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Effectively Telling Your Product's Story

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, Jun 18

One of the most interesting aspects of my career is watching the thousands of companies I have met over the years make...

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Tagged advertising, kodak, mad men, marketing

Dialogic and Cisco Round Out Day's NFV News

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, Jun 18

It’s been a busy week regarding NFV and the software telco (R)evolution. First off Dialogic had some solid thoughts on six of...

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Tagged cisco, dialogic, network functions virtualization, nfv, software telco

The Big Deal about Big Data Analytics

By Peter Bernstein on Tuesday, Jun 18

By Greg Owens, Senior Director Customer Experience Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

The rise of big data is causing service providers to ask some big questions: How should we store our data? How long should we keep it? What parts of it are relevant to our business? Most importantly, how do we get value from it? To turn big data into a big deal, service providers need to extract insights that can help them make smart business decisions and improve the customer experience.

The value of big data is all in what useful and actionable information it can provide. I find it exciting to see how service providers use big data analytics to gain new insights and solve complex problems. With this post, I’ll look at some new research by industry analysts and three key opportunities that big data analytics presents to service providers.
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Tagged Alcatel-Lucent, analytics, Big Data, customer expereince, Greg Owens, QoS | Responses

WebRTC: The Revolution Won't Occur Without a Media Server

By Jim Machi on Tuesday, Jun 18

Next Thursday at the WebRTC Conference and Expo, I’ll present a conference keynote that might not be exactly what attendees expect...

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Tagged Atlanta, Internet Protocol, Media server, PSTN, Public switched telephone network, Voice over Internet Protocol, Web browser, WebRTC | Responses

Software Telcos Based on NFV Want Less Equipment Provider M&A

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, Jun 18

Mergers are nothing new but about a decade ago in the telecom market they reached a fever pitch when SBC purchased AT&T...

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Tagged at&t, etsi, nfv, sbc, sdn, software telco, wireless

Linux Foundation Embedded Solutions Director's Case for Open Source and Connected Car

By Suzanne Bowen on Monday, Jun 17

The car of 2013 is different from the one I learned to drive, a 1974 Ford Maverick with rear federal bumpers, aluminum...

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Tagged Connected car, Ford Maverick, Ford Motor Company, Linus Torvalds, Linux, linux foundation, Mercedes Benz, open source, Original equipment manufacturer, rudolf streif, Tata Elxsi | Responses

Business Video and Queen Lead Guitarist Brian May

By Suzanne Bowen on Monday, Jun 17

"A good video can make all the difference," says Brian May (Ph.D. Astro-Physics and Queen lead guitarist). Such is true for business!Even...

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Tagged Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian May, Business, Complete History of the Universe, Muntwo, Queen, Video, Youtube | Responses

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UNE-P to VoIP Migration

February 21, 2005

Here is another ITEXPO release. UNE-P has been getting lots of press lately. I am looking forward to hearing Shawn Lewis speak on how service providers should migrate to VoIP.

Posted in VoIP

Paris Hilton Black Book

February 21, 2005

A T-Mobile database break-in allowed hackers to steal many customer records and notably Paris Hilton, one of the highest profile T-Mobile customers was hacked. All her personal records were also posted on the internet. Paris uses a Sidekick and it seems is tech-savvy, meaning an entire legion of nerdy, introverted teens can now fantasize about IMing her. Hackers gained access to phone numbers, photos and private schedules of the blonde paparazzi princess.

Perhaps Paris can look to another New York jetsetter Donald Trump for sage advice.

Posted in VoIP

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The VoIP Reseller Opportunity

February 21, 2005

Industry pundits say no one is making money in VoIP. People who make predictions like this are so out of touch with reality they are probably on their way to Neverland with the kids for vacation. I keynoted at an ABP user conference and had a "distinguished" speaker from MCI say in front of an audience of resellers that no one is making money in VoIP except for conference organizers! (Here is a hint, his initials are Dr. H.S.) While I can tell you first-hand that the VoIP conference business is doing great, I wasn't prepared for the number of resellers who came up to me at lunch to say they are making a killing selling VoIP products and services.

