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Bring a Map

December 29, 2006

I'd like to start this blog entry off by saying Happy New Year and wishing all my readers a tremendous 2007. I hope you are healthy and happy and that your family and all loved ones are as well. Having said that, I cover lots of topics on my blog and many times I focus on telecom and sometimes I get to cover weird stories that are hard to believe Other times I tie a story into a trade show like the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo (ITEXPO) taking place in 24 days -- January 23-26 at the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center. Many times when I write about the show I like to have a hook.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Personal, SIP, Security, Skype, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Net Neutrality Safe For Two Years

December 29, 2006

Yesterday I wrote about ensuring net neutrality and just to show you how fluid the telecom market is, today AT&T may have ensured net neutrality for all of us last night. Well at least for 24 months. The company made a number of concessions to the FCC in order to complete their merger with BellSouth. Some of the concessions have to do with freezing prices on enterprise broadband services and giving up wireless spectrum.

Posted in Broadband, Google, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, SIP, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

One Wilshire

December 28, 2006

Ensuring Net Neutrality Net neutrality advocates are scared senseless that carriers will start charging companies like Google in order for the search giant and others to have access to service provider customers. These phone companies argue they have to charge Internet companies because the increased volume of traffic generated by such organizations requires service providers to upgrade their networks at a faster clip than they normally would. Many in the Internet community fear service providers could charge certain content providers for riding their networks and not others. Providers could effectively favor their own services and moreover act as censors of the Internet. Service providers who are looking to charge companies like Google for riding on their networks may find they aren’t able to accomplish this goal as carrier hotels act as an alternate way for content providers to get to customers. Now I don't mean to trivialize the situation as there are levels of complexity I won't touch on in this article.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, VoIP

Spirent Shake up

December 24, 2006

I just learned of a major management shakeup at testing leader Spirent. I rarely see something like this happen -- a wholesale replacement of so many managers and executives. The last year or so has been quiet for this company from a PR and marketing standpoint and many people were wondering what was going on with the company. It would seem now according to this article the company may be broken up into pieces. The testing market has a bright future but it seems this past quarter may have been underwhelming for a few players in the industry.

Posted in Broadband, Call Center, IMS, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

SIP Trunking Conference

December 21, 2006

Ingate received rave reviews from their SIP trunking session at the last ITEXPO in San iego. They are at it again and will hold a free conference titled “The SIP Trunking Series: Everything you Need to Know” at ITEXPO in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida next month. Companies who will be participating in the education so far are: Ericsson, ObjectWorld, Pingtel, ShoreTel, Sphere, BandTel, CBeyond and Levl3. Here are the details: Wednesday, January 24 – Professional Development Day

Introduction to SIP Trunking and the Value Proposition
The Service Provider Network
Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture

Thursday, January 25 – Solutions Tracks
SIP Trunking in Latin America
Case Study: Sterling Bank
SIP Trunking Solutions

Friday, January 26 – Solutions Tracks
SIP Trunking Solutions

Attend one or all three days of SIP Trunking seminars.

WHERE:

Broward County Convention Center
Internet Telephony Conference & Expo
Room 114

For more information and a detailed schedule, visit www.ingate.com/SIP_Trunking_seminar.php

Pre-registration required.

Get more details on Internet Telephony Conference & Expo.

Posted in Broadband, Call Center, IP Communications, ITEXPO, SIP, VoIP

Skype Charging

December 21, 2006

Skype is beginning to charge more for services or start to charge for services which were once free. Fist there was unlimited calling to the US and Canada for $15 and now there are connection fees being added.

This is great news for the IP communications space as it raises the bar for providing service a bit. It also shows Skype is feeling pressure to generate more revenue. Expect to see Skype look for new ways to generate large amounts of revenue from its user base.

Posted in IP Communications, Skype, VoIP

Ericsson Buys Redback Networks

December 20, 2006

Ericsson is looking to compete more effectively against Alcatel Lucent by purchasing Redback Networks is an up and coming edge router player. The rapid growth in the M&A market is unprecedented these days and it seems the insatiable appetite to build larger and larger companies will never stop. Although Redback is publicly traded and could have remained a public company, many private companies need to be acquired to bring liquidity back to their investors. The IPO market is getting a bit better but until Sox regulations get less onerous, it may be a while before smaller companies look to the public markets as an alternative M&A.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, SIP, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Time Magazine and Net Neutrality

December 18, 2006

Time Magazine has named you and me as their person of the year but without net neutrality would this have been the case? Would we have had the ability to use sites like MySpace and YouTube or would these companies have been squeezed out due to the high tariffs the telcos and cable companies might have charged them to get priority internet service to their users (you and me). Here is interesting perspective from the Huffington Post. According to the article the service providers want the internet to be about them and not you and me.

Posted in Broadband, IP Communications, Video, VoIP

High Availability Application Servers

December 17, 2006

As service providers continue to look for new sources of revenue the role of the application server becomes clear… Provide applications with no down time while allowing seamless scalability. A recent TMC white paper addition is Solid Information Technologies entry titled: Building Next Generation Network Services - The Data Management Infrastructure. This document is a good read for those looking to deploy blade servers in an environment where applications can scale seamlessly across the blades. It is an interesting look at how to build redundant and scaleable next-gen services. If you would like to learn more, just read this article or white paper.

Posted in IP Communications

Happy Holidays and Thanks!

December 15, 2006

I would like to take a moment and thank all my readers and wish you all a great holiday season and a Happy New Year. In addition I want to specifically thank you all for visiting TMCnet so frequently as we have once again hit one million unique visitors in the month on November according to WebTrends. This is the second time this year we have done so. (Apparently our October numbers are still being run -- long story. We may have hit this number in that month as well.) Thank you for making TMCnet the largest community of communications and technology decision makers in the world. A few things you should know about TMCnet going forward are the site will soon have a more streamlined look that is easier on the eyes.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Open Source, Personal, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Security, Skype, Speech Technologies, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

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