About
SIPtoSIP represents the latest in a series of initiatives by Free World Dialup to further the cause of the VoIP industry. Finding new demand represents a significant piece of unfinished business for the VoIP industry. The telephone produced a many fold increase in demand over the telegraph. VoIP still depends on the same pool of demand as traditional telephone service. FWD moved to paid membership in September 2008 and started the search for a workable calling model free of telephone network constraints. SIPtoSIP seeks to foster a hobbyist attitude toward experimentation with the communication options enabled by SIP.
Contact
FWD InternationalPO Box 1432
Melville, NY 11747
Daniel Berninger, CEO
Nova: 300000@login.zipdx.com
sip HD: 1006@sip.fwdi.net
tel SD: +1.202.250.3838
e: dan@danielberninger.com
FWD International Board of Directors
Jeff Pulver, Chairman
Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and Founder of pulver.com. Mr. Pulver is a globally renowned thought leader, author and entrepreneur. He is the publisher of The Pulver Report and and creator of the industry standard Voice on the Net (VON) events. Additionally, Mr. Pulver is the founder of FWD, the VON Coalition, PrimeTimeRewind.TV, Vivox and is the co-founder of VoIP provider, Vonage. On February 12, 2004, Mr. Pulver's petition for clarification declaring Free World Dialup as an unregulated information service was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Now referred to as "the Pulver Order", the ruling provides important clarification that computer-to-computer VoIP service is not a telecommunications service.
See Jeff's Blog
Tom Evslin, Director
Tom Evslin's career has taken him from nerd to CEO to novelist and consultant with a brief stop as Transportation Secretary for the State of Vermont. Evslin was cofounder Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world'??s leading provider of wholesale VoIP. Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange's predecessor Microsoft Mail. Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc were sold to Microsoft.
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Daniel Berninger, CEO
Daniel Berninger moved to FWD after working as a Washington, DC based independent technolgy analyst. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon , HP , and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications . He won the 1999 VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and worked on the founding of ITXC , Vonage , and Free World Dialup.
See Dan's BlogFWD's legacy
FWD past, present, future
The journey for FWD from the first interconnection between the Internet and the PSTN in 1995 to the Pulver Order in 2004 to leadership in SIP registration remains incomplete while the the future of VoIP services remains uncertain.