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Tehrani at Dialogic Connections in Budapest

November 13, 2010

Next week I'll be in Budapest, Hungary at the Dialogic Connections event where I look forward to being involved as an interviewer and learning more about what the company is up to. I look forward to seeing many of you there and here is an easy registration link for the event which has Executive sessions on November 17th and technical sessions on the 16th.

Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 8:30 AM
Technical Track

IVVR
Video Conferencing
HD Audio

Dialogic Welcome Distributor Forum Executive 1:1 Technical Track

Location Based Services

Interview of Nick Jensen and Doug Sabella by Rich Tehrani
Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC, is a Communications and Technology expert, visionary, author and columnist who has guided the media company through a period of unprecedented growth. Tehrani, who has served as an expert witness and been quoted frequently in such publications as the Economist and New York Times, is responsible for driving the strategic direction of the company. Rich has personally conceived many of TMC’s most innovative, community-building media properties online, in person, and in print.

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Wireless SIP Endpoints from Panasonic

November 12, 2010

Check out the latest SIP endpoints from Panasonic which were showcased in this video this past month at ITEXPO in Los Angeles. The TGP500 supports up to 6 additional SIP endpoints and 8 SIP registrations - it even works with Asterisk. There is key-set integration, barge capability and lots of other functions allowing an SMB to seem like a large enterprise. This solution is a great cordless add-on to another system according to the company.

Posted in Consumer Electronics, Gadget, ITEXPO, Open Source, SIP, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Alcatel-Lucent Turning the Corner?

November 5, 2010

After a number of years and some challenging times after the merger - Alcatel-Lucent the combination of New Jersey-based Lucent and Paris-based Alcatel is turning the corner making a quarterly profit and displaying more confidence about its future. Kevin O'Brien at the New York Times explains the company reported its first profitable quarter of the year, posting €25 million, or $35.3 million, in earnings compared to a €182 million loss in the third quarter a year earlier. Moreover sales rose 10.5 percent to €4.1 billion.

Although Asian competition from ZTE and Huawei is strong, the company certainly benefited from the implosion of Nortel and we'll see if they can ride this momentum out and keep the profits coming.

TMCnet's Ed Silverstein has more and The Motley Fool suggests Alcatel-Lucent is the next Nortel - waiting to implode.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Broadband, Call Center, FCC, Financial, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, Merger/Acquisition, Nortel, Optical, SIP, Satellite, Smart Grid, Social Networking, TMC Video, Technology, Verizon, Video, WiMAX, Wireless

Facebook Extends its Mobile Platform

November 4, 2010

Although this is a long article - which I admit I didn't have time to finish - it is worth a read because it gives you an idea of the Facebook mobile strategy and moreover relates it to the Google Android strategy and explains that Facebook can't take advantage of every opportunity and is opening up more so others can assist.

Hats off to Rob Jackson for spending the time it took to put together this quality piece. Here is an excerpt:

Single Sign-On: Open an application and automatically enjoy the experience with access and perhaps pre-installed knowledge about you and your friends. Sounds a bit like signing into your Android phone with your G-Mail account and having your contacts, calendar, apps, etc… already at your fingertips and syncing up!

Location APIs: If we know where you are and where you’ve been AND we know where your friends are and where they’ve been, there are some very interesting things Facebook can do from a social standpoint. Google tried some of them with Buzz and Latitude but weren’t that successful, but then again, Facebook is a company whose #1 strength is Social so perhaps they can do what Google did not.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Communications Developer, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Facebook, Gadget, Google, IMS, IP Communications, SIP, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter, Unified Communications, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

Cbeyond M&A Happens Two at a Time

November 4, 2010

Peter Radizeski has been the intrepid M&A reporter as of late sand he says in a recent post he is having trouble keeping up with all the activity. Cbeyond for example today announced it has purchased companies MaximumASP and its affiliated companies as well as Aretta Communications. These moves allow the company to provide a variety of services such as managed virtual servers, cloud services, cloud communications in the form of hosted PBX solutions and SIP trunking.

