Industry Insight

Last week, we explored texting within the contact center realm.  As texting becomes more prevalent in the contact center, there will be a lot of interesting use cases for expanding text as a customer service avenue.  These use cases will be similar to many years ago when the “call” center transformed into a “contact” center due to customer interactions taking place over the Web.  In other words, it’s the story of the mobile on-ramp to the Internet.

An IP Packet exchange (IPX) is a private managed network, defined by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), over which service providers can offer network connectivity and service interworking on a commercial and competitive basis between not only mobile operators, but also fixed and converged service providers, cloud operators and application service providers.

A multilateral IP service hubbing arrangement enables a service provider to connect to multiple termination providers through one single connection between, facilitated by an IPX operator. What that effectively allows the service provider to do is to deliver end-to-end services to its customers without the need to establish individual bilateral connections and agreements with each of the hundreds of fixed and mobile operators around the globe. However, bilateral arrangements are also supported through an IPX, in case that particular interconnection model makes the best sense. 

This past Sunday night I attended the 50th annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards, hosted at the AT&T Stadium outside of Dallas, Texas.  If nothing else, this certainly represented the most cowboy boots in one place I’ve ever seen.

So why am I writing about this?  Well, I have AT&T service and as I approached the stadium I got a text message that said “AT&T Wi-Fi is active near your location.