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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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Why tidbits? There is just SOOO much going on right now that I can not keep up.

You probably read about all the telecom layoffs, right? Especially the 12,000 that AT&T let go. But PAETEC and Level3 also had layoffs of 222 and 450 respectively. Some of the cuts came from the Indirect channel. Most noteworthy is that Level3 hired a new COO, which kind of confirms the story that Neil Hobbs was let go.

Tagged: att, cdn, layoffs, level3, paetec, radizeski : Related Tags: layoffs

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Cluetrain Manifesto

December 12, 2008

Posted in Internet, Web 2.0, economy, social network

Tagged: cluetrain, internet : Related Tags: cluetrain manifesto

Tampa Bay Connections

December 12, 2008

This has been a busy networking week. Business Buddies holiday party, AMA Tampa Bay Luncheon, and the Tampa Bay CEO Awards dinner last night. The emcee for the event, Brent Britton, is an interesting guy, a lawyer from MIT in Tampa via Silcon Valley. Another person of interest was a finalist for a CEO Award.

Posted in off topic, social network

Tagged: tampa : Related Tags: tampa

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The Nortel Tale

December 11, 2008

Nortel is in the news as it weighs bankruptcy. Rich Tehrani has an historic view of Nortel here, as he makes an excellent point:

Sadly, we are learning now (as we do in every downturn) that branding, marketing and "perception augmentation" is something that needs to be done constantly. In good times and especially in bad.

Nortel is experiencing what the VoIP hardware market is feeling: not enough money for everyone to live off. If Cisco is reaping the most benefits, the rest of the hardware companies have to learn to live with a diet of scraps as consolidation and trimmed CAPEX hits the industry. How many Class 5 or Session Border Controllers do you need before you have maxed out?

Nortel suffers from what many companies do: You cannot be everything to everyone. You need an Identity that Differentiates you from the pack.

Posted in Marketing, economy, technology, voip

Tagged: bankruptcy, capex, nortel : Related Tags: nortel

20 Sites for Job Seekers

December 10, 2008

This may be off-topic but with the number of folks that are getting the pink slip, I figured I would list a bunch of sites for job seekers.

Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs.
Meta search sites like Indeed.com and SimplyHired.
Your local newspapers.
Your local work force board.
Craigslist.
Recruiters like CIBER, Kforce or Robert Half.
Mashable, TechCrunch, GigaOm have job listings as do many of your new media website properties in your industry.
TheLadders is pay for play.
LinkedIn
Dice.com for IT jobs and TelecomCareers.
Jobster

Then there are Web 2.0 sites that Venture Beat and Fast Company wrote about that are turning the job search around (maybe):

Be aware that some folks don't think much of these sites. And I am sure that there are more places to look, but I figured this would give you a start.

While job hunting, don't forget to keep networking and keep your hand in things either by donating your time to a non-profit or grabbing some projects or contract work. (Look here for project or contract work: Guru.com, rent-a-coder, eLance, DoMyStuff, Agents of Value, AssistU, iFreelance)

Posted in Web 2.0, linkedin

Tagged: job seeker, job sites, linkedin, web 2.0 : Related Tags: resume distribution, sites, search, resume, local

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IT Folks Chatting About Communications

December 9, 2008

During a discussion online, some interesting items popped up.

Companies ban Instant Message. One IT Security Consultant looks at the irony of it here. Tele-Presence is all about improved efficiency in communicating -- no more phone tag, less voicemail, that kind of thing -- but how will that be implemented in a corporate environment that locks it down?

Social networking like LinkedIn and Twitter are becoming commonplace among the marketing set.

Posted in Internet, communications, email, im/chat, linkedin, organizations, social network, technology, tele-presence, telecommunications

Tagged: IM, linkedin, security : Related Tags: corporate environment, social

Microcorp Insite is Insightful Now

December 8, 2008

December 8, 2008 - In its annual twelve day count down of hot telecom and data services that their members should watch in the next year, Telecom Association ("TA") choose MicroCorp's telecom inventory management tool "Insite" on the first day.

"In 2009, because of the economy, business owners and managers will focus on getting more out of the telecom and data services they already have", stated TA Founder Dan Baldwin.

MicroCorp's Insite is a contract and carrier agnostic telecom inventory management tool that helps telecom consultants, agents, and their business clients answer the obvious question, "What are the telecom and data services I already have?"

Posted in TEM, agents, channel, technology, telecommunications

Tagged: agents, channel partners, microcorp, telecom asset management : Related Tags: telecom inventory, inventory management, microcorp microcorp, location businesses, multi location, telecom

The VoIP Channel

December 8, 2008

Why doesn't it get easier? Why is it so difficult to get agents to sell your stuff?

Over the years I have worked with many VoIP Providers. A good chunk of my consulting is on The Channel, Referral Systems, and Sales Compensation.

There are a number of landmines that can destroy a relationship with an independent sales agent.

Posted in agents, channel, sales and selling, voip

Tagged: agents, channel partners : Related Tags: service offering, sales, channel, agent, agents, effort

i3 Networks Closing

December 4, 2008

Posted in voip

Tagged: closing, i3, voip : Related Tags:

Crowded and Confused Markets

December 3, 2008

Telecom has some of the most crowded and confused markets. Dial-Up, broadband, cellular, VoIP, POTS. T1 - all kind of flat. Not a lot of Differentiation. It's filled with "I'll save you 10%".

Posted in Web 2.0, voip, xmpp

Tagged: mobile, voip : Related Tags: crowded confused, confused markets, telephony

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