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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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As prices of IP bandwidth sink to new lows, resellers - like Bandcon, AlphaRed, and the rest - are facing pressure. In fact, AlphaRed has apparently closed its doors, which could create problems for other resellers that it buys from and sells to, like BandCon who is the CDN for AlphaRed. For every reseller that closes, a new one opens up.

(Please note: the other reason that AlphaRed may have closed was that the Washington Attorney General is suing AlphaRed CEO for scareware.)

Posted in Internet, bandwidth

Tagged: reseller : Related Tags: alphared

Spam Response Rate

November 17, 2008

1 in 12.5 Million responses to spam -- but it is still highly profitable. If the spam was just selling products with $10 profit per sale, it would still be highly profitable. But when you are stealing credit card numbers and identities, it makes spam hugely profitable.

Spammers usually run off of botnets of infected computers. Why people don't update (and run) anti-virus programs regularly is beyond me. Why we haven't defeated spam yet is another issue.

Posted in Internet, Marketing

Tagged: spam : Related Tags: highly profitable, profitable

Fiber Lit Buildings

November 17, 2008

Rob Powell has an update to his fiber list on Telecom Ramblings blog. What is interesting about the chart is that TWT and L3 have about the same number of route miles - 26,000 - but TWT has way more buildings lit that Level3. TWT has 10,700 buildings lit and L3 has about 7550. TWT lights about 250 per quarter.

Posted in bandwidth, telco

Tagged: fiber, level3, twtelecom : Related Tags: buildings, fiber, wonder, quarter

Obama and NAB

November 17, 2008

I don't know how this ended up in front of me this morning, but it was an interesting piece about Obama and Radio Localism. Obviously, conservatives don't want localism because it gets in the way of profit. You can't profit if you have to pay a DJ in each market AND report some local news. Sheesh!

Posted in FCC, communications, politics

Tagged: radio : Related Tags: profit, localism

ISPCON this week

November 10, 2008

I'm at ISPCON in San Jose all week so the updates will be few and far between. Jack Brandt and I will be doing The Marketing Spotlight - Q&A from the audience on how to market your services. (Differentiate and Delivery). Then I am moderating a panel with Google, Optenet and IKANO about How to Build Successful Channel Partnerships.
If you are in San Jose, let's grab some coffee. Susan Bowen at DIDX is having a blogger's breakfast tomorrow at 8 AM. See you there!

Posted in Marketing, channel, conferences

Tagged: ispcon, san jose : Related Tags:

Telecom Peek

November 10, 2008

Cbeyond Reports $90.2 in Q3 Revenues, up 25 Percent
Sprint Nextel $600 Million of Debt Coming Due Is Only One Worry - but they have $3B in cash??? Use it to buy a cool phone - T-Mobile, AT&T and VZW are killing Sprint because they have better phones. Handsets drive cellular. Period.
EarthLink has a $54.7M profit last quarter!
I forget that taxes play a huge part in mergers - that's why Embarq & Windstream didn't merge; it plays a part in XO's life (NOL's); and it certainly played a role in the VZ New England spin-off to Fairpoint.
Sprint and Cogent re-connect but continue fighting
JD Power's ISP Ratings are in (here).

Posted in economy, mergers, telco, telecommunications

Tagged: earthlink, isp, mergers, telecommunications : Related Tags:

JobVent

November 10, 2008

By accident, I ran across JobVent today. On first examination, it's just one more Web 2.0 forum for employees to complain about their bosses. AT&T has 5 companies - 4 are rated as bad. Cbeyond and XO are on there. Verizon is on there with 6 listings - VZW gets good marks. How is your company doing?

Posted in Web 2.0, telecommunications, xo

Tagged: jobvent, web 2.0, web apps : Related Tags: jobvent jobvent, negative reviews, business development, company, jobvent, companies

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Where Does AT&T Get the Money?

November 10, 2008

Fresh off of buying Wayport for global wi-fi expansion, AT&T buys Centennial Wireless - $944M for 1.1 million cell subs. AT&T is either at the point that they have to keep buying to keep the growth going or they have Monopoly Madness.

Posted in channel, mergers, telco

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Best VoIP Commercial Ever

November 10, 2008

Saw this commercial on TV yesterday for oovoo, which is a Skype replacement.

Why did I like it? Because it demonstrated what it does while doing what Ma Bell used to do in the old days with its Reach Out and Touch Somebody ads.

It makes a connection with the audience. The connection is an emotional bond. No talk of features or benefits. Perfect.

Luca says that there isn't room for any more players. To an extent that is true because the market is full and it will be a zero-sum game of take-away. But with marketing like this, I can see how oovoo could take market share -- but how do they make money?

Posted in Internet, Marketing, im/chat, telecommunications, voip

Tagged: marketing, oovoo, skype, voip : Related Tags:

Gaboogie

November 6, 2008

Conferencing is growing and there are so many players in the field. Not much differentiation that I can see. But Gaboogie has at least one differentiator: It calls the participants!

Another differentiator is Dimdim, which states that "When they wanted to share what was on their computer screens they discovered that existing web conferencing products were all either too expensive or too complicated (or both)." Dimdim is free for up to 20 attendees.

I use Freeconference.com and pay for the recording ability. I handed 2 calls off to my podcast folks and it turns out that the call quality was too low.

Posted in Web 2.0, conferencing

Tagged: conferencing : Related Tags: recording, conferencing, calls, gaboogie, dimdim

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