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How is Successful Marketing like a Successful 401K?

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, Jun 19

I was recently interviewed by Content Marketing Examiner on the topic of content marketing and in this interview you get to hear...

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Tagged content boost, content marketing, marketing

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

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Loquendo Speech News

January 19, 2005

Big news in the speech space. I like the ability to have so many different languages supported: Argentinean, Brazilian, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Chilean, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mexican, Portuguese, Swedish, U.K. and U.S. English.

Posted in Speech Technologies

Lucent's Profit Slips

January 19, 2005

According to TheStreet.com Lucent increased revenue on a year-over-year basis by 3% to $2.34 billion. The problem is this number fell short of the $2.4 billion dollar analyst estimate. "While the wireline market remains a challenge in the near term, we continue to execute on a long-term strategy of investing in areas that are critical to our vision of convergence such as next-gen optical, VoIP, broadband access, and mobile high-speed data, as well as services, government and emerging markets," CEO Patricia Russo said.

It is amazing to hear optical is back.

Posted in VoIP

Yahoo Earnings on Fire

January 18, 2005

You don't to be a genius to understand how much ad revenue is going to the web. It is quite amazing and is seems like most dotcom predictions are coming true just like the VoIP predictions are. The one interesting point in all of this is that the earnings of the two industries are intertwined as telecom and more specifically VoIP ad dollars are pouring into the web at an astonishing rate. Here is a release about Yahoo's record earnings.

Posted in VoIP

2 VoIP Articles

January 18, 2005

Apparently ComputerWorld thinks they are
Internet Telephony Magazine

VoIP: Ready for Prime Time

A VoIP Security Plan of Attack

Posted in VoIP

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BroadVoice 800 Numbers

January 18, 2005

One day 800 numbers won't mean anything as we will all have VoIP and cell phones with unlimited calling plans. In the present, 800 numbers are enhanced service offerings that VoIP service providers use to lure customers. I suppose toll-free numbers are about as commoditized as a service as there is so I am not surprised to see it as a victim of a price war. Whereas Vonage will charge you $4.99/month for this service with 60 minutes of free long-distance bundled in, BroadVoice charges you $1.95/month for the same service.

Posted in VoIP

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Supreme Court Decides on Broadband

January 18, 2005

Important news on the US Supreme Court and their decision on broadband services. As the release says, this ruling could have an extremely negative effect on the business of providing VoIP services and service providers in general. Hopefully at least one of the justices is a Vonage user. If not, surely Skype

Release:

Posted in VoIP

Local CLEC Provides VoIP

January 18, 2005

A local CLEC (to TMC anyway ) becomes a VoIP service provider.

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eLEC's VoX Deploys Packet Telephony Technology and Begins Offering VoIP Services Nationwide

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2005--eLEC Communications Corp. (OTCBB:ELEC), a local telecommunications company in White Plains, NY, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary VoX Communications has successfully deployed its packet telephony technology, and is now offering local and long-distance residential and business Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service nationwide.

In addition, Chairman and President of the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) Michael Khalilian welcomed participation and membership of eLEC to the IPCC saying, "eLEC has a unique status among CLECs by having traditional TDM networks in addition to VoIP platforms and service offerings." The IPCC is the industry's leading international association dedicated to advancing the deployment of VoIP and packet communications technology.

Posted in VoIP

Mobile Phones To Control PCs

January 18, 2005

Toshiba said it has developed the world's first software to enable users to operate their computers remotely via mobile phones.

Posted in VoIP

Military VoIP

January 18, 2005

Dial Thru International to provide VoIP service to US soldiers in Iraq.

Posted in VoIP

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Emprix Improves Nortel's MPS 1000

January 18, 2005

Any product that keeps customers happy is a something worth investigating. In this case, Empirix has developed a product that monitors Nortel IVR systems and helps them become more efficient and keep customer service at it s peak.

EMPIRIX LAUNCHES NEW SOLUTION TO HELP COMPANIES MANAGE AND IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF NORTEL NETWORKS MPS 1000

OneSight for Contact Centers now combines automated voice transaction monitoring with built-in knowledge of Nortel MPS environments to help organizations identify potential problems faster, and shorten mean-time-to-repair

BEDFORD, Mass. - Jan. 18, 2005 - Empirix® Inc., the leader in helping organizations strengthen customer loyalty through assured Web and voice application performance, today launched a new solution to help companies manage and improve the performance of Nortel Networks MPS 1000 interactive voice response (IVR) platforms.

Posted in CRM

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