- Lior Haramaty
Lior Haramaty (born in
Tel-Aviv ,Israel in 1966) is the co-founder ofVocalTec Inc. (1989) and the inventor of the AudioTransceiver [US patent|5825771] that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually theVoIP industry, that changed the face of thetelecommunication industry .According to
Om Malik , "Two entrepreneurs barely out of their teens, Lior Haramaty andAlon Cohen , founded VocalTec Communications in 1993 based on the promise of packet voice technology they observed as members of theIsrael Defense Force .... the idea of commercializing packet voice did not occur to anyone until the arrival of Lior and Alon." [Malik, Om. " [http://gigaom.com/2004/09/19/the-voice-over-ip-insurrection The Voice over IP Insurrection] ",September 19 ,2004 .]TMCnet 's Internet Telephony Magazine -, "In fact, at that time the company's CTO, Lior Haramaty, knew more about VoIP than just about anyone else, and we were fortunate to have him as a columnist in this magazine for a number of years." [ [http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/voip/internet-telephony-october-2006-publishers-outlook.html Internet Telephony magazine] , October 2006.]NTIA New Directions in Telecom A Conversation with Assistant Secretary Larry Irving -, "Lior Haramaty, co-founder and Vice President of technical marketing of VocalTec Communications" [ [http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/telecom/bios.htm NTIA] , February 4, 1998.]References
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