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Alan Percy
| Observations by Alan D. Percy on VoIP enabling technology, industry and our personal reach for success.
Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency
Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...
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Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction
In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...
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Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call
Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...
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IGEL Advances Future of Work
IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...
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Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN
Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...
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How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War
Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...
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Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise
Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...
Full Story »A lesson in over-engineering
January 4, 2008Over the Christmas break, my father and I were talking about interesting events in his life when he slipped into his office to retrieve some pictures. He returned with the below collection of pictures his father took of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser as it came through little Avon, NY in November 1939. This behemoth of a machine was designed to be a complete mobile living quarters and laboratory that could traverse wide open and frigid Antarctic continent. It was so big, they had to drive it from the factory where it was built in Gary, Indiana to Boston where it could be loaded onto a ship for transport to Antarctica.
Conferencing / Collaboration Whitepaper
January 2, 2008For those of you that have been following our series of webinars on SIP-enabled applications, we just posted my most recent whitepaper on conferencing / collaboration applications:
SIP Conferencing/Collaboration
Global organizations utilize conference calls as a very important business tool for collaboration. Multi-branch organizations were the first to recognize the value in voice and video conferencing services to economize on travel costs and to coordinate business activities. Other smaller organizations have also begun to recognize that having access to easy-to-use conferencing resources speed up collaboration efforts with clients and suppliers.
A look back at 2007 and thinking ahead to 2008
December 20, 2007A couple recognitions from the last 12 months:
AudioCodes' Break Free Campaign (see: www.audiocodes.com/breakfree) - way back in early summer, we were on a conference bridge discussing how to create some new activity with the application developer community, trying to show them how they could abandon their legacy APIs and make the move to SIP+MSCML for their new applications. We devised a plan that included a combination of web-based advertising, webinars and live speaking slots to introduce the concept and show some specific example applications. With the fantastic help of the Marcom team at AudioCodes, TMC, Paracon and Alliance Systems we blew the lid off our original plan, making by far the most successful community development program that I have ever experienced.
Broadband Internet for the masses
December 10, 2007In reading this morning's paper, I saw an article about something that I have been preaching for the last few years: Broadband Internet Accessibility. See: The Buffalo News: Buffalo News Editorials: Boost Internet access
Those of us that live in urban or suburbia are lucky in that we have access to a range of choices for broadband internet service. This allows us to choose between DSL, Cable and Fiber optic technologies needed to connect our homes and businesses to the internet.
Land-ho!
December 3, 2007Imagine if the US Government found an un-charted new island, just off the coast of Florida with plenty of ready-to-develop shovel-ready beach front property, and decided to parcel the island up and auction it off to the highest bidders. Sound crazy? Well that's exactly what is happening over at the FCC this next year as the 700 MHz band is freed up by ending analog television transmissions.
While I'm a huge proponent of creating space for new services and giving opportunities for new business to capture this unique opportunity, I worry about how this is working financially.
SIP Trunking - where is this going?
November 26, 2007After spending this fall at a number of industry events, talking to customers and giving some serious thought to the topic, it's now becoming clearer how SIP trunking will really play a role going forward.
First, a couple observations / predictions:
#1 - SIP Trunking is really a misnomer - it really should be "Media Gateway Service Provider". Think about it - if you really distill it down, the concept of SIP trunking is just about where the media gateway resides and who owns it.
Webinar on Conferencing / Collaboration Applications
November 2, 2007As part III of our continuing series on building applications based on SIP, I'm hosting a live webinar next week to show how SIP fits into conferencing and collaboration solutions.
Building Applications with SIP - Conferencing / Collaboration Solutions
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 2:00pm ET 11:00am PT
Global organizations utilize conference calls as a very important business tool for collaboration. Multi-branch organizations were the first to recognize the value in voice and video conferencing services to economize on travel costs and to coordinate business activities. Other smaller organizations have also begun to recognize that having access to easy-to-use conferencing resources speeds collaboration efforts with clients and suppliers.
VON Week
October 29, 2007Today marks the first day of VON here in Boston. As always, I'm looking forward to spending the week listening, learning and sharing about our industry.
As I spend most of my time working with companies that build enterprise applications, an area I'm planning on paying particular attention to is SIP Trunking.
The Facebook Paradox
October 11, 2007Back a few months ago, my friend Jeff Pulver introduced me to Facebook and invited me (and about 2,000 others) to create professional profiles on the much-hyped social networking site. Always appreciating something new - I jumped right in with great expectations. You see, I too had gone through the Linked-In process of creating a profile (read resume) on Linked-In, inviting all of my real connections and getting a few references only to be barraged by head hunters and past co-workers looking for jobs. Linked-In was not what I was looking for and thus my hopes for Facebook were pretty high.
Europeans are cool on the idea of Mobile TV?
September 24, 2007I just read an interesting article from Reuters on the level of interest of Europeans and having TV available on their mobile phones. See: TV on cellphone screens? No thanks, say Europeans - Yahoo!
