In what had to be one of the more quiet market entries, I just learned that SAP has officially entered the telco billing sweepstakes with SAP/Telco. My guess is they are going to be doing more than just billing and seeking a greater role in the BSS/OSS... Read more »
Quest Foglight NMS Offers Market's Only Complete Network Monitoring Tool for …
Quest Foglight NMS Gives Marketplace's Only Total Network Monitoring Tool for … ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Mar 21, 2012 (Company WIRE) — Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSFT) right now announced that the firm's Foglight® Network Management Method (NMS) now characteristics help for Avaya Voice more than Web Protocol (VoIP) systems. Read far more on MarketWatch (press release) [...] Read more »
VoIP, IMS equipment market down 2.1% in 2011
VoIP, IMS gear marketplace down two.1% in 2011 The carrier VoIP and IMS equipment market place surged in the final quarter of 2011, as it usually does at the end of the year, according to a report by Infonetics Investigation. Nevertheless, on a year-over-year comparison, the market is down 2 percent in 2011 from … [...] Read more »
Skype is Out of Business
Over the last few months, and actually as far back as last year the signs that Skype was getting out of the business market were painfully obvious to many of us long time Skypewatchers. Fist was the discontinuation of Skype for Asterisk. Then was the abrupt departure of David Gurle who had been hired to build out a unified communication business around the P2P technology. There was then the awkwardly handled and recent departures of Christopher Dean, Jason Fischl, Jonathan Christensen and now business markets business development pro Perry Teevens who let the community know he left this week with... Read more »
Video Conferencing Is Heating Up, The Established Will Be Challenged
Image via CrunchBase Just as we're seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there's also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I'm a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white glove video conferncing services, operating exchanges or hosting bridging services. Yesterday pal Larry Lisser, who is known in the telecom industry as the person to go to to revive sales, penned a post supportive of disruptive Silicon Valley startup, Vidtel (a Comunicano client) who are... Read more »
Latest Skype Videophone News
Skype For Windows Is Coming Soon We still can't get more than the irony: Although Microsoft now owns Skype, the video calling service is nonetheless not readily available on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. Microsoft has promised Skype will be available someday to Windows Telephone users, … Read much more on Hot Hardware Game on: Samsung's [...] Read more »
Fonality Names New CEO
I just learned that Fonality, a company that has been very silent and off the radar for months has named a new CEO. He David Scult and came from Microsoft, where he served as GM, of Office 365, Microsoft's cloud implementation of it's market leading productivity suite. Fonality seems to be taking a page out of so many other telcos and making a claim to embrace the cloud, much like client Telesphere which really has with their approach to overall cloud based unified communications. Read more »
I’ll See You In the Car
Motor Authority is reporting that OnStar will be introducing in car video chat for the back seat of automobiles at CES. While no carrier was mentioned hopefully the concept is a webcam and a 4G LTE modem so the back seat passengers can choose whichever video calling solution, however given that the carrier is Verizon Wireless, my money is on Skype (clearly not Google these days with VZW due to the Wallet tiff). A big market for this will be the limousine and town car market. It will also give the reality shows a simple way to get user generated... Read more »
VoIP Grows, Wireline Loses
Network World is reporting that the wireline customer base in the USA is shrinking while VoIP service is increasing, but there view is that VoIP has peaked and that cord cutting, with more and more customers moving to wireless is the trend. Not much new in that thinking except for one key factor. E911. Until E911 on mobile functions exactly like it does on a wireline, the large scale defection won't really occur. Their second observation I agree with. It's the market that's opening widely in the business and enterprise market. It's one of the core reasons why Comcast purchased/acquired/bailed... Read more »
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