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Aspect Buys BlueNote Networks

Why would Aspect, a company which is the largest pure-play contact center equipment and software player in the world buy BlueNote Networks? I am glad you asked. I had met with Aspect execs about this deal a month or so...

Posted on July 9, 2008 5:30 PM

Hyperconnectivity, Live and in Person

You can't escape the reality that interconnectivity between humans will increase at a more rapid pace as time goes on. The myriad ways in which we connect with one another, e-mail, social networks, blogging, IM, SMS, telephone, voicemail and others...

Posted on June 11, 2008 5:30 PM

NEC's New Vision

Recently I had a chance to sit down with NEC Unified Solution's new president Jeffrey Kane and talk shop. Kane has an extensive background in systems integration having worked at firms like Perot Systems and EDS. Most importantly, he has...

Posted on March 31, 2008 8:08 PM

Podcast: Joel Hackney, Nortel

If you want some great perspective on Nortel's recent earnings as well as information on which areas of Nortel are doing best, be sure to check out this podcast interview with Joel Hackney, President of the Enterprise Solutions Group at...

Posted on March 4, 2008 12:39 PM

TeamQuest

I recently had the opportunity to speak with TeamQuest Corporation’s director of communications, Keith Hanna, about the IP communications space, SIP and the overall direction of the company.   TeamQuest Corporation is a provider of IT Service Optimization, specializing in...

Posted on September 7, 2007 9:05 AM

Inter-Tel

Inter-Tel executives Aron Aicard (Director of Product Marketing), Jon Young (Director, Softswitch Technology) and Rick Ringel (Strategic Solutions Engineer), gave me this exclusive interview. They talked to me about Inter-Tel’s new corporate initiatives, the impact of SIP technology, and the...

Posted on August 28, 2007 5:17 PM

Microsoft Pushes into Communications and Beyond

Here is my August 2007 Publisher’s Outlook for Internet Telephony Magazine. It may be one of the longest pieces I have written in a while and it was great fun to put together and hopefully is something you will appreciate....

Posted on July 23, 2007 11:08 PM

Shunra

Developing applications for local computers is one thing but once you factor in the latency generated by wide area networks you can significantly reduce productivity if users are forced to wait for painfully slow applications to refresh screens and provide...

Posted on June 18, 2007 6:53 AM

Solace Systems

Yet another Terry Matthews company I recently visited is Solace Systems who provides products for service providers and large enterprise customers. The company is in the value-added services routing system business and in case you are wondering what this means...

Posted on January 7, 2007 9:52 PM

SOA in Communications

The leading edge in telecom is SOA. I have written about this many times before but I get the feeling most people don't understand how important the concept of SOA will be as telecom gets more integrated into the fabric...

Posted on August 8, 2006 6:39 PM

What is happening in VoIP

If there is a single trend I have observed this week it is that VoIP is really happening. I spent a good deal of time interviewing companies exhibiting at the Internet Telephony show and they told me that the buyers...

Posted on January 27, 2006 9:48 AM

BlueNote Networks

I spent some time today with BlueNote Networks and they seem to be doing well. They have a p2p solution for the enterprise with a heavy focus on SOA. I spoke with the company's CTO Brian Silver and in his...

Posted on December 21, 2005 7:14 AM

SOA, SCA and SDO

Service oriented architectures are something I have been writing more and more about recently. Expect SOA and communications to become more intricately intertwined. Announcements like this are great because it shows the massive amount of collaboration SOA is bringing to...

Posted on November 29, 2005 7:03 PM

Skype in the Enterprise

Two months ago, on September 26, 2005 I wrote an article titled VoIP Killed the PBX Star. This article received a tremendous amount of traffic and from what I am told was posted on quite a few PBX vendor intranets...

Posted on November 25, 2005 7:09 PM