Telco 2.0™, ICT and the Exchange of Everything in the Digital Economy

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.

The Acceleration of Transformation: Massive Network Transformation Changes Everything in 2015

Change or lose. Transform and win. Transformation in the real-time communications software industry is all around us - there is software everywhere, in the network, on the edge, on devices and endpoints, in the applications and embedded in applications. Nothing is standing still, and those who develop a score for transformation will orchestrate value creation while the rest will be doomed to cacophony.

Zen and the Art of Mobile VoIP

At some point in the early 2000s, motorcycles reached a new level of popularity in the US, with motor vehicle departments recording a better than 50% increase in registrations. It’s a pretty safe bet that around that same time legions of automobile executives suffered heart palpitations related to the imagined prospect of future sales lost to this sleek two-wheel alternative capable of traveling tremendous distances on a few gallons of gas.

Five of the Industry’s Best Analysts Share Their Thoughts on GENBAND

Since moving into a marketing and communications role at GENBAND, one of the things I miss most is the unofficial camaraderie shared with fellow analysts.  Though we competed fiercely at times for clients, pithy quotes in media outlets and prime-time exposure at industry events, we did so in a collegial manner, and always in an atmosphere of mutual respect and shared experience.