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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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GenBand's M6 Acquired by Broadsoft

August 29, 2008

A couple of clients use GenBand. They are in for a shock today as Broadsoft announced "their acquisition of GENBAND's M6 Communication Applications Server, formerly VocalData, product line and related customer base." Broadsoft will now have 435 client companies.

Broadsoft says, "Yes, a bit of consolidation and widening of partnerships .... I think it will serve the M6 customer base very well."

On a CLEC listserv, the discussion recently was about this space - the Hosted VoIP Application Services space.

Posted in mergers, voip

Tagged: broadsoft : Related Tags: sylantro broadsoft, asterisk based, broadsoft, system, genband

Startup Success book

August 28, 2008

So I get a marketing newsletter today and it has an ad/referral to a new book about Startup Success. The author has been CEO of 2 companies -- neither of which has been a success. One filed for bankruptcy and one has burned through millions in investment money with little to show for it. In fact, he was removed from his position at the second company.

Posted in off topic

Tagged: rant : Related Tags: startup success, success, telco

SPIT and Vomit

August 27, 2008

We had the huge DNS security hole a couple of weeks ago. Now we have the BGP security flaw. What next?

Well, according to a presentation by VOIPSA, there are threats out there to target SIP.

Posted in security, voip

Tagged: security, voip : Related Tags: security alliance, security, vomit

PR Machine in Full Swing

August 26, 2008

The PR factories are pumping out releases working up to IT Expo West. At least, they changed it from puking on me to invitations to speak with an exec. This came in about an hour ago:

Free phone service wasn't even a thought ten years ago. New technology breakthroughs are lowering costs for providers and increased competition with new telecom startups and the growing number of Voice over IP (VoIP) users is bringing prices down. .....

Posted in PR, communications, video, voip

Tagged: pr, video, voip : Related Tags: video phone, phone service, phone, innovation, service

Obama-Biden

August 25, 2008

Obama is probably the candidate with the most tech-savvy staff. Ron Paul was better, but unfortunately for the US, he is not running any more. Instead we again have two choices that make me weep. How did 20+ candidates come down to just these 2?

Posted in off topic, politics

Tagged: politics, rant : Related Tags: issues, congress, obama, biden

Hotspot Revenue

August 24, 2008

In-Stat's study on hotspot revenue, according to Communications Direct:

The number of hotspots providing public wireless LAN access continues to grow globally and more people are using them, reports In-Stat. But access revenues do not appear to be keeping up with the growth in use, the high-tech market research firm says.

My favorite part is the summary that makes some obvious conclusions, as we see here:

According to an In-Stat consumer survey, people are increasingly using hotspots for personal reasons.
Survey respondents are showing an increased reluctance to pay for hotspot access. Nearly 50% of respondents said they would only use a free hotspot.
Access revenues will start to decline due to increased competition and users' reluctance to pay.

So no one wants to pay for wi-fi access.

Posted in broadband, wi-fi

Tagged: hotspot, internet, wi-fi : Related Tags: access revenues, hotspot revenue, hotspot access, access, people, hotspot

Thunder and Lightning and Sun

August 24, 2008

I see that The Mozilla project has added functionality to Thunderbird, the email client I use. With Sunbird calendar and Lightning plug-in. "Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks." My question: Is anyone using this combo as a replacement for Microsoft Outlook?

My Outlook pst file is about 1GB and email contents date back to my start in telecom in 2000. Can T-Bird run with 1GB in email, contacts, hundreds of folders, thousands of calendar items and hundreds of tasks and reminders? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

Posted in Internet, apps, email

Tagged: email, mozilla : Related Tags: email, lightning

LightYear Wireless MLM

August 21, 2008

If you Google Lightyear Wireless, you will get 400K+ entries. Everyone looking for instant riches via multi-level marketing is looking at Lightyear's new deal to deliver cellular services via Verizon Wireless. Telecom folks don't pay attention.

This is an MVNO deal, which is when a provider buys cellular minutes and resells it under its own brand.

Posted in cellular

Tagged: lightyear, mlm, mvno : Related Tags: lightyear wireless, wireless business, verizon wireless, directly verizon, lightyear network, lightyear

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PCI Compliance: Best Practices Webinar

August 21, 2008

Qwest sent me an invite to a webinar: PCI MOVING FORWARD: Best Practices to Achieve and Maintain Compliance.

PCI compliance is a constantly changing security requirement for all businesses that process, store or transmit consumer credit card information. Shifting parameters, looming deadlines and increasing responsibilities all pose a challenge to becoming compliant and staying that way. This joint webinar between Qwest Business and Cisco Systems will introduce ways to reduce risk and shorten the journey to compliance.

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Time: 10:00 a.m. Pacific/1:00 p.m. Eastern

Posted in compliance, security

Tagged: pci compliance : Related Tags: compliance, webinar

Metaswitch not a Coppercom

August 20, 2008

Metaswitch landed a big gear sale to Embarq. In doing so, it avoids going the way of the CopperCom. You need a big carrier to be a vested customer so that you can sustain the R&D and tech support departments.

Posted in telco, voip

Tagged: metaswitch : Related Tags: metaswitch

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