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The network and telecom teams work in the same company, and typically in the same IT department, and may even share senior management. But it’s no secret that even decades into the marriage of voice and data, the people in charge of a company’s voice and call services might end up working at cross purposes with the people in charge of the company’s network. Conflicting goals can actually lead to strange situations where success for one team can occur at virtually causing failure for the other. In this podcast, Tim Titus of PathSolutions discusses the nature of this challenge and how to get the UC and network teams to work together.

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Rick Conklin, Vice President of Development with Dispersive Networks, discusses security panel topic of Carrier Network Virtualization conference with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News from Telecom Reseller.

Dispersive Networks provides a virtual network topology on top of legacy infrastructure and software dramatically improving speed and reliability. Protocols were written to be trusting and cooperative. With the addition of the internet, the private network becomes exposed to the public network creating problems for the trusted cooperative environment originally planned. Now with the addition of the Internet of Things, more vulnerabilities exist for these networks.

Learn how:

Dispersive™ Connectenables out-of-office users to communicate with each other and with a Dispersive™ Edge network to access an enterprise’s network services, including cloud applications.

Dispersive™ Critical Infrastructure Software-Defined Network delivers security, reliability and resiliency for critical infrastructure data communications over the Internet.

Dispersive™ Edge is a software-only product line that provides site-to-site communications and site-to-cloud communications. It also allows Dispersive™ Connect users to access network services.

Dispersive Technologies was formed as a Georgia corporation in 2010. Today, they provide software-defined solutions that virtualize routing and data storage for IP-based networks. These solutions manage connectivity that avoids congestion and thwarts cyberattacks. This empowers organizations to leverage the economics of the Internet, cloud-based services, and commodity hardware.

Their technology helps enterprises move data faster, more securely and more reliably.

This enables them to reduce cost structures, streamline and secure operations, and perform more efficiently.

Their officers and directors hail from various fields: media, finance, telecom and government. However, they share the same goal: maximize the incredible power and potential of the Internet.

Eric Carmẻs, Founder and CEO of 6WIND, discusses 6WIND the product set which includes:

6WINDGate™: Complete Accelerated Layer 2-4 Networking Stacks

Speed Series: Turbo IPsec, Turbo Router, Virtual Accelerator

Solutions: Network Security, Network Appliance, TPC, Data Center, NFV

to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News from Telecom Reseller.

Carriers, MSP, OEMs and large enterprise will want to check out this transitional technology that will work with your solution on bare metal and when you are ready to move to the cloud, the same software can be moved into the virtualized world. Thus, you can use the technology on one server, which will have excess capacity due to the acceleration or you can scale quickly to multiple servers using the same software.

Eric provides insight into network security and reviews the accelerated technology their company offers.

6WIND’s commercial software solves performance challenges for network vendors in telecom, enterprise and cloud infrastructure markets. The company’s 6WINDGate™ packet processing software is optimized for cost-effective hardware running Linux with a choice of multicore processors to deliver a wide variety of networking and security protocols and features. Based on 6WINDGate™, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™ provides accelerated virtual networking infrastructure and 6WIND Turbo Router™ and 6WIND Turbo IPsec™ are software appliances for bare metal or virtual machine environments. By solving critical data plane performance challenges on multicore architectures, 6WIND delivers a cost-effective value proposition, enabling the transition to the future with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). 6WIND is based near Paris, France with regional offices in China, South Korea and the United States.

For more information, visit  http://www.6wind.com

For a market that has had millions of dollars poured into it, the market is still struggling and experiencing growth well below expectations. Dr. Milton Chen, CEO at VSEE and one of the Organizers of the conference, explains to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News by Telecom Reseller and Telemedicine Update, how the technology improves the quality of care to the patient. Telehealth does not eliminate the doctor patient experience – it enhances it.  The patient does not need to go to the doctor every time they have an issue.  A video call may suffice in 50% to 75% of the cases.  The patient would still see the doctor via a laptop or browser video feed.

The patient is still able to see the doctor when absolutely needed.

This takes a page out of the Dr. Deming zero defect philosophy.  While defects will exist and illness occurs, the earlier in the process they are discovered:

Reduces cost

Reduces downtime

Improves quality of life

Saves lives

These are some of the goals of Telemedicine and indeed some companies and technology accomplish these goals. But how do we get society to accept this style of medical practice and how do companies make money delivering this service?

