Alon Cohen (; born in

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, 1962) is the co-founder of

VocalTec VocalTec Communications Inc. is an Israeli telecom equipment provider. The company was founded in 1985 by Alon Cohen and Lior Haramaty, who patented the first Voice over IP audio transceiver. VocalTec has supplied major customers such as Deuts ...

Inc. (1989) and the co-inventor of the Audio Transceiver () that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also known as IP telephony, is a set of technologies used primarily for voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. VoIP enables voice calls to be transmitted as ...

industry. Cohen holds four US patents on different communications technologies. He is currently Executive VP and CTO at Phone.com.

Biography

Alon Cohen received an MBA and a BSC.EE from

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, both magna cum laude. He served in the

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as part of the telecommunications wing. Cohen resides in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.

Business career

In 1989, Cohen and Lior Haramaty founded VocalTec Communications Inc. in

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, Israel. The tech company is the pioneer of the VoIP industry. They released the first internet phone in February 1995. He is also the inventor of the Audio Transceiver (U.S. Patent 5,825,771) that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry. Cohen holds five US patents on communications technologies. VocalTec is the first company to provide Internet voice technology worldwide, and in 1996 was one of the earliest Internet IPOs (NASDAQ: vocl). After leaving VocalTec, Cohen founded and managed a series of business ventures, including BitWine and RemoteAbility. He currently serves as Executive Vice President and CTO at Phone.com. Cohen is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, serves on technical advisory boards or as a mentor of a number of companies, and has also served as an expert witness in VoIP patent litigation trials. Cohen has an active blog where he writes about technology and innovations.

Awards and recognition

Cohen received the “VoIP Visionary Award” (2005) from

Jeff Pulver Jeff Pulver is an American Internet entrepreneur and futurist known for his work as an innovator in the field of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Pulver's early work in VoIP with his company Free World Dialup led to a significant regulatory ...

's Pulvermedia and the VoIP Hall of Fame Award by TMCNET in 2015. Cohen was also named, by “

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”, the leading Israeli business newspaper, as one of the “100 Most Influential Israelis” in Israel's High Technology history in September 2005. Cohen represented the State of Israel in the United Nations negotiations of the ITU Study Group 16 for the development and ratification of global VoIP standards. Cohen holds five US patents on different communications technologies, and co-authored more as part of VocalTec.

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