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by Gary Audin

Products and solutions should be designed to future-proof service provider’s networks for higher scalability, traffic engineering, and increased security. An MEF CE2.0 compliant, end-to-end solution should fit any site requirement and any deployment scenario – single or multi-business, fixed or modular, outdoor or indoor deployment. This includes E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, E-Access, TDM convergence, single or multi-vendor networks while supporting a wide range of capacity options. The solutions should deliver carrier-grade equipment, providing protection mechanisms to ensure a high level of service availability, and advanced OAM and HQoS. Carriers need to focus on providing their revenue generating services, rather than just managing their devices, and provide complete simplified mechanisms to manage, maintain, and optimize the entire service lifecycle.

Ariel Efrati, CEO of Telco Systems www.telco.com and Gary Audin discuss core network technologies in this podcast recorded at the MEF 16 conference. Ariel covers the influence of virtualization and software driven products that can be hardware independent. The discussion continues with coverage of MEF Certification and the interoperability issues across multiple networks that are involved in servicing end users.

Telco Systems www.telco.com offers a portfolio of best-in-class products and solutions. Among the first vendors to receive the Metro Ethernet Forum’s Carrier Ethernet (CE) 2.0 certification, Telco Systems’ CE 2.0-compliant, end-to-end Ethernet product portfolio delivers a significant boost to large, medium, and small service providers, as well as utilities and city carriers competing in a rapidly evolving telecommunications environment. They are experts in guiding service providers toward the advantages of CE 2.0 while they preserve and enlarge their customer base with continuously improving quality of service without service interruption.

by Gary Audin

Operators need the ability to transform their current service delivery processes by connecting the cloud and physical resources with business management processes and systems.

There are pain points for catalog-centric quote-to-order-to-install solutions enabling digital multichannel business, operational and technology transformation. As CSPs move to advanced digital pricing and service plans, they need to ensure the customer-facing lead-to-quote-to-order stack. This can be combined with aligned central catalog management and service fulfillment.

Steve Hateley Sr. Director, Industry and Partner Marketing, Service Orchestration for Comptel www.comptel.com and Gary Audin discuss the issues, pain points, and solutions that service providers need to deal with in their daily operations in this podcast recorded at the MEF 16 conference. Steve also covers The Third Network, Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), and service fulfillment, all issues facing operators. Steve discusses FlowOne that delivers carrier-class catalog-driven service order orchestration and fulfillment. Comptel's strength is to support a federated inventory, provisioning/activation, and order fulfillment value chain, with the catalog at the center of its architecture.

You may want to download their eBook “Operation Nexterday” http://www.comptel.com/news-and-events/the-book-operation-nexterday. NEXTERDAY is their phrase for their own transformation project that helps them stay competitive. Once you have read it, you will have a clear vision of how to implement your own “Nexterday”. You will have a path for conducting a successful post-digital business with Generation Cloud.

Comptel www.comptel.com has 300+ customer organizations serving more than 1.2 billion end users. This support covers 90 countries. Some of the customers include 50+ large integrators and IT service providers. Comptel has the staff and resources to support 1400 major delivery projects. Their single biggest deployment included 250 million end-users. The largest machine-to-machine project included capturing and processing the smart meter data from 28 million households and 2 million small businesses.

by Gary Audin

Communicating and collaborating over distance have become the norm for the way we work today. When it comes to conference rooms, the quality of our communications experience begins with the devices we use, including the conference phone. Everything from room sizes and design materials to the number of participants and seating arrangements can affect how well we can hear and understand what is being said. One size does not fit all.

Denise Iverson, industry expert representing Revolabs www.revolabs.com and Gary Audin discuss the technical challenges and solutions for ensuring a high quality conference experience in this EDUcast. Denise provides a good tutorial on the factors influencing speech transmission from voice capture at the near end to voice reproduction at the far end. She covers the methods for reducing noise and sound reverberation, the effects of compensating for distance on voice pickup and reproduction, and best practices for speech intelligibility.

You will learn:

Why one size of audio product doesn’t fit all rooms.

Why the biggest/highest specification is not always the best.

What you should look for:

From audio pick up

From audio playback

From audio processing

And when you have all that right, what else can you do?

Revolabs www.revolabs.com delivers professional microphone systems and conference phones for telephony and unified communications. The company’s introduction of wireless microphones for conferencing revolutionized business communications by allowing unprecedented freedom in meetings. Revolabs’ ability to produce superior sound in large, complex spaces delivers a full portfolio of conferencing solutions that enable the most reliable and natural conversation in every meeting space. With a full range of choices - installed or plug-and-play systems, wireless or wired solutions, and local or remote management  capabilities - Revolabs offers the most flexible and uniform set of solutions to accommodate the needs of the entire business.

Many Telecom Reseller readers from the IT end user community are characteristically do it yourselfers. That is natural. Most people who go into technology, especially as a manager, began as tactile enthusiasts, creating their own technology and learning much of their craft in the field, and not in a class room. But as network challenges mount, well-meaning “homemade solutions” can not only fall short, but they don’t gain from hard won experience of similar challenges people have experienced in other but similar networks. In this podcast Patrick Herron of Nitel discusses how his company is solving end user challenges by providing a flexible set of services, when and where it makes sense to turn to a third party for help. Herron also tells us about their partner program.

