IP Communications

NetSapiens

September 25, 2006

Big VoIP Revenue for Small Potato Providers

Located just a few miles from the San Diego Convention Center the home of the upcoming Internet Telephony Conference & Expo is NetSapiens a company making the lives of smaller service providers much easier.

I spent some time with Anand Buch, Co-Founder & CEO of the company and learned more about what they are up to. I last saw Anand in June of this year at the IMS Party TMC had at Globalcomm in conjunction with Siemens and the IMS Forum. Anand picked up where we left off but before we got into business talk I got to discuss the good old days of VoIP when Nuera was in its heyday. Much of the NetSapiens team came from Nuera and we discussed what the future of the company might be under their new AudioCodes parent.

According to Anand, company simplifies the delivery of voice and multimedia services for smaller providers.

Posted in IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, Open Source, Technology, VoIP

Disaster Recovery at ITEXPO

September 25, 2006

I just got off the phone with Andy Mercker at Sphere Communications and he was telling me how much success and interest they generated at the last ITEXPO when they had a demo of their disaster recovery equipment in action.

This year they are taking it up a notch and are partnering with PacStar Communications who builds communications systems for the U.S. DoD and Emergency Management Agencies, built on the SphereCSE Communications Services Engine

I am really jazzed to hear this demo will be coming to Internet Telphony and I just can’t wait for the show.

Update:

Posted in IP Communications

Rodopi Software

September 25, 2006

Recently I had a chance to travel to Southern California and see the many companies that make up the IP communications market of the state. Two things I noticed about Southern California are the food is still great out there and the traffic problem isn't getting any better. Thankfully the carpool lane was available and this made traveling much more effective.

In all my trips to California I never driven on a toll road and I found these highways to be great ways to minimize traffic. What I didn't realize is some of these roads require you to have exact change and unlike every other toll I have ever seen in my life, if you don't have exact change you are left without many options.

Posted in Broadband, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, SIP, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Bandtel

September 25, 2006

Out of the many areas in the IP communications space worth watching, I think SIP trunking (see TMCnet's SIP Week in Review for lots more info on the SIP trunking market) is among the more interesting. I say this because for as long as PBXs have been around so have hardware-based PBX interfaces.

SIP has changed this (subscribe free to SIP Magazine to learn more) and now telephony has a lot less proprietary hardware and a lot more flexibility. Ironically as so many IP-based call centers and IP-PBXs are being sold worldwide, they aren't all connecting to SIP trunks -- they still use the PSTN. By some accounts less than half of IP PBXs are connected to SIP trunks.

So the benefits of putting voice over IP are only partially taken advantage of.

Posted in Broadband, Call Center, IP Communications, ITEXPO, Open Source, SIP, Technology, VoIP

Press/Analyst List at ITEXPO

September 21, 2006

I have been hearing quite a few positive comments in the industry about how the press/analyst and Wall Street lists have grown at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. This event in a few weeks in San Diego is well on its way to being not only the best attended show in the IP communications space (with real buyers -- not just exhibit staff) but in addition we are extremely excited to be host to so many influential industry movers and shakers. ---- Al Senia America's Network Lance Leventhal ATCA Newsletter Jay McCall Business Solutions Magazine Ed LaBanca CollabGen Andy Abramson Comunicano, Inc. James Burton CT Link Alan Gardner Ctech News Bruce McGregor Current Analysis Marc Velasquez Verson Deaf Network News Andrew Garcia eWeek Kim Cooper Exceed LLC Dan Rosenbaum FierceMarkets Dan Rosenbaum FierceMarkets Will Strauss Forward Concepts Ronald F. Gruia Frost & Sullivan Joslyn Faust Gartner Stan Marder High-Tech User News William Stofega IDC Norm Bogen In-Stat Norm Bogen In-Stat Barry Marks IntelliCom Analytics Mark Ricca IntelliCom Analytics Ken Camp IP Adventures Gary Kim IP Business Jon Arnold J Arnold & Associates David Yedwab Market Strategy and Analytics Mike Myshrall Mercator Capital Steve Kruschen Mr. Gadget Mark Miller Network World Charlotte Wolter New Telephony Bruce Stewart O'Reilly Media Howard Lubert SafeHatch LLC Marla Ellerman ScreenPlays Magizine Carolyn Moody Security Technology International Phil Wolff Skype Journal Bernardo Schneiderman TBC/Satmagazine Art Rosenberg The Unified View MIchael Huang ThinkEquity Daniel Berninger Tier1 Research Erik Linask TMC Rich Tehrani TMC Richard Grigonis TMC Greg Galitzine TMC Melissa Blasnig wjuv radio PAULA BERNIER XCHANGE Russell Shaw ZDNet Additional Investment, Market Research, Media Firms Attending: Arbor Advisors LLC Best Diversified Holding Inc. Blue Beacon Capital CB Capital Partners, Inc Dimension Funding Mercator Capital Mericom AG MERRIMAN CURHAN FORD & CO. Newport Federal Sanford Bernstein, LLC. SILVERWOOD PARTNERS Windes & McClaughry

Posted in IP Communications, ITEXPO

Macedonia Country #55

September 21, 2006

Mike tells me we just got country number 55 -- and the winner is an NMS Engineer from MobiKos Inc. a mobile operator. ITEXPO as I have said before is really the United Nations of IP Communications.

Posted in IP Communications, ITEXPO

Around the IP Communications World

September 21, 2006

Perhaps this should entry would be better titled around the IP Communications world in 4 days?

Mike Genaro, TMC's VP of Marketing tells me that the International attendance at the ITEXPO coming up in San Diego will be between 60-70 countries.

According to Mike, we are now at 54 countries represented on the IT registration list. This is up from 49 last week.

As I have written before TMC events bring IP Communications decision makers from around the globe.

Posted in IP Communications, ITEXPO

Microsoft Nortel Deal

September 21, 2006

I spoke with a few of Nortel’s competitors and they feel the recent news about Nortel and Microsoft collaborating is not such a big deal. They say there is nothing in the details that excludes any other communications vendor from doing the same if not more with the operating systems leader.

My take is that even if this is true Nortel did a smart thing by working with Microsoft early and they certainly are leveraging this relationship to improve their brand. The financial scandal of years past is slowly being forgotten and anything additional they can do to convey strength and stability makes sense.

Posted in IP Communications, JITC, VoIP

Sonus Caribbean News

September 20, 2006

Sonus scored a major deal in the Caribbean recently. The islands may not be thought of us an IP communications hotspot but I can tell you from experience that the service providers in this area have been flocking to Internet Telephony Conference & Expo when we hold it in South Florida. I expect more news of this sort to come out soon.

Posted in IP Communications

Adtran

September 20, 2006

If you haven't been watching Adtran lately you may have missed how seriously they are taking the VoIP market. Certainly the company is a well-known name in the networking equipment market having been making data centers products for so many years.

The company has a new series of multi-service routers that are designed for use in small businesses. They allow for things like PoE -- perfect for VoIP phones.

Even though the products in this line are being targeted at SMBs I found it encouraging that they support 500 VPN tunnels.

Every networking vendor is taking VoIP seriously -- I just get the feeling Adtran is trying to be the better IP communications networking company.

For more details on what Adtran is up to check out Patrick Barnard's article.

Posted in IP Communications, Open Source, Video, VoIP

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