Originally introduced in 2002, the pulver 100 features private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The value chain characterized by the pulver 100 differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century, focusing more on a networking-industry model that espouses open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware.
.2004 has been the year of VoIP . and the companies named in the pulver 100 have made significant contributions, by helping to spread IP communications worldwide with little or no dependence on traditional telephone network, equipment, or service providers,. said Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com. .This year.s pulver 100 represents the future of the communications ecosystem, and we.re proud to honor them..
The companies named to the 2004 pulver 100 are: Access Line, Acme Packet, Aculab, Adax, Amtelco, Atreus Systems, Bay Packets, BlueSlice, Bridgeport Networks, Brix Networks, Broadsoft, Broadvoice, CallWave, Centile, Cicero Networks, Cinergy Communications, CITEL Technologies, Commetrex, Convedia, Diamondware, Digilinea, Digium, EADS Telecom, Ecuity Advanced Communications, eStara, Excel Switching, GrandStream, Hexago, Hotsip, i3Micro Network, Inclarity, Ingate, International Systems Research, Intertex, Intoto, IP Unity, Iptel.org, IPeria, IVR Technologies, Jasomi Networks, jNETx, Kagoor, locustworld, LongBoard, M5Networks, MailVision, Mediatrix, Mera Systems, Meru Networks, Metaswitch, Natural Convergence, Netcentrex, Netintact, Netrake, Neustar, NexTone Communications, Nimcat Networks, One Connect, OnRelay, Pactolus, PalTalk, Paradial, Peerio (Popular Telephony), Peoplecall, Personeta, Pingtel, PointOne, Psytechnics, Quintum Technlogies, ring2, Sansay, SentitO, SIPQuest, Skype, SkyWave, Strix Systems, Surf Communications, SWYX, Sylantro, Telchemy, TeleGea, Telio, Tellme Networks, ThinkEngine Networks, Trinity Convergence, Ubiquity Software, Unimax, VegaStream, Versatel Networks, VidiTel, Vocera, VoicePulse, VoIP Americas, Volo Communications, Vonage, Voxpath Networks, WebCall World, Webmessenger, Wildpackets, Zultys Technologies. For additional details on each company named to the 2004 pulver 100, please visit: http://pulver.com/pulver100/
About pulver.com ( http://www.pulver.com)
Founded in 1994 by Jeff Pulver, pulver.com produces the highly successful VON conferences, and is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. Jeff Pulver is also the founder of VON Magazine, The VON Coalition, Free World Dialup (FWD), LibreTel, pulverinnovations, Digisip, pulverRadio, RevUp Records, and is co-founder of Vonage and WHP Wireless.
Most recently, Jeff Pulver's petition for clarification declaring Free World Dialup as an unregulated information service was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), constituting the first and only decision that the FCC has made to date regarding IP communications. Now referred to as "The Pulver Order", the ruling states that computer-to-computer VoIP service is not a telecommunications service, which provides a clear signal to consumers and capital markets that the FCC is not interested in subjecting end-to-end IP Communications services to traditional voice telecommunications regulation under the Communications Act.
The pulver.com website is a key source of information for those in the IP Communications industry and The Pulver Report (http://pulver.com/reports) has more than 50,000 subscribers - for whom it is a primary source of news and information on the latest developments in emerging net technologies. For more information, please visit www.pulver.com
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