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The VoIP Market Right Now
"The market for VoIP services has moved well beyond the early adopter stage to mainstream status in many developed countries. SIP trunking and hosted UC continue to heat things up, fueling growth," reports Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC,...
Switchvox Team Leaves Digium
Word is that the founders of Switchvox, which Digium acquired in 2007, have moved on to other pastures. Tristan Barnum is going to a Hosted PBX provider in San Diego to be head of marketing. One is staying at Digium...
It's About Stats and Studies
Here is a collection of some stats and studies for your reading pleasure.(1) Mary Meeker's 2012 Presentation On The State Of The Web is a good read despite being heavily mobile. She spends quite a few slides pointing out how...
Microsoft Lync in my Opinion
Have you been hearing buzz about Microsoft Lync? Microsoft is spending millions on marketing it - and I hear that the Fortune 100 have deployed it but in limited roles. My brother works for a Microsoft integrator who has 135K...
Tough Talk About the Channel - VARs and Agents
This 15 minute podcast with Chris Shubert, Director of Channel Sales at Telnes Broadband, hits on some of the pain points of the Channel:What do telcos do about Cloud? "Dumb it down so a Facebook user can buy it!"What will...
Where's Your Special Sauce?
Just saw a blog post about a company rolling out SIP Trunking to meet the market demand for low cost dial-tone. Really? Hasn't that been done? Over and over and over by so many companies?I get the market wants to...
snom Takes an Aastra Approach
A couple of years ago Aastra launched a small form factor PBX based on Asterisk, the AastraLink Pro 160 Small Business IP PBX. This was a sub-$1000 solution for small businesses. The IP-PBX is XML based so that it can...
Grow Your Business Without Sacrificing Options
One of my ITEXPO panels is on Wednesday @ 11 AM with Kevin Kelleher of ICON Voice Networks; Bobby Mohanty of Vertical; David Scult of Fonality; and Debbie Jo Severin, the CMO of 8x8.With three leading options in the market...
VoIP Moves Part 296
Just a couple of interesting tidbits in VoIP to mention.One, HP says the time is now to end-of-life the VCX SMB IP-PBX line it acquired from 3Com. Last January, HP blogged that it was committed to the VCX. Until now.When...
Why SIP Trunking is Not a PRI
"Integra Telecom has lab-certified the Fonality trixbox Community Edition (CE) IP PBX system to operate with its SIP Trunking service. The certification helps ensure interoperability and seamless operation between trixbox CE and Integra solutions" - see how specific that is?...
Why Did ShoreTel Buy M5?
Recently, M5 Communications was acquired for about $160 million by ShoreTel. The premise PBX vendor had a bad quarter and caved to the pressure of Hosted PBX. Avaya, Interactive Intelligence and MITEL have hosted offerings. At some point, ShoreTel had...
Day 1 at ITEXPO
I had a couple of good conversations today. One was with Greg Plum who has embarked on a new chapter in his career at StartMeeting.com. Plum is exciting about building the channel for this start-up conferencing company for a number...
4 Random Thoughts from a Telecom Show
Here are 4 random thoughts from the STC (Society of Telecom Consultants) today.The oil industry looks at green. When you are doing a comparison between Hosted PBX and Premise based PBX, remember that when you are moving hardware to cloud,...
Colo Agency is 45th
Inc. Magazine has notified Global Communication Networks that the firm ranks number 1,347 on Inc.’s fifth annual Inc. 500|5000. In addition, GCN was ranked as the 45th fastest growing telecommunications company in the nation, as well as one of the...
What Did I Miss?
Besides Steve Jobs resigning from Apple (and tanking their stock), what news did I miss? Sprint is getting the iPhone in October. Won’t be a big deal, I don’t think.The TCA added TelePacific, TELX, The Conference Group, NTT Americas, and...
Overheard in Vegas
Telesphere hired Andy Abramson's PR firm, Communicano. AireSpring rolled out Meshed MPLS. What's that? It's how you connect the MPLS networks of four carriers to be able to cost effectively deliver MPLS service to anywhere in the US. TCA now...
Predictions 7 Months Later
Back in December, I made some predictions in an interview with Rich Tehrani. One of them was about HD Voice. We added another Alliance slash Peering Group, but still not enough density yet for HD. I'm thinking maybe in 2012. ...
SUTUS DEMO 2010
View SUTUS at DEMO 2010. SUTUS points out how the traditional solution of many service specific boxes is old-school. In the new green world, having everything in one easy-to-use box is a smarter solution for businesses with under 25 employees....
Mitel MVNO Means Money
Mitel has signed an MVNO deal (TMC video) in order to maximize on its PBX business as it relates to the mobile workforce. It's one thing to have an application that loads on some smartphones and will talk to the...
A Collision is Coming
Another point Nicholas Carr made was that IT and telecom are colliding. A new landscape is coming. My thoughts immediately went to GV. Who will be replaced by Google Voice?Who is the commodity? Who will add Value to the User Experience?People will...
PBX Box Pushing
All the talk about Hosted VoIP being on the rise, blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, Paetec is on LinkedIn "hiring PBX (Telephone Equipment) Sales Reps for our Raleigh, Nashville, Memphis Offices." For the Allworx product line, I would imagine.KeaneTel, a Master...
The Ultimate Hosted VoIP Service
What's the perfect VoIP Service?I have seen so many VoIP Providers, I can't keep track. But that also means that the VoIP providers are not doing a very good job of Messaging, Positioning and Differentiating their offerings.The only VoIP provider...
IT versus PBX
If a business is moving to UC, how does the decision get made on the platform?In many cases, the IT Administrator has some responsibility for the phone system (even if that means he calls the PBX vendor). When the IT...
An Excel-lent SUTUS Bundle for SMB's
SUTUS, the maker's of the Business Central 200 office-in-a-box, have announced inter-operability with Excel SIP Trunking. The real news for the marketplace is that Excel and SUTUS (along with Polycom) are bundling a system for small business. The Business Central...
6 Questions when Choosing a VoIP Provider
If you are a channel agent or a VAR or a service provider looking for a VoIP Provider to be your VoIP provider, there are 6 questions to think about:Do you want to White Label, wholesale or a retail package?Will...
