Something's Brewing With Broadsoft, Jon Arnold

Broadsoft is one of the big players that has been growing their business. As a competitor to Comverse, Alcatel, Nortel and others, they have been making strides and seem to be entering a growth phase.

Pal Jon Arnold is heading towards Phoenix and is promising coverage of their Connections event that starts this weekend.

Jon's insight and analysis hopefully will yield some new perspectives on a company that could be an IPO candidate next year he muses. The VoIP sector needs a hit and Broadsoft may just be it.

While Jon is getting a sun tan, I'll be in London with clients Thomas Howe and the Truphone folks, the Skype Developer gang and their very insightful leader Paul Amery, Teclo 2.0's visionary Martin Geddes plus finally meeting up with Dean Ellwood of VoIPUser.org as well as with some other friends like Mobile Entertainment Forum heavyweight Ralph Simon (founded and sold Movisa to Universal, also started Zomba records and sold that) who now lives in London, ex Dell and Gateway International VP David Prais who went on to start Chumbo and sold that successfully and now is a partner in Pembridge, a creative consultancy that works with ad agencies and PR firms to help them grow) as well as host of others at what now looks like three conferences in London-Symbian Show, Telco 2.0 and IP Expo at Earls Court.

I guess both my London Tube pass and the T-Mobile Web n' Walk 3G service will be getting a nice work out next week along with Truphone on my N95 that has been working so well so far on this trip as has the T-Mobile @ Home service on the new Blackberry.