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22nd ITEXPO in 2 Weeks

September 21, 2010

This ITEXPO in Los Angeles in two-weeks will be the 22nd event and our best ever. Check out this message my team was nice enough to put together on my behalf today:

From Rich Tehrani, TMC CEO
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ITEXPO West 2010 - The 22nd ITEXPO
October 4-6, 2010
Los Angeles Convention Center -- Los Angeles, California
www.itexpo.com

So Many Reasons to Attend ITEXPO in 13 Days

Dear Colleague,

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Genband Perspective 2010 Live Blog

September 21, 2010

CMO Mehmet Balos takes the stage and gives overview of the day - the goal is to better explain the company's goals and future.

President and CEO Charlie Vogt takes stage

2/3 of marquee SPs in 80 countries use Genband.
We are the single largest private company in telecom.
Takeaways from this event:

We are innovating more than anyone else
We are growing
We are global

Class 4 and Class and 5 switches were not forklifted as fast as we thought - but we see an opportunity as switching in the core becomes a bigger deal for carriers.

We consolidated 2,000 COs for Verizon to 200 - same features and functions with 10x less central offices.

Traffic and policy management will become big area of growth for us as well as:

switching
networking
services

Other areas of focus are network tranformation, convergence and broadband.

We have already shipped 200,000,000 IP ports!

Company founded 1999 under name General Bandwidth. We still ship original G6 gateway - has evolved into VoIP.

Packet line gateway - allows you to take all traditional interfaces and connect it to a softswitch. We acquired legacy technology from Siemens. We developed relationships with TEMs in tier 2-3 market.

There still needs to be more consolidation.

In 2008 we acquired ReefPoint - put us in networking business - we were in switching business before this.

We spent the last 18 months working on S9 - SBC - and it has twice the density of anything on the market.

We acquired the gateway division of NSN.

All the media gateways NSN uses in fixed world are from Genband.

We also have relationships with Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.

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Genband Perspective 2010

September 20, 2010

I just came from an evening dinner at the Genband Perspective 2010 event and the goal of the gathering is to communicate what the company stands for and what direction they are going in. With a number of acquisitions and organic growth under its belt the company has lots to discuss with the analysts and media at the event and I can't wait to see what's in store tomorrow.

Here are some photos from the first night of this conference:

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LaGuardia Fire Alarm

September 20, 2010

I was sitting quietly in LaGuardia Airport enjoying high-speed Internet access courtesy of a complimentary (its good to be in media ) wireless broadband access and the fire alarm just went off. Then it shut off after a few minutes. Let's hope it isn't anything serious.

Posted in Broadband, Personal, Security, Technology, Wireless

Westcon's Security Bet

September 19, 2010

The technology market is quite vibrant and other than a short time between 2001-2003 there is always a good deal of optimism in the space. For me it has been quite exciting because I enjoy the marketing side of technology as well as the bits and bytes at the processor level. Case in point is the cloud computing market which is really a hot "new market" that is really a return to the mainframe.

And boy did it take a while to get us to the point where companies accepted it.

Posted in Broadband, Cisco, IP Communications, Security, Smart Grid, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video

A Blow to Sanctions: Iran Now Powers Regional Internet

September 18, 2010

As Iran pursues its nuclear ambitions it destabilizes the entire region and threatens to spread nuclear war technology throughout the middle-east. Just one side-effect of this trend will be much easier access to nuclear material by terrorists and Iran is already a well-known state sponsor of terrorism so this point isn't a leap of faith.

In response to Iran continuing its nuclear development, many western countries including the US are putting pressure on the country via sanctions which are making the lives of many Iranians much more difficult.

In response, Iran is working on building bridges to its neighbors with a network of road, railway, and tunnel schemes along with expensive port upgrades in what experts say is a concerted attempt to restore the country's traditional role as a trade hub.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Broadband, Cisco, FCC, IP Communications, Security, Technology, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

Steve Jobs Loses his Stars

September 14, 2010

It seems Steve Jobs was stopped from taking ninja throwing stars aboard his own private jet as he left Japan. He pointed out he is likely not going to hijack his own plane but still, no deal as the stars were discarded. Jobs threatened to never go back to Japan but if he really wants to get revenge he should launch a line of consumer devices which take almost all the marketshare from an incumbent Japanese company like Sony.

Wait a second, he already did this - maybe that's why Japanese authorities are a bit miffed - after all the person checking luggage now could have once had a lucrative job assembling Walkmans.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Consumer Electronics, Financial, Gadget, Security, Technology

iPad goes to China, Crooks Mine Facebook and ITEXPO Highlights

September 13, 2010

As the first week of the fall begins, there is a wealth of news to share such as China getting the iPad, Facebook status updates leading to burglaries, another high- level departure at Nokia and GoDaddy.com looking to sell itself for a billion dollars.

The pace of acquisitions hasn't slowed as of late - HP just announced it will acquire ArcSight to bolster its security offering and PAETEC will pick up Cavalier Telephone.

Perhaps the biggest news of all is Wal-Mart's entry into the MVNO space - they will be reselling T-Mobile's service.

If there is a common theme here - it's that technology continues to be full of opportunity as it becomes more common.

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Cisco Quad Points to Communications Future

September 13, 2010

With Twitter and Facebook entrenching themselves as the defacto social destinations for consumers there is a more quiet race betwen enterprise technology companies to position themselves as the next information hub for collaboration in the corporate world. I recently spent a tremendous amount of time with Cisco's Murali Sitaram (pictured) the VP/GM of Cisco's Enterprise Platforms unit to learn more about Cisco's Quad initiative which ties together synchronous and asynchronous communications via a very social-networking friendly interface. The name Quad of course is a play on the campus quad which is often a meeting place at universities. And as you've no doubt guessed, the goal here is to create a virtual meeting place which has all the social benefits of the real-world coupled with the strengths of search, databases and real-time communications.

Cisco Quad aims to unify synchronous and asynchronous communications

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Infected by Virus This Morning

September 8, 2010

I got a nasty computer virus on my office PC last night and now my tech team is trying to fix it. Not sure how I got the thing but I am willing to bet it had to do with an image search on a popular search engine at some point yesterday.

Thankfully I can still work on my laptop but it certainly isn't as productive as working on the three giant monitors I typically use while at TMC HQ.

Posted in Security, Technology

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