David Byrd
Chief Marketing Officer for ANPI
Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week
There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in...
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NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability
One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of...
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SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market
Cloud computing has really become a household word with mainstream media outlets running stories on television about the growth in the space...
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Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB
At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and...
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Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco
The software telco(r)evolution representing the move from hardware to software is perhaps the biggest trend in the world of carrier telecom this...
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WebRTC Screen Sharing Using Openfire
I've written about WebRTC screen sharing, but today I came across another WebRTC screen sharing solution leveraging Openfire and using WebSockets and...
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LTE Network Interactions
According to a recently released GSMA Wireless Intelligence infographic, there are 163 live LTE networks today, and that figure is expected...
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March 28, 2011
Friday is nearly always a casual dining day and last Friday was no different. I made classic Reuben sandwiches for dinner using my homemade pastrami and corned beef. Loved it! Saturday we tried out a new Indian restaurant that opened a couple of miles away.
More than Flowers
March 25, 2011
I was reviewing a slide show of CTIA noting an array of people, activities and panels, and came upon a photo of the NTT booth, a pedestal and a vase containing flowers. NTT was not at CTIA. Due to the earthquake in Japan, NTT canceled their participation at CTIA.
It is difficult to appreciate the enormous difficulties that Japan is facing when we have seen the country as a competitor to the US for global economic supremacy.
The Voices of Unified Communications through Podcasting
March 23, 2011It is very common as you walk through the various expositions and events in our industry to see interviews taking place either on the show floor or in some more private area. Generally, I will sit for an interview in either the Broadvox booth or in the established video area. However, up until this year, I had not done a podcast. Doug Green, of Telecom Reseller, finally got me to do one on the merger of Broadvox and Cypress Communications during IT EXPO and while I was at COMPTEL, he got me to sit again.
Scrambling to Grow, Slowly and Thoughtfully
March 21, 2011The past weekend was good for dining as well as cooking. Friday was casual with burgers and chicken fried steak. Saturday, I cooked corned beef and smoked pastrami. Sunday was a fried Cornish game hen and a Caesar salad.
From SNL to the Senate, the Honorable Al Franken
March 18, 2011I was not one of those that felt Ronald Reagan did not have the stuff to be President of the United States. He was older than I and “Bed Time for Bonzo” was not on my must watch list. Even Sonny Bono didn’t cause much of a blink for me. He and Cher had split up seven years before he ran for the US House of Representatives.
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
March 16, 2011Consider that years ago attempting to market to SMBs was a very expensive proposition. The number of SMBs is in the millions and traditional mass marketing cost is in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. With the advent of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) that has changed. In fact, it is easier to model the buying behavior of SMBs today than Enterprises.
Pause to Taste the Sauce
March 14, 2011It was a short weekend given the need to travel to the Channel Partners show in Las Vegas on Sunday. Therefore the only cooking I did was a salmon egg Napoleon for breakfast on Saturday. I didn’t make it with the intent of having a recipe as it was my first attempt. I made it with toasted and buttered marble rye (rye and pumpernickel), a layer of smoked salmon, lightly scrambled eggs with diced tomato, and cream cheese salmon roe sauce.
Geo Targeted SEO for SIP Trunking
March 11, 2011Previously, I discussed the value of geo-targeting using Google. In the last couple of weeks we have developed our first geo-targeted SEO campaign. As a result of the merger with Cypress Communications, Broadvox inherited over 600 buildings with shared tenant services customers. The sheer number of customers and potential prospects these 600 buildings represent require contemporary marketing methodologies.
FIFO Meets First to File
March 9, 2011A story that will have implications for every inventor and Research and Development (R&D) organization across the US came to my attention this morning. The US Senate has voted to change the US patent system. Called the America Invents Act the Senate approved significant changes to our patent system by a vote of 95-5. Given the current climate in Washington, I am amazed that something important to our future could garner that kind of support.
Gnocchi isn't New and neither is DDoS
March 7, 2011Breaking the fast Friday night was both exciting and anticlimactic. I decided on having Pollo Asado using Cornish game hens rather than chicken. I marinated a Cornish Game hen in salt, adobe seasonings, Mexican oregano, achiote sauce, water, orange, pineapple, lime and lemon juice for 24 hours. I then grilled it along with lightly oiled and seasoned red onion wedges, split jalapenos, quartered tomatoes, and sliced bell peppers.
