In what is being widely seen as a major coup for the VoIP industry, the FCC has named the co-author of two key VoIP technologies as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Word on the street is that this augers well for the entire industry.

The new CTO is Henning Schulzrinne, who most recently has been the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science and Professor of Engineering at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering at Columbia University. He has also been an Engineering Fellow at the FCC since 2010. In his new job, he will be based in the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis.

I doubt that very many users of VoIP phone service from Phone.com, or any other VoIP company for that matter, have ever heard of Schulzrinne. In short, he was a co-author of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). Those are the two main standards used in almost all VoIP service today. If you’re a Phone.com customer who doesn’t know what those are, don’t worry. You don’t have to – that’s the job of your phone company. Of course if you want to learn, just look the technologies up on the Internet, and you’ll find more detail than you ever wanted.

The scope of Schulzrinne’s job extends far beyond just VoIP, indeed to all technology and engineering issues facing the FCC. But the fact that the man in the FCC’s CTO slot is a VoIP pioneer is almost an iron-clad insurance policy that VoIP users today won’t be shortchanged by FCC technical experts who are mired in the old phone technologies of the past.

For users of services such as Phone.com’s Enterprise service, Home Office, Virtual Office and other offerings, that’s great news. It means that what’s already a great service can only get better.

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At the recent ITExpo in Austin, Texas our VP of Channel Development Joel Maloff was interviewed by TMC. Joel talks about Phone.com’s growth, prediction of the decline of traditional telephone services and partnering with Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton to help small businesses grow and thrive. Joel also talked about how even after 3 natural disasters on the east coast Phone.com was able to get a new customers phone service connected within an hour of joining to get his company up and running.

If you’re interested in reselling the best small business phone service available make sure to watch the video then contact Phone.com.

Also, our CTO and EVP Alon Cohen was interviewed by VoIP community builder Carl Ford and discussed different quality of service concerns and simple solutions for anyone still uncertain of using a Voice over IP based phone service. This conversation brought together two of the earliest VoIP pioneers and industry builders as Alon is founder of the first ever Voice over IP company and Carl being promoting and help build this industry from its infancy.

This week is ITExpo West in Austin, Texas. It’s widely known as the premier event for internet telephony world wide. Phone.com’s CEO Ari Rabban will be there and he’s been asked to participate as an expert on the Social Media Monitoring Best Practices panel. It’s being led by a friend that I’ve been looking forward to meeting in person for a few years now Luca Filligheddu the founder and CEO of Twimbow.

The panel takes place Tomorrow (Tuesday Sep. 13th) from 12:30-1:15pm at the Austin Convention Center.

Also, Alon Cohen, Phone.com CTO & EVP will be monitoring a panel discussion about cloud services also tomorrow at 12:30.

If you’d like to meet with Ari or Alon about social media or cloud services, Phone.com or anything else make sure you attend these panels and chat with them afterwards.

You can also follow the goings on at ITExpo if you search for the hash tag #ITExpo on Twitter and while you’re on Twitter why don’t you Follow us at Twitter.com/PhoneDotCom.