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Explosive Small Business Communications Growth

March 8, 2007

Please enjoy my April 2007 Internet Telephony Magazine Publisher's Outlook. ---- You would have to be asleep to not realize how fast small business communications is growing. The reason? Small businesses didn’t have so many telecom choices a scant ten years ago. There was pretty much key systems and then some inexpensive PBXs came along thanks to AltiGen and other, similar players. What is different now?

Posted in Broadband, Call Center, IP Communications, ITEXPO, JITC, Microsoft, SIP, TMC Team, Technology, Unified Communications, Video, VoIP

Voice Peering is Hot

March 8, 2007

At the Voice Peering Forum event here in sunny Miami Florida, the message is simple – voice peering is growing by leaps and bounds. Stealth Communications is the company who runs this event and attendees generally are people who have joined the Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) or who are thinking of joining. Simply stated the VPF allows interconnection of voice calls and services. The founder of Stealth Communications is Shrihari Pandit and he kicked off the day’s meeting with his usual optimism which was backed up by staggering growth numbers. For example the VPF carried 139 billion minutes last year and has seen 750% growth for the last three years. In addition, Shrihari mentioned upgrades to the VPF such as the ability to utilize IPV6. Shrihari made a point to mention IPV6 is needed as the current addressing scheme IPv4 will run out of IP addresses in a few years. In addition the VPF ENUM Registry will offer CNAM or Caller Name which will be a valuable service for CLECs or VoIP providers looking to match caller names with calls.

Posted in Broadband, Call Center, Conferencing, Google, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, SIP, TMCnet, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Dialogic Cruise

March 7, 2007

I am headed to downtown Miami now where I will be on a cruise with Dialogic partners and the Dialogic team. This will conclude the Dialogic One event. The weather is pretty nice here so I expect to have a great time. This is my fourth time in Miami since November ’06 and I will be back in Florida for CTIA in a few weeks. The boat is docked at the Bayside Marina a few blocks away from where Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East was launched back in 2000 – or was it 2001?? I can’t recall. Anyway, I may have a photo or two to post at some point this evening.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, Microsoft, Open Source, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, Unified Communications, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Gizmo Project

February 27, 2007

VoIP Islands Get Closer

The good news in the world of VoIP islands is that they are getting closer as evidenced by the fact that Gizmo Project 3.0 now interoperates with Windows Live and Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber and Google Talk. In addition the client can call on the thousands of SIP-based calling networks out there. The analysis here is straightforward. Skype is the 800 pound gorilla in the market – the largest island -- and everyone else has to interoperate to be relevant. Skype at this point does not need to interoperate it seems.

Posted in Google, IP Communications, SIP, Skype, VoIP

IP Communications Stories February 26, 2007

February 26, 2007

Here are some good stories worth reading. I haven’t had a chance to give analysis and opinion on all of these but if I get a chance I will tackle some or all of these later. Enjoy: VoIP Provider 8x8 Names New VP of Service Delivery and Support Vonage: Moving VoIP in the Wireless Direction Pingtel Launches New Version of SIPxchange Harte-Hanks Enhance Customer Service with IP Solution from Avaya Epygi Announces Version 4.1 Software for Quadro PBXs VoIP Solutions Providers KDDI and DigiLinea Partner VoIP Driving SBC Market, Says Report Google's VoIP Means Business Interactive Voice for Web sites and Browser-based Applications

Posted in Google, IP Communications, SIP, Skype, Speech Technologies, Technology, Unified Communications, VoIP

A Breakthrough Month in IP Communications

February 26, 2007

Skype, Google, Verizon, Vonage and Other Happenings Please enjoy the March 2007 Publisher’s Outlook from Internet Telephony Magazine: The last few weeks have been among the most newsworthy in IP communications since this magazine’s first issue in February 1998. If you have any doubts about the VoIP market’s strength and power, consider that Skype has recently petitioned the FCC for something amazing. They want to apply the Carterphone rules to the wireless industry. These are the same rules that were applied to break up the AT&T monopoly on devices, allowing anyone to make products for the AT&T network — as long as these products did not harm the network. Innovations like the fax machine and vibrant competition in the handset market ensued.

Posted in Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Google, IMS, IP Communications, Microsoft, Open Source, SIP, Skype, Technology, Unified Communications, Video, VoIP, Wireless

OKI Electric

February 24, 2007

OKI Electric was one of the first companies to be in the VoIP gateway business in the nineties but they went silent a few years back. I figured they dropped out of the VoIP space altogether but this article on OKI Electric’s IP telephony gateway for the Japanese market shows the company is still in this space. I wonder if they will start targeting the US again. Oh and it seems the differentiation between OKI’s gateways and others is the mobile Centrex functionality and other specific enhancement for the Japanese market.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, IP Communications, SIP, VoIP, Wireless

IBM Webinar

February 23, 2007

We have a very exciting webinar running on TMCnet this week titled IP Convergence - Tearing Down the Barriers Between Telecom and Information Technology The number of registrations is approaching a record and we are pretty excited about hosting it on February 27, 2007 at 2:00 pm EST. Here is an excerpt from a press release which ran today on TMCnet: The convergence of voice, data and video networks is having a profound effect on telecommunications organizations, infrastructures, and platforms. Convergence is likewise merging traditional telecommunications networks and Information Technology infrastructures, historically built on separate technologies and methodologies. Using common IT technologies, service providers can reduce dependence upon highly customized hardware to create new service offerings. This results in an operating environment, which can significantly reduce CapEX and OpEX, accelerate time-to-market, and provide flexibility to deploy applications in the environment best suited to the service, and requirements of the service provider. The webinar will be led by three presenters with decades of experience in the field: Bruce Anthony, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Officer for Next Generation Networks and Convergence; Scott Wharton, Vice President of Marketing for BroadSoft (News - Alert); and Ernie Bergstrom, Vice President, Research and Founder of Crystal Cube Consulting. TMC will be giving away a 30GB iPod ($250 value) to a random webinar attendee.

Posted in IMS, IP Communications, SIP, Technology, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Mitel Presence Tour

February 15, 2007

Today I will be flying to California to speak tomorrow at a conference hosted by Mitel. The name of the tour – I kid you not is the Presence Tour 2007. I will be discussing Unified Communications among other topics. Here is all the info you need to know. It will take place tomorrow in Costa Mesa at the Westin South Coast Plaza. I will be a speaker and am apparently substituting for Sir Terry Matthews – which is a great honor.

Posted in Call Center, Conferencing, Microsoft, SIP, Technology, Unified Communications, VoIP

TMCnet Mobile

February 2, 2007

If you are looking for the best communications and technology news on the go be sure to check out TMCnet Mobile which will display very well on most mobile devices. The service is in alpha at the moment but seems pretty stable based on my brief experience. Any web browser can see this page by the way. Check it out now if you like. One thing it does that I consider great about this new service but others may not like is that it allows you access to parts of TMCnet that are formatted for the mobile device. In other words if a link exists in an article that is not formatted for the mobile device you can still get there. This is great depending ion your web device. What is very frustrating to me about other sites is that when you click on a link in an article that is not formatted for a mobile device you get redirected to a page that is a mobile home page.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, Google, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Microsoft, Open Source, Personal, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Security, Skype, Speech Technologies, Technology, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

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