Earlier today I spoke with Todd Landry, Senior Vice President with Sphere Communications. Sphere's been in the VoIP and unified communications space for a number of years and provides offerings to integratedservices vendoers, large enterprise business, and the small to medium business segment. They've been doing VoIP for a number of years and have a history of getting many things right.

Todd joined Sphere in 2003 to lead product management, marketing and business development. Prior to Sphere, Mr. Landry launched carrier-class IP Telephony SoftSwitch and Media Gateway solutions as Vice President of Product Management at CommWorks Corporation (a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation). At CommWorks, Mr. Landry also established several OEMs and conducted strategic acquisitions. Prior to 3Com, he led the development and launch of the Total Control line of Internet access and wireless CDMA mobile data products as Vice President of Product Management at U.S. Robotics. Mr. Landry holds two U.S. patents related to IP telephony and mobile wireless data systems. Mr. Landry graduated from DeVry Institute of Technology and Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, and has participated in several executive education initiatives including Northwestern University 's Kellogg Graduate School and University of Michigan 's School of Business Administration.

We covered a number of interesting topics, and in the latter part of the podcast, we share a look at what's hot in the new year ahead. Please join me and listen in on my conversation with Todd .

NOTE: The audio characteristics of this podcast are a bit different than previous ones as I'm adjusting to some new hardware and making everything work together. The split audio (lef to right channel) in our conversation was the result of a setting that's since been corrected. Some people prefer conversations recorded this way, but I don't, and I try not to use this setting.