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The rise of video calls and video call monitoring

March 27, 2018


Video calling is becoming more prevalent.  Obviously, smartphones have played a huge role here.  There are analyst reports regarding millennials increasing their usage of video calls.  WhatsApp allows video calls, and as of May 2017 subscribers were making 55 million video calls per day. 

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The Rise (Again, and again, and again) of Edge Computing

March 20, 2018



Where computing power resides is like a sin wave.  Just ebbs and flows from being centralized to being on the edge.  When I first started work, we all programmed with mainframes from a dumb terminal.  Computing resources were in the mainframe. 

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Where your UC solution should be is not the same for every business

March 12, 2018




There are quite a few debates about where a business Unified Communication solution should physically be located.  Should it be customer premise equipment (CPE) or should it be in the cloud? 


But what is right for your neighbor might not necessarily be right for you. 

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Back from Hiatus and what Went on at MWC - The 5G and AI Hype Game

March 6, 2018

 

After a short blog hiatus, I am back in the blogging saddle.   The integration of Dialogic CCD into Sangoma has been my focus these past 6 or so weeks.   Last week I went to MWC and that spurred me to go back to weekly blogging as I saw a lot there – some interesting, some not so interesting.

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