About the technology author(s): Pnina Vortman is the project manager of the Multimedia Networking Applications group at the Haifa Research Lab. Her group focuses on the integration of voice and data into applications. Their main interest is Internet telephony and telephony-based applications, and their specialities include Java server development, medical applications, call center solutions, directory servers (LDAP), telephony gateways, audio technology, and broadband telephony solutions.
Roni Klimer-Ram is a research staff member at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel, in the Multimedia Networking Applications group. Her research interests include IP telephony, communication protocols, and user interfaces. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, in 1998. Ms. Klimer joined IBM in 1996 and has since worked on several projects involving user interfaces and IP Telephony.
Ran Cohen is a developer in the Multimedia Networking Applications group at the Haifa Research Lab. His main expertise is in real-time networking. Mr. Cohen was responsible for the design and development of the real-time audio engine of the Phone4Java IP telephone and the real-time engine of the IBM Scaleable IP-PSTN Telephony Gateway.
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