All About the Latest VoIP Progress at the International Exhibition "INTEROP Moscow 2006" - New Solutions and World-Wide Tendencies

Innovation technologies of voice and facsimile reports delivery over IP including Internet have been increasingly becoming the integral part of IT infrastructure of the modern companies. The main advantage of VoIP is clear – it’s the lesser cost of communication. VoIP technologies also allow decreasing the time employees spend on telephone negotiations with clients, partners and colleagues.

Urgency and great demand of VoIP are the reasons to choose these technologies as one of the main track of the international exhibition INTEROP Moscow 2006. The exhibition organizers make the special street for companies providing VoIP solutions in the exhibition hall and the VoIP conference in the frame of Interop Congress.

AVAYA - a leading global provider of communications networks and services for businesses (more than 90% of the global corporations from the Fortune 500 entrust to Avaya) – confirms its interest in participation in Interop Moscow. Karyn Mashima, Avaya's Senior Vice President, Strategy & Technology, will make a report on the VoIP conference. Mashima is responsible for formulating and driving overall business and technology strategies, including business development and cross product and next-generation solutions architectures. Most recently, the NJBiz magazine, named Mashima a Woman of Influence for 2005. In addition in March of 2004 the executive search firm Christian & Timbers named Mashima to their First Annual List of Tech Women to Watch.

Also the reports during the VoIP conference will be represented by:

• Pat Rudolph, Vice President, Technology, 3Com - has extensive experience in successfully creating large networks for Fortune 500 companies and several of the world's largest telecommunications service providers. Rudolph's professional career includes working in the former Soviet Union as part of a U.S.-Soviet joint venture tasked with installing networks for a national bank.
  
  
• Clive Sawkins, the Operations Director, IP Communications (IPC) for Cisco Systems in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Cisco Systems - is responsible for developing and driving Cisco's IP Communications market strategy in EMEA. Mainly because of his efforts Cisco is the market leader in IP Phones shipped with 44% Market share for EMEA in Q3 2004 according to MZA. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a regular commentator in print and broadcast business media on topical IT.
  
  
• Andy Abramson, CEO Comnunicanno Inc., blogger, VoIP Watch – has more than 30-year experience in working on the market of marketing and corporative communications, the main flame of his life is the latest development of VoIP. He is the one of key analyst of the web-site VoIP.Watch supporting and promoting VoIP solutions.
  
  
• Alex Pavlovsky, Co-Founder and President of Ranch Networks, the first IP telephony appliance provider to integrate security, and voice quality for all IP-based applications. His speech will focus on what the enterprise can do to address the following critical issues: security, QoS, future proofing, reliability, scalability.
  
  
• Jack Jancher, Senior Director, Alcatel - with over 20 years in Telecommunications R&D, he has implemented VoIP in Xylan data switches, implemented wireless basestations for Tellabs, researched signal identification and detection for DoD at AAEC, and researched vocoders for Bell Northern Research.
  
  
• Alan Clark, founder and CEO of Telchemy, the leading provider of technology for Voice and Video over IP performance management. He is a leading international expert on VoIP performance management and author/co-author for nearly all the related IETF and ITU standards.
  
  
• Shahal Khan, CEO, Centile - has over ten years of experience in Senior Management roles, Business Development and the establishment of new ventures in the international Telecommunications sector, with a focus on Europe and the Middle East. He founded Global Voice Telecom in 1998 in the US, and founded Global Voice Portugal (2001) and G Voice Iberia Spain (2003), one of the first VoIP operators in each country.
  
  
• Bryan Richard, GM and Editor-in-Chief, TelecomBeat Network and VoIP Magazine, one of the most powerful editions about VoIP in the world.
  
  
• Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, Funambol – he a serial entrepreneur and veteran executive at Reuters and Tibco, founded the first Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti. Capobianco writes a monthly column for Wireless Magazine, and has taught courses on wireless and mBusiness strategies at the University of Pavia in Italy.
  
  
• Mark Spencer, CEO, Digium – he is the author of the beginning of the world-wide phenomenon known as Asterisk, the open source PBX and opened the the telecom market for Open Source. Asterisk is fully open source. Today that model has allowed Asterisk to remain available free of charge, while it has become as robust as the leading and most-expensive PBXs. Recently Mark was named by Network World as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Networking.

So VoIP conference in the frame Interop Moscow will be the most representative event devoted to the relevant questions of the VoIP in Eastern Europe.