Kagoor Networks, a start-up based in San Mateo, California with R&D facility in Herzeliya, Israel, raised $7.5 million in its third round of financing for its VoIP Border Control solution. Kagoor's VoiceFlow platform addresses VoIP security and firewall issues, network address translation (NAT), firewall traversal, call admission control, remote monitoring and management of VoIP endpoints, Quality of Service (QoS) features like packet marking, and bandwidth management and compression. The company has completed trials with major US and international carriers and service providers. The new funding was co-led by VantagePoint Venture Partners and ComVentures.
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- Kagoor Networks was co-founded in February 2000 by Opher Kahane, a key contributor to the H.323 standard and previously vice president, strategic planning and global alliances at VocalTec Communications; Itzik Parnafes, previously a co-founder and R&D manager of Class Data Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems); and Shai Mohaban, also a cofounder of Class Data Systems.
