February 13, 2007 – Technology Marketing Corporation, (TMC), today announced the winners of its prestigious “Best of Show” award at this year’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo East 2007 at the Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
The awards recognize innovative technology and creative product feature sets. Forward-looking products that will serve as a base upon which to build future developments in our industry were also awarded. Each winner displayed and demonstrated their product on the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO exhibit floor. Awards were determined by a panel of judges who visited with each exhibitor, viewed product demos, and interviewed company staff.
The following companies and their products were awarded with the “Best of Show” designation:
Best Service Provider Solution
GlobalTouch Telecom (News – Alert) (www.globaltouchtelecom.com)
Sansay (www.sansay.com)
Best Large Enterprise Solution
Interactive Intelligence (www.inin.com)
Citrix Systems, Inc. (www.citrix.com)
Best SMB Solution
ActionTec Electronics, Inc. (www.vosky.com)
Dirigo Telecommunications (www.dirigotelecom.com)
Best Consumer Offering
Packet 8 (News – Alert) (www.packet8.net)
InterEdge Technologies (www.inter-edge.com)
Best Development Tool
Aculab (www.aculab.com)
Touchstone (News – Alert) (www.touchstone-inc.com)
Most Innovative Product
Digium (www.digium.com)
911 Enable (www.911enable.com)
Best Booth
Dialogic (News – Alert) (www.dialogic.com)
Dice (www.dice.com)
Best Newcomer
Acredo Technologies (www.acredo.us)
Star2Star (www.star2star.com)
Best of Call Center 2.0
CosmoCom (www.cosmocom.com)
Aheeva (www.aheeva.com)
Best Event Marketing
Interactive Intelligence (News – Alert) (www.inin.com)
Dice (www.dice.com)
Editors’ Choice
SKY-click (www.sky-click.com)
Arlinx (www.arlinx.com)
“These companies are pioneers and their products represent the cream of the crop in VoIP solutions,” said Rich Tehrani, president and group editor-in-chief of TMC, in a statement. “As the event grows, selecting Best of Show winners each year becomes more and more difficult as the solutions displayed on the exhibit floor become more and more impressive.”
Tehrani continued: “Every product is worthy of distinction, therefore you can rest assured that the companies and products on the list this year represent truly outstanding achievement in IP telephony. Their contributions are why more than 7,000 attendees turned out in Ft. Lauderdale to walk the exhibit floor.”
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMCʹs Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 4,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves 20 million page views to two million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, and Call Center 2.0 Conference.
About Sansay
Sansay, Inc. is a leading developer of VOIP infrastructure systems for service providers worldwide. The companyʹs session controllers for inter-carrier peering and subscriber access applications deliver superior performance, features, stability and scalability, allowing service providers to improve quality, reduce costs and meet regulatory requirements while gaining control over a wide range of VOIP applications. The company’s products are commercially deployed in domestic/international wholesale, calling card, residential and business VOIP service, call/contact center and e911 call routing.
Founded in 2002, Sansayʹs team is the most experienced VOIP infrastructure development team in the industry, including the co-founder and several founding technical executives from Nuera Communications, a pioneer in carrier VOIP softswitch and gateway development and deployment.
