computer software session border controller research and development computer hardware fate acquired founded santa clara california august 16 2001 founder dan freedman david a. bryan cullen jennings headquarters calgary alberta canada key people dan freedman chairman and founding ceo david a. bryan founding cto cullen jennings director todd simpson ceo alan hawrylyshen cto as of 2002 johnson wu vp technical services ryan kereliuk vp engineering daniel jaliff vp operations joe haar vp sales joel fisher vp business development and marketing laurent dinard director of product management benjamin freedman vp marcom zoo eng manager of customer relations richard clark senior sales executive products peerpoint peerpoint enterprise edition peerpoint centrex edition number of employees 23 2005 website www.jasomi.com jasomi networks was a pioneer in the development of session border controllers sbcs computer network devices that enable control and monitor the flow of multimedia data streams across carrier networks corporate networks home networks and the internet . contents 1 history and evolution 2 investment 3 performance 4 partnership with microsoft 5 acquisition 6 external links history and evolution edit the concept for jasomi was conceived in a meeting between cullen jennings and david a. bryan who introduced the concept to dan freedman resulting in the founding of the corporation in 2001 . funded by the founders and early employee benjamin freedman the company quickly created a demonstrable sbc and began to market it as the peerpoint product line at the fall 2001 von trade show organized by jeff pulver . strong early interest encouraged freedman and jennings to commit additional bootstrapping funds from themselves and friends and family . an r & d center was established in calgary canada in early 2002 and alan hawrylyshen joined the team . 2002 was spent turning the early demonstrator into a more full featured and supportable product . ryan kereliuk and johnson wu joined the company in mid 2002 and in late 2002 jasomi adopted a hybrid coopetition model of software development keeping certain advancements proprietary while releasing others to the public through the resiprocate open source sip stack . david a. bryan left the company and alan hawrylyshen became cto in late 2002 . between 2002 and 2004 the company advanced the state of the art in sbc technology providing customers for the first time with the ability to perform voip through existing nat enabled firewalls so that residential subscribers could be supported without placing any hardware on their premises . an early customer making great use of this facility was jeff pulver s free world dialup which provided free calling services worldwide amongst its subscribers using the sip voip protocol . in 2005 the company was acquired by ditech communications itself later acquired by nuance communications in a deal valued at 24.55 m. investment edit jasomi was unusual although not unique in that it shunned venture capital relying initially on self funding by the founders and later on money invested by friends and family . a total of about 2.8 m was raised much of that in the few months preceding the company s acquisition . the company s main competitors were acme packet and kagoor networks that had each raised about 40m and netrake that had raised about 70m . by comparison virtually all of jasomi s operating funds came in organically from customers in the form of revenue a true bootstrapping startup experience . performance edit substantially as a result of being capital poor the company could not hire a large number of employees and sales and the company eventually settled into the number 3 spot in the industry behind acme packet and kagoor networks as repeatedly reported by market research firm infonetics . nevertheless by 2005 the company was firmly established as a leading technical player in the field and was generally recognized as having consistently advanced the state of the art in sbc technology during that period . partnership with microsoft edit a mutual customer of jasomi and microsoft asked the two companies to work together to make jasomi s peerpoint product line work with microsoft s live communications server . although the relationship suffered from typical big company small company issues jasomi was successful in modifying its product to support microsoft s non standards based extensions to the sip protocol . the result was successful deployments for both companies that would not have occurred without the integration . acquisition edit a combination of jasomi s technical successes together with its small size and small amount of raised capital resulted in the company becoming attractive to a number of potential acquirers and investors by early 2005 . ultimately the company sold to ditech communications now itself acquired by nuance communications a us public company based in silicon valley in mid 2005 in a deal valued at 24.55 m. the acquisition brought benefit to jasomi s investors and employees and gave ditech a credible toehold in the voip marketplace . jasomi s then ceo todd simpson went on to become ditech s ceo a year later . while the size of the acquisition was well into 8 digits the returns to investors many of whom were employees were at a comparable percentage to those of the largest company in the sbc arena acme packet . the top three pure play companies in the sbc space at that time acme packet kagoor networks and jasomi have all provided positive returns to their stakeholders . however many others in the sbc space have not and several companies succumbed to pressures of the market . ultimately as was the case with several other acquired sbc companies the attempts to integrate jasomi s product lines into those of its acquirer were not successful . ditech continued to market jasomi s peerpoint sbc platform but while under the leadership of ceo tim montgomery neglected to invest in its technical or market development . in the first two years after acquisition a number of key employees resigned . ditech closed its canadian subsidiary in september 2007 terminating most of the remaining jasomi employees . however todd simpson jasomi s ceo from late 2004 through its acquisition ultimately became ceo of ditech following tim montgomery s departure . external links edit light reading ditech s itsy bitsy jasomi deal ditech networks acquired jasomi networks in 2005 resiprocate an open source sip stack project co founded by jasomi networks retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jasomi networks & oldid 738484867 categories networking companies of the united statescompanies based in santa clara californiadefunct companies based in californiacompanies based in albertacompanies established in 2001 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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