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VoIP Killer Apps

February 21, 2005

Are there really VoIP killer apps out there? While there are heated debates about this issue in Internet Telephony Magazine, I believe there are killer apps and that the killer app of VoIP will be a laundry-list of features as opposed to a single application. Time will tell whether I am correct but in the mean-time I will continue to present you year after year with some of the industry's best and brightest applications for you to evaluate Come see the show and you can judge for your self if killer-apps in VoIP are hype or reality.

Join us in Orchid C at 1:00 PM on Thursday, February 24, 2005 to see it in action.

Here is the schedule:

1:00-1:45

Aculab

2:00-2:45

Interstar

3:00-3:45

Nimcat Networks

4:00-4:45

Vonexus

Everyone is eligible to attend this session.

Posted in VoIP

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The Future of VoIP

February 21, 2005

VoIP 2.0 may be the theme of this event and I sincerely believe this is the future of communications. Don't take my word for the future of your communications. Sure I work with all the industry leaders and visionaries in VoIP all day long but to really get a feel for what's next I urge you to come the Future of IP telephony panel at 5:15 PM in the Flagler/Monroe Ballroom. These are the companies represented on stage with me:

Lucent

Aculab

Motorola

Quintum

Net.com

SNOM

Altigen

Qovia

Everyone is eligible to attend this session.

Posted in VoIP

Visit a Tier-1 Network Access Point (NAP)

February 21, 2005

At last year's Miami IEXPO I toured Terremark's NAP and was blown away at how high-tech this facility was. If you want to see a true state-of-the-art carrier neutral facility, you won't want to miss the tour that takes place Tuesday at 6:15 PM, February 22nd 2005. You need to preregister for the event and please do so quickly as I am afraid the tour will be filled to capacity soon. Please e-mail voip@terremark.com or call 305-860-7830 for details and to register.

Everyone is eligible to be part of the tour. Terremark will make the final decision on admittance to their facility.

Posted in VoIP

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VoIP Peering

February 21, 2005

Please check my blog often this week as I will detail the "Can't Miss" sessions from the show. In addition I will be detailing what you need to know at the show and how to best benefit from the intense and in-depth educational experience. What amazes me about Internet Telephony Conference & Expo is how the conference and general sessions at this event truly capture the essence of what is important in our industry. We really haven't missed any important trend.

Posted in VoIP

What's up at ITEXPO?

February 20, 2005

Fellow TMC blogger Al Bredenberg blogged about links you should have to keep track of ITEXPO happenings this week. I lifted this:

Get All the Buzz on Next Week's INTERNET TELEPHONY Event

Want to keep up with news and happenings at next week's INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and Expo? Here are some ways to keep in the loop:
Visit the IT Conference and Expo News page at the conference Web site.

Visit the "Internet Telephony VoIP Conference and Expo -- What's the Buzz?" page on TMCnet for news, articles, links and more.

Visit TMCnet's eNews subscription page to sign up to receive Internet Telephony eNews and News and Events updates.

Here is the show directory.(Right-click to save this PDF file)

Posted in VoIP

Escape to Miami for ITEXPO

February 20, 2005

As another cold front hits the New England I am on my way to Miami where the weather is projected to be nice and sunny. I checked the attendee database and registrations are still pouring in for our Internet Telephony conference next week.

Planning a show is a great deal like planning a wedding but 10-20 times larger and you don't have a clear idea of how many people are coming until they show up. Sure you have a registration database but that could literally double the week of the show as people often wait to the last minute to make plans.
I am putting the final touches on my VoIP 2.0 presentation today and can't wait to share it with the audience. I have had a great deal of positive feedback on the concept of VoIP 2.0 and I am looking forward to taking this discussion to the next level.

I wish you all a safe trip down to Miami and look forward to greeting you in person at the event.

Posted in VoIP

iMag ------ Nificant

February 19, 2005

Without question, Apple is an amazing company. They started their wildest ride decades ago by popularizing desktop publishing. I was the person who brought desktop publishing to TMC around 1986-1987 and at the time it was sacrilegious to even think about using a PC for his task.

I saw no future in MACs (at least in the long-term) so I didn’t bother purchasing any of these cute little computers. Over the decades, countless artists and editors who love Macs would implore us to get them a Mac. I always said no.

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