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Telecommunications Systems (TCS) recently became a part of COMTECH Telecommunications and has provided carriers with e911 services for almost 20 years. In this podcast Megan Stapleton, Director of Product Management in the Safety and Security Technologies Division of COMTECH explains how they support the public safety needs of wireless carriers. Megan talks about the COMTECH VoIP Conditioning Center (VPC) which provides VoLTE, voice over Wi-Fi and indoor locations solutions. She also discusses how COMTECH works with their customers to ensure compliance with FCC 911 regulations. This podcast was recorded at the Competitive Carriers Association annual event in Seattle, WA.

Learn more at http://www.comtechtel.com/sst.cfm

In this podcast Steven Berry, President & CEO of the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) explains how the CCA advocates for its members with the FCC and Capitol Hill. This includes addressing policies that will allow carriers to remain competitive and provide services to all markets. He highlights the importance of the Universal Service Fund and Mobility Fund in relation to wireless carrier service in rural areas. Steven also talks about Business Data Services (BDS), roaming relationships and the road to 5G. The CCA has an innovative Industry Development Program that allows members to work out issues, such as roaming coverage, with CCA staff and other carrier members. The Competitive Carriers Association holds events in the spring and fall every year.

Learn more at https://ccamobile.org/

40% of the world's mobile traffic is on Ericsson's Radio Network. In this podcast Amy McCune, Vice President & General Manager for Ericsson's Regional Carriers Customer Unit talks about "the network society" connecting people, places and things. She also discusses Ericsson's analytic tools, inside of an operator's network, that help to optimize the network. Ericsson is a 140-year-old worldwide company that is primarily in the telecommunications infrastructure space. Notably, they invented the telegraph and Bluetooth technology. This podcast was recorded at the Competitive Carriers Association annual event in Seattle, WA.

Learn more at https://www.ericsson.com/networked-society

Skip Chilcott, Global head of Product Marketing at IR, reviews the migration process and product features of Prognosis, to Don Witt of Telecom Reseller. It is all about the experience and IR’s goal is to assess the network need to make sure the requirements for the migration are met and provide for a smooth transition.

When moving to the cloud and Office 365, Prognosis will help you:

1.    Plan, Deploy & Migrate

2.    Operate, Troubleshoot & Optimize

3.    Maximize Usage & Adoption

Microsoft Skype Operations Framework will help you:

•    Plan

•    Assess

•    Deploy

•    Operate

•    Achieve a Success migration

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.

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

by Gary Audin

Echo cancellation, gain control, mixing, gating – these are all functions that can make or break a conference call. You’ve all probably heard of the Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The job of a DSP in a conferencing system is to mitigate challenges like those listed above.

Randy Lee, Director of Marketing at Revolabs www.revolabs.com, and Gary Audin discuss the DSP and its functionality within conferencing technologies. Attend this short course to explore how the DSP mitigates and resolves sound problems encountered in conference rooms and the technologies deployed to provide a quality sound experience.

You’ll Learn:

What is a DSP?

Role of a DSP for audio conferences

DSP functionality

Problems solved by a DSP during collaboration meetings

DSP scaling for audio conference solutions

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 — from installed to simple plug-and-play systems, wireless or wired solutions, and local or cloud-based management — Revolabs offers the most flexible and uniform set of solutions to accommodate the needs of the entire business.

 

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West Corporation provides diversified services including messaging, hosted telecommunications and call center for the enterprise.  They also provide 911 services for carriers.  In this podcast Jerry Wilke, Director of Customer Management at West talks about the Safety Services Division which sells support services to wireless and VoIP providers.  Jerry explains how West helps carriers comply with the FCC rules for 911 including the 4th Report and Order Compliance. He also comments on VoLTE and voice over Wi-Fi deployments and how these relate to 911 location information. This podcast was recorded at the Competitive Carriers Association annual event in Seattle, WA.

Learn more at https://www.west.com/safety-services/

by Gary Audin

Do you want a vendor specific or vendor neutral Unified Communications solution? In today’s environment you want a software defined solution not based on a specific hardware platform. Therefore you need to find software that is interoperable with any platform. Wouldn’t it be great to move the same software and user experience to new hardware as you retire the old hardware or scale to a larger operation? The decision will affect the enterprise, VAR, MSP, and consultant.

