Suzanne Bowen
32 yrs in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, & PR. Favorite moments in life involve time w/ family & friends, networking, IP communications industry verticals & horizontals, running, traveling, foreign languages
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
From Powerpuff Mechanics to a Connected Cars Future
Thanks to Connected Cars 2013, we share the first of a series of audio podcast interviews with connected vehicle experts. Andrea Sroczynski,...
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How Apple Lost Control of its Branding
The one thing Apple does better than any other tech company is name products and technologies in an easy-to-understand manner. iPhone, iTunes,...
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The Pen is Mightier Than the Spell Check
As technology continues to get smaller and faster, buying a simple plastic pen may soon be seen like the equivalent of buying...
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Serving the Volleyball
One more volleyball sport reference if you don't mind. In volleyball, serving is the only time that you have total control over...
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Least Cost Routing Made Simpler and Less Secretive
Talk to anyone involved in voice over Internet or any type of telecommunications, and the terms "termination," "routes," "minutes," and "LCR" always...
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"How Does Dialogic Fit In with WebRTC?"
This blog represents the last of the series of questions we received from attendees of our February 20th WebRTC webinar. Quite...
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SIP Trunking - What You Don't Know Could Cost You!
SIP trunking is one of the best ways for businesses to save money on telecom costs, but it's not without its pitfalls,...
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From Powerpuff Mechanics to a Connected Cars Future
May 6, 2013Thanks to Connected Cars 2013, we share the first of a series of audio podcast interviews with connected vehicle experts. Andrea Sroczynski, Telenor Connexion's Head of Region Germany / Head of Global Automotive Sales discusses her IT, telematics, and automobile dealership background, positive outlook as a women involved in M2M, and her company's role in the Connected Cars industry and the possibilities of M2M (machine to machine) with connected vehicles. The Connected Cars13 conference, which is co-located with LTE World Summit June 25 - 26, 2013 in Amsterdam, includes speakers from automotive OEMs such as Lamborghini's Mirdo Buzzoni and from the Connected Car ecosystem such as Telenor Connexion's Ms. Sroczynski and Audible's Guy Story.
As an aside I asked for Andrea's insight on being one of the few women involved in top level connected automobile career position in a positive way and says, "It is not normal that I am a lady in this industry.
Least Cost Routing Made Simpler and Less Secretive
May 2, 2013Talk to anyone involved in voice over Internet or any type of telecommunications, and the terms "termination," "routes," "minutes," and "LCR" always creep in, but like the verb "creep," it traditionally seems so secretive. I have often laughed as I ask, why is it that all these face shots of beautiful young women fill Yahoo! forums, Google hangouts and Facebook pages talking about grey and white routes such as "BD PURE CLI => 0.0317$ / 2.22tk,"INDIA Gray.................. 0.0102," or "SELLING CHEAP 2126 MOROCCO AND 53 CUBA?" How do we make a choice in what seems like a totally cryptic wholesale telecom business space? Abe Haim may know.
A telecommunications veteran recommended that I interview Abe Haim, the Director of LCR Solutions, who is an expert at LCR and has been interviewed already by VoIP Users Conference.
Hipsters' Love Hate Relationship with Technology, Maybe
April 27, 2013Obsessed with a desire to avoid the chaotic, social technical life of modern society, hipsters find themselves in the state of "maybe" that Carly Rae Jepsen is famous for, but instead of about a lost love, it is about technology and the relationship of people with technology.
Hipsters ride fixed-gear bikes, shoot pictures with Polaroid SX-70s, swear by Craigslist, use Viber or Vippie to talk (not Skype) with a faux analog handset plugged into a cell phone, and wear flannel shirts and kitschy cable knit sweaters from the local thrift store or Aeropostal (shh). They exude the age old inner conflict in the hearts of woman and mankind between the group and the individual, but favoring the individual. To opt out or to embrace?
What if All VoIP Carriers Were Connected Transparate Style?
April 16, 2013"What if every carrier could be in direct contact with all other carriers on this planet? Sounds like a big idea ... like what do we mean by that? I mean virtually connected via rates and targets?" Eugene Nedbailo asks at the beginning of our audio interview with him about Transparate.
What Do you Call a Non Toll Free DID or Phone Number?
April 12, 2013
One of my favorite online locations to collaborate is in my own Facebook network. It is filled with providers, developers, reviewers, early adopters and other users of IP communications, Internet security, social media, healthcare, exercise and nutrition, and more. Recently I asked this question, "s there a specific name for telephone numbers or virtual phone numbers that are not toll free besides DID, DDI, IDD and non toll free? My mind draws a blank as I am working with a team on a new Wikipedia page."
Answers came from telecommunications, open source telephony, and voice over Internet users, providers, developers, engineers, and marketing persons.
Answers came from telecommunications, open source telephony, and voice over Internet users, providers, developers, engineers, and marketing persons.
Dotcom-Monitor VP Brad Canham on Website Monitoring Technology and Education
March 1, 2013Web application monitoring, website monitoring for website and Internet performance improvement are important for customer retention, sales, trust, and respect. Visit a website that is down, that is slow, or that is not working like it should and you go to the competitor whose website is up and working great. Dotcom-Monitor's VP Brad Canhan answered questions posed by DIDXchange telecommunications and mobile service provider members, in general about Internet performance, but in specific about proactive Internet performance improvement and also what can go wrong such as hiring new, inexperienced services. We discussed what customers feel and see while participating in business on the internet as well as the technical stuff in the background such as routing and access problems and remote traceroute.
White Label Cool Mobile Voice Video IM App Vippie
February 12, 2013Vippie mobile dialer created more than a stir at ITEXPO East 2013, and now, those who can make it to Barcelona for GSMA World Mobile Congress ... can be a part of the action again. Some may think that I am such a blatant marketer or marketeer, but when I find any app, service, or product that is useful, life-enhancing, and lucrative, I am there sharing what the team behind it ... has to say.
GoAnimate your Social Media Message, I Did for ITEXPO
January 29, 2013Just visit GoAnimate and follow the instructions! I did. It is easy, fun and much more likely to get attention and elicit action from those who are important to you than a press release or a text-only blog post. In this case, look me and those I represent DIDX and 1000s of its wholesale telecommunications members, Elegant Group Inc, and BlockDosup at ITEXPO East January 30 - February 1, 2013 at booth 737 near the Spiceworks Exhibitor Lounge.
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AudioCodes' Alan Percy on SIP and Unified Communications
January 29, 2013"Folks say, 'I've got a SIP-based contact center, and I've got a SIP-based PBX. They are both SIP, so they should just be able to plug right into each other."
Right? But AudioCodes' Alan Percy says, "The answer is often 'No.' Behind all that ... the SIP specification is a product of IETF which is the Internet Engineering Task Force.
Sharing Experience with First Computer Purchase
January 15, 2013My freshman year Introduction to Computers class professor told me I had no future in computers and not to take the class again. I was depressed for several weeks. Then, I saved up until I could buy my own computer. I bought a Tandy 1000 HX which had a 3.5" floppy instead of a 5.25" one.
