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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]

References

  1. ^ "Biographies of New Directions in Telecom forum participants". doc.gov.
  2. ^ U.S. patent 5,825,771
  3. ^ "Internet Telephony October 2006 Publisher's Outlook". Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com.