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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This is the last chance to register for the WebRTC Conference and Expo in Santa Clara next week, Nov 19-21.
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As you may have heard, Rockstar has filed its first set of lawsuits using the vast Nortel patent portfolio. Rockstar is the legal entity created by Microsoft, Apple, RIM...
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Video conferencing seems to be going through a major change. Over the past year, the focus has moved from expensive board and conference room systems to end user device...
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This week I spent a few days at the Oracle Open World event in San Francisco. While I was distracted by incredibly fast catamarans racing on hydrofoils , I focused on...
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Join me, UCStrategies UC Expert Phil Edholm, for a CompTIA Webinar: "WebRTC, Is It a Game Changer?" on Friday, September 27, at 12 p.m. EDT/ 9 a.m. PDT.
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How do recent acquisitions relate to the overall trends happening in unified communications? The UCStrategies Experts take a look in this Industry Buzz podcast moderated by...

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I know we like to think of UC as a really hot market space and that innovation is happening all around, however, the progression of recent Gartner UC Magic Quadrants...
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The options for video conferencing keep growing, almost at an exponential rate while the value you as a user have to pay is dropping to or is already almost zero. The PC...
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So far, WebRTC has been limited to PCs and the Chrome and Firefox browsers.This all changed with Google announcing the Beta release of Chrome 29, which will include...
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