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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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Last week, I wrote about the status and projections of LTE subscriptions. So I figured I should do a brief update on 5G this week. First of all, as I’ve written before, 5G is clearly in its hype phase.

LTE Market Status, the Tie-In to VoLTE, and the Importance of 3G Interoperability

April 26, 2016

On March 7, the GSA put out a press release confirming that 2015 ended with over 1 billion LTE subscriptions. This is a hockey stick unlike other mobile hockey sticks. And if you want to see the GSA LTE subscription hockey stick, you can get it if you register at the site. Basically, 1 in 7 mobile connections worldwide are now LTE, and the rate of LTE subscriptions is accelerating.

Fax Is...

April 19, 2016

Dying
Enduring
Dead
Growing
Some old technology from before 2001
Older than a phone call
Outdated
Old School
A Legal Document
Some strange word that is from the stone age
Something I still pay attention to

All of these things are correct about fax depending on your point of view or use case. And yes, it is still a meaningful part of the Dialogic business which is why I pay attention to it. We have had some new significant wins in 2015 as TDM switched over to FoIP.

To understand fax is to understand business from 20 years ago.

RCS Re-Invigoration Reality

April 12, 2016

But will the hype this time be justified? RCS has been slowly building momentum mostly because VoLTE has been slowly building momentum. VoLTE is IP-based voice/video on an LTE / IMS network, and RCS adds IP-based messaging services that are also an evolution to legacy SMS and MMS messaging. So it makes sense that RCS started to be deployed once VoLTE started to be deployed.

Is the RCS Re-Invigoration just more HYPE???

April 5, 2016

Last week
, I explored the RCS re-invigoration due to the Google announcement of RCS support. And given that the GSMA historically has supported RCS heavily, and anything involving Google would get huge interest and press, it comes as no surprise that we saw quite of bit of hype about RCS coming out of the GSMA during MWC.

However, also remember we saw much hype in 2012 when Joyn, the GSMA branding of RCS, was announced. Remember, this was the time when the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook and other instant messaging smartphone apps were starting to very seriously erode texting revenues.

RCS Reinvigoration???

March 29, 2016

RCS (Rich Communication Services) got a large boost at Mobile World Congress with the announcement from Google that they will support RCS. RCS is essentially SMS/MMS that can work over IP networks and can enable presence and location, and sharing of media. Kind of sounds familiar, except this is an app that is from your service provider, which adds much value to them. It’s available on some newer Androids, but not iPhones.If you have a newer Android, this feature could have value to you.

Flexible Application Creation

March 22, 2016

You may have heard that we’ve just entered a new business territory. Over the past few years, we’ve gotten requests from customers to help them build their applications. And we got more. And more.

The Road to NFV - Video Interoperability Demo

March 15, 2016

A month and a half ago, Dialogic and Oracle executed a successful NFV MANO demonstration during SDXCentral Demo Friday. We also did an enhanced version of this demo at this past Mobile World Congress.

NFV is a great concept, but in order to pull it off, an ecosystem will need to be humming along. There are quite a few challenges to NFV, including operational ones, business ones, and technical ones such as scalability and interoperability.

API - A Promise for Innovation

March 8, 2016

A couple of months ago, I was asked to speak on a Keynote Panel at IT Expo called “APIs: The Future of Business”. The panel was an interesting premise in that with all the connectivity today, if you “open up” what you are doing via APIs, there will be all sorts of new businesses out there. So we talked about that.

Dialogic, of course, has had a published API for over 30 years.

3 Use Cases for an Application Delivery Controller in RTC

March 1, 2016

What are some of the use cases for a real-time Application Delivery Controller(ADC)?

In my past blog, I made a case for using the Application Delivery Controller, essentially an intelligent load balancer for web, database, and other network-based traffic, to be applied to real-time telecom communications. Let’s now observe some use cases for a real-time ADC.

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