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Nortel and Huawei

June 16, 2006

Here is the latest on Nortel and Huawei and how they may work together going forward. This is after they killed a joint venture. I am still wondering why Huawei is not making a bigger splash in the US. They seem to be threatening to come to the states in a bigger way but they just don’t seem to pull the trigger.

 

 

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Speaking in Minneapolis

June 16, 2006
Join me next week in Minneapolis for this seminar. I am totally revamping my presentation and it will be better than ever.

Minneapolis Marriott Southwest - Salon A-D
5801 Opus Parkway
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343 USA

Agenda: 

Minneapolis, MN | Tuesday, June 20, 2006
8:00 –
8:30 am
Registration & Complimentary Interactive Breakfast‌
Salon A-D
8:30 –
8:50 am
Welcome and Introduction         
Bob Denman, President, Avtex & Brit Vickner, Product Marketing Manager, Vonexus/ Interactive Intelligence
8:50 –
9:30 am
Keynote - Industry Direction  
Rich Tehrani, President of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)
9:30 –
9:40 am
A Look at Your Enterprise
Brit Vickner, Product Marketing Manager
9:40 –
10:20 am
The Effective Contact Center
Tim Passios, Director, Product Marketing
10:20 –
10:30 am
Break
10:30 –
11:10 am
Customer Interaction Center® Live Demo
Tim Passios, Director, Product Marketing
11:10 –
11:30 am
Customer Testimonial – Minco                   
Jim Tweedie, Minco & James Drury, Whiteforest Group
11:30 –
11:45 am
Summary and Wrap-up                                
Brit Vickner, Product Marketing Manager
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Complimentary Lunch                                  
 Lake of Woods Ballroom

 

 

 

 

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Google Happenings

June 16, 2006
Here is a great article on Google and what thy have been up to recently. It is a good summary piece. You know your company has made it when your real estate transactions become breaking news.

One wonders if we are becoming too obsessed with this company. Is Google the next Brangelina? I wouldn't be surprised to see the Google execs in the supermarket tabloids in the next few months.

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A Brilliant Move By Vonage

June 16, 2006
I have traveling for so long that I didn’t know the reason behind the drop in Vonage’s stock price which is now around $10. According to Russell Shaw the reason seems to be the fact that Vonage is being very aggressive with customers looking to cancel. The company is offering free services and a drop in price o keep customers.

For this the stock got hammered.

Here is my question.

If so many people are focusing on Vonage’s amazingly high cost of customer acquisition, why is it bad for Vonage to spend a far less amount to keep a customer on their network?

The phone companies do the exact same thing.

This isn't a new practice.

I think it is very smart and it doesn’t seem like something worth punishing the company for. Rather they should be rewarded.

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ReefPoint

June 16, 2006
Great news for the IP communications market. ReefPoint Systems a big player in IP communications security -- focusing on FMC, IMS and UMA. The company has received $21 million in VC funding from American Capital and will soon announce a new CEO, Woody Ritchey and COO, Dennis Chateauneuf.

Ritchey worked at Cisco, Motorola, Arraycomm and AT&T. Chateauneuf worked at Sentito Networks, DTI Networks/Coppercom, Shiva, Sun and Wang labs.

Their products sit at the border of the Internet and the FMC core and provide. They see the session border controller companies as competition in the VoIP space.

They feel that the SBC makers are going to have a tough time providing security in the IMS space. This is due to the fact that IMS applications deal with more than just voice. For example mobile video is an application that SBCs will have to deal with soon.

The point is that the company's products are already being used in environments where they protect voice, video and data. In addition the company's equipment can scale to a million media users. This is how that happens -- half a million users can be running 2 simultaneous applications and can be connected to one of their security gateway boxes at the same time.

They have an existing Alcatel relationship -- the French telecom giant resells their products, and they will be likely working with other big telecom providers in a similar capacity soon.

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