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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....
Why Windstream Bought PAETEC
Broadband and communications provider Windstream Corp just agreed to purchase communications conglomerate PAETEC for $2.3 billion in order to add scale and drive growth. PAETEC is an interesting company as it not only provides broadband and IP communications services; it...
DIDX Reseller Podcast with Xorcom
Ruth Bridger and Bill Soto just had a podcast interview with social network maven Suzanne Bowen of DIDX where they discuss their open source/Asterisk-based solutions providing enhanced functionality for PBXs. Moreover they discuss specific solutions for vertical markets such as...
The Ultimate Channel Industry Event
In our never-ending attempt to make ITEXPO the best place on the planet to learn about communications and technology, TMC has partnered with Beka Publishing one again to bring your Channel Vision Expo - or CVx. The event targets resellers,...
Westcon's Security Bet
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...
Nokia, RIM, Skype, Cisco and ITEXPO News August 30, 2010
Tech once again has been an amazingly vibrant market in the last week of August when news is generally slow. A recent trend has to do withtechnology companies playing nice with global governments to make sure they aren't rejected or...
Agent Market Dies, Gets Reborn at ITEXPO
In the mid-nineties as the CTI market stormed onto the scene a slew of new unified messaging companies came onto the scene looking to sell systems which integrated voicemail into corporate email repositories and later IP-based phone systems. The biggest...
Will Avaya's Nortel Acquisition be a Success?
Avaya recently completed its acquisition of Nortel's assets and the most important question in the enterprise communications space for 2010 is what happens next. Avaya and Nortel were two of the industry's most dominant players and also fiercely competitive -...
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...
ITEXPO: M2M, Broadband Stimulus and Smart Grid Happenings
In an effort to keep you up to date on the conversations online regarding ITEXPO, here are some of the latest items on the web I have been tracking. Over at the DIDX blog there is a discussion of a...
ITEXPO West 2009 Expo Update
We have been seeing a surge of registrations for TMC's ITEXPO, the hotel room block has been oversold for over a month and we feel the industry getting more excited than ever for ITEXPO - the ultimate event which brings...
Asterisk/Switchvox Telecom Training
With all the uncertainty in the world there are some things which we can agree upon. For example the demand for certain areas of technology has increased to grow even while global economies have not. We have seen that video,...
Making Money in VoIP and IP Communications
This is a critical time for resellers and agents as the economy is slow and this puts margin pressure on virtually everyone. Moreover access to credit is more challenging today than ever. This puts VARs and integrators in a precarious...
Paula Bernier Joins TMC
It is with great pleasure I welcome Paula Bernier to the TMC family as our new Executive Editor in charge of NGN, Unified Communications and Internet Telephony Magazines. On my trip to Texas this week, the industry seemed very excited...
Chris Barton of WCS: Telecom Channels Must Evolve
In a time when many CLECs have been wiped out, how has one competitive local exchange carrier survived and found a way to grow in one of the toughest business environments of our lifetimes? To find out more I interviewed...
Nectar Services Provides Hosted Avaya VoIP, SIP Trunking
Companies in the IP communications space have never been so laser-focused on ROI as they are today. Avaya for example makes sure to mention the cost savings benefits of IP communications every chance they get. According to David Giangano President...
From Bad GM News to Good Tektronix News
I woke this morning to hear GM may face bankruptcy, even though the taxpayers have loaned the company tens of billions of dollars. Later in the day I traveled to Genband where they tell me business is good. I then...
TMC Communications Offers Comprehensive Services for Agents and Customers
The telecom agent market is alive and well as evidenced by a number of meetings I have had recently with execs at communications providers who use agents to help them sell service. As you can imagine the challenge for smaller...
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ITEXPO Growth of 15 Percent Portends Bright Industry Future
With all the doom and gloom talk regarding the global economy, many attendees and exhibitors came to ITEXPO recently in Miami with low expectations. A few exhibitors told me candidly the show could have been justifiably down 30 percent. Instead, we...
ITEXPO East 2009 Attendance Up 15%
Thank you all so much for coming to Miami this week. The numbers are in for ITEXPO East 2009 and the amount of people at the event increased 15% from the same one last year. We could not have done...
Some Important ITEXPO East 2009 News
Here are some links from a recent ITEXPO Show Daily sent to ITEXPO attendees. It doesn't live online yet so I can't post a link. (Show daily 1, 2) Instead I cut and pasted some of the more important parts...
Zippy's Thoughts on ITEXPO
I just came across an article by Richard Zippy Grigonis regarding the success of ITEXPO in light of the incredible competition over the years. Reading it, reminded me of shows of the past which I enjoyed going to. Zippy --...
Keating on Skype, Pika and Zune
You know what? I was looking at Tom Keating's blog today and there is some good stuff worth sharing. First he points to an Om Malik interview of Josh Silverman the CEO of Skype and then reminds us of how...
Phone.com on ITEXPO
I was just reading the Phone.com blog by Ari Rabban where he mentions:ITExpo is arguably the largest gathering of the VoIP industry. The conference and expo is a great place for the industry to gather, network and exchange ideas about...
IP Fax Still Growing Thanks to Unified Communications (UC)and VoIP
Today I had the opportunity to sit in on a partner conference Sagem-Interstar put on in Montreal to help its partners and customers. The conference was attended by a number of resellers/integrators from around the world but the ones...
