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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

By Rich Tehrani on Monday, May 20

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Tagged battery, cybersecurity, iiot, iot, longview iot, lora, m2m, mesh, security, solar, tdma, tech, telecom, wifi

Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Tagged call center, contact center, crm, customer service, hallmark, net promoter score, nps, tsr

Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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Tagged 5g, android, apple, cisco, dell, foldable, folding, galaxy fold, huawei, ios, ipad, iphone, mate x, samsung, tariff, trump

IGEL Advances Future of Work

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tagged automation, displayport, fow, future, future of work, google, green technology, linux, microsoft

Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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Tagged 4g, 5g, business, channel, cisco, cloud, cloud communications, cloud pbx, collaboration, conference call, conferencing, consultant, contact center, hosted voice, ip communications, lte, mobile, msp, ooma, phone, pjsip, reseller, retail, sbc, sd-wan, security, service provider, sip forking, solution, stun, tata communications, uc, ucaas, ucaas provider, ucoms, video, video conferencing, webrtc, wireless

How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Tagged apple lost american jobs, china, supply chain

Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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Tagged byod, cloud communciations, cloud pbx, collaboration, communications, contact center, cybersecurity, ddos, dhcp, directory, extreme, extreme networks, fancy bear, hack, hacker, hacking, hosted voice, iiot, iot, ip communications, meetings, multirate, networking, nfv, phishing, politics, qoe, russia, security, sip, sip trunking, slack, uc, ucaas, ucoms, video conferencing, vnf, webrtc, wifi, wikileaks, wireless

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Add-on Makes Microsoft Lync Feature-Complete to Compete with PBXs

January 31, 2013

Yesterday, at ITEXPO I met with some representatives from Bressner, a German-based company with some interesting add-ons for Microsoft Lync. Now targeting the U.S. (English website) their Lync add-ons add some powerful features to Microsoft Lync that help make Lync have feature-parity with PBXs, allowing enterprises to use Lync as a PBX replacement with no compromise.

Bressner's Dr. Klaus Zünkler, Principal Solutions Architect and Mitch Friend discussed three of their Lync products. The first was FonComfort, which is designed to fill the feature-gap in Microsoft Lync. One of those feature-gap fillers is "true busy" so the caller doesn't have to pay for the call if you're already on another call. I asked Klaus and Mitch why this was a popular feature since typically a call would drop to voicemail if you were on a call or unavailable and they said this "true busy" feature was more popular in Europe due to a cultural thing.

Posted in ITEXPO, Lync, Microsoft, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP

Tagged: bressner, busylight, foncomfort, kuando, lync, microsoft, uc, ucfeaturebox, unified communications : Related Tags: audible alert, personal assistant, secretary functions, feature, foncomfort, microsoft

Telefonica Digital's Tim Marsden Keynote Begins

January 30, 2013

Posted in ITEXPO

Surf Communications Solutions Aims to Slay the Video Giant

January 30, 2013

Video conferencing has held promise for many years - dating back to the 1964 AT&T Picturephone, but now has the time finally arrived for video conferencing to take off? The simple answer is "yes", but it's way more complicated than that. Yes, standards like SIP and H.264 have made video interoperability between endpoints less of an issue, but there are other issues to consider. For instance, Polycom, Cisco, Avaya, and LifeSize have very expensive MCUs for their in-room conferencing systems.

Posted in ITEXPO, SIP, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP

Tagged: android, apple, cisco, ios, lifesize, mcu, mobile, orion-mcu, polycom, surf communications solutions, transcoding, video conferencing, videophone : Related Tags: video conferencing, video participants, cloud based, conferencing systems, communications solutions, video

Asterisk 1-2-3 Workshop Well-Attended at ITEXPO

January 29, 2013

Posted in Asterisk, ITEXPO, Unified Communications, VoIP

Tagged: asterisk, asterisk 1-2-3 workshop, itexpo, linux, open source, unified communications, voip : Related Tags: exhibits asterisk, asterisk workshop, asterisk

ITEXPO 2013 Miami Exhibits Construction Underway

January 28, 2013

Tagged: itexpo, lync, miami, miami beach convention center, microsoft, tmc : Related Tags: itexpo miami

WebRTC Challenges

January 22, 2013

WebRTC holds a lot of promise, and with the buzz surrounding WebRTC beginning to reach a fever pitch, it's worth pointing out the challenges facing WebRTC.

First, let's begin with the expectations set for WebRTC. At TMC's recent WebRTC Conference, a panel discussed how WebRTC has high expecations. WebRTC has very ambitious goals, aiming to become the de facto standard by which users voice and video chat with other Internet users, which has the developer community and techies like myself very excited. Recently, I've written about WebRTC Demo fun, 2013 - The Year of WebRTC, and

Posted in Apple, Google, Microsoft, SIP, Skype, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP, WebRTC

Tagged: apple, challenges, chrome, codecs, firefox, google, h.264, internet explorer, microsoft, safari, screen sharing, skype, vp8, webrtc : Related Tags: voice video, entire desktop, screen sharing, desktop sharing, webrtc conference, webrtc

WebRTC Test Demo Fun

January 21, 2013

WebRTC is pretty cool, allowing you to perform VoIP and video conferencing all within a browser. I thought it would be cool to demo some WebRTC code here leveraging getUserMedia, an API that began as part of HTML5 and was split off into the W3C WebRTC specification suite. It allows JavaScript access to a device's cameras and microphones to enable in-browser VoIP and video-conferencing. Further, with HTML5 it's easy to apply cool video filters (think Instagram) on-the-fly while in a video conference.

So without further adeiu, let's try "Self View" Camera on your WebRTC-enabled browser - Google Chrome, Opera, and Firefox (nightly build only) all support WebRTC, though not Internet Explorer (yet).

Posted in Apple, Google, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP, WebRTC

Tagged: apple, bistri, browser meeting, camera, chrome, demo, ericsson, google, ios, iphone, plivo, self view, twelephone, webrtc : Related Tags: apprtc appspot, https apprtc, support webrtc, webrtc enabled, video conferencing, webrtc

Logitech UC Solution for Cisco 725-C Launches

January 17, 2013

Logitech has now integrated voice, video and messaging controls into the Logitech UC Solution for Cisco 725-C, a UC keyboard (K725-C), wireless mouse (M525-C), and HD camera (Logitech C920-C) combo designed for Cisco Jabber. Cisco Jabber is a unified communications software client that gives users access to presence, instant messaging (IM), voice, video, voice messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing.

The keyboard features illuminated control buttons for call answer/end, mute video, mute audio, and volume controls. The keyboard LCD screen displays Caller ID, call duration and receives calls for the user currently signed into the system, making it ideal for hot desking work environments where users don’t have a permanently assigned desk or phone.

Posted in Accessories, Computer Hardware, Gadgets, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Hardware & Software, VoIP

Tagged: cisco, jabber, k725-c, keyboard, logitech, mouse, uc, video conferencing, webcam : Related Tags: cisco jabber, solution cisco, information logitech, workspace environments, virtual workspace, logitech

Facebook Enables Free VoIP Calls for U.S. iOS Messenger Users

January 16, 2013

Facebook launched free VoIP calling for U.S. Facebook iOS Messenger app users. Here's the problem though. Almost no one uses the Facebook Messenger app - they use the main Facebook iOS app.

Posted in Facebook

Tagged: android, apple, facebook, voip : Related Tags: facebook, messenger, users, problem

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