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Acme Packet Acquires IPTEGO

Acme Packet and CounterPath Partner to Give Operators the Solution to the Internet OTT Threat

Acme Packet Announces New Offerings to Accelerate Microsoft Lync Deployments

Acme Packet Enterprise Session Border Controllers Become First Certified To Work With Verizon SIP Trunking Services and Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Acme Packet Named A Leader in Magic Quadrant for Session Border Controllers

Telefónica Germany Deploys Acme Packet for the Next-Generation Signaling Core

Telefónica Digital Deploys Acme Packet to Deliver Multimedia Services for Over-the-Top Cloud Communication

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1. WebRTC: Telecom's Demise or its Saviour? Explore TechWorld (May 15 2013) Service Provider There was once a time when browsing the web meant looking at text and pictures. Today the web is about a full multimedia experience. Your browser can easily act as a television, radio, or gaming device... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Google   Microsoft   Apple

2. NFV Picks Up Speed Explore Light Reading (May 15 2013) Service Provider Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) may become a reality in commercial telecom operator networks sooner than many expected, with the pace of adoption and acceptance taking many from the vendor community by surprise, according to people here in Nice... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Network Function Virtualization

3. WebRTC Stats – Bring our your voice, video and real-time data over the Web Stats Explore Alan Quayle's Blog (May 14 2013) Service Provider 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... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   WebRTC   Dean Bubley

4. Skype Waits for Operators to Woo It Explore Light Reading (May 14 2013) Service Provider 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... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Microsoft   AT&T   Verizon Wireless

5. Living with Lync: Lessons Learned Explore No Jitter (May 12 2013) Enterprise 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... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Microsoft   Session Initiation Protocol   Microsoft Lync

6. Global LTE connections quadruple to 100M in less than a year Explore GigaOM (May 10 2013) Service Provider 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... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   LTE

7. ShoreTel Mobility app and BYOD dock: Not your ordinary desk phone Explore Search Unified Communications (May 8 2013) Enterprise 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... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Unified Communications   Apple   IDC

8. Where is my Telco Cloud? Explore The Packet (May 8 2013) Blog 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...? (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Google   Acme Packet   AT&T

9. Why Enterprises Should Care about VoIP and UC Monitoring Explore Telecom Reseller (May 7 2013) Enterprise 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... (Read Full Article)

   Mentions:   Unified Communications   Acme Packet   Mobile

10. The Benefits of NFV (video) Explore Light Reading (May 7 2013) Service Provider Karl-Heinz Nenner from Deutsche Telekom talks about the operational efficiencies that operators are expecting from network functions virtualization (NFV)... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Network Function Virtualization

11. Is UC's Future in Hybrid Cloud? Explore No Jitter (May 6 2013) Enterprise Cloud was one of the hot topics at Enterprise Connect Orlando last March, and it remained a major issue at last week's UC Summit. But nobody's even suggesting that this means enterprises will be outsourcing all of their communications to the Cloud. The hot concept is not a noun (Cloud), it's a modifier: Hybrid... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Unified Communications   Cloud Communications

12. Why VoIP Security Matters, Part 2 Explore VoIP News (May 3 2013) Enterprise In my last post, I provided some basic context for how security needs become more elevated with VoIP. Legacy telephony is likely what you know best, and I outlined some reasons why security is a minor concern there. Compared to VoIP, the service costs more to use and maintain, but in return you get reliability, quality, scale and yes, security... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Jon Arnold   Voice over IP   Time Division Multiplexing

13. A wakeup call for start-ups: WebRTC video built into the web Explore Boston.com (May 1 2013) Service Provider Just a few months ago Firefox and Chrome started supporting a technology called WebRTC which stands for Real­Time Communications Technology and is responsible for ditching plug-ins for open, interopable, built-in video communications. These are the opportunities WebRTC is creating for innovators... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   WebRTC

14. When You Need High Availability, SIP Trunks Are Better Than TDM Explore The Packet (May 1 2013) Blog Understandably, the attributes of lower cost and greater flexibility are what usually cause telecom engineers to look into SIP trunking services. With the prospect of shaving upwards of 28% off monthly TDM access services while adding access to a slew of valuable services not available on their TDM links, who could blame them? But, there is a third reason to consider moving from TDM to SIP trunking services: High availability. SIP trunking services offer enterprises more reliable access to the PSTN than TDM... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Acme Packet   Public Switched Telephone Network   Session Initiation Protocol

15. WebRTC Infrastructure is Tricky Explore No Jitter (Apr 30 2013) Service Provider If I were in the position of Google today, I'd invest someone for the next 12 months in churning out how-to documents on building that infrastructure... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Google   Session Initiation Protocol   WebRTC

16. Will VoLTE be Open to All? Explore Light Reading (Apr 30 2013) Service Provider One of the big issues with Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) goes beyond pure technology, because making IP voice communications work like today's standard cellphone or landline call will require that operators co-operate... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Sprint   HD Voice   Session Initiation Protocol

17. Do businesses need to pay for VoIP? Explore Computer Weekly (Apr 29 2013) Enterprise Free services offer VoIP to the masses, but are they reliable enough to use in enterprises or do they need pricey unified communications...? (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Cisco Systems   Unified Communications   Google

18. Hybrid Capabilities Crucial for Enterprise UC Cloud Planning Explore No Jitter (Apr 29 2013) Enterprise Plan ahead using a UC&C roadmap; expect a hybrid configuration; and seek a provider who offers a hosted-instance, rather than multi-tenant, approach... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Cisco Systems   Microsoft   Avaya

19. UC-enabled Contact Center Opportunities Explore Unified Communications Strategies (Apr 28 2013) Enterprise UC has opened up many new communications options for enterprises, but one area that has remained relatively untouched is the contact center. Things are changing. The explosion of mobile devices has changed consumer behavior and how they want to interact with companies. The popularity of social media is creating new communications preferences... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Contact Center   Mobile

20. Orange Business Services goes global with UCaaS Explore Network World (Apr 26 2013) Service Provider Orange Business Services has announced the global expansion of "Business Together as a Service" -- a move the company touts as the "market's first Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) offer available for large enterprises on a global scale," according to the company's statement... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Unified Communications

21. The future of unified communications & collaboration looks bright Explore Search Unified Communications (Apr 26 2013) Enterprise Market research firm Ovum recently released a survey sponsored by Dimension Data titled "The Future of Unified Communications & Collaboration." The survey gathered data from over 1,300 businesses across the globe to reveal a renewed interest in unified communications & collaboration... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Unified Communications   Ovum   BYOD

22. What's Trending Now in Enterprise Telecom Explore No Jitter (Apr 23 2013) Enterprise SIP Trunking is making progress, wireless continues to grow as IT throws in the towel against BYOD. What these and other trends will mean for you... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Sprint   Public Switched Telephone Network   Session Initiation Protocol

23. Gauging BYOD acceptance Explore Computerworld (Apr 22 2013) Enterprise The debate about the bring-your-own-device movement (BYOD) has quieted down, mostly because, it seems, while IT has been over in the corner arguing the pros and cons, employees have been streaming into office with their shiny new toys and using them to get work done... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   BYOD

24. Top of CIOs Mind Explore Unified Communications Strategies (Apr 19 2013) Enterprise I recently came across a few articles that hit some of the top issues among CIOs, and was disappointed to see how few were comms related. They were long and intimidating lists with broad scopes including development, big data, and compliance issues. I can list 25 trends impacting the office of the CIO, but why? Instead, let me focus on some key issues within the narrowly defined space of communications and collaboration... (Read Full Article)

    Mentions:   Unified Communications

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