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Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

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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Tagged emerging threats, interop, malware, security

NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

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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Tagged bss, carrier, ericsson, huawei, interoperability, nfv, nokia siemens networks, nsn, oss, sdn, software telco

SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

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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Tagged help desk, itsm, mdm, sysaid

Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

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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Tagged alcatel-lucent, avaya, hp, interop, lucent, mpls, networking, spb, spirent, zeus kerravala

Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, May 14

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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Tagged acme packet, alianza, etsi, hosted ims, nfv, oracle, software telco, software telco congress, virtualization

WebRTC Screen Sharing Using Openfire

By Tom Keating on Tuesday, May 14

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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Tagged chrome, desktop sharing, firefox, jabber, screen sharing, unified communications, webrtc, xmpp

LTE Network Interactions

By Jim Machi on Tuesday, May 14

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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Tagged 3G, 3GPP Long Term Evolution, Broadforward, Dialogic, Diameter, LTE, Radius, Wi-Fi | Responses

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Rocky Mountain News reports that Level3 "remains unprofitable, mired in more than $6 billion in debt, and shares have fallen to less than 70 cents. Ordinarily, Level 3 stock would be delisted, but Nasdaq has suspended the $1 minimum requirement until April 9 because of the country's economic turmoil." With revenues flat, L3 is looking to give itself time to repay all of its debt to forego bankruptcy.

Fox and MarketWatch reported that "Level 3 Communications Inc. had its corporate credit rating cut to SD, or selective default, from CC by Standard & Poor's. S&P also lowered ratings on Level 3's convertible subordinated notes due 2010 to D from C." In addition, Level3 changed its stock buy back plan -- and is having trouble getting takers.

Posted in bandwidth, economy, telecommunications

Tagged: bankruptcy, debt, level3 : Related Tags: level stock, level, notes, million, stock

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IT Industry Groups Announce Membership Agreement

December 30, 2008

MSP Partners, an alliance founded by Cisco, Ingram Micro, Intel, Level Platforms and Microsoft, and supported by Autotask Corporation, EMC, HP, Kaseya and Xerox, with the active participation of over 15 other leading IT vendors, and thousands of solution providers offering managed services today announced a cooperative agreement with The ASCII Group, Inc. (ASCII), North America's oldest and most established community of independent computer integrators, solution providers and resellers. The agreement allows members of MSP Partner and ASCII to expanded access to the many benefits offered by these two major IT industry groups.

MSP Partners, with a membership base of over 3000 solution providers, provides independent vendor-supported education for solution providers delivering managed services. Their comprehensive program includes the latest market research and education, valuable insight by means of solution provider success stories, and collaborative vendor solutions, all demonstrating a path to success in managed services.

Posted in VAR, agents

Tagged: agents, msp, var : Related Tags: solution providers, ascii group, solution provider, managed services, membership agreement, solution

5 Soft Phones

December 30, 2008

<p><a href="http://www.bablotech.com/2008/12/29/5-best-free-voip-phone-softwares/">Blabotech has a list of 5 VoIP soft-phones No-Charge</a>! X-Lite, 3CX, Express Talk, iaxComm, and Ekiga </p>

Posted in voip

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Business Advice

December 29, 2008

It seems that as 2008 comes to a spiraling end, everyone is giving business advice. If you run a small business, here's some of it:

No Recession from Us has a bunch of links.
Duct Tape Marketing has some thoughts from thought leaders.
Caruso on Embracing the Internet
Doug Sundheim with Showing Up advice
Predictions for 2009
Advice from SCORE
Tips for Web companies from ReadWriteWeb (directed at companies, but solid advice for all)

Other Best Of lists for Business books in 2008:

I vote for you reading Seth's best blog posts. And my own thoughts for businesses in 2009 is: Differentiate and Sell. Not be everything to everyone. Be Unique and actually sell services. Especially in 2009, although I have elected not to participate in the recession at all.

Posted in books, economy, off topic

Tagged: advice, books : Related Tags: business advice, business, advice

It's Official: Sylantro Bought by Broadsoft

December 29, 2008

Today BroadSoft announced we have acquired Sylantro Systems Corporation. As one of our most formidable competitors of the last ten years, we have both succeeded in delivering high-quality products and superior customer satisfaction.

We believe the Sylantro acquisition is a tremendous opportunity that will allow us to continue our tradition of developing comprehensive solutions for hosted telephony and multimedia services. We will retain Sylantro's Synergy Multiplay Application Feature Server platform, and will begin to immediately integrate Sylantro's development team into our current engineering organization.

Posted in PBX, broadsoft, mergers

Tagged: broadsoft, merger, sylantro : Related Tags: sylantro, broadsoft

RapidLink Data Center Opens

December 22, 2008

Rapid Link, Inc. opens a 3000 square foot data center north of Atlanta at Spaghetti Junction in Doraville, GA. Rapid Link's data center will have access via fiber and wireless.The first customers will be moving into the space in January, 2009.

If you are a telecom agent looking to sell collocation, Rapid Link is looking for you. please contact Kris Maher, Director of National Sales, at 800-363-3435

Posted in agents, data center

Tagged: agents, collocation, data center : Related Tags: rapid, center

Working By Committee

December 22, 2008

I am on quite a few committees that meet mainly by email and the occasional conference call. Neither email nor conference call are highly effective collaboration tools for an ongoing committee. So I have been looking at other ways to work.

One idea that comes up is Yahoo! Groups (and Google Groups). It's basically email but with the message archive.

Posted in apps, communications, conferencing, email, im/chat

Tagged: apps, collaboration, committee, communications : Related Tags: email

Broadsoft Buys Sylantro

December 19, 2008

FierceVoIP has been writing for 2 days about Broadsoft buying Sylantro. A couple of ITSP CTO's are confirming that purchase as well. It's a great customer acquisition move for Broadsoft in a market that is flat. (There are thousands of "VOIP Providers" but not many that are at scale). Word is that the last cash investment was earmarked for this purchase.

BTW, Doug Mohney has some create speculation about the next-generation network space here.

Posted in voip

Tagged: broadsoft, mergers, sylantro : Related Tags: broadsoft

Agent Association on the Move

December 18, 2008

The Technology Channel Association, a non-profit trade association for indirect sales agents, has hired CMA Association Management to run the day-to-day functions of the association.. This announcement coincides with the launch of the Agent Committee, consisting of Emmett Tydings of AB&T Telecom; Dave Wallace of Aligned Communications; Ben Henkels of CMP; Mark Adams of Total Business Solutions Communication; and Jeff Ott of Total Carrier Solutions. TCA is working on benefits for its members possibly health insurance. Join today at tcasite.org.

If you are on LinkedIn, there is a Technology Channel Association group for members only.

Posted in TCA, agents

Tagged: agents, TCA : Related Tags: technology channel, channel association, association

On a Qwest for Less Comp

December 18, 2008

Qwest decreased the compensation to its channel program by about 10%, which one master agent said was "bad, but it could have been a lot worse." The big kicker is the provision that agents can no longer get paid for renewing contracts, unless they were the original agent. That destroys some call center based agents, who will now be looking to flip that database to other carriers. Meanwhile, SkyWi sues Qwest for racketeering.

Posted in agents, commissions

Tagged: agents, compensation, lawsuit, qwest : Related Tags: qwest

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