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Will LTE Fuel IMS?

Will LTE fuel IMS? Bob Emmerson seems to think so and he has a great point. With similar elements defined in WiMAX, LTE and IMS, the chances that carriers will have to install more and more IMS components are good. Similar to how you put a few pieces of a puzzle together at a time only to find your entire puzzle is solved before you know it, expect carriers to look at their networks and say that with a few more dollars they will have full-fledged IMS and the benefits such a framework allows.

Another point worth making is that IMS is due for a revival as we have already gone through the hype phase and there is less buzz around this term than there has been since its inception. Like VoIP, e-commerce and watched clocks, they tend to move quickly and forward when no one's looking.

It will be interesting to see how the IMS market plays out in the next few months and years.

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Flat Rate Voice/Data Plans for SMBs

If you are an SMB and you feel you would like to pay less for voice and data service, perhaps now is the time for you to rejoice... Well at least smile.

The reason is there is a new flat rate bundle in town and it is courtesy of Bandwidth.com and best of all it works with many different phone systems. It is called the BoxSet Communications Bundle and it starts at $179/month.

Check out this article for details.

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Telephony Hardware Community

Be sure to visit TMC's newest Global Online Community (GOC), Telephony Hardware sponsored by Pika Technologies. Why would you visit? Simply because regularly visiting a TMC community is an ideal way to learn about a specific topic such as in this case "telephony hardware."

As always, we promise the best editorial quality of any site. We do our best to blend in-depth articles with an overview of the most important news taking place in the market.

If you are researching or looking for products to buy, we hope there is a TMC channel (micro-community) or GOC that addresses your needs. if not, there will likely be one soon.

Some of the articles which have already been written and living on this community are as follows:

• PIKA Technologies Launches Telephony Hardware Community on TMCnet (did you think I would leave this out? ;) )
• Prophecy IVR from Voxeo Wins 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award
• Netelligent IP Voice and Video Co. Earns Cisco Gold Cert
• Mocana NanoUpdate Delivers Secure Firmware Updates to Remote Devices
• Open Source ERP and CRM Solutions from Compiere Meet Distribution Company Demands
• Android Likely Will Encourage Development of More Open, Third-party Apps

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Why Microsoft Needs to Worry About Firefox

Mozilla's Firefox is on schedule to break 20% share next month and this is very bad news for Microsoft. If we are to play out what the next 5-10 years will look like in the world of technology, one of the knowns is that SaaS will become a bigger market and as such less companies will care about the OS and the applications on local machines.

Knowing what we know now, we can expect most new computers to have Intel and AMD chips but from there, the OS is becoming less important. Soon enough we could see machines with no operating system per se but just a browser. This is a revisit on the web-only devices made popular for a short time during the dotcom boom.

As this happens, Microsoft needs to be worried about which browser customers get comfortable with. There seems to be a trend towards the browser becoming the OS and this is why a market-share loss by IE can be devastating in the long-term for Redmond.

So while Microsoft focuses on search, hosted apps, becoming a bigger web portal, a mobile OS company, etc, what they need to be careful of is not to lose sight of the browser -- which will likely be the only window to the world of computing in the future.

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Headed to Telx CBX 2008

Later this week I will be a video reporter at the Telx CBX (customer business exchange) event in New York. I always like the CBX events and am looking forward to meeting with the companies in the carrier hotel space (many lease space in the Telx interconnection facilities throughout the US) who come to network and exchange ideas and do business with one another.

I reached out to Telx to get a quick quote on why you should be at the show and Tesh Durvasula, Chief Marketing Officer of Telx had this to say,"With over 400 NANOG attendees at the Marriott and by moving CBX to Thursday to accommodate those traveling in for ITW and GTM in Washington which ends on Wednesday, our theme 'all roads lead to the CBX' is the final networking event of a week filled with major international meetings featuring ISPs, Carriers, Service Providers and more."

Here are some more notes on the  event from the CBX website:

This year's event is shaping up to be the biggest in Telx history. 2007 was a year of tremendous growth and change at Telx as we integrated various acquisitions that included 10 Meet Me Room Facilities from Digital Realty Trust and NYC Connect, the Meet Me Room at 111 8th Avenue.

2008 offers to an aggressive start as we integrate our latest acquisition, 21,000 of Colocation Space in Dallas at 8435 Stemmons Freeway. Our growth doesn’t stop at acquisitions though, we were recently announced as the first company to Host a NANOG in New York City.

Attendees will have the unprecedented opportunity to network with over 1,000 industry decision makers in one of New York's most spectacular boroughs.

See you there this Thursday, June 5th, 2008.

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Shots from Nortel's INNUA Conference

The INNUA conderence is for Nortel users and includes another group, Insight 100 Inc. the user group which focuses on the SL-100 which is now the CS2100.

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Mike Zafirovski Kicks off INNUA

It is Tuesday morning and the Nortel user conference has kicked off. Mike Z has taken the stage, talking about how the company has evolved these last years and what the future holds.

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