Jeff Pulver Quotes (19 Quotes)

This turns the entire telecom industry picture on its head, and demonstrates that voice, presence, text messaging and other IP-based applications will be essential for the company of the future.

They already have the networks. It would be an incremental investment.

Replacing traditional phone service has been done. Now, it's time to utilize the real power of IP communications by providing organizations with capabilities that they can customize for any application in any environment. This is a good example of how the communications industry and computing industry are colliding.

It is time the Internet community started speaking for itself.

We're asking to be levied at a time and place that makes sense.

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.

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.

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

eBay obviously saw the cost of fighting a lawsuit better than the cost of paying the licensing fees.

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.

It's not like we're free riders. We're actually paying somebody for Internet access too.

It was two years ago during spring VON. No one came.

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Major media and Internet companies will announce blended, transformational IP-based communications plays.

We're coming to a point in time when we can deliver better quality images over the Internet. All of a sudden, this idea of disruption is spreading beyond phone providers. If you think of American Idol instead broadcasting over the Internet, a new dawn has come for the broadcast space. It's more of a point where the video becomes more functional to the way one works and lives.

The sides in the communications policy wars will become more apparent, with Internet access providers on the one side and Internet application providers on the other.

In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many ... had no telephone contact with their friends or loved ones simply because they did not own cell phones or call forwarding or voice mail services.