Potential VoIP Investments: Part III

This is a continuation of our look at potential companies for our VoIP shortlist. See the initial page here.

Data Connection

Data Connection looks like an interesting company. The company was founded in 1981, is based in the U.K. and their revenues are over $50 million annually. However, the company is 100% employee owned (lucky employees!) and thus would not be of interest for our purposes here.

Digium

Digium is a young company with a very high profile in the VoIP arena. They are still a private company, and according to their founder, Mark Spencer, their annual sales are now about $10 million. Mark Spencer was the initial developer of Asterisk, the open source PBX. See more about Digium and Digium's competition here.

DLink

D-Link is one of Taiwan's leading players in the VoIP phone market. (The other two are Askey Computer and ZyXel Communications) D-Link was founded in 1986 and is publicly traded on the Taiwan stock exchange. Their annual sales are over one billion dollars.

Draytek

Draytek is a small company founded in Taiwan in 1997. They develop broadband VoIP routers and announced plans earlier this year to expand their R&D team from ten to sixty employees in 2005.

Epygi

Epygi Technologies is a privately held company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Founded by Sam Simonian, Epygi designs and manufactures IP PBX's, Voice over IP gateways and Conference Servers. They have over 200 employees. Previously Simonian co-founded Inet in 1989, grew it into a public company listed on NASDAQ and employing 500 people, then sold it to Tektronix in 2004 for approximately $325 million.