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POTS and PBX
Recently on LinkedIn and twitter, home for the haters, there has been noise about the death of PBX. Toshiba and Avaya certainly give credence to that thought. However, analyst research demonstrates that PBX seats still outpace Cloud seat sales....
How Broken is Telecom? (This is a Rant)
It started as just 1 problem, but I ended up writing about 3 messes. I try really hard to avoid cablecos. They don't like the Channel; they don't like wholesale. It seems that direct sales reps can get pricing...
The New TEM for Partners
Cloud Farming has to be the new TEM (telecom expense management). Years ago, auditing was how you got your foot in the door to an enterprise. It turned out to be more work than most wanted or realized. And...
Billion Dollar Time Bomb
It used to be a celebration to hit a billion dollars in revenue in the CLEC space. It was like they crossed the finish line, because after they hit the billion dollar revenue mark, they went for beers and...
Research Firms Missed Again on UC
MarketsandMarkets states that the UCaaS market size is expected to grow from USD 17.35 Billion in 2016 to USD 28.69 Billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.6% during the forecast period. In contrast, Transparency...
UC Tidbits #2441
So many pieces of news about the UCaaS and UC&C segment that I just wanted to cover the highlights (with links) for your perusal. New ReportsWeb Global UC&C study: "The global market is gradually experiencing the transition from legacy...
Telecom Disruption
You read about disruption in other industries with household names like Dropbox, Uber, AirBnb and Netflix. Telecom is being picked apart the same way Craigslist started the revenue decline for newspapers. No one makes voice calls any more. It...
Unified Hope for UCaaS
End of year buzz around unified communications (UC, UCaaDS, Hostd PBX, Hosted UC) is ramping up. All part of the predictions and trend watching for 2016. First, I have a shout out to my bud, Alex Doyle for this...
Is Mobile the Answer for UC?
I moderated a session at ITEXPO West on profitability for VoIP Providers. Mind you, one panelist was Voxvalley who is a mobile app provider for ITSPs, but it seems that everyone thinks the only way to make money in...
As A Service
We have seen UC as a service, software as a service, Infrastructure and Platforms as a service, Desktop and even Disaster Recovery as a Service. What is next? WAN as a Service seems to be popping up as the...
Experience-Centric
While search slideshare (now LinkedIn slideshare), I saw this slide, which sums up customer expectations as well as a conversation I saw having with Pete Davis of Panterra. BYOD is not just an IT PITA (pain-in-the-@ss); it is about...
What the Studies About UC Say
WOW! In a study of 1,000 businesses by Evolve IP, "71.5% were not very familiar with what "Unified Communications" actually is". You can scratch that off your SEO key word list right now. The stat that "40 percent of...
The VoIP/UC Round Up # 2920
MetTel's Gary Gluzman has a 2-part look at UC. He mentions Glip and Slack, which are taking off, but I think that much of the new app collective - WhatsApp, snapchat, even Slack - are just replacements for AOL...
Things You May Have Missed at ITEXPO
With the official first day of ITEXPO in the bag and the dawn of Day 2 is upon us, here are some of things you may have missed. Bill Miller of FreedomVoice, Digium, Fujitsu fame is back in the...
3 Reasons UC Deployments Fail
Just getting ink on a Unified Communications deal is just the beginning. So many deployments go wrong or worse the company doesn't leverage the value of the platform enough to justify the purchase. The users aren't using it! One...
VoIP Velocity, But Tie Your Shoelaces First
The numbers that ANPI collected from Gartner about VoIP and UC point to market velocity for VoIP. By the end of 2015, "60% of all North American enterprises will move at least 30% of their voice communication to the...
Comcast Merger Will Pressure CLECs
The CLEC industry has a few problems: TDM-to-IP Transition USF Reform (E-Rate, ETC) Consolidation Special Access Pricing The biggest problem by far is the Comcast-TWC merger. It will replace 2 large MSOs (Comcast + TWC) with 2 much larger...
Dali, Picasso and UC
Last month, the Salvador Dali Museum finished up its Andy Warhol tour. Warhol and Dali knew each other. They both also knew - and were influenced by - Pablo Picasso. (For example, Head After Picasso (1985) by Andy Warhol.)...
Poised to Outperform
In an article from Seeking Alpha (login required), the title just hit me - Here's Why 8x8, Inc. Is Poised To Outperform. Then you read the article which pretty much quotes press releases and you realize that once again...
TBI Adds Voxox, MicroCorp Adds Alteva
I have written before about how crowded the Hosted Voice sector is. Apparently, that was a signal for master agencies to add more VoIP players. Voxox signed up with TBI, who recently signed 8x8 to an extensive portfolio of...
Netflix is Insight into VoIP Quality
Netflix has an ISP rating to let consumers know how ISPs are doing delivering Netflix streaming video. Netflix is involved in a fight for the last mile with the largest ISPs in the US, especially Comcast and Verizon FiOS....
What's Missing in UC?
Why do people think UC is plug and play! Was Microsoft ever plug and play? The biggest hurdle to Hosted UC installs is a competent technician on-site. Heck, even for telecom installs, a competent tech would be helpful to...
There's No Such Thing as Free
There are costs to delivering service. There really isn't a free. I get asked a lot about WebRTC. It's a free client for video conferencing. In a way, yes it is. As long as the media server can recognize...
SIP Trunking Deployment Lessons by XO
XO has hired Ronan Keenan to handle their corporate social media, like the @XOComm twitter account. They put together quite the resource for SIP Trunking Deployment at Storify: SIP trunking implementation resources including videos, presentations and documents by Steve Carter,...
Thoughts on Deploying Cloud
In this 13 minute interview with Dale Frohman of The Frohman Group , we discuss Cloud Deployment in the business.Deployment of Cloud services is much easier in the small business space (under 100 employees), because typically this is not a...
