Geddes: The Sensible vs Stupid Network

Pal Martin Geddes, one of the better, brighter and more forward thinking people in telecom today, authored a missive to his newsletter followers entitled "Rise of the Sensible Network" last week. It's an updated and padoxical viewpoint on the famed report by David Isenberg entitled “The Rise of the Stupid Network” that is often considered as the … Read more

Moves and Grooves …Changes At Openwave, Additions at Broadsoft

Former client and CEO at Bridgeport Networks, now a part of client CounterPath, Mike Mulica, has joined OpenWave as CEO.  Mulica is known best as a sales guy. My gut says he's there to sell the Openwave business as a whole or to sell of some of their patent portfolio. Broadsoft, in a move to strengthen … Read more

XConnect’s Cloud Solves Transcoding for HD Voice

One of the biggest issues I've seen over the years with voice services is codec mismatches. Not only do they impact how things sound, often times with conference calls they just make the calls sound odd and magnified by the effects of landline, VoIP lines and mobile networks not all speaking the same way to … Read more

Mobile Networks Are Just That

Image via Wikipedia Telappliant has a rather obvious poke at the misunderstanding of the way the mobile world of communications is going. It's no longer about voice. It's about IP based traffic and you don't need to be a genius to figure that out. What that means with the looming worldwide arrival of LTE is … Read more