Ribbit CEO Ted

http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/12/ribbit_built_a_telecom_switch_for_the_mas...

Today I met with the folks of telecom start-up Ribbit that just launched this week. Inspite the latest media blitz about them (just look at Ribbit's news section!), the whole team of engineers and execs is crowded in a tiny office off El Camino in Mountain View without even a front desk. In a nutshell, Ribbit built a telecommunication platform/switch, the same AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon or others would have in their data centres to answer/transfer/etc... telephone calls. Except that this time, all the telephone functions are available through a Flash interface that can easily be embedded into a Web page. "When we were thinking about creating Ribbit we thought of how would a telephone company look like if it was built today, using Internet technologies [...] It's certainly not a bunch of Asterisk servers bundle together! [...] When we call ourselves the Silicon Valley's phone company, we take the phone company part really really serious", Ted Griggs, Ribbit's CEO.

The full video of our interview with Griggs after the jump.
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/12/ribbit_built_a_telecom_switch_for_the_mas...

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