Recent Blog Posts

Is India on your roadmap at all?

Mon, 2008-12-08 09:25 — JR

If you are a softswitch maker, you should be headed towards India right now. The carriers in India are expected to deploy softswitch equipment worth half a billion US dollars over the next five years. Here is a link to...

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Microsoft shelving its SDP

Mon, 2008-12-08 07:40 — JR

According to this report on Telephony Online, Microsoft has shelved its SDP. My initial thoughts are that this is due to the resistance to SDP approach by carriers that have been pursuing IMS and IMS-like blueprints. IMS has its own...

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Interview with Matt Phillips, CEO, SinglePipe Communications

Sun, 2008-12-07 18:03 — JR

We have seen companies like Level 3 trying to offer wholesale PBX. It did not really take off. What are the niches you have identified for your wholesale PBX offering? We mostly serve small cable operators. Platform providers like Broadsoft...

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Agito has hired a new CEO

Tue, 2008-11-25 08:06 — JR

Enterprise FMC vendor, Agito, has hired Amit Chawla as new CEO. Amit was previously with Veraz. I am not sure if he co-founded ipVerse, one of the original constituent elements in Veraz, but he was certainly the person that orchestrated...

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Amino Tilgin deal

Mon, 2008-11-24 14:05 — JR

I would have expected Amino to be more interested in the VoIP products of Tilgin rather than the IP STB. It makes sense for Amino to diversify into VoIP in the residential gateway kind of sense. Tilgin's STB has a...

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Nimbuzz is the first VoIP startup to make money from existing social networks

Wed, 2008-11-12 15:12 — JR

All the VoIP and IM apps developed for social networks have been freebies so far. I think Nimbuzz is the first one that will be making money out of such an arrangement. The mobile VoIP startup had teamed with StudiVZ,...

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Breaking the 40 day silence

Mon, 2008-11-10 18:14 — JR

Breaking the silence of 40 long days today, a silence protesting the ugly 8 long years of telcom recession. That is one reason. The other reason is that I have been working on some custom research projects while you guys...

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Interview with Konstantin Guericke, CEO, Jaxtr

Tue, 2008-09-30 11:04 — JR

What is Jaxtr all about? Our mission at Jaxtr is to enable new conversations by letting people link their phones to the web. So the value you bring in is the integration of PSTN and web. What happens when people...

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IPTV equipment generated $229 million in 2Q08

Tue, 2008-09-30 10:53 — JR

IPTV equipment sales in 2Q08 reached $229 million. The equipment sales tracked by iLocus include those of IPTV specific STB, Middleware, VoD, Encoder, and Security products. IP STB formed majority of the sales generated. IP STB sales touched $146.8 million,...

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Voice 2.0 Summit

Tue, 2008-09-30 11:58 — JR

There is currently no forum out there that promotes partnerships among the three main parties in Voice 2.0: the operators, developers, and platform providers. While events like eComm have focussed on direct-to-consumer offerings, other event organisers have paid little attention...

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