Rich Tehrani’s Executive Suite is a high level interview between Rich Tehrani, president and
group editor-in-chief of TMC, and leading communications executives. The goal is to allow
those being interviewed to impart their thoughts regarding their leadership roles within their
companies and within the industry as a whole.

Anders Eriksson
inGate



CEO

I recently had the chance to speak with newly minted Ingate CEO Anders Eriksson, who
explained some of today's market trends and how Ingate is excelling with its approach to
assisting the transition to IP-based communications...read more
www.ingate.com

Tom Stanton
ADTRAN



CEO

RT: What is your vision for ADTRAN and how is the company positioned to address
the need for next-generation services? TS: ADTRAN has been very successful
in North America. As we move forward, our focus will remain ..read more
www.adtran.com

Mark Galvin
Whaleback



Co-Founder & CEO

With a multitude of IP telephony products and services already in the market
place, where do you add value? Well, having just come off of Cedar Point
 (News - Alert) where we had built an 80G multimedia switch with an
optical backplane to ...read more
www.whalebacksystems.com

Joe Fuccillo
Juma Technology



CTO

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based technologies are an ideal solution, having been
developed specifically to connect various communications platforms with a also are an
effective means of integrating new ..read more
www.jumacorp.com

Sridhar Ramachandran
NexTone


Co-Founder & CEO

Service providers today are faced with the reality that they must offer a host
of multimedia services in order to compete, and they must be able to
introduce new services quickly and efficiently, which also means. ...read more
www.nextone.com

Simon Gwatkin
Mitel


Vice President of Strategic Marketing

Despite still being in its infancy, the unified communications movement is steadily
gaining momentum, both from the provider side as well as from adopters of the
technology. ...read more
www.mitel.com

Eileen Rudden
Avaya


VP & GM
Unified Comm

I’d like to answer that in terms of both the companies and the info workers
themselves, because they’re both part of the buying process. In the enterprise,
in other words, the experiences of info workers in their consumer lives are
certainly a relevant influence...read more
www.avaya.com

Ali Kafel



Vice President of Telecommunications

While the services businesses provider their customers evolve over time, and as
the underlying technologies they use to deliver those services also evolve, one
thing that does not change is the need for reliable, robust network equipment
...read more
www.stratus.com

Myrle McNeal



Sr. VP of Voice Service Provider Markets Level3

MM: I’d say generally the vision has not changed. When we started the company, we
stated that our goal was to build the most cost efficient network and support it
with the most cost efficient operations. Our goal, in that respect, remains the
same...read more
www.level3.com

Bob O'Neil




President & CEO
Covergence

BO: Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, the industry’s first session border
controller specifically designed to address the unique requirements of the
access edge. The SBC market started about five or six years ago with most
of the focus...read more
www.convergence.com

Alan Pound




Managing Director
Aculab

AP: That’s right; we had an amazing year last year. We launched our Prosody X IP
media processing card in PCI, cPCI, and, last month, we were the first hardware
vendor to release an IP media processing card in PCI Express
form factor...read more
www.aculab.com