20 years experience in developing and marketing highly technical products. Brent has authored reports and articles on migrating to IP communications, integrated communications environments, telephony-based unified communications providers, IP video network providers, Microsoft's Live Communications Server, Cisco, and Avaya, and has developed a highly successful seminar on implementing IP-based Rich Media Communications. As an executive in a manufacturing firm, he developed and implemented a marketing and channel strategy that helped land national accounts at major retailers. Brent has significant high tech product management and development experience, working on the team that built the devices Intel used to test their microprocessors. He has also led teams developing real-time data acquisition and control systems and adaptive intelligent design systems for Schlumberger. He has worked for several other multinational companies including Conoco, and Monsanto. Mr. Kelly has a Ph.D. in engineering from Texas A&M and a B.S. in engineering from Brigham Young University. He can be reached at bkelly@wainhouse.com.

David Bryan is a leading expert in the area of P2P SIP. He has played a leading role in IETF P2PSIP efforts, and has published numerous IETF drafts, academic papers and industry trade articles on the subject. David is the CTO and co-founder of SIPeerior Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of P2PSIP technology. David is active in the SIP community, including heading up p2psip.org, the leading community site for P2PSIP, and is involved with SIPFoundry, the reSIProcate project, and Vovida.org. David was co-founder and CTO of Jasomi Networks, a pioneer in the SIP Session Border Controller (SBC) market. Jasomi was sold to Ditech Communications (Nasdaq: DITC) in June 2005. David previously worked for Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Vovida Networks. David holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Richard Stockton College in NJ, as well as a master's degree in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary, where he is completing his Ph.D.

Gary Audin has more than 40 years of computer, communications and security experience. He has planned, designed, specified, implemented and operated data, LAN and telephone networks. These have included local area, national and international networks as well as VoIP and IP convergent networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has advised domestic and international venture capital and investment bankers in communications, VoIP, and microprocessor technologies. Mr. Audin has been published extensively in the Business Communications Review, ACUTA Journal, Data Communications Magazine, Infosystems, Computerworld, Computer Business News, Auerbach Publications and other magazines. Most of his articles can be found on www.webtorials.com and www.bcr.com. He writes a weekly blog on communications subjects that can be found at www.voiploop.com.

Mark D. Collier Mark Collier is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for SecureLogix Corporation. Mark is responsible for SecureLogix?s technology direction and research/development. Mark is actively performing research in the area of Voice Over IP (VoIP) security. This includes development of custom tools exploit these issues. Mark leads SecureLogix's VoIP security assessments and is an expert on issues facing enterprises during their VoIP deployments. Mark has recently authored the Hacking Exposed: VoIP book, which describes actual attacks, use of existing and new tools, and practical countermeasures. See www.hackingvoip.com for more information about this book. Mr. Collier has been working in the industry for over 20 years, with the past 10 in security, telecommunications, and networking. Mark is a frequent author and presenter on the topic of voice and VoIP security. Mark is a founding member of the Voice Over IP Security Alliance (VoIPSA). Mark has been named one of the most influential people in VoIP and maintains a widely read blog at www.voipsecurityblog.com.

Ken Agress provides consulting services as a part of PlanNet Consulting after over fifteen years working in a wide variety of networking roles. Over the course of his career, he has worked as a consultant, network manager, product manager, and technical specialist,. This breadth of experience provides excellent coverage of many operation and technical issues, generally focusing on designing network environments to support critical applications such as IP Telephony, ERP, and CRM. Mr. Agress?s experience spans a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 100 corporations and large government institutions. His client list includes Qualcomm, California State University Office of the Chancellor, Clark County Nevada, AmerisourceBergen, and Washington Mutual Bank. These engagements have addressed numerous issues, including: ? Developing strategic plans to support Voice over IP, IP Telephony, and similar critical applications. ? Providing a full range of procurement support for network electronics and services capable of supporting IP Telephony, ERP, CRM, and other high-priority applications. ? Assessing network capabilities and defining activities required to address critical application requirements. ? Predicting application performance prior to deployment through network modeling. ? Analyzing the behavior of specific applications and transactions to assist in problem identification and resolution. ? Providing business decision support for technology issues using both quantitative and qualitative data. ? Assisting clients in identifying and remedying operational issues and concerns Mr. Agress holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, bringing a common-sense, results-oriented approach to solution identification and deployment. This approach has provided his clients with cost-effective, useful solutions designed to provide appropriate performance for current and new applications over an extended period of time.

E. Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst and Partner at Wainhouse Research, specializes in IP communications infrastructure, telephony-based unified communications, and strategic consulting. He has over 20 years experience in developing and marketing highly technical products. Brent has authored reports and articles on migrating to IP communications, integrated communications environments, telephony-based unified communications providers, IP video network providers, Microsoft's Live Communications Server, Cisco, and Avaya, and has developed a highly successful seminar on implementing IP-based Rich Media Communications. As an executive in a manufacturing firm, he developed and implemented a marketing and channel strategy that helped land national accounts at major retailers. Brent has significant high tech product management and development experience, working on the team that built the devices Intel used to test their microprocessors. He has also led teams developing real-time data acquisition and control systems and adaptive intelligent design systems for Schlumberger. He has worked for several other multinational companies including Conoco, and Monsanto. Mr. Kelly has a Ph.D. in engineering from Texas A&M and a B.S. in engineering from Brigham Young University. He can be reached at bkelly@wainhouse.com.