I’m posting this to you to ask for your help because, this year on October 14th I am going all the way and riding full 100kms in the third annual Ride for Refugees fund raising event. I am looking for sponsors to make it all worth it. I am training for the challenge as I have never ridden that far but with God’s strength, he will carry me to the end. This cycling event is held each fall near Elmira and I am joining a growing group of cyclists who are raising support and awareness for refugees being served through International Teams Canada

I volunteer at our Welcome Home facility here in Kitchener/Waterloo and getting to know the refugees there has been very eye opening. The challenges involved with a 100km ride dwarfs in comparison of the challenges faced by a refugee. Imagine in a moments notice, force to leave everything you have and know to travel the refugee highway in hopes of a new future.

The event goal is $150,000 and I am looking to raise my share of that good goal. This year my personal goal is to raise $1000 and any amount you give will help reach or exceed it. Please help me reach my goal and help these people, in giving you too will ride with me that day.

Would you sponsor me?

There are over 35 million refugees in the world. Many are coming to Canada and they need support as they adjust to our Canadian way of life. Imagine snow for the first time. Imagine if the letters all ran backwards to what you were familiar with reading. Imagine being alienated from your friends and family. They need our support and International Teams (www.iteams.ca) has been serving refugees for over 25 years.

Don’t hesitate to sponsor me today!

You can go directly to my personal page to sponsor me by clicking on the link below;
https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/personalPage.aspx?EventID=6694&LangPref=en-CA&RegistrationID=219228

You can also go online to www.rideforrefugees.ca and click on sponsor a rider. Once there you can donate with any credit card to my personal fundraising goal.

Thank you so much and God bless

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Wholesale voice-over-IP carrier iBasis on Sept. 11 will do its part to improve the quality of consumers’ international VOIP calls when it introduces its new DirectVoIP Transcoding capability at the VON conference in Boston.

iBasis, the fast growing VOIP network wholesaler to carriers such as AT&T, Skype, Verizon and Yahoo Broadband, introduced into its network the ability to perform real-time media translation for codecs that are incompatible.

The rise of specialized compression/decompression devices used within IP Phones or PC-to-phone clients to improve fidelity, bandwidth efficiency or both for VOIP has led to interoperability challenges since most VOIP carriers only rely on one or two standardized codecs.

“We provide the media translation functionality in real time in our network to have seamless call transmission from source to destination. We support a wide variety of codes for many broadband service providers,” said Alan Bugos, vice president of advanced technology engineering for iBasis, in Burlington, Mass.

Bugos believes that iBasis is the first major carrier to deliver the real-time protocol translation in a production network that can ensure better VOIP call quality and lower costs for carriers or service providers, since they don’t have to incur the cost of converting the calls into other compatible formats.

“Transcoding is relatively new to the industry. iBasis identified this as an issue for VOIP backbones early on. We went to the vendor community to help solve this issue,” he said.

Beyond the basic codecs used by carriers that are based on International Telecommunications Union standards such as G.729, G.711 or G.723, the transcoding capability in iBasis’ network interoperates with several variants of the G.711, G.723, G.726, and G.729, plus GSM-FR, Speex, and iLBC.

“The interesting thing about the iLBC codec is that it has a hi-fidelity, wider acoustic range, capturing low and hi frequencies that would be absent from standard telephony devices. It’s also designed to operate over networks (that experience more packet loss, such as those that have) multiple transit points or points of congestion, which impacts the voice quality. We could lose up to 15 percent of the traffic and the fidelity of the call would still remain high,” Bugos described. “You will see iLBC in quite a few consumer VOIP clients or even IP phones,” he added.

Although relatively unknown because it is a wholesale VOIP network supplier, iBasis is among the top 10 international voice carriers with a run rate of 10 billion minutes. The company, growing about 50 percent per year, expects to generate revenue of between $500 to $520 million for 2006. Once its proposed merger with the international voice division of Dutch national carrier Royal KPN is complete, it expects to double its traffic and triple its revenue, according to Chris Ward, senior director of marketing.

“The fastest-growing segment of our business is consumer-focused VOIP. We have more than 40 consumer VOIP providers today, which is about 10 percent of our business,” said Ward.

Toward that end, iBasis at VON will announce it has signed SunRocket as a new VOIP service provider customer.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2013479,00.asp?kc=EWRSS04069TX1K0000701

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