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So, I guess it’s fair to say “I’m back.”
 
It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged regularly, and I’m glad to be able to readjust the schedule and get back to it.
 
Friday I made mention of the fact that PacWest was in the process of laying a bunch of people off, and while comments to my blog indicate that there is some truth to the matter, I’m still waiting to hear from the folks at PacWest before proceeding any further. I did receive a voicemail from someone there who offered to fill me in on what’s happening.
 
As they say, watch this space.
 
This morning, our friends at Quintum Technologies announced they are partnering with Microsoft to “…deliver unified communications solutions built on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, a robust, flexible, SIP standards-based real-time communication platform that enables presence-based VoIP call management, Web/audio/video conferencing, and instant messaging communication within and across existing software applications, services and devices.”
 
Quintum Tenor gateways and switches are the HW platform of choice at the center of this announcement.
 
This is great news for Quintum. All the years of hard work continue to pay off for the Eatontown, NJ-based company. Congrats!
 
This week also marks the return to some sense of normalcy. The past 30 days has seen me in places as diverse as Abaco in the Bahamas, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and Paris… a bit of fun mixed in with a lot of work-related travel. In a couple of weeks I’m back on the road to San Jose.
 
The main driver for all of this travel was the second annual Triple Play Symposium put on by Netcentrex (now a part of Comverse) and hosted by TMC and Light Reading.
 
The three-city road show was by any measure a success. We had good crowds at both U.S. venues as well as a packed house in France. It was an interesting perspective to have been at all three stops on the tour. I have a newfound sense of the difference between the European and U.S. triple play markets, and for those interested in keeping score… we have a ways to go to catch up Stateside.
 
It’s not really a competition, it’s just that the Europeans (Fastweb in Italy, Lyse in Norway…) have a head start and have already deployed much of the technology on a large scale that we’re just beginning to discuss here.
 
My thanks and congratulations to Brian Mahony and his team for conceiving of and implementing a fantastic event! I was glad to be a part of it.
 
Lots to do.
 
Lots of ground to cover in order to catch up.
 
It’s good to be back.


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