Proudly Celebrating 20 years of Excellence

Forum Communications has been at the forefront in audio conference design for two decades with a commitment to design quality, product value, and customer satisfaction.  This year, Forum begins celebrating 20 years of service excellence.  Forum's complete line of conference and collaboration products and emergency response solutions have been the products of choice for business and enterprise customers of all sizes, from small business and branch offices to Fortune 500 organizations, government, and Department of Defense applications around the globe.

Join us as we proudly take a look back at some of our most memorable accomplishments, and continue to look forward to a bright and successful future…..

	1989 DSP Technology Corp. sets Sales records with Confer Products
	1990 Former DSP executives acquire Confer product line from DSP Technologies
	1991 Forum founded and Richardson Headquarters established
	1992 Confer II product line introduced in the US
	1993 Forum signs first European Distributor
	1994 US Federal Reserve Bank adopts Forum Conference Products 1995 Forum helps pioneer distance learning in Universities
	1995 TELECONNECT and Computer Telephony Editors Choice Awards 1996 Initial installations in Army and National Guard bases
	1997 Forum Conference bridges are installed in over 24 countries
	1997 TELECONNECT Product of the Year Award
	1998 M.I.T. uses Confer Bridge for World Wide Web Consortium conferencing
	1998 NEC becomes Forum reseller partner
	1999 Forum acquires Consortium Conference System product line from Tellabs
	2000 Forum Bridges on 5 Continents support Worldwide Distance Learning Efforts
	2001 British PM gets a Forum Conference bridge at 10 Downing Street
	2002 Forum celebrates shipping over 50,000 ports of conference bridges to over 45 countries
	2003 Confer ECS Emergency Conference system wins Internet Telephony Product of the Year
	2004 Forum introduces the Confer Alert Crash Response and Emergency Conference System
	2005 Forum adds web collaboration capabilities to the Consortium conference system
	2006 U.S. Postal Service in Washington DC uses Forum conferencing for emergency support
	2007 Forum introduces a VOIP / SIP interface option for the Consortium II
	2008 The Consortium II receives JITC Certification / APL listing for the DOD / DSN Network
	2009 Forum Continues our Commitment to Excellence in Product Design and Support

Recognitions and Awards

	Honorary Recognition, Corporate Member, National Guard Association, 2008
	Product of the Year Award, Consortium VIP, Internet Telephony Magazine, 2006
	Product of the Year Award, Mediator II, Internet Telephony Magazine, 2005
	Product Differentiation Award, Frost and Sullivan, 2004
	Product of the Year Award, Confer ECS, Internet Telephony Magazine, 2003
	Editor's Choice Award, Confer III, Communications Convergence Magazine, 2002
	Vendor of the Year Award - 2001, Inter-tel CommSource
	Fast Tech Fifty, The Dallas Business Journal, 1999 and 2000
	Best of Show, Confer II, CT Expo, 1997
	Product of the Year Award, Confer II Director, Teleconnect Magazine, 1996
	Product of the Year Award, Confer II, Computer Telephony Magazine, 1995
	Editor's Choice Award, Confer II, Computer Telephony Magazine