Phil Edholm

President and Founder

PKE Consulting

http://www.pkeconsulting.com

[email protected]

 

Phil Edholm is the President and Founder of PKE Consulting. PKE consults to end users and vendors in the communications and networking markets. PKE works with our clients to deliver the value of the integration of information and interaction. Whether with Unified Communications or integration of communications and business processes, PKE has the experience and knowledge to transform your organization.

Phil Edholm has over 30 years experience in creating innovation and transformation in networking and communications. Prior to founding PKE , he was Vice President of Technology Strategy and Innovation for Avaya. In this role, he was responsible for defining vision and strategic technology and the integration of the Nortel product portfolio into Avaya. He was responsible for portfolio architecture, standards activities, and User Experience. Prior to Avaya, he was CTO/CSO for the Nortel Enterprise business for 9 years. At Nortel, he led the development of VoIP solutions and multimedia communications as well as IP transport technology. His background includes extensive LAN and data communications experience, including 13 years with Silicon Valley start-ups.

Phil is recognized as an industry leader and visionary. In 2007, he was recognized by Frost and Sullivan with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Growth, Innovation and Leadership in Telecommunications. Phil is a widely sought speaker and has been in the VoiceCon/Enterprise Connect Great Debate three times. He has been recognized by the IEEE as the originator of “Edholm’s Law of Bandwidth” as published in July 2004 IEEE Spectrum magazine and as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications" by Internet Telephony magazine. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. Phil has 13 patents and holds a BSME/EE from Kettering University.

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WhatsApp, the Facebook messaging applications just introduced multi-party video calling for up to four participants. The solution only works on mobile phones, IOS and...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss Google in the enterprise. Topics include the recent Google Cloud Next '18 conference and announcements coming out of it,...

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Blair Pleasant
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss how companies choose the right vendor or partner to work with for unified communications and collaboration solutions. Blair Pleasant...

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Phil Edholm
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At the Google Cloud event GoogleNext 2018, there were a lot of announcements. This conference is focused to how to use the Google cloud for business deployments.
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Cato Networks announced today the addition of identity as an element in the contextual policy and operation of an SD-WAN. The concept is relatively simple -- enable...
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This Industry Buzz podcast is a follow-up to Phil Edholm's recent article, Business Communications in the Digital Transformation Age, a discussion of a structured view of the elements of Business...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI). Topics include whether it is really artificial, and AI’s role with business processes.

Kevin...

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Blair Pleasant
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss business communication: what it is, how it differs from UC and why businesses should be looking beyond UC.

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The Business Communications market is ever more complex and challenging for both users and administrators. The intent of this article is to present a structured taxonomy...
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Blair Pleasant
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In this Industry Buzz podcast the BCStrategies Experts address a variety of recent news items.

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Phil Edholm
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Three weeks ago, Cisco held their annual Collaboration Summit in Phoenix. I decided to wait a week to write about the event to let my thoughts congeal.
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, BCStrategies Experts Michael Finneran, Dave Michels and Phil Edholm discuss the magnitude of the Avaya Mobile Experience announcement, how much better this is over...

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