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
How is Successful Marketing like a Successful 401K?
I was recently interviewed by Content Marketing Examiner on the topic of content marketing and in this interview you get to hear...
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Effectively Telling Your Product's Story
One of the most interesting aspects of my career is watching the thousands of companies I have met over the years make...
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Dialogic and Cisco Round Out Day's NFV News
It’s been a busy week regarding NFV and the software telco (R)evolution. First off Dialogic had some solid thoughts on six of...
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The Big Deal about Big Data Analytics
By Greg Owens, Senior Director Customer Experience Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
The rise of big data is causing service providers to ask some big questions: How should we store our data? How long should we keep it? What parts of it are relevant to our business? Most importantly, how do we get value from it? To turn big data into a big deal, service providers need to extract insights that can help them make smart business decisions and improve the customer experience.
The value of big data is all in what useful and actionable information it can provide. I find it exciting to see how service providers use big data analytics to gain new insights and solve complex problems. With this post, I’ll look at some new research by industry analysts and three key opportunities that big data analytics presents to service providers.
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WebRTC: The Revolution Won't Occur Without a Media Server
Next Thursday at the WebRTC Conference and Expo, I’ll present a conference keynote that might not be exactly what attendees expect...
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Software Telcos Based on NFV Want Less Equipment Provider M&A
Mergers are nothing new but about a decade ago in the telecom market they reached a fever pitch when SBC purchased AT&T...
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Linux Foundation Embedded Solutions Director's Case for Open Source and Connected Car
The car of 2013 is different from the one I learned to drive, a 1974 Ford Maverick with rear federal bumpers, aluminum...
Full Story »Highly Recommend ITEXPO West and SUPERCOMM
August 28, 2009Both conferences attract a huge and robust mix of professionals, developers, early adopters, SMEs, voip companies, anything over IP companies, and more which results in exciting discussions and new innovations. When a conference only concentrates on one type of participant, the results will be the same as always.
I'll be at ITEXPO West Sept. 1-3, 2009 in L.A. If you haven't signed up, do it now. Stay in the Westin Bonaventura right near the conference center or the Stay Hostel about a mile away, whatever is your budget.
Save time in your calendar also to attend SUPERCOMM in Chicago, IL, scheduled Oct. 21-23, 2009.
But consider exhibiting at both shows each year.
A Women, a Latino, a Successful VoIP Businesswoman
August 26, 2009I can't help but repeat in my mind over and over Ilene Adler's references to male chauvinism or mistreatment of women, "We have to make it happen, take action, make waves, collaborate, pitch the best people to the world whether they are men or women."
Exactly! Rather than nag, complain and cause drama, I believe in action, rational action that will innovate new empowering possibilities for everyone. So, who did I have the joy of conversation with next on DIDX podcasts? Ludymar Reveron, sales manager for IPsmarx.
IPsmarx's New Enhanced Direct DID Solution Version VI
August 26, 2009Have you heard? IPsmarx Technology, oh yes, they know that we may be calling each other in the future via our DNA number, our real name, telepathy, SIP address only, or some other method of identification of the one you want to call and be called by. For now, the company is doing something very interesting!
They offer an Enhanced Direct DID Solution Version VI which allows service providers to deliver to their customers with an affordable medium through which they can make international calls. Through this solution, calls are routed through a landline phone or cell phone eliminating the need for your customers to have internet access or an IP phone.
What's wrong with that? It's convenient.
Interview VoIP Historians, Haider on Aplio and Net2Phone
August 24, 2009
Remember Aplio and Net2phone? Immerse yourself in Internet telephony history with Haider Ali. Rehan Allahwala (inventor of DIDX and Virtual Phone Line) and I (vice president of Super Technologies and DIDX) interviewed Haider who is a house-hold name in technology in the Middle East and Pakistan. We took advantage of the press room at CommunicAsia in Singapore 2009 where we were media partner. The video interview is on Youtube.
Back in the mid '90s, early technology adopters, both technically savvy and not, became interested in internet telephony. (I was one where I used Vocaltec's Internet Phone in my 8th grade middle school English classroom to augment reading, writing, and speaking in standard English.)
Haider Ali had a friend who told him about Net2phone, to make calls over the Internet cheap, like 30 cents per minutes, Haider went to New York to meet Jordan Katz about this.
Back in the mid '90s, early technology adopters, both technically savvy and not, became interested in internet telephony. (I was one where I used Vocaltec's Internet Phone in my 8th grade middle school English classroom to augment reading, writing, and speaking in standard English.)
Haider Ali had a friend who told him about Net2phone, to make calls over the Internet cheap, like 30 cents per minutes, Haider went to New York to meet Jordan Katz about this.
David Moodley of Infineon Shares 7 Myths about VoIP
August 21, 2009
Check Dataweek in South Africa for the article. Myths he debunks:
1. VoIP voice quality is substandard
2. More bandwidth automatically means better voice quality
3. VoIP does not pay for itself
4. VoIP too energy-hungry
5. VoIP phones are not yet truly interoperable
6. VoIP is full of security loopholes
7. VoIP is only for techies and freaks!
South Africa DID are available on Tollfreeforwarding, DIDX, VoipSwitch, Gizmo5 to name a few.
1. VoIP voice quality is substandard
2. More bandwidth automatically means better voice quality
3. VoIP does not pay for itself
4. VoIP too energy-hungry
5. VoIP phones are not yet truly interoperable
6. VoIP is full of security loopholes
7. VoIP is only for techies and freaks!
South Africa DID are available on Tollfreeforwarding, DIDX, VoipSwitch, Gizmo5 to name a few.
Mosaic Hotel Beverly Hills May Soon Have DID from up to 60 Countries
August 21, 2009
The award-winning hotel's guestrooms come with Cisco hospitality telecom solution, including two line VOIP phones with color touch screens, direct inward dial numbers, complimentary DSL and wireless service. "The entire system is run through new Cat VI cabling, providing the clearest quality sound and fastest internet speeds. Each room is also equipped with Bose stereo systems and 37" HD flat-panel LCD monitors with tele-adapters allowing guests to plug in and play their own personal music, movies or television shows off of their MP3 devices or laptops."
Direct inward dial phone numbers could be available soon from as many as 60 countries. Read more on Pr.com.
Direct inward dial phone numbers could be available soon from as many as 60 countries. Read more on Pr.com.
4G Wireless Evolution Pairs with ITEXPO West Sept 1-3, 2009
August 20, 20094G Wireless Evolution Visionaries (Sept 1-3, 2009 in Los Angeles) Include:
Bill Goodman
Director of the Converged Services Architecture
Verizon
Session: Enabling the App Store:The Network Operators Perspective
Shawn Molodow
Director, Market Development
Clearwire
Session: Beyond the Phone: Mobile Internet Devices
Mark Pecen
V.P. Network Architecture
Research in Motion
Session: Beyond the Phone: Mobile Internet Devices
Paul Vroomen
CEO
Sandbridge Technologies
Session: Does Your 4G Device Communicate or Compute
Kenneth Gawelek
Worldwide Head of WiMAX
Cisco
Session: Stimulating Rural WiMAX
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Broadband's Effect on Rural Areas and Entrepreneurship
August 20, 2009Broadband penetration in the US is approximately 89%; whereas, according to the market research firm comScore report shows overall rural penetration sits at 75%. There's still a divide. How do the new Broadband Stimulus Funds fit in here? Check SUPERCOMM for actual sessions regarding this and sign up to sponsor, present, exhibit, or participate in this Oct. 21-23, 2009 conference in Chicago.
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