Visit www.nitel.com

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In a market with many look-a-like offerings and services, RingByName strives to differentiate itself by offering fresh services and a number of small and large touches to enhance the experience. On the feature front, RingByName introduces a number of CRM like features, once restricted to call centers, to become a part of a company’s new communications system. But at the same time, RingByName strives to be a low impact migration by being able to work with existing SIP enabled end points. The idea is to offer a customer a real upgrade instead of a lateral migration, but with savings. In this podcast Matt Bramson Of RingByName walks us through the development of the RingByName brand, the division’s DNA in a larger organization that offers a wide range of services including SIP Trunking, and other cloud and carrier level services.

Visit www.ringbyname.com

Jason Hardy-Smith, VP of Marketing at Isomorphic Software, discusses the use of their software by enterprise and carriers to capture Big Data statistics that will enable businesses to run better and carriers to identify trouble spots, improve QoS and more to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News from Telecom Reseller.

The data is there, but one needs to access it correctly so that it provides meaning to the Business or to the carrier.  Isomorphic provides tools that allow easy creation of applications that will provide a window into Big Data which will allow the user to see the actual intensity of what is happening whether business or carrier related. These applications are device independent making it easy for the user to access the information wherever he/she may be located.

Isomorphic Software is the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications. They develop, market, and support the SmartClient & Smart GWT HTML5/Ajax platform, combining the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software with the simplicity and reach of the open web.

Reify is a cloud-based development tool which allows designers, product managers and developers - each with an interface that meets their needs and competencies - to collaboratively design and build powerful enterprise web applications, without rework or miscommunication.

With staff in 10 timezones, Isomorphic provides a global network of services related to their technology, with offerings ranging from turnkey application development to SLA-backed enterprise support.

Leading global enterprises use Isomorphic technology to reduce costs and improve productivity, developing & deploying sophisticated business applications with unprecedented ease and simplicity.

Lex Boost, CEO of LeaseWeb USA, debates with Telecom Reseller’s Doug Green the “lease vs. buy” technology decision facing SMBs. The two discussed the hidden costs and hassles of owning equipment, potential security concerns, as well as what sets LeaseWeb apart from the competition.

LeaseWeb serves a worldwide portfolio of 17,500 customers ranging from SMBs to Enterprises. Their services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, and Dedicated Hosting. The company operates 17 data centers in locations across Europe, Asia and North America, all of which are backed by a superior worldwide network with a total capacity of more than 5.5 Tbps. For more information, visit www.leaseweb.com.

Small-mid enterprises are just as likely as Fortune-500 companies to fall victim to cyber attacks. Yet they lack the resources and technical expertise required to defend against them. Enter NetWatcher, a security-as-a-service platform designed specifically for companies with 1,000 employees or less, built from the ground up to be very easy to install, easy to use, accurate and affordable, just what this market needs.

Doug Green, Publisher of Telecom Reseller, speaks with Scott Suhy, CEO, about the cyber security needs of small-mid enterprises and how NetWatcher is uniquely suited to address them.

Visit https://netwatcher.com to learn more.

by Gary Audin

What happens if the two service providers you selected have different cable paths but only a few apart like on the I 95 corridor? You may have network redundancy, but this is not a truly diverse network. Did you know that 25% of network failures are attributed to the service provider? Network diversity allows you to operate while another path is being repaired. This is much faster than waiting for the failed provider to fix the outage problem.

Christopher Lodge, President and COO of United Fiber & Data www.ufd.com and Gary Audin investigate the benefits, values, and solutions regarding network failures and how to mitigate them. He discusses the causes of network outages including the disastrous CSX tunnel fire. He explains the cost implications that can occur with a network failure.

What you will learn:

Network Survival Goals

Redundancy and Diversity Defined

Urban Network Problems

Regional Network Problems

Dark vs. Lite Fiber

Network Failures and Impact

Economics of Diversity

Founded in May 2011, the executive team of United Fiber & Data (“UFD”) www.ufd.com has built Liberty Lantern-1, an operational 30-mile metro ring to service enterprise clients in lower Manhattan by connecting into the largest carrier hotels in the city. UFD has also secured the licenses and right-of-ways needed to build, Atlantic Lantern-1 and Atlantic Lantern-2, a purpose-built 400-mile rural pathway between Manhattan and the largest Internet switch in the country, Ashburn, VA. The pathway traverses and intersects with second and third tier cities lacking broadband connectivity while serving as the only purpose-built alternative pathway to directly link the financial epicenter of Wall Street and the data centric community of Ashburn.

The IoT is possibly among the most important advances in technology in the last fifty years, promising to improve productivity, living standards and the quality of life. However, as with most human advances, there is an exploitable underbelly that must be protected if the gains are not to be overwhelmed by mischief and outright criminality. In this podcast, Thomas Pore, the IT and Services Director for Plixer, outlines emerging IoT DDoS threats, the vulnerabilities of ISPs, enterprises and various other organizations and discusses measures that IT managers and other players can adopt. We also learn how Plixer is helping their customers through these challenges.

Visit www.plixer.com

 

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