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Avaya and Mitel Cross at Canadian Border
New Jersey-based Avaya, spun out of Lucent and previously AT&T has a decades-long history of providing business communications solutions. With its purchase of Nortel’s business communications assets a few years back it picked up even more knowledge, know-how and relationships....
When I am at the Winter Olympics Next Week
Someone please remind me not to complain about the coffee in Canada (click the smiley for more). ...
Tehrani at Winter Olympics
After ITEXPO in Miami next week, I come back home, witness TMC's move into a new headquarters, head back down to Miami for a bar Mitzvah and then finally head to the Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. While there I will...
Mitel Benefits from Virtualization, Nortel Sale
On a recent trip to Canada I sat down with Mitel CEO Don Smith and President and COO Paul Butcher to discuss the company, industry and future. The dynamic duo is exactly that, mixing copious amounts of humor and friendly...
Results of my Canada Trip so Far
I flew to Montreal on Tuesday morning of this week and have driven well over 800 miles to Ottawa, Rochester, NY and now Bedford, Mass. There has been cautious optimism from most every company I have met with. Many CEOs...
Back from Canada
I finished my tour of The Great White North and am back in the US where I feel much more comfortable using my electronics. With my data usage I always get the feeling I will see multi-thousand dollar wireless bills...
ITEXPO West 2009: Terry Matthews Keynote
Sir Terry Matthews gave a fascinating keynote address today to a standing room only crowd at TMC's ITEXPO and started his address by discussing the opportunity he sees in the communications and technology markets. You know from my past writing...
Thoughts on Avaya/Nortel and the DOJ
Jeff Wiener is President of Digitcom Canada and an Avaya dealer who believes that the DOJ should rubber stamp the Avaya/Nortel merger without much fuss. He explains that the field is extremely competitive and furthermore that the competition is also...
Canadian ISPs Abhor Net Neutrality
It is amazing to me that virtually all ISPs in Canada admit to filtering traffic. Many of the providers in the great white north argue traffic shaping is essential as it ensures customers get their contracted speeds. Typically the target...
Vancouver Photos
Here are some of the Vancouver shots from my trip -- which I think you will enjoy. You can now click some of the photos on my blog to see a larger image (such as the ones below). Unfortunately this...
Leaving Vancouver
I feel weird writing this entry as I never told you I was in Vancouver to begin with. After leaving NXTComm, I came to the west coast of Canada because there are a number of companies in the area worth...
Dragnet 2.0
In a social network connected world, it seems auto theft will be a thing of the past. A car dealer had a relatively rare Nissan Skyline GT-R stolen recently and posted this information with pictures on the internet. The...
Government Efficiency
Yeah right... Stopping the work on nights and weekends will make a better work/life balance. It seems the Canadian government is implementing a Blackberry blackout between 7 PM and 7 AM. While this idea seems like it should work... How...
Canada Deregulates VoIP
So I am not breaking this news at all but is important enough for me to cover. I heard about this news at around 7:30 am this morning and have been meaning to write it up all day. Patrick Barnard...
Great White Monopoly
When you own the lines you can get away with murder. If this sort of activity isn’t an example of a monopoly at work, I am not sure what is....
O Breakthrough
What are they putting in the water in Canada? There is tremendous innovation coming from the Great White North. I would list some of the companies that are wowing me with forward-looking concepts and ideas but with my luck I...
