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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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts hold their annual conversation predicting what kinds of changes will happen in business communications in 2021. Jim Burton ...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts review the year 2020 in business communications. Jim Burton moderates the...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss the recent Cisco virtual WebexOne event and the many announcements Cisco made at the event. Blair Pleasant moderates the...

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New companies are added to the Cisco portfolio for Communications and Customer Care
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All this changed this week when Cisco announced they were acquiring BabbleLabs. Cisco plans to integrate BabbleLabs’ noise reduction across the entire suite of...
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Is your organization embracing new Collaboration Technologies, and now you need an elegant way to make these co-exist with your incumbent Communications solutions?
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A single vendor “completer” solution set for a Microsoft Teams deployment
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss the future of conferences. Assuming that in-person conferences start up again sometime in 2021, what can we expect these events to...

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Those same networks have been scaling to deal with video streaming and other services but have had to invest heavily to manage the increased demand of business video...
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