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November 28th, 2008

Previously I had compressed this the wrong way with a result of chipmunk voices.

Corrected and pretty cool! Frognet started in 1996 as a dial-up ISP company. The availability of open source telephony software is only one part of the business operation equation. Other real costs to manage an ISP business include price of equipment acquisition, human capital, training, data conversion and integration. More importantly, finding and hiring motivated CS talent must be factored into this equation.

In a frank conversation with Chip Swanson, CEO, and David Broeckelman-Post from Frognet, and IPiFony’s Matthew Hardeman, the three discuss the other costs for internet service providers. Digium’s Asterisk open source software helps new internet service providers bring soft switch applications including VOIP and other telephony services to the marketplace. DIDX was a media sponsor for ISPCon 2008. Brian Coburn and Anne Tredway recorded this discussion at the San Jose Conference Center in November.

We met at GSMA World Mobile Congress 2009 in Barcelona at the Mobile Monday party. Check out what he’s been up to at http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/papers/Multi_Language_Programming_Part1_Overview.pdf, http://www.wib-software.de/en/home/ and http://www.wib-software.de/en/osm-s60/.

Bernd is just a few miles from CeBIT in Germany. He’s a two winner of a Nokia Phone Competition and is an avid Symbian developer. We’re looking forward to another podcast soon where he guides us through some of the business applications such as TrackLoc, Punch2Go and Tandem. Find him on Linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/a22/745.