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Arranged by:
Diamond partner:
Digium - the company behind Asterisk - the Open Source PBX
Sponsors:
Platinum Sponsors

Aastra.com
CommPartners - Enabling the VoIP Promise
Pulver.com Enterprises
Gold Sponsors
Asterlink
Silver Sponsors
Aheeva.com
BroadVoice
Invores Systems
NetXUSA.com
Signate
Telic.net
Media Partner :
Voxilla - User's guide to the VoIP revolution
Exhibitors:
Redfone Communications
Diamond partner
www.digium.comBased in high-tech Huntsville, Alabama, Digium™ is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk™, the industry's first Open Source PBX. Used in combination with Digium's™ PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk™ offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures.

Digium™ solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP implementations through Open Source, standards-based software and next-generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium™ hardware supports traditional voice protocols, including PRI, RBS, FXS, FXO, E&M, Feature Group D, Groundstart, and Loopstart. Data protocols include PPP, Cisco HDLC, and Frame Relay. For packet voice, Asterisk supports IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk™ eXchange), SIP, MGCP, Skinny, and H.323 VoIP protocols.

Digium™ provides a highly refined selection of quality hardware and software products, developed and implemented using innovative engineering techniques (primarily Open Source development). A full range of professional services complement these product lines, including consulting, technical support, and custom software development services.

The Open Source communications revolution is here, and Digium™ is leading the way.

Platinum sponsors
AastraAastra develops and markets products and systems for accessing communication networks. Currently, we have launched our first SIP Voice-over-IP telephone with additional IP telephones and access devices to be released shortly. These product additions complement our existing business telephones, PBX systems, network access servers and broadcast quality digital video gateways.
CommPartners is a next-generation VoIP Facilitator. We provide VoIP telephony applications and cost efficient IP to PSTN interconnectivity.

We use the latest Internet Protocol (“IP”)-based technology, a nationwide converged IP/PSTN network, and integrated, optimized billing systems to deliver turnkey voice service to broadband subscribers. Our service set can be customized by market and geography, depending upon local feature and price requirements. Our pricing is modular or “a la carte,” allowing our customers to take advantage of their own network and internal infrastructure. Best of all, we allow our customers to offer reliable phone service under their own brand.

By virtue of our corporate structure, CommPartners can operate in all telephony regulatory environments, having both access to Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (“CLEC”) and Enhanced Service Provider (“ESP”) status. We provide economical nationwide connectivity to the PSTN, and can deliver calling features and advanced services over any packet infrastructure.

Pulver.com Enterprises has been the voice of the IP Communication industry since the earliest days of VoIP.

Our far-reaching entities - VON Events, pulverInnovations.com, Free World Dialup, and LibréTel - uniquely position us to shape the ever-evolving technology and politics of VoIP, provide hardware and software VoIP solutions to new users and seasoned experts alike, and produce the industry's key forum for business interaction.

Launched in 1996, Pulver.com's VON Conference and Expo -- traditionally held twice a year in the US, annually in Europe, and expanding to Japan and Australia in '05 - is now THE premiere meeting place for the IP Communications industry, attracting delegates and speakers from across the Telecommunications sphere. If it's happening with VoIP, it's happening at VON.

A primary goal at pulver.com is providing IP Communications solutions, from both software and hardware perspectives. Through pulverInnovations we provide easy access to the most recent advances in VoIP user technology, such as our WiSIP: the first WiFi SIP telephone targeted to the consumer marketplace. We also deliver VoIP service options, offering free VoIP phone numbers through Free World Dialup and, in LibréTel, a means for bridging those numbers to the telephone world-at-large.

 
Gold Sponsors

Asterlink - Evolving CommunicationsGlobal Convergence is just around the corner; AsterLink derived from the words Asterisk and Link is doing its part to achieve complete telecommunication convergence. Linking the Asterisk Community to the rest of the VoIP world through IAX compatible consolidated clearinghouse. AsterLink offer a wide range of services to achieve mankind’s ultimate goal of make the world smaller through telecommunications.

AsterLink provider different areas of convergence possibilities to ensure reliable, robust and scalable systems that would enable the telecommunication industry to further prosper and serve its subscribers better.Newer and better ways of enabling different areas of the telecommunication industry to provide the services to the people has evolved not only by provider quality service but also at more affordable rates.

AsterLink provides many of these services and is striving hard to improve on the current services and is developing a lot more to benefit wide range of needs of vendors, subscribers, and enterprises.

AsterLink…. The evolving communications..