Hardy Myers, CEO and President of AVST www.avst.com and Gary Audin discuss software only UC solutions in this EDUcast. Hardy speaks of the trend of software UC solutions and their flexibility to operate on many platforms. He discusses different delivery models for UC from telecom incumbents, IT incumbents, service providers and integrators, and pure play providers all of which may be part of the enterprise solution. Interoperability is therefore paramount.

What you will learn:

Emerging Influencers/Trends Impacting UC Decisions

Immediate Security and Compliance Concerns

for Nortel Customers

Enhance Your Nortel Environment with

Next-Generation UC Features

Future-Proof your Nortel Infrastructure

to Facilitate Evolution

UC solutions should include flexible and secure unified messaging, speech-based call processing, contextually aware personal assistant, powerful UC mobile clients, and advanced notification and information access solutions that integrate with the databases of your organization.

The broadest interoperability suite in the communications industry serves as the foundation of our best-of-breed UC solutions. By connecting new and existing communications technologies, AVST facilitates the migration of your enterprise to the Cloud, IP, and Microsoft Skype4B. AVST maintains relationships with virtually all of the major premise and cloud communications technology providers to ensure that your UC solutions and your business are always “future-proofed.”

See more at: http://www.avst.com/company/index.asp#sthash.fLk1vRf2.dpuf

AudioCodes Skype for Business Podcast Series

AudioCodes believes that the desktop phone has a future by becoming much more than a desktop phone. In this brief podcast, Eric Bauer walks us through AudioCodes current line of IP phones and explains how managed IP phones means delivering much more to the user and to network administration than a traditional end point. The desktop device continues to lead the w2ay in terms of delivering a high quality of service experience, and by offering users a very simple, free standing appliance that retains a certain unique constant availability.

 

Werner Sievers, President and CEO of Cel-FI and CEO of Nextivity, discusses the release of QUATRA, a smart signal booster from within a building to the normal cellular signal with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News from Telecom Reseller. Utilizing a star design, the technology will provide support for an area from 10,000 to 200K square feet.

Common places of deployment are:

•    Hospitals

•    Warehouses

•    Hospitality environment

•    Industrial environment

•    High Tech

•    Other types of buildings

Supporting multiple types of technology from IoT, Cellular, & WiFi, the Quatra will take advantage of 5G as it evolves. Security of the product is as secure as the normal cellular technology.

Speed of deployment and personnel needed to install QUATRA is an advantage for Cel-FI.  Cel-FI designed QUATRA to me mass installed.  The Radio Frequency expert is no longer needed. The traditional IT personnel will be able to deploy the devices in short order.

Cel-Fi QUATRA is a self-configuring system built on award-winning Cel-Fi Smart Signal Booster® technology, which is unconditionally network safe, and approved for use by carriers on their networks. Cel-Fi QUATRA is specifically designed for easy installation. Unlike typical DAS systems that can require between 12 and 24 months for deployment from start to finish, Cel-Fi QUATRA can be ordered, delivered, installed, and operational in a matter of weeks—and at a lower installed cost per sq. ft. Cel-Fi QUATRA achieves this by eliminating much of the complexity associated with delivering in-building coverage.

Cel-Fi QUATRA is comprised of a Network Unit (NU), which contains the antennas that receive the donor cellular signal; and the Coverage Unit (CU), which contains actively powered antennas that transmit the cellular signal throughout the venue to users. Cel-Fi QUATRA offers exceptional value and optimal performance when installed off-air or tethered to a small cell.

We are effectively living in the middle of a cybercrime wave, with cyberattacks are reaching an average of 160 per week per organization. In research, conducted by VeraQuest and commissioned by Avaya, showed that virtually all 400 IT professionals responding to the survey agree that end-to-end segmentation is an essential security measure. But only one in four say their organization implements it.  According to the report, reasons for not using end-to-end segmentation include complexity (35%), lack of resources (29%), didn’t know it was possible (22%) or too risky to the rest of the network (22%).

In this podcast, Randy Cross, Senior Director of PLM for Fabric and Infrastructure Products gives us a look at why so many enterprise managers are not fully deploying an “end-to-end segmentation strategy”and we discuss a path forward to take needed action. We also learn about the security issues end-to-end segmentation helps solve.

Learn more

Avaya Survey: 23% of IT Professionals Say Their Organizations Adopt End-to-End Network Segmentation 

[pdf] End-to-End Network Segmentation Research

Faced With Rising Cybercrime Rates, IT Professionals Agree on Approach to Network Security; Yet Only 1 in 4 Do What It Takes

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