These are some of the answers attendees will obtain from this highly regarded Telehealth conference.

For more information go to:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telehealth-failures-secrets-to-success-conference-registration-28266770672

https://vsee.com/telehealth-failures-conference/

Kevin Ryder, Chief Marketing Officer of IR, discusses their latest customer survey which revealed some interesting results about the implementation of UC technology with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News from Telecom Reseller.

Kevin provides the concept of the survey - the role of UC in the digital transformation of business organizations. And then addresses the following questions:

Current meetings are unproductive to the point of wasting 50% of the time per participant. How can that be changed?

In a multi-vendor world, how is the testing integrated to include all of the vendors to achieve a complete solution?

Tools are always important in communications. Monitoring the network to identify trouble spots and maintain high quality is imperative.  How does IR fit in to the picture?

Better technology testing as well as planning for the installation seems to be the answer with the organizations complete commitment to the solution.

About IR

IR is the corporate brand name of Integrated Research Limited (ASX:IRI), a leading global provider of proactive performance management software for critical IT infrastructure, payments and communications ecosystems.

More than 1,000 organizations in over 60 countries—including some of the world’s largest banks, airlines and telecommunications companies rely on IR Prognosis to provide business critical insights and ensure continuity-critical systems deliver high availability and performance for millions of their customers across the globe.

Every second millions of critical systems and networks keep the world ticking. And every second, thousands of teams work tirelessly to maintain order but the threat of a problem is never far away. IR makes sure these systems run at their best and predict vulnerabilities before they arise.

Their vision is to make the world a smarter, easier place to live and work, where people and technology interact in a frictionless way.

Their mission is to create innovative technology that optimizes operations, predicts business disruption and automates the steps to improve the experience of every interaction.

- See more at: http://www.ir.com

by Gary Audin

You and your customers have encountered many Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). You may even use one. What if you could add new revenue and profit and/or retain your present customers by adding value to your existing services? You don’t have to be big to be successful, but you do need to pursue the vertical markets that you already know and solve the pain points for your customers.

Nick Medina, VP of Business Development for VoIP Innovations www.voipinnovations.com and Gary Audin recorded this EDUcast for those who are interested in starting an ITSP service. Nick discusses three ways to enter the business. He goes on to provide three important steps to accomplishing the goal of becoming an ITSP. He discusses the revenue and profit as well as offering advice on how to be competitive.

What you will learn in this EDUcast includes:

Understanding Telephony

Entering the ITSP Business

Deciding on Your Business Model

Choosing Your Equipment and Vendors

Marketing and Selling

Generating Revenue and Profit

Becoming a Successful Competitor

VoIP Innovations www.voipinnovations.com is a key player in the VoIP industry. The provisioning, support, and billing teams developed at VoIP Innovations bring over 20 years of telecommunications experience to the table. The key to their success using technology that provides choice, automation, and control to their customers. This is delivered through their BackOffice platform, Titanium III. VoIP Innovations provides Wholesale VoIP origination and termination services, as well as thousands of DIDs and E911 connections. They are committed to delivering the best quality of service and the lowest possible price and no one else in the industry does it better.

by Gary Audin

Customers want service providers to transition to web-scale operations, because it offers control for on-demand services such as service creation and activation. To deliver the on-demand services, hardware/software vendors of network devices have to integrate with service orchestration, authentication, delivery, and billing systems through automated processes.

Kurt Raaflaub, Head of Strategic Solutions Marketing at Adtran www.adtran.com and Darren Pralle, Sr. Manager, Product Management at Spirent www.spirent.com recorded this podcast at the MEF conference. They discuss their joint Proof of Concept demonstration at the MEF conference. This demonstration showed automation of the on-boarding process for 10G services. Customers are able to activate new or updated services within minutes. Newly provisioned services can be verified automatically by the network. Issues can be isolated to improve the quality of experience for the end-user, as well as ensuring SLAs are satisfied.

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ADTRAN.com.

About Spirent Communications plc

Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT) is a leading global provider of verification, assessment, analytics, and device intelligence solutions. We enable those who deliver networks, connected devices, and communication services to provide a superior user experience. From service provider networks and enterprise data centers to mobile communications and connected vehicles, Spirent works with leading innovators to help the world communicate and collaborate faster, better, and more securely. For more information visit: http://www.spirent.com/About-Us/News_Room

by Gary Audin

Service providers are migrating to multi-vendor networks so they can deliver the capacity required for a projected 1,000-times increase in data volumes by 2020 while supporting an excellent user experience. There are two common factors in planned networks – greater variety and complexity, and a greater number of sites. There is an increasing demand for vendor-independent solutions, especially for BSS, OSS, and network management software and services. Delivering a great customer experience requires more than just raw capacity. It requires streamlining, ordering, billing, and fulfillment with fast acting solutions. This embodied in the Third Network approach.

