Company Background

Toktumi, Inc. was founded in September 2006 by Peter Sisson, a proven serial entrepreneur and VoIP pioneer, whose last VoIP company, Teleo, was acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Peter has over 20 years of experience in the telecom and Internet industries, starting at Bell Labs in 1985, where he wrote operating software for office phone systems. Having personally faced the conundrum of setting up phone service for small businesses, he set out to devise a simple, inexpensive, yet reliable office phone service that anyone could set up in minutes. The result is Toktumi.

Product Description

Toktumi defines a new product category we call a P2PBX (peer-to-peer PBX), which harnesses existing office PCs to create a powerful office phone system. The advantages are many:

(1)	Easy setup: Just download the software. Toktumi's instant setup wizard allows you to pick your phone number, configure your settings, and start making and receiving calls in under 5 minutes. No need for expensive installation services or IT support.
(2)	Advanced features: Unlike consumer VoIP offerings, Toktumi provides the advanced features businesses require, and a few they've never seen before. Auto-attendant, call transfer, visual voicemail, instant conferencing, and call waiting are all standard. Toktumi's unique search dialing capability allows calls to be placed by typing a name or keyword of the person or product desired. Mobility is automatic: calls ring wherever you login: at home, the office, a hotel, or your cell phone if you are on the road.
(3)	Reliability: Core functionality and call handling are hosted at Toktumi's secure data center, ensuring calls are always answered, even if your PC is offline, the Internet is down, or the power is out. When you are offline, your calls are forwarded to your cell phone, voicemail, or attendant.
(4)	Reduced costs: Customers require no special equipment to setup their office phone service - all they must do is download the software. They do not require special phones - they can connect any regular telephone, cordless phone, or speaker phone directly to their PC using Toktumi's unique adapter. Toktumi also works with headsets and USB phones, providing customers with complete flexibility.

Toktumi makes even the smallest businesses look bigger and more professional in minutes. Customers can start with just one line, and expand their system on demand as they grow.

Target Customer

Toktumi is designed for home offices and small offices where most employees use PCs. It is ideal for home-based businesses, knowledge workers, and mobile professionals in any industry where employees use their PCs regularly in the course of doing their work. For businesses where employees are mostly in the field, toktumi can be used to setup a main number with an auto-attendant which can forward calls to field employees on their cell phones.