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Yahoo's Challenges Deploying Asterisk Corporate-wide

January 20, 2010

At TMC's ITEXPO, Yahoo's Jeremy Wadhams revealed not only that Yahoo! has deployed Asterisk corporate-wide, but the challenges he faced in adopting Asterisk throughout the organization, including several Yahoo! branch offices , several acquisitions of other companies, including Dialpad & Overture, as well as the usual corporate culture and politics to contend with,

Jeremy demonstrated Yahoo!'s interesting custom web application which integrates their flavor of Asterisk with web-based email & voicemail, corporate directory, as well as the ability for users to reset their voicemail PINs themselves - the bane of every IT administrator's existence.

One interesting tidbit was that it he figured after reaching 25% penetration, the last 75% would be a cakewalk. It didn't turn out that way.

Posted in Asterisk, ITEXPO, SIP, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP

Rich Tehrani kicks off the keynotes at ITEXPO

January 20, 2010

Rich Tehrani kicks off the keynotes at ITEXPO featuring Yahoo!, Polycom, and Freeconferencing.com.

Posted in ITEXPO, Polycom, SIP, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Unified Communications, VoIP

Use of WiMAX in Smart Grid Networks

January 20, 2010

Kevin R. F. Suitor from Redline Networks gave an interesting speaking session at ITEXPO with the topic called 'Use of WiMAX in Smart Grid Networks'. One of his more interesting comments was that plug-in electric vehicles will change everything - just like the mobile phone invented by Martin Cooper changed the wireless industry. I agree - if only they can solve the battery problems, including battery fade, not enough range, slow charging cycle.

I captured the last 98s or so of his session which has some interesting tidbits.

Posted in ITEXPO, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Wireless

Truphone Local Anywhere - All Calls Now a Local Call

January 20, 2010

More great news coming out of ITEXPO. Truphone today announced the launch of its Truphone Local Anywhere™ service - a full GSM solution that makes it easier and more convenient for international travelers to stay in touch while saving more than 90 percent on their mobile phone bills. The new global mobile phone service provides consumers with local numbers and access to local rates for calls, texts and data in multiple countries on a single SIM card. Essentially, it leverages a smart, multi-country SIM card that eliminates roaming charges and provides local voice, data and text rates

The service launches today for the United States and the U.K., and the company plans to rapidly roll out Truphone Local Anywhere to a number of key business and leisure destinations in 2010, both across Europe and in longer haul destinations such as Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa.

Truphone Local Anywhere offers customers four main benefits:

· Local calling rates in Truphone countries: With Truphone Local Anywhere, international travellers enjoy rates that are a fraction of standard roaming fees.

Posted in ITEXPO, SIP, TMCnet, VoIP

How Aerospace Research Is Helping Energy and the Smart Grid

January 20, 2010

Jon Arnold gives an introduction to an ITEXPO session titled 'A Systems Approach to Energy / Grid Security', which you can see in the video below. As he points out and asks me for confirmation, this is the 11th year for ITEXPO. The session continued to fill-up until it was standing room only in the back of the room.

Ron Sega was the primary speaker. He is the Woodward Professor of Systems Engineering for Colorado State University (CSU).

Posted in ITEXPO, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Unified Communications

Arrived at ITEXPO - nice beachfront view!

January 19, 2010

Can't complain about my nice hotel view which gives a partial
beachfront view. ITEXPO attendance looks even better than last year,
so it should be a great show.

click Play button above to play video

Posted in ITEXPO, VoIP

Asterisk's Growth Shines at ITEXPO

January 7, 2010

Asterisk just may be the #1 transforming VoIP company for the now past '00s "aughts" decade, which is quite appropriate when you consider Asterisk in many respects costs $0 dollars due to being open source. Of course, nothing is truly free in this world. If you download and install Asterisk yourself for your company you still have to pay for the hardware. Further, if something goes wrong and your Asterisk "game" is only rudimentary, you might have to pay for technical support.

Posted in Asterisk, ITEXPO, SIP, Unified Communications, VoIP

Avaya Reveals Roadmap for Nortel Enterprise Assets at ITEXPO

January 6, 2010

Rich Tehrani and I are both excited to hear the future roadmap Avaya has in store for Nortel's enterprise assets that Avaya recently acquired. Will Avaya slowly phase out these Nortel enterprise products, continue the product line with the Avaya brand, integrate best-of-breed technologies from Avaya and Nortel and offer new SMB products? The questions are endless. IT managers, CTOs, MIS managers, etc.

Posted in Avaya, ITEXPO, Nortel, TMCnet, VoIP

Digium|Asterisk World Expands At ITEXPO

December 1, 2009

TMC
and Digium announced that all exhibit space sold out at their expanded Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place Jan. 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida. Recently, TMC was forced to expand the Digium|Asterisk World exhibit showcase since all 16 spaces originally allocated had been sold. There are now 21 companies participating. Just goes to show you that the open source Asterisk movement is still growing strong even with current economic conditions.

I'll never forget my November 2001 column where I went "In Search Of A Linux-Based PBX" and when I first discovered Asterisk and was smitten by the prospects of an open source PBX.

Posted in Asterisk, ITEXPO, Polycom, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP

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