Oslo, Norway , - September 7, 2005 – Paradial (www.paradial.com) today announced that it has been named to the 2005 “Pulver 100” – which is the VoIP industry’s premier listing of privately held growth companies that represent the future of the communications ecosystem. Paradial has been named to the list due to its achievements in providing IP telephony to the consumer and allowing software providers to offer their services to consumers and enterprise customers.
With RealTunnel™ Paradial brings real time sensitive traffic like IP telephony, video, and application sharing to the end-user by solving the problem of firewall and NAT traversal. RealTunnel™ is available both as a public service and a sales object for ISPs, OEMs and integrators. The product is available as enterprise and carrier grade (telco) solutions. RealTunnel™ has been used and approved by thousands of users around the world for more than two years. The RealTunnel™ and realsip.com public service is provided free of charge through the server parks in Europe, US and Asia.
“2005 has been the year of VoIP – due in large part to companies like Paradial, that have helped spread and improve IP voice and video communications via their RealTunnel™ service”, said Jeff Pulver , CEO of pulver.com. “We’re proud to rename Paradial to this year’s pulver 100.”
“The RealTunnel™ Firewall/NAT traversal is probably the most open solution on the market. RealTunnel™ makes IP telephony work with virtually any SIP client on any network using any SIP server. It is up to the users to decide if they want to use our SIP service (realsip.com) or other SIP services like iptel.org and Free World Dialup”, CEO of Paradial Kevin Kliland explains.
About pulver 100
Originally introduced in 2002, the pulver 100 features private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The value chain characterized by pulver 100 differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century, focusing more on a networking-industry model that espouses open interfaces, connectivity decoupledfrom services, and software decoupled from hardware. For additional details on the 2005 pulver 100, please visit: http://pulver.com/pulver100/
About Paradial
Paradial is a software company serving the data and telecom industries. Paradial employees are experienced industry respected experts that have been pioneers in developing VoIP systems since 1996. The Paradial team wants to be in the front-seat developing innovative and new services on top of their architecture.For more details on Paradial, please go to: http://www.paradial.com
About pulvermedia
Founded by Jeff Pulver, pulvermedia produces the highly successful VON conferences, and is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology.For more information, please visit www.pulvermedia.com.
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