 
 
Silver Sponsors
AheevaAheeva, a company based in Montreal is specialist in multimedia contact center and business solutions. Aheeva helps companies understand and manage customer interactions more efficiently and increase agent productivity. Aheeva provides businesses and contact centers with the tools to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and increase revenues. Aheeva's solutions include:
  • Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
  • Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR)
  • Text-To-Speech (TTS)
  • Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR)
  • C++, Java, JSP and VXML development
  • e-Service and Internet solutions

Aheeva's mission: At Aheeva, our mission is to provide clients with a high return on investment by working closely with customers, understanding their needs and delivering high quality solutions with the right tools and technologies

Aheeva's solutions: Aheeva offers the following solutions:

  • IP contact center solution
  • IP PBX
  • Quality Monitoring tools
  • Contact Center Reporting
  • Interactive Voice Response solutions (IVR)
  • Tailored application
  • Voice XML development
  • Automated Speech Recognition (ASR)
  • Text-to-speech (TTS)
  • Turnkey services
  • IVR In Front
  • Technology consulting
Invores SystemsInvores Systems, Inc. is a privately held Long Island, New York based software development firm focused on Interactive Voice Web and speech-enabled customer self-service solutions in commercial, service provider and government organizations.

Invores offers a comprehensive suite of licensed software and services, designed to automate customer contact business processes through the telephone while capitalizing on existing web infrastructure investments.

EXpress2.0 is the first VoIP/SIP software platform that uses speech recognition to enable companies to leverage their web-based business logic by turning it into applications that people can use from any telephone. EXpress2.0 applications simulate “live” conversations at a fraction of the cost of the real thing without sacrificing service.

Earlier this year, Invores announced integration with Asterisk, marking an exciting next generation phase of software solutions for businesses. EXpress2.0 applications offer enhanced value to open source VOIP systems.

NETXUSA, the leading provider of DIGIUM/Asterisk components. NETXUSA has been providing Telephony products to dealers for more than 30 years.

NETXUSA is known for their technical support and availability of DIGIUM products for the Asterisk application. With more than 2500 dealers world wide NETXUSA is the go to company for one stop shopping and prompt delivery. NETXUSA’s Lab facility is constantly evaluating products that will enhance the most sophisticated Asterisk installation.

NETXUSA a distribution partner you can count on.
See www.netxusa.com for dealer information.

SignateSignate is the leading provider of design, installation, configuration, training and management services for open source VoIP systems.

Industry-standard high performance hardware and Asterisk open source software combine to create reliable, highly capable VoIP systems. The total cost of ownership of an open system is typically less than half the cost of a proprietary closed PBX system. And that's just the beginning. An Asterisk VoIP system integrates seamlessly into your IT infrastructure. Open source VoIP enables major productivity improvements for your business. With VoIP, you can integrate telephony with your other business systems.

Signate enables open source telephony with an experienced technical staff led by Paul Mahler, author of the book "VOIP Telephony with Asterisk", the first book on how to install and configure the leading open source PBX system. Signate services include installation, configuration and training. Signate will help you specify, configure, maintain and upgrade your Asterisk systems. We partner with system resellers for installation service, and support service.

Let Signate show you how you can reduce your costs and enable powerful new applications with open source telephony.

 

telic.net offers Asterisk-based service providers the xVox platform, a managed next-generation OSS (NGOSS) and real time billing application suite.

The xVox platform can be used to impose routing and billing rules across multiple asterisk domains while acting as a sinlge ingress/egress point to the rest of the world. The xVox platform supports multiple levels of resellers or agents, as well as multiple currencies.

Because the xVox platform is offered a managed service, new customers can be up and running in 24 hours. The service scales easily from a dozen subscribers to hundreds of thousands, and is offered with simple pay-as-you-grow service plans. And, all customers gain access to telic's award-winning 24x7 techniocal support staff.

 
Organizers
edvina.netEdvina.net is a company with many year's experience in TCP/IP networking. Examples of projects we have been or are involved with:
  • Installation, configuration and custom development and documentation of Asterisk - the Open Source PBX
  • VoIP training - including SIP Express Router and Asterisk
  • TCP/IP and Network Security training
  • Installation of high performance web servers
  • Configuration of an Open Source network management platforms
  • DNS maintenance and configuration
  • Setting up and managing technical conferences

Edvina was founded in 1987 and is owned and managed by Olle E. Johansson.

www.sokol-associates.comSokol & Associates provides custom telecommunication software solutions for business. Founded in 1996, S & A has developed and installed custom software systems for businesses ranging from 1 to 100,000 Employees.

Our primary area of practice is telecommunications. We have developed solutions for such industry giants as Lucent, Sprint, and Toshiba.

Sokol & Associates is dedicated to keeping pace with the ever changing world of high technology. We offer experience, professionalism, integrity and skill.

 

Time for your company to become an Astricon sponsor? Please contact us at: info@astricon.net for a copy of the sponsorship agreement.

No sponsorship include the right to a speaker's slot. Speakers are choosen based on skills and general interest only.

 


©Copyright 2004, Edvina AB, Sollentuna, Sweden
and Sokol & Associates, Missouri, USA