By Tom Keating on Monday, May 14
I've been testing Plixer Scrutinizer, a network traffic analyzer product for several weeks now. It's a great product that supports NetFlow used...
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Tagged cisco asa, flow analytics, netflow, network traffic analysis, plixer, scrutinizer, sflow, wireshark
By Peter Bernstein on Monday, May 14
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Subscriber demand for more innovative, bandwidth-hungry services has driven most every service provider to build a 4G LTE network capable of providing greater capacity, reduced latency and improved pricing. But to unlock the power of a 4G LTE investment – and to continue to deliver revenue-generating voice and messaging services – carriers must look to embrace Voice over LTE (VoLTE), a core component for a new set of rich media and collaboration services that also enables operators to deliver voice without having to rely on legacy 2G/3G networks.
In short, VoLTE helps service providers capitalize on their new 4G investments. VoLTE enables operators to offload legacy infrastructure and to deliver data simultaneously with crisp HD voice. By blending mobile voice with video, converged IP messaging, the web and social networking, service providers can create new revenue-generating communication services that differentiate them from competitors. The technology is also proven to harmonize conversations across disparate providers, devices and apps.
But perhaps more than anything, VoLTE provides operators with the flexibility to respond to ever-changing technologies, market conditions and user demands. The competitive freedoms of VoLTE allow operators to experiment with and deliver new communication features for broad markets and even strategic industries like mobile healthcare.
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Tagged 4G, 4G LTE network, All-IP communications, IMS, LTE, New Conversation Experience (NCE), Voice over IP, VoLTE
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By Tom Keating on Friday, May 11
Oh joy - was checking my Netflix DVD queue to see if any interesting movies to stream as well as which ones...
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Tagged down, netflix, outage, unavailable, website
By Tom Keating on Wednesday, May 9
Telefónica today launched a new mobile app called Tu Me, which essentially takes the approach if you can't beat Skype, join em'....
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Tagged mobile voip, skype, sms, telefónica, tu me
By Tom Keating on Tuesday, May 8
Viber today announced the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta.Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber...
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Tagged blackberry, free voice calls, hd, im, mobile voip, viber, voip, windows phone
By Tom Keating on Tuesday, May 8
Nokia today released its City Lens app for Windows Phone, an app that is an augmented reality browser. Users open the app,...
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Tagged augmented reality, camera, city lens, lumia 800, lumia 900, microsoft, nokia, poi, windows phone
By Peter on Monday, May 7
When selling Hosted PBX and other unified communications, it's a lot like giving someone a Big Mac. Extra sauce, more calories, cheese...
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Tagged hosted pbx, sellecom, UC
By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 4
Intel is running a new ad touting the long-lasting Ultrabook which has hours of battery life. And while I applaud Intel for...
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Tagged advertising, apple, asus, best buy, dell, hp, intel, laptop, mac, macbook, marketing, tablet, toshiba, ultrabook, xps, zdnet, zenbook
By Tom Keating on Friday, May 4
Back in 2007 I wrote an article "Ooma goes Booma" because Ooma's claim-to-fame feature was that it worked by 'sharing' your PSTN...
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Tagged 2nd line, cheap minutes, free calling, magicjack, nettalk, ooma, review, telo, unlimited calling, voip
By Alan Percy on Thursday, May 3
This last week, we at AudioCodes were pleased to announce that we had been ranked by Infonetics Research in their overall market...
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By Tom Keating on Thursday, May 3
Some more interesting information has come to light regarding the IP revealing security flaw in Skype. Researchers from Inria, a research institute...
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Tagged privacy, security, skype, voip, vulnerability, wall street journal, wsj
By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 2
Let’s face it, superheroes are pretty cool and aside from Batman and a few others, most of them are low tech. Try...
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Tagged avengers, hasbro, rich steeves, tmc
By Peter on Wednesday, May 2
Is it Cloud versus Agents?As an Agent, I sell bandwidth and transport almost exclusively. I am learning that the Channel does not...
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Tagged agents, cableco, cloud communications, cloud computing, commissions, price war, telco, telecom is broken, VAR
By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, May 1
HTML5 is an important topic as cross-platform development without the need to work with app store guardians means developers are generally free...
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Tagged devcon5, html5
By Tom Keating on Tuesday, May 1
Yesterday it was reported that a simple script could expose any Skype user's IP address. A Microsoft representative saw my article and...
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Tagged ip address, microsoft, presence, privacy, skype, supernodes, voip, vulnerability