5.9 Industry Promotion

Although neither a formal standards group nor industry group per se, no consideration of the VoIP industry scene would be complete without recognising the efforts of Jeff Pulver's pulver.com [25] and Voice on the Net (VoN) [26] activities. Surrendering a position as a Wall Street analyst to concentrate on his Pulver and VoN activities, Pulver's organisation provides regular conference gatherings that have constituted the focal point for promotion of the VoIP industry over recent years.

In addition, pulver.com has been a leading experimenter through a series of 'freeworld dial-up' experimental VoIP networks.