Perspectives17: One Week, Ten Trends, Unlimited Networking

There is nothing as exciting as our annual customer and partner gathering each year, and this year, for the first time, we are bringing over 600 people together in my backyard, downtown Los Angeles. The energy in LA is unlike any other city, bringing a cool vibe to a hot town, with everything from music and entertainment to technology and a vibrant economy. As part of the real-time communications industry, we are in the networking business, and there will be no better networking happening than at this gathering which has grown each year over the past five years. 

The Five Trends in Service Provider Network Transformation from our Conversations with Global Leaders

Over the last several years, we have been working with some of the largest and most successful Communications Service Providers (CSPs) in the world, and it's been fascinating to be part of their transformation teams, contributing to their large-scale projects, as virtualized and software defined networks emerge and legacy networks continue to fade into the past. 

Talk to Me: Why Real Live Voice May Be the Coolest App of All

With all the focus on AI and bots, and with all the research on Millennials and their obsession with texting, some may lose sight of the power of live human conversations and how voice may always prove to be the shortest distance between a problem and a solution.

The growth of voice controlled assistants like Siri and Alexa is one leading indicator that the human voice is the most convenient way for humans to interact with their machines. 

Network Evolution Trends that are Ruling the Real-Time Communications World

The majority of my time is spent helping our more than 700 service provider customers better serve their customers through more agile, efficient and powerful communications networks. Serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Network for GENBAND has given me unique insights into the issues and pain points that are facing today’s service providers. Every day my team and I help customers ranging from the largest operators in the world to rural service providers solve their communications issues and improve their networks.

Get in Bed with Embedded Communications by Falling in Love with Your Apps Again

What would your work life be like if you could reach exactly the right person at exactly the right time, and have your questions answered in seconds, not minutes, hours or days?

Work would get done a lot faster, stress levels would decrease substantially, and the speed of doing business would flow instead of ebbing and flowing.

For most of history, communications have been asynchronous, and even synchronized communications has often required people to switch from one application to another.