Developers pride themselves in being able to make magic happen using everything from Open Source with its games engines and web frameworks, to full blown APIs and SDKS. From basic capabilities to rich enablers, whether they are found on GitHub open source or GitHub's commercial developer domain, or shared in small social circles of developers - it's really fun to "crack the code." 

The business model of Communication Service Providers (CSP), traditionally known as telcos, is under attack on multiple fronts. For decades, the telco business model has been one-sided: telcos provide services to consumers in a completely unidirectional paradigm where they define the offering and consumers can take it or try and find another one-sided competing offer.

MWC is probably the largest and most important mobile conference in the industry and I can’t tell you how excited I am to get what is going to be an awesome week under way. We have a great show planned with tons of customer and partner meetings and briefings with media and analysts from all over the world. We also have some strategic customer announcements planned - so stay tuned.

I’m really looking forward to my presentation at IBM Connect this week. The conference is the perfect venue to share with the IBM ecosystem family some of the innovative real-time communications solutions that GENBAND is bringing to market. My presentation, Embedded Technology and Collaboration, takes place at 3:30 pm on February 1. 

Today GENBAND announced with SAP solutions for "getting work done" which have been developed by SAP, and now enhanced with GENBAND's Kandy platform-as-a-service real-time communications features. 

Last week in NYC, over a hundred entrepreneurs, developers, Fortune 500 company CIOs, artists, technologists and innovators walked the "pink carpet" and "tunnel of pink" to enter the future that is being created by the Kandy.io ecosystem. 

When I joined GENBAND nearly two years ago, one of the things I really wanted to do was tell the world about the innovation that was happening within the company. Working closely with CEO David Walsh and the rest of the leadership team we came up with the idea of leveraging GENBAND’s carrier-class technology to introduce something that no one in the marketplace could match.

Over the past half-decade we’ve finally started to make some real progress simplifying deployment of Unified Communications (UC) and Collaboration.  First virtualization and now Cloud technologies have abstracted away much of the complexity of UC server deployments.  In the case of the Cloud, the burden has been shifted to third parties that focus on these tools so every organization is not forced to employ UC experts.

Spring finally sprung in London last week with sunny days and temperatures in the 20s (70s).  It almost seems a shame to ask sun-starved Londoners to head indoors this week for one of the year’s biggest unified communications (UC) events, UC EXPO.  On the plus side, the good weather should ensure a busy event.  GENBAND will be showing off our UC and WebRTC solutions and will be supporting our newest