Craig Southeren Elected to Vovida Networks Sponsored Seat on the International Softswitch Consortium.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 1999-- The Linux development community elected Craig Southeren, Equivalence Pty Ltd, as their representative to participate on the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. ). Vovida Networks sponsored the open election and has contributed the yearly ISC membership fee, travel and lodging for a member of the Linux development community to participate on the ISC. "I am excited at the prospect of working closely with organizations such as Vovida Networks and the International Softswitch Consortium during the next year on behalf of Linux developers everywhere," said Craig Southeren, after receiving the news of his election. Craig has been involved in both the development and promotion of Linux for some time, having written the original 3Com 3c505 driver for the Linux kernel and having promoted and advocated Linux since the days of the two floppy 0.99.1 releases. Last year Craig started the OpenH323 project to foster the development of an Open Source implementation of the H.323 protocol stack. Vovida Networks would like to thank those who participated in the election. Voting took place during the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is a conference and trade show that focuses on open source and Linux solutions in the information technology sector. The show is owned and managed by IDG World Expo, a business unit of International Data Group (IDG). August 10th - 12th, both at the tradeshow and on-line at Vovida Networks' website. The International Softswitch Consortium promotes industry support for open standards and protocols that will provide the foundation for most voice over IP products and services. Further information about the ISC can be found at their website at www.softswitch.org. For further information about Vovida Networks, protocol support packages or to download the free open source implementations of H.323 Annex F, MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol or RTP (1) (Rapid Transport Protocol) The protocol used in IBM's High Performance Routing (HPR) system. (2) (Realtime Transport Protocol) An IP protocol that supports real time transmission of voice and video. stacks, please visit our web site at www.vovida.com. Vovida Networks, a founding member of the International Softswitch Consortium, is a privately held, multinational corporation multinational corporation, business enterprise with manufacturing, sales, or service subsidiaries in one or more foreign countries, also known as a transnational or international corporation. These corporations originated early in the 20th cent. headquartered in Silicon Valley. Our software provides fully scalable, highly flexible VoIP telephony solutions on both Linux-based and embedded systems. Product development is conducted in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. (USA), Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), Calgary, Alberta (Canada), Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) and Bensville, New South Wales Bensville is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the City of Gosford local government area. The main section of Bensville is centred on Kallaroo Road, and consists of a small park, video store, cafe, general store and (Australia). |
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