Lior Haramaty (born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1966) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. [1] (1989) and the inventor of the Audio Transceiver [2] used in the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry. [3]
VocalTec was the first company to provide commercial Internet voice technology, which in 1996 was one of the earliest successful Internet IPOs (NASDAQ: vocl).
In 2006 Haramaty was included in TMCnet's Internet Telephony magazine "Top 100 Voices of IP communications" for his contributions to the VoIP industry.[ citation needed] In 2005 he was awarded the "VON Visionary Award" by Pulver.com .[ citation needed]