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VoIP Adrenalin

January 11, 2006

I have been working here at the Ft. Lauderdale airport for over an hour and am impressed with the large amount of seating space, the abundance of electrical outlets and the fast and free WiFi. The WiFi here has been much faster than the hotel WiFi (to be fair the hotel access was free too).

This airport may be one of the most business-friendly airports around. This is much better than an experience I had in Tampa years before WiFi was invented. I couldn't find a phone with a modem plug. Florida has come a long way.

I met a lot of people today at the conference & Elsewhere who told me they can't wait for ITEXPO and I can't believe we are only a few short weeks away.

Posted in Broadband, Conferencing, IMS, IPTV, JITC, Open Source, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

ITEXPO Plug

January 10, 2006

Here is an informational e-mail we are about to send out. I think it is blogworthy because so many people have been e-mailing me with questions answered by this e-mail. The energy level in the VoIP space is incredible and I canât wait to host this show in sunny Florida. Interestingly it isnât as cold as it normally is in the northeast at the moment which means you probably can still get good prices on plane tickets to attend the show.

One would imagine that in two weeks it will become much colder in the midwest and on the east coast and you could conceivably be enjoying the sun in Florida on your way to ITEXPO while simultaneously escaping the frigid temperatures that are bound to hit us sooner or later.

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INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006 January 24-27, 2006 - Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center www.itexpo.com
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Build Your Business at INTERNET TELEPHONY

First VoIP Conference of 2006 Begins in Two Weeks!

The most compelling reason to attend INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO this month (yes, we open the show in 14 days!) in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida is to see how to use VoIP to improve your business.

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Alexa Record: 1,151

January 5, 2006

I just sent this e-mail to my fellow TMC team members and just had to share it with everyone as I am so happy with the news:

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From: Rich Tehrani
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:14 PM
To: All TMC Team Members;
Subject: New Alexa Record for one day, 1,151

Congratulations team!

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=2y&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=t&url=tmcnet.com#top

Traffic Rank for tmcnet.com (what's this)

Today

1 wk. Avg.

3 mos.

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Deploying New Services

January 4, 2006

I received this article recently from Lucent. It is an article about Lucent services but it nevertheless is worthy of reading as it details some next generation services we will be seeing service providers deploy in the future. For example I like the idea of video greetings that can be sent via âvirtual characters.â

I also like the idea of celebrity greetings and certainly these are being rolled out slowly but surely. I think many people would love a Donald Trump greeting that says âThanks for callingâ¦ To avoid getting fired leave a detailed message after the tone.â

There is more to the article but if you are intrigued so far, give it a read and feel free to leave your comments at the bottom.

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The Secret to Success in the Vast Applications Market

Lucent Hosted Services: A New Business Model for Success

Keith Chappell, Managing Vice President and Global Practice Leader
Lucent Worldwide Services, Communications Applications

There are three prongs for success in the applications market: Increase revenue, lower costs and improve time to market for new and innovative end-user applications.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Conferencing, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, Personal, SIP, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

TMCnet: 10 Million Page Views

January 4, 2006

TMCnet: reached 9,945,852 million page views in December 2005 according to WebTrends. This is an all-time high for our site. A page view is basically as the name implies a single page being viewed. So if a person comes to TMCnet and reads 5 articles, they generate 5 page views.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Open Source, Personal, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

68 Countries Register For ITEXPO

January 4, 2006

I just got word that people from over 68 countries will be attending Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. VoIP growth is really taking off and this is such a worldwide phenomenon that I am not surprised to see such large international registration. I just canât wait for this event which I have dubbed the UN of VoIP in the past.

As I drove into work today on sheets of dangerous and well camouflaged black ice, my thermometer said 28 degrees. I am just 20 days away from going down to sunny Florida for ITEXPO.

Here are the countries represented so far:

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Angola
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Burkina-Faso
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Dominica
Ecuador
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland Republic of
Israel
Italy
Ivory
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Korea South-Rep. of
Lebanon
Mexico
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Romania
Singapore
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St Lucia
Sweden
Taiwan (China Rep of)
Trinidad & Tobago
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
USA
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen Arab Republic
Yugoslavia

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Conferencing, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Open Source, SIP, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Quoted

January 3, 2006

I got quoted in quite a few newspapers and magazines recently regarding the RTI vs. Google case. More recently I noticed press in ITWorldCanada and Techworld.

Rich Tehrani, VoIP industry watcher and president of Technology Marketing, has written about RTI in several entries his VoIP blog.

In an e-mail interview Friday, Tehrani said that RTI founder and President Jerry Weinberger invented least-cost routing technology that allows a phone system to find the cheapest carrier prior to placing a phone call. This technology is part of what enables VoIP calls to work. Other companies, such as Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies, have already paid RTI to use its patented technology, he said.

Posted in Broadband, Conferencing, IPTV, Open Source, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Messaging Predictions

December 31, 2005

Here's what Ferris Research thinks will be the main projects/issues that messaging managers will be concerned with in 2006. They are in rough order of priority for the typical organization. Ferris Research is an analyst firm specializing in messaging and collaboration--see www.ferris.com for details. This is a summary of the report, "Key Messaging & Collaboration Issues, 2006"

Implementing Email Archiving & Retention.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, JITC, Open Source, SIP, Science, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

NTP Patents Rejected

December 31, 2005

The famous NTP vs. RIM blackberry case really brought the US patent system into the public spotlight. It seems the Rates Technology vs. Google patent suits weren't as shocking because we already became familiar with cases like NTP and Blackberry.

Now it seems the NTP case isn't a slam dunk like many thought it was. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently rejected two NTP wireless e-mail patents a second time. One of these patents is at the center of the NTP Vs RIM case. A final ruling will come from the USPTO in about 6 weeks. Story.

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RTI Patents

December 30, 2005

Thanks to TechDirt I decided to poke around in the actual RTI Patents that have caused the web outcry since RTI sued Google. Jerry Weinberger the man behind RTI patented least cost routing back in the late 1970s and this is basis along with another patent for the lawsuits against the various companies he sues and collects money from.

Least cost routing was the leading edge of technologies in the early 1980s as competition finally was allowed in the phone business. During those early days the rates for various phone calls to various destinations varied widely and it would make sense to use AT&T for calls to Canada, Sprint for calls to Iowa and MCI for calls to California.

The above is just a hypothetical case of course and it should be noted that rates use to vary by time of day as well. A human could not keep track of who was the best carrier per call but a computer could.

Remember now, these were the dark ages of telecom and technology where a box of index cards was the best contact management system and entry level computer cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!

Here are the abstracts of the two patents:

Patent 1

Least cost routing device for separate connection into phone line

Abstract

A device interconnects within the phone line coming from a first phone and routes telephone calls along a least cost route originating from the first telephone to a second telephone via the network.

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