Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com and co-founder of Free World Dialup, Vonage, and Zula. Pulver has been called a Voice over Internet Protocol pioneer, and has written extensively on VoIP telephony, and the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of its applications layer...
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As VoIP is now moving into the mainstream, service providers are beginning to face new challenges related to operational scalability - growing the business at the speed of the market. With a history of success and proven deployment experience, Ensim helps service providers ensure a scalable and successful hosted VoIP deployment, and I'm proud to include Ensim in this year's pulver 100.
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The industry is in its infancy. We still have yet to see interoperability, and we still have yet to see the promise (of IP telephony). To regulate it at this point could stifle the growth.
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eBay obviously saw the cost of fighting a lawsuit better than the cost of paying the licensing fees.
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In the past, if you wanted to start a new phone company, you had to have the infrastructure and equipment. But now voice has become truly an application that can run on anything, instead of needing and entire infrastructure behind it.
But those communications are still synchronous and structured.