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David Byrd
David Byrd is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer for Raven Guru Marketing. Previously, he was the CMO and EVP of Sales for CloudRoute. Prior to CloudRoute, He was CMO at ANPI, CMO & EVP of Sales at Broadvox, VP of channels and Alliances for Telcordia and Director of eBusiness development with i2 Technologies.He has also held executive positions with Planet Hollywood Online, Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computers, Sprint and Ericsson.
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February 2017

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Network Function Virtualization at IT EXPO

February 28, 2017

The second panel that I moderated during IT Expo was “How Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is Reshaping Managed Services in the 21st Century“. The panel members from Versa Networks, mTusker and Oracle, not surprisingly, were quite expert in their understanding of NFV. its current state as a product, industry participants, launch timing and potential adoption rates. NFV is closer to reality than I suspected as the standards and testing have proceeded in a deliberate fashion.

Marketing and Selling Hosted Communications in 2017

February 22, 2017

Hosted Communications with Unified Communications (UC) has been around for a number of years and, in most circles, it is considered an acceptable and useful solution. However, last week I listen to some continue to express difficulties that they had positioning and installing hosted communications and UC solutions. I certainly want to think the IT Expo panel participants from Xact Communications, Skyswitch, Sotel and CoreDial for providing their industry experience and expertise. Interesting, the bulk of the conversation was spent on subjects that for many of us have become old hat.

NFV, SDN, SON, VFN, SD WAN... Networking Alphabet Soup

February 6, 2017

NFV, SDN, SON, VFN, SDN; these things are confusingly complicated but point to one common and very simple future. A future leveraging the power of the cloud. A future where the user receives the benefit of new features and applications at a much faster rate, much cheaper, and with some level of customization so that every user experience can be unique. Moreover, with cloud oriented networks security can be increased so online and mobile transactions can be better monitored to ensure the identity of the user or purchaser.
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