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    1. WebRTC Stats – Bring our your voice, video and real-time data over the Web Stats

      Explore Alan Quayle's Blog (May 14 2013)

      Arnaud Budkiewicz, CEO and founder of Bistri, has launched WebRTCStats with AddLive, UberConference, Drum, Symonics, Twelephone, Apidaze and Zingaya as a start.  Many of whom demoed at the WebRTC workshop last month.  And the support of Phil Edholm, Tsahi Levent-Levi, myself and Dean Bubley...

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      Mentions:   WebRTC   Dean Bubley

    2. Vodafone launches carrier services division

      Explore Total Telecom (May 14 2013)

      Operator combines wholesale units of its operating companies with Cable & Wireless Worldwide into one global carrier business...

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    3. Comcast, 8x8 Top Hosted VoIP Provider Rankings for North America

      Explore Channel Partners Online (May 14 2013)

      Comcast, 8x8, Verizon and West are the top hosted VoIP providers in North America, according to the North America Business VoIP Service Leadership Scorecard, which is due out next week from Infonetics Research...

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      Mentions:   Sprint   Diane Myers   Infonetics Research

    4. Skype Waits for Operators to Woo It

      Explore Light Reading (May 14 2013)

      Skype wants to work with the telecom industry. It really does. But the voice-over-IP service provider hasn't found the most willing partners in the network operators...

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      Mentions:   Microsoft   AT&T   Verizon Wireless

    5. Did You Remember to Call?

      Explore TMCnet (May 13 2013)

      In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, it seems fitting to take a look at some phone-based facts related to the busiest calling day of the year...

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      Mentions:   Voice over IP

    6. Many Cloud-based Contact Center Vendors Not Yet Ready for WebRTC

      Explore TMCnet (May 13 2013)

      While interest rises in the WebRTC standard and many people write about its potential in social media, there has been more confusion - and a little panic - about what it means for the call center industry...

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      Mentions:   Contact Center   WebRTC

    7. Living with Lync: Lessons Learned

      Explore No Jitter (May 12 2013)

      The top 10 takeaways from Enterprise Connect, from those who have been through the transition. At this year's Enterprise Connect I led the "Living with Lync" session. We assembled an excellent panel of experts who brought lots of experience in living with, and "thriving with", Microsoft Lync. Whether you attended the session or not, examining some of the great lessons from the expert panel is worthwhile...

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      Mentions:   Microsoft   Session Initiation Protocol   Microsoft Lync

    8. What is Collaboration?

      Explore No Jitter (May 12 2013)

      Does UC encourage multitasking? And does multitasking hurt productivity, rather than helping...?

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      Mentions:   Unified Communications

    9. Global LTE connections quadruple to 100M in less than a year

      Explore GigaOM (May 10 2013)

      The U.S., Japan, Korea and Australia are the foci of LTE activity, accounting for 90 million of those subscribers, according to Wireless Intelligence. LTE graphic logo photo: Shutterstock / Inq Back in July, the GSM Association’s research arm Wireless Intelligence recorded only a measly 27 million LTE subscribers worldwide, most of them concentrated in the U.S., Japan and Korea...

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      Mentions:   LTE

    10. Mobiles 'to outnumber people next year', says UN agency

      Explore BBC (May 10 2013)

      There will be more mobile subscriptions than people in the world by the end of next year, according to a UN agency report...

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      Mentions:   Mobile

    11. Skype’s Expands Coverage to Admin Tool for Businesses

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies (May 10 2013)

      Skype Manager, the web-based management tool allowing businesses to centrally run Skype, now covers more than 170 countries. And on top of broadening the geographical base, Skype has also made Skype Manager available to all subscriptions...

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      Mentions:   Gartner   Skype

    12. AT&T Plans 4G Voice Launch This Year

      Explore Light Reading (May 10 2013)

      AT&T's network president promises initial VoLTE market launches with 3G fallback in 2013...

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      Mentions:   AT&T   Verizon Wireless   LTE

    13. AT&T will use small cells to strengthen VoLTE coverage

      Explore Fierce Wireless (May 9 2013)

      AT&T's Project Velocity IP, or VIP, includes the deployment of more than 40,000 small cells and those small cells will be instrumental in delivering a good customer experience, especially when it comes to Voice over LTE, which the operator plans to launch in some markets by year-end...

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      Mentions:   AT&T   Verizon Wireless   LTE

    14. Global LTE connections hit 100 million

      Explore Mobile World Live (May 9 2013)

      The 4G LTE industry has hit 100 million global connections, according to Wireless Intelligence. The research firm today announced that there are 163 LTE networks in operation across 70 countries, with this forecast to rise to over 400 live networks across 120 countries by December 2017...

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      Mentions:   LTE   Mobile

    15. Three Types of Risks Related to VoIP Security

      Explore VoIP News (May 8 2013)

      Over the past two posts I’ve tried to outline the difference between legacy telephony and VoIP in terms of the potential vulnerability around security breaches. From those posts I hope you understand how the underlying technologies are fundamentally different and why today’s security threats apply essentially to VoIP but not TDM...

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      Mentions:   Voice over IP   Time Division Multiplexing

    16. ShoreTel Mobility app and BYOD dock: Not your ordinary desk phone

      Explore Search Unified Communications (May 8 2013)

      ShoreTel has introduced a bring-your-own-device docking station. Users combining it with the ShoreTel Mobility client can transform their iPhones and iPads into desk phones...

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      Mentions:   Unified Communications   Apple   IDC

    17. Verizon's Mead reiterates VoLTE launch for 2014, promises more LTE small cells

      Explore Fierce Wireless (May 8 2013)

      Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead said the carrier will deploy Voice over LTE technology in early 2014, and promised that the carrier will not deliver a poor experience in terms of voice quality when it does so...

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      Mentions:   Microsoft   Verizon Wireless   LTE

    18. Where is my Telco Cloud?

      Explore The Packet (May 8 2013)

      Cloud infrastructures are nothing new. The likes of Google and Amazon have had virtualized, fully elastic infrastructures that run on commodity servers for more than a decade. Commercial technologies for elasticity have been around since VMware introduced DRS in 2004. Why hasn’t the telecom industry incorporated these technologies to produce cloud-based architectures already...?

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      Mentions:   Google   Acme Packet   AT&T

    19. Why Enterprises Should Care about VoIP and UC Monitoring

      Explore Telecom Reseller (May 7 2013)

      We have just started to enter the age of the hyper-connected enterprise. VoIP, unified communications, BYOD, communications-enabled business processes (CEBP) and other new trends are making communications a fundamental business requirement, as well as making networks more complex. Recent studies show that upwards of 69 percent of employees are using smart devices and 43 percent are accessing corporate apps through them...

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      Mentions:   Unified Communications   Acme Packet   Mobile

    20. The Benefits of NFV (video)

      Explore Light Reading (May 7 2013)

      Karl-Heinz Nenner from Deutsche Telekom talks about the operational efficiencies that operators are expecting from network functions virtualization (NFV)...

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      Mentions:   Network Function Virtualization