A New Species of Telecom --
Wayne’s Evolve IP aims to be the next big thing in business communications.

by Scott Pruden, MainLine Today Magazine

If the evolution of the workplace telephone were represented in graphics mimicking those of man’s progress from ape to upright-walking, Wii-playing, SUV-driving head of the food chain, it might go something like this: First came the wall-mounted crank phones and their rotary-dialed “candlestick” successors. Then there was the human-manned office switchboard, typically with a female operator.

The next step: early multi-line phones with a row of big, clunky buttons along the bottom, which gradually morphed into modern multi-line versions. Today’s workplace telephone systems aren’t much different, though connections frequently involve automated systems equipped with pleasant female voices. (Some things remain classic.)

So where do we go from here? Well, the guys behind Evolve IP, a new business information service with operations in Wayne and Center City, are glad you asked. Chairman and CEO Thomas Gravina and CFO Michael Peterson believe they have, in their new company, the next evolutionary step in business communication—one that uses advances in the Internet, high-speed data transmission, computers and off-site hosting to allow businesses to combine multiple information services into one while simultaneously minimizing the amount of equipment they must maintain...

Read the full article online here: A New Species of Telecom by Scott Pruden