I am here in Chicago for Supercomm 2009 where I have numerous video interviews and meetings set up. I will be attending a few receptions and the first one is this evening in celebration of Genband's 10-year anniversary. We have...
Gary Kim goes on an very positive semi-rant in this article. I like the new Gary Kim -- he seems to have become an optimist lately. Perhaps like me, he is just happy to be be back from the trade...
I am back from NXTComm, the Voice Peering Forum and my trip to Vancouver. It is good to be home and I have so much to share. A few things you should know about are the fact that TMCnet was...
You can never have too much performance or too much bandwidth it seems. Regardless of how fast our broadband connections get, we develop applications which need more. SaaS, Telepresence and other forms of video are just a few examples...
Emerson Network Power picked up the Motorola Embedded Computing Group last September and since that time, the company has made great progress in rolling out new products. I recently had a chance to sit down with Brian Carr Strategic...
Robby Benedyk Senior Manager GlobalProduct Marketing at TekelecFor service providers on the cutting edge, you should be exploring placing ads in the text messages your subscribers send to one another. While there is a 160 character limit on SMS messages,...
I just had a meeting with Chris MacFarland the CTO of PAETEC and we had a chance to discuss what is new at his company. Of interest is that the company has recently gotten the PAETEC and McLeod networks interworking...
I am here at the JFK Airport on the way to NxtComm. Expect me to be doing video interviews at the TMC booth. Stop by if you are there. Blogged via wireless handheld. ...
So here I am in Vegas. I had a 45 minute wait for a cab followed by a 15 minute wait to check in to find out that the hotel I thought I was staying at is not the right...
Sometimes I read marketing pieces that really make me scratch my head. This morning, while catching up on industry news I may have missed while at NXTComm, I came across a competitive site promoting a new event that was going...
Some of the rumors from last night’s party at NXTComm are that many of the enabling technology companies in communications are for sale. I know of one of these companies who is having some financial problems but I can’t say...
John Chambers the CEO of Cisco is getting ready to speak here in Chicago and John is generally one of the more dynamic speakers the industry has. Surprisingly, I haven’t heard John speak as often as I like as I...
Here is some of the latest news coming out of NXTcomm next week. Interesting items worth reading come from Alcatel-Lucent, Aculab, Cisco and the IMS Forum....
I just heard that USTA and TIA announced TelecomNext 2007, which was planned for Las Vegas on March 18-20, 2007, will not be taking place. Instead, the two organizations are putting on NXTComm, taking place in Chicago, June 18-21, 2007....