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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Enterprise Connect 2021 is September 27-29, in a virtual event. Several of the BCStrategies Experts who are participating as speakers recorded introductory videos about...
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Enterprise Connect 2021 is September 27-29. See the BCStrategies Experts in the following sessions.
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts provide their initial thoughts on the Zoom acquisition of Five9 and the impacts on the industry. ...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss recent conferences, analyst briefings and industry news. Blair Pleasant moderates the conversation, with Jon Arnold, Phil Edholm, ...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts share their impressions following Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft's annual gathering of tech leaders and practitioners...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast the Experts think back to 2016...when Mitel tried to acquire Polycom, Microsoft was doubling down on Skype for Business, UCaaS and CPaaS were newly familiar acronyms...

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In this special edition Industry Buzz podcast, BCStrategies invites special guests Mike Nelson and Kane Simms of VUX World to join in the conversation. Today's...

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Successful organizations are embracing the Digital Workplace and adopting Microsoft Teams as the underlying foundation. How have they done this quickly, cost effectively...
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The potential of using all the collected data in real time to impact the meeting while it is happening could be a valuable new tool for meeting effectiveness.
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts address a topic near and dear. We asked the Experts for best practices or recommendations for managing or participating in video meetings....

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