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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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Tagged 4g, 5g, business, channel, cisco, cloud, cloud communications, cloud pbx, collaboration, conference call, conferencing, consultant, contact center, hosted voice, ip communications, lte, mobile, msp, ooma, phone, pjsip, reseller, retail, sbc, sd-wan, security, service provider, sip forking, solution, stun, tata communications, uc, ucaas, ucaas provider, ucoms, video, video conferencing, webrtc, wireless

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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A Big Shift Coming to Telecom

July 5, 2016

Our sector of the marketplace - telecommunications - is about to undergo a change. Yeah, we have been in a shift for a good while, but more is coming.

We went from TDM to VoIP to Hosted PBX to UCaaS to UC&C.

We went from T1 to cable broadband to Gigabit.

Posted in CLEC, IOT, Internet, bandwidth, broadband, broadsoft, cableco, channel, communications, data center, economy, fiber, hosted uc, jobs, mergers, organizations, outage, smb, telecommunications, unified communications, voip, webRTC, wireline

Tagged: arpu, broadband, broadsoft, cable, cableco, ilec, mso, talent, UC, unified messaging, voip : Related Tags: market share, telco broadband, share businesses, musical chairs, gigabit fiber, cable

UCaaS Tidbits #2440

July 5, 2016

SkySwitch has launched contact center-as-a-service (CCaSS) for its white-label resellers. [channel vision mag]

RingCentral Enterprise with Google for Work is a new partnership. It will chase (far) behind the Microsoft suite.

Posted in SDN, broadsoft, hosted uc, sdn, telecommunications, unified communications, voip

Tagged: call center, centurylink, CPE, hardware, master agency, microsoft, NFV, SDN, UC, unified messaging, voip, WAN : Related Tags: business communications, business, magicjack, cloud, service, google

Talking to Channel Managers

July 1, 2016

Posted in agents, channel

Tagged: agents, channel managers, channel partners, podcast : Related Tags: channel managers, channel

Change: Musical Chairs

June 28, 2016

This has to be the busiest year ever for musical chairs. People are company hopping like crazy. And companies have been chopping people like crazy.

The Conference Group laid off channel people.

Posted in jobs, linkedin

Tagged: education, jobs, linkedin : Related Tags: musical chairs, people, companies, marketing, company

The Struggle of the Channel Managers

June 23, 2016

One big struggle of the channel managers is to get agents to sell deeper into accounts. The providers would like more than Internet and Voice to be sold.

If you have been at a master agent roadshow or conference, you know that what we will call fringe or non-mainstream vendors are looking for attention. Also, the most popular brands are looking to push new product lines.

Posted in agents, channel, commissions, hosted uc, managed services, master agency, sales and selling, unified communications

Tagged: agents, channel managers, channel partners, commissions, master agency, microsoft, SAAS, telepacific, UC : Related Tags: struggle channel, price comparison, conferencing backup, deals under, channel managers, services

OMG! More M&A

June 20, 2016

As if we have already digested the Microsoft-LinkedIn $26B deal, there is more activity. BTW, one thing noted about the MS-LI deal is that: "LinkedIn was way cheaper at $59 per registered member than buying Facebook for $329+ per member." Saw an advert today for Office365. Get Off365 across every device for $70 per year. Not a lot of profit there.

Posted in mergers

Tagged: dell, fiber, mergers, SDN, vc : Related Tags: technology design, tower cloud, software group, francisco partners, definitive agreement, technology

What You Can Learn from the Music Industry

June 20, 2016

Watching the Uber/Lyft fight against the Hillsborough County PTC has been a front row seat to the old guard refusing to change.

The music industry died in 5 years. Blame it on Napster, but it was more about the Kingpins not wanted to change. Movies and TV are facing this, but seem to be adjusting better than the music industry did.

Posted in Internet, conferences, economy, jobs, organizations