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Inter-Tel 7000

April 20, 2006

Industry analyst and telecom veteran Mark Ricca says “Inter-Tel has done a masterful job in developing a platform that is being designed to successfully leverage advanced IP technology to provide a rich, intuitive feature set that can be an asset to any business” What is that has Mark so excited ?? The Inter-Tel 7000 of course.

Scaling up to 2,500 users per site, the Inter-Tel 7000 is designed to be a pure, standards-based communications platform utilizing SIP technology at its core. The platform also is designed to be redundant and secure, and to provide easy-to-use interfaces for remote management and configuration.

I can safely say I have never ever seen a release with so much analyst representation. It seems the analysts love Inter-Tel and especially the 7000.

Posted in CRM, Conferencing, ITEXPO, JITC, SIP, Science, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Million Customer VoIP Club

April 20, 2006

A few weeks back I had a chance to meet with Arris in Georgia. The company specializes in cable telephony and triple-play/broadband solutions. Arris and Nortel are both supplying equipment to UPC Broadband in Western Europe. This is important because this service provider just passed the million customer VoIP milestone. Nice going!

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IPTV, SIP, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

IMS Party at GlobalComm

April 18, 2006

We are about to announce details of our annual Supercomm – whoops – GlobalComm party that we put on with the IPCC. This is now the third year of this party. Last year it was at Sears Tower, the year before on a cruise ship and now it is bigger and better - at Chicago Landmark Soldier Field.

There is a new theme this year and you cannot miss this event.

It will now be an IMS party co-sponsored by the IMS Forum –formerly the IPCC. It will also be sponsored by TMC's new IMS Magazine and IMS Expo.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, SIP, Science, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Oracle and Asterisk

April 18, 2006

Oracle is buying software companies at a rapid clip and has also embraced open source and SIP. So if you combine acquisition with open source and VoIP you get Digium as a takeover candidate. Right? A the open source PBX leader Digium would be a perfect company to put in the portfolio of Oracle companies. What do you think?

Posted in Conferencing, JITC, Open Source, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Sorry about that

April 17, 2006

Sorry about the whole not blogging thing today. I had meant to see the accountant and sign the tax documents a few weeks back but as luck would have it today was the day I saw him. In addition -- despite my best intentions to get in early -- I woke up before 6 am but somehow decided to close my eyes for a second. Thankfully the kids woke me up a few hours later. I was straight into meetings for a whole day just trying to catch up with e-mail between the words being spoken in the meeting.

Posted in CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, IMS, IPTV, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Vodafone Could Buy Vonage

April 14, 2006

Recent reports point to the fact that Vodafone may be targeting fixed line telephony as a way to allow it to offer bundled services. The wireless leader is a global powerhouse and needs to find a way to compete with other companies that are increasingly using bundling to attract and keep customers. The natural expansion play for the company is to purchase cable companies in the US or to focus on WiMAX. Another option is to pick up Vonage or Packet8 so that it can become an overnight VoIP (and thus a fixed line phone) company.

Posted in Broadband, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, SIP, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Inter-Tel Power Struggle

April 12, 2006

There is a power struggle at Inter-Tel. I find this surprising as from where I stand the company is running better than ever. I haven’t been digging into the financials mind you but they are rolling out new products that are doing well and are doing a great PR job.

Still, it is possible that Inter-Tel will go private as a result of this struggle. It is also possible that it will be acquired. In my opinion going private will be good for the company as it will allow Inter-Tel the flexibility to focus on long-term growth and not short-term earnings.

Posted in Broadband, Conferencing, JITC, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Call Center 2.0 Sponsor

April 10, 2006

TMC’s new Call Center 2.0 conference is off to a strong start… We are putting together the conference content of this event as I write this and so far there is strong sponsor interest with Spanlink being our first one. The event is going to take place at the same time and place as Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in San Diego October 10-13 2006. I hope to see you there.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, ITEXPO, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

TMCnet Podcast

April 10, 2006

Check out the latest TMC podcast with Aculab's David Duffet. Here are some of the topics being discussed:

ACE (Aculab User group) 2006 in Budapest/upcoming in San Francisco Jack Handy Asterisk Asterisk Business edition WiFi VoIP CTIA IMS – IP Multimedia Subsystem ACE San Francisco VoIP in England

Duffet is a hilarious person and a natural podcast interviewee. I hope you enjoy this podcast.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, ITEXPO, Open Source, SIP, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

CTIA News

April 6, 2006

As I am at the show today and haven't had time to write up what I think are the interesting trends, please check out the CTIA News page on TMCnet to stay up to date. Thanks.

Posted in Wireless

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