Dr. Gabriel Kerner, VP, and Head of Product Management OSS at AMDOCS www.amdocs.com recorded this podcast at the MEF 16 conference. He discusses the development of software solutions and services for the provider back office. He explores the post sales efforts by providers and contrasts today’s environment with the methods in the past. He explains why monetization is no longer straight forward and how providers have to contend with the market changes.

To help understand the Third Network concept, read “An Industry Initiative for Third Generation Network and Services” https://www.mef.net/Assets/White_Papers/Industry_Initiative_Third_Generation_Network_White_Paper.pdf.

Amdocs www.amdocs.com is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world’s largest communications, entertainment, and media service providers. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control, optimization, and network functions virtualization, coupled with professional and managed services. This has accelerated business value for its customers by simplifying business complexity, reducing costs, and delivering a world-class customer experience.

Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2015.

by Gary Audin

Static WANs are dependent on single-purpose, physical devices, and fixed circuits. They require truck rolls to setup, upgrade, and maintain them. Enterprise demands have increased, IoT, and data center connectivity and services also increased. The volume of equipment and the manual processes required to conduct moves, adds, and changes for static WANs make them complex and expensive for both service providers and their customers.

SD-WAN promises to reduce CAPEX and OPEX associated with private, static MPLS networks delivered over remote special purpose hardware. By employing centralized, programmable software and commodity hardware, SD-WAN enables service providers to provision and assure services from the cloud, eliminating truck rolls and accelerating agility.

Chris Purdy, CTO for CENX www.cenx.com and Gary Audin recorded this podcast at the MEF 16 conference. Chris discusses the dramatic shift from static to virtualized networks. He covers SLAs and the assurance that they are clearly delivered. He points out that there is an evolution into customer self-service portals. Chris addresses the service management market, its reach, and the sophistication of its service information model, algorithms, and single pane of glass view.

CENX www.cenx.com transforms network big data into real-time actionable intelligence. They accelerate end-to-end operations by harnessing dynamic analytics and web-scale computing to visualize, manage, and assure data services across multi-vendor, SDN, and NFV networks. Their software solutions are deployed by the largest, most innovative service providers worldwide. For mobile, wireline, and cloud data center service providers, a comprehensive service assurance solution is essential to deliver advanced data services with high Quality of Experience (QoE) across complex, multi-vendor infrastructures. CENX, a next-gen software company, turns vast amounts of network big data into actionable intelligence. The intelligence enables service providers to dramatically reduce the time needed to operate and troubleshoot their networks, and supports the transition to virtualized (NFV) and software-defined networks (SDN).

by Gary Audin

Wouldn’t you like a blueprint for digital business success? The blueprint should contain toolkits, best practices, guides, and reports. These should empower companies across multiple industries with actionable information to help then compete in the digital economy.

Kenneth Dilbeck, VP Collaboration R&D for the TM Forum www.tmforum.org and Gary Audin recorded this podcast at the MEF 16 conference. Ken discusses what the TM Forum offers to its members for them to succeed in digital business. The TM forum website www.tmforum.org has a wealth of information written by subject matter experts that applies to service providers, utilities, and the financial industry.

TM Forum is the global industry association for digital business, connecting talented individuals, leading companies, and diverse ecosystems to accelerate our members’ successful digital business transformation. The collective experience and interests of their member community is comprised of tens-of-thousands of professionals within 900+ market-leading global enterprises, service providers, and technology suppliers that together account for trillions of dollars in annual revenues. Thought provoking research and publications, practical guidance, collaboration programs, tools and best practices, hands-on events, and training for business and IT leaders are available.

Through three key programs – Agile Business and IT, Open Digital Ecosystem, and Customer Centricity – they provide an open platform for members to connect and collaborate with individuals and groups from around the world to solve key challenges and rapidly innovate to deliver and monetize new services, improve business agility, partner for success, reduce cost and risk, and enhance customer value and loyalty. Join their digital journey as a valued member and collaborator, visit www.tmforum.org.