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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Voxbone has introduced a response to the complexity challenge by directly integrating and hosting WebRTC into its global SIP, IP, and local number network. All in all,...
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This post is based on a question from Marty Parker about the status of WebRTC: do current versions of WebRTC support mobile device browsers at the same level as the PC/...
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While part of the session was interesting and Interactive Intelligence about is building a high value eco-system of partners they build on top of, partners they...
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Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) just released three new Forrester Consulting reports on the State of B2B Video Communication Market including adoption,...
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UCStrategies Experts were in attendance and/or presenting at Lync Conference 2014, and in this Industry Buzz podcast they discuss the show, Gurdeep Singh Pall's keynote presentation, and "...

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This report covers the outlook for WebRTC in 2014 based on feedback from leading vendors, entrepreneurs and users in the WebRTC community.
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At ITEXPO in Miami last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Howard Lee, the CEO of Spoken...
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The impact of the U.S. Appeals Court's ruling may be significant, leading to tiered pricing models, and the virtual "blocking" of content and services that are not...
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Something extraordinary is happening in the communications market through WebRTC and the "webification" of communications...
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IP-based communications opens the door to a variety of attacks, some of which like a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) can inundate an IP location with traffic,...
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