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Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week

There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in...

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NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability

One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of...

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SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market

Cloud computing has really become a household word with mainstream media outlets running stories on television about the growth in the space...

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Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB

At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and...

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Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco

The software telco(r)evolution representing the move from hardware to software is perhaps the biggest trend in the world of carrier telecom this...

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LTE Network Interactions

According to a recently released GSMA Wireless Intelligence infographic, there are 163 live LTE networks today, and that figure is expected...

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AT&T CallVantage Issues

October 24, 2004

I received this e-mail today. I get a good deal of e-mail on the Vonage vs. AT&T battle. People want to know which is better, and they also want me to solve their technical problems.

Spirent Supports Cisco Skinny VoIP

October 4, 2004

Tomorrow, Spirent Communications (www.spirentcom.com; NYSE: SPM; LSE: SPT) will announce support for Cisco's SCCP (Skinny) protocol on its industry-leading Abacus 5000 product. With the addition of Skinny protocols, Spirent's Abacus 5000 now offers the most comprehensive analog, digital and VoIP protocol support in the testing industry. The Abacus 5000 is a fully integrated VoIP and PSTN test system in a single platform. It allows Enterprises to test VoIP calls within the Enterprise, and calls both from and to the PSTN, to reduce the risk of VoIP migration. Cost-effective, flexible and scalable, Abacus 5000 has integrated analog, TDM and Ethernet interfaces for comprehensive testing of converged network elements.

Voiceglo News and Skype Breakfast Keynote on Wednesday

October 4, 2004

I had a chance to meet with Voiceglo and learned some interesting things. I wrote about their new product called Net PBX a while back and it turns out that product was delayed a bit. They promise to have it out by the end of November. I have received a number of calls and e-mails about this product as well as people seem to be very intereted in it. It is basically a WiFi PBX that you lease as a service.

Getting into the Show Dailies

October 4, 2004

I've had a number of requests from people that want to get into the show dailies that we have been sending out. Please send information directly to Johanne Torres, jtorres@tmcnet.com. if you are a vendor, you know what to send. if you are an attendee and want to give feedback on the show, please also send it to Johanne who will put your comments in the directory as possible. Thanks

LA Smog, Working with the IPCC and TMC Intros Show Dailies

October 4, 2004

On the flight out to LA, the person next to me insisted that it's fog, not smog that covers the skies of LA in the AM. Whatever it is, I am looking forward to the sun burning it away so we can get some of that famous LA sunshine. I was up early this AM. I couldn't sleep last night.

Finding Rich Tehrani at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo

October 2, 2004

Tomorrow I head out to Our Fall Internet Telephony Conference & Expo which means I am at work on Saturday getting everything prepared for the trip. I am expecting a delivery today of a bunch of equipment. I didnt think it would come today but I was told to expect it. So here I am working and anxiously awaiting new technology to play with Ahem, make me more productive.

Before I tell you what Im expecting, please give me a moment to set the story up.

Mobile Phone Service

Except for a trade show in the basement of some Washington DC hotel 5 years ago, every place I have needed cellular services, Verizon Wireless service was far superior to all others.

RSS: Wherever you go!

September 29, 2004

Now you can take your RSS feeds with you, wherever you go. I thought this was an interesting release in light of the fact that I wrote about RSS today.

TMCnet News Alert and RSS Feeds - Powerful Resources

September 29, 2004

I've been getting lots of great feedback on TMCnet's News Alert Service. This is a keyword based service allowing you to track anything we cover and we cover just about every technology that you need to know about. Once a day, you receive an e-mail for each tem you are tracking. Common terms from this week are WiMAX, CRM Excellence, DOD, WiFi, VoIP, White Paper of VoIP, SIP, H.323, Linksys, Bio-Key, VoIP Developer, Avaya, and Cisco.

Canadians Receive $10,000 VoIP Conference Value - Free

September 29, 2004

I read an article about Canadian businesses dragging their feet on VoIP deployment and thought it would be a good gesture to give away Internet Telephony Conference & Expo conference passes to the first five Canadian companies that contact me. The show takes place next week, October 4-7 so please don't delay. The Platinum passes are valued at $1,995 each. I think this is a good gesture to the fine people of Canada.

WiMAXcon Learning Center Open for Business

September 28, 2004

WiMAX technology is progressing amazingly quickly and it seems like this technology will help bring broadband communications consisting of voice, video and data to the masses. I am personally thrilled to announce that our WiMAX Learning center is doing incredibly well, having some of the industry's key players participating in it.

As a reminder, this will be a place where attendees can come to learn about technology in a 100% objective environment. No sales pitches.

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