The prices for the transactions was $40M and 2010 revenue of the two companies in 2010 is expected to be about $12M.

Posted in Avaya, Broadband, Call Center, FCC, HD Voice, IP Communications, SIP, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

New Editorial Additions to TMC

November 3, 2010

Here are some new additions to the editorial team here at TMC which you may want to be aware of. Thanks to your support - readers and sponsors - we have been reinvesting more and more into improving all of our products and services - and we will continue to do so as it is part of our culture and DNA which has kept us one of the longest-running media companies under single ownership in the world.

We've been serving our readers since 1972.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Avaya, Blackberry, Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Cisco, Communications Developer, Conference, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, FCC, Facebook, Fax, Gadget, Google, Green, HD Voice, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, M2M, Microsoft, Nortel, Open Source, Optical, Patent, SIP, Satellite, Search, Security, Skype, Social Networking, Speech Technologies, Technology, Twitter, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Tehrani on Future of Broadband

November 2, 2010

Thank you all for coming to hear my keynote speech at Broadband Expo 2010 in Dallas, Texas. I really enjoyed the dialogue during and after the presentation.

One point which has come up frequently in my writings in the past and was more clear than ever in my conversations - is that content is still king - in fact after the Fox Vs. Cablevision war we witnessed this past month - it seems obvious that content is now emperor.

Here is a PDF of the presentation.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Avaya, Blackberry, Broadband, Call Center, Cisco, Conference, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Facebook, Financial, Gadget, Google, HD Voice, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, M2M, Merger/Acquisition, Microsoft, Nortel, Open Source, Optical, Political, SIP, SaaS, Satellite, Search, Security, Skype, Smart Grid, Social Networking, Speech Technologies, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Alcatel-Lucent: Mobile Data to be Sold at a Loss

October 27, 2010

Alcatel-Lucent has a dire warning for wireless carriers and investors… You just aren’t going to make money from wireless broadband. The timing couldn’t be better <sarcasm> to get the news as global carriers are pouring billions into their 4G networks.

What leads the company to this conclusion? The challenge is operators are starting to tier their pricing which means users can get on broadband networks less expensively – moreover, voice revenue is paying much of the carrier bill and as it declines in lockstep with the cost of data plans – carriers could be losing money for years to come.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Avaya, Blackberry, Broadband, Call Center, Communications Developer, Conference, Consumer Electronics, Facebook, Gadget, HD Voice, IP Communications, SIP, Social Networking, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Video, Wireless

Thrane & Thrane Update

October 27, 2010

I recently had a chance to sit with Ron Lockerby of Thrane & Thrane to learn about what was new with the company’s satellite product line which serves a diverse set of markets such as maritime, aeronautical and land mobile. With a total of 600 people in the company and 60% of those being engineers you can expect engineering to be a strong-suit of the organization.

Thrane & Thrane’s maritime products consist of the SAILOR line which is OEMed by Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine unit and the product line consists of VHF, MF/HF, Inmarsat C terminals, complete GMDSS systems including LRIT and SSAS solutions, and a full range of maritime satcom products including Iridium, Mini-M, Fleet, FleetBroadBand, VSAT and satellite TV.

Lockerby spent some time focusing on the company’s Explorer 325 which is a compact voice and broadband solution for vehicles.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, FCC, IP Communications, SIP, Satellite, Technology, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Astricon 2010 Kicks off to Standing Room Only Crowd

October 26, 2010

Astricon - the "All Things Asterisk" event kicked off to standing-room-only crowds this AM. Check it out:

More coverage:
What is Asterisk - AstriCon 2010 Opens AstriCon 2010 Kicks Off with SRO Crowd

Posted in Broadband, Call Center, Communications Developer, Conference, IP Communications, Open Source, SIP, Technology, Unified Communications, VoIP

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