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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

By Rich Tehrani on Monday, May 20

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Tagged battery, cybersecurity, iiot, iot, longview iot, lora, m2m, mesh, security, solar, tdma, tech, telecom, wifi

Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Tagged call center, contact center, crm, customer service, hallmark, net promoter score, nps, tsr

Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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Tagged 5g, android, apple, cisco, dell, foldable, folding, galaxy fold, huawei, ios, ipad, iphone, mate x, samsung, tariff, trump

IGEL Advances Future of Work

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tagged automation, displayport, fow, future, future of work, google, green technology, linux, microsoft

Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Tagged apple lost american jobs, china, supply chain

Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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The deal that was supposed to save VOX Corp. (parent company is Pervasip). After Networld World questioned whether the mobile VoIP service could actually work, the company stripped data from its website (as reported by both PC World and Network World).

PC World further reported, "Earlier this week IDG News Service reported that it's unlikely that Zer01 could be technically able to offer the unlimited mobile voice and data service that it is advertising. The service, originally targeted for a July 1 launch, does not appear to be available yet. In addition, it's being marketed through a multilevel marketing program run by a company called Global Verge whose founder, Mark Petschel, in 2005 pleaded guilty to securities fraud.

Posted in cellular, voip

Tagged: cellular, mvno, voip, vox, zer01 : Related Tags: parent company, company, world, program, service, network

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The Stimulus Spend is Opportunity

July 23, 2009

I talk with many CLEC's and ISP's that are looking at the BTOP and BIP programs to see if there is opportunity for them. As I said in the podcast with Occam Networks, most of the funds are earmarked for companies already collecting USF funds. Why do I think that? Because it is a safe bet and politics is about safe bets.

I'm attending Tech Data's Technology Solutions Tour. This morning started with TD SVP Pete Peterson discussing how to translate the stimulus spending into technology opportunity.

Posted in VAR, agents, broadband, channel, cloud computing, economy, technology

Tagged: healthcare, stimulus, tech data, VAR : Related Tags: video surveillance, stimulus spend, stimulus, funds, spend, peterson

Occam Podcast about the NOFA

July 21, 2009

Posted in FCC, Internet, broadband, economy, politics, telecommunications

Tagged: broadband, NTIA, RUS, stimulus : Related Tags: broadband stimulus, broadband

Alphabet Soup in Broadband

July 18, 2009

If you have been even slightly following the Broadband Stimulus program, you will notice that there is an increasing amount of acronyms to keep track of - ARRA, BIP, BTOP, etc. Luckily, here's a glossary from the Knight Center of Digital Excellence.

The key words to know are Unserved and Underserved because that is where the money is earmarked to go. But you have to decide if you will apply for the RUS Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) for broadband projects in rural areas or for the NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) for broadband projects in unserved and underserved areas of the United States.

Each program has separate criteria. On a soon to be released podcast with Occam Networks, we discussed much of this.

Posted in broadband

Tagged: broadband, BTOP, NTIA, RUS, stimulus : Related Tags: broadband projects, unserved underserved, broadband, program, money, federal

Grande Communications is being Acquired

July 15, 2009

Posted in CLEC, mergers, telecommunications

Tagged: merger : Related Tags: grande communications, being acquired, communications

Is Cellular the new Crack?

July 13, 2009

Stacey at GigaOm writes about the data problem for cellular companies. On the one hand, data revenue of $40 to $60 more per month from an account seems pretty good; on the other hand, 70% of the traffic on a tower is from data cards (about 3-4% of subscribers). This seems like they should have known this.

Voice calls take up less than 10K per stream. 3G data takes up to 3MB.

Posted in broadband, cellular, telecommunications

Tagged: broadband, cellular : Related Tags: cellular, network

UCF Should be like Speeding

July 9, 2009

Posted in FCC

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Google Giving Voice to Startups

July 8, 2009

In a short article in INC magazine, one entrepreneur explains how he uses Google Voice for his startup business. He is a straddler - he has a full-time job while launching his own business.

As noted by Ring Central, many of the features in Google Voice have been available for a while from VoIP Providers. However, it's partially the brand (it's Google) and partially the price (um, free). Once Google allows number portability, it will be tough to beat. Why?

For one thing, Raving Fans. Google has a lot of Raving Fans. And those fans tell stories about the service - even better than a testimonial.

Posted in Marketing, telecommunications, unified communications, voip

Tagged: google, um, voip : Related Tags: google voice, google, voice

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