At the Internet and telecoms cross-roads
Web2tel is a spin-off from
Lucent Technologies,
the telecom equipment manufacturer whose research arm,
Bell Labs,
originated VoiceXML. Lucent Technologies is a founder of
the
VoiceXML
Forum. Web2tel Qualifun is a supporter member of the Forum.
Web2tel's founder, François Manchon, graduated from
Ecole
Supérieure d'Electricité in 1985 and from the Computer
Science department at
Paris University in 1986. He started his carrer with
Simulog
where he investigated the performance of numerous computer
systems and networks. In 1996, he became a System Architect
with Octel, the worldwide leader of Voice Messaging. Octel
being acquired by
Lucent
Technologies, he contributed to the deployment of advanced
services such as free phone, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) or
prepaid telephony. The creation of Web2tel in 2003 builds
directly on this work.