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Jim Van Meggelen gives a talk about Asterisk, the world's leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. As well as the tough challenges of running a telecoms business, and how one can deliver telephony infra-structure to small companies. He shares with us his insights into the telecoms industry, it's current state, and where he wants it to go in the future. How he wants to move the industry from a proprietary based one to a more open-sourced and commodity based business.
He also talks about how you can take on big markets as a small company and succeed. He argues for when it can make sense to connect with other proprietary products and why you should hang on to and keep investing into small industries even when it might not always be very lucrative.
Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over fifteen years of enterprise telecom experience, for such companies as Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has has extensive knowledge of both legacy and VoIP equipment from manufacturers such as Nortel, Cisco and Avaya.
Jim was the architect of two of the world's largest managed enterprise voice networks; each solution serving roughly twenty-thousand users in more than one-thousand communities across Canada, providing telecommunications in five different languages, through six time zones, administered completely from a central location. These networks pioneered the use of extensive automation and database control in a branch voice network - functionalities not generally available in proprietary telecommunications systems. Jim has now moved on from the world of proprietary telecom, and is commited to open-source telephony.
Jim is one of the principal contributors to the Asterisk Documentation Project, and is co-author of the bestselling O'Reilly book, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony. He enjoys teaching, public speaking, improvisational acting, and writing.
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