XO has hired Ronan Keenan to handle their corporate social media, like the @XOComm twitter account. They put together quite the resource for SIPTrunking Deployment at Storify: SIPtrunking implementation resources including videos, presentations and documents by Steve Carter,...
I was on a panel about Supercharging the SIP Trunk Sales by Broadvox. It sounded similar to the panel I did at CVX West 2010 on Upselling the SIP Trunk sale. This one had to go a little more basic...
There are always lists. Everybody comes up with Top 10, Top 5, Best of, blah, blah, blah. What does the list actually mean though? For years I have heard about the JD Power awards, but have no idea what the...
I spent yesterday with an MSO Enterprise sales force training them on what SIP is and how to sell it. The key is the Value Statement. Today, there are over a thousand companies selling voice services. It comes down to what...
Besides thinking Cloud, which is really just applications, there have been a few interesting product offerings from carriers. Here are some of them:Both AboveNet and FiberLight have some new fiber miles to sell.XO has almost 100 route miles of new...
And so the VoIP Consolidation continues. (This is a good thing for two reasons: I need something to write about and this industry has too many players mucking about.)Rumor has it that Broadvox has inked a deal to acquire...
What a terrible quarter. The FCC is playing around with Broadband - plans, definitions and classifications. The NTIA took the summer off from its task on the broadband stimulus. Meanwhile, VZ releases its quarterly numbers as a loss due to pension payments...
Ken Camp's Year in Review prompted me to write this. It's been an interesting year. SIP, UC, Cloud, Merger. That's really how I see the blur that was 2009. I attended so many conferences this year. The highlight was speaking...
Listened to XO to introduce Enterprise SIP (ESIP) to the Channel today. This offering is very targeted. Enterprise SIP is designed for multi-location customers such as Retail and Restaurant chains that are looking to get rid of PRI's. ESIP will be for high...
SUTUS, the maker's of the Business Central 200 office-in-a-box, have announced inter-operability with Excel SIPTrunking. The real news for the marketplace is that Excel and SUTUS (along with Polycom) are bundling a system for small business. The Business Central...
It's a Party! SUTUS, Megapath and Polycom are hosting a seminar about their combined offering on Feb. 24 in San Jose. (Email me for an invite!)What offering? Well, you know about Polycom's IP Phones, even the HD Voice models. SUTUS...