TDM Replacement: Skip the Network, Embrace the Cloud
There was an interesting article yesterday in Light Reading about a new TDM to VoIP migration solution from a next gen voice vendor. It features financing, new equipment purchases and decade-long...
View ArticleNext Generation Voice Platform – Leaping From Network to Cloud
This week I am headed to a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) focused event called the Software Telco Congress. I’ll be speaking on Thursday about real time communications and how the future network...
View ArticleSaaS – Freedom from Product Release Tyranny
I absolutely love this new article by Geoffrey Moore on the power of software as a service (SaaS) business model. In SaaS’s Real Triumph he states: “by far the greatest contribution of SaaS is to free...
View ArticleDelicate Balance: Voice Without The Investment
Service providers have a high-wire act to pull off: they must balance the need to have voice services in their portfolios along with the mandate to reduce spending on that very network. Telcos and...
View ArticleNFV Is Necessary but Not Sufficient
Light Reading’s Sarah Reedy posted a thoughtful article on NFV (Will NFV Save CapEx, OpEx, or None of the Above?) and its (empty?) promise. We see NFV as necessary (we are using that in our cloud voice...
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Cloud Voice Platform: NFV From A Single Vendor
The operational and support challenges of building and running a multi-vendor VoIP network were highlighted by Verizon’s Kyle Malady, SVP of global network operations at a recent conference (see Light...
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Hosted NFV Means Voice NaaS
Tom Nolle of CIMI Corp wrote another thoughtful piece on NFV this week Is NaaS a Good Conceptual Framework for SDN and NFV? He introduces a concept termed Network as a Service (NaaS). You can refer to...
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The NFV and Software Telco Movement
The NFV hype is omnipresent. Last month I had the opportunity of presenting at the Software Telco Congress show in Las Vegas held at the Rio. The show is a semi-annual opportunity for the movers and...
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Next Gen Voice – CAPEX vs SaaS
Last week Dell’Oro Group reported on the telecom CAPEX stating that “telecom operators around the world invested heavily in their fiber and LTE networks in 1H14 as the transformation from voice-centric...
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IMS from the Cloud
Infonetics Research hosted a webinar earlier last week entitled Migrating to IMS in the Cloud with NFV. That’s three of my favorite topics right there: IMS, cloud and NFV. IMS NFV can be consumed in...
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