I’m blogging this week from the beautiful landscape in Utah where GENBAND is sponsoring the Air Force Association golf tournament at Hill Air Force Base. Utah is truly heaven on earth. With such rich scenery, it’s truly captured in its slogan: Life Elevated!
The mobile market place is undergoing major shifts and mobile carriers are facing major challenges in staying competitive in delivering services, and scaling their networks efficiently. Voice and SMS are commoditized, and the revenues are shifting from voice to data while the combined revenue of voice and data is not able to keep pace with the rising cost of delivering mobile data. VoLTE and RCS investments, while visionary, are not making a positive impact on top and bottom lines fast enough.
At the end of the day, it’s all about the bottom-line. As partners look at managing their business to increase profitability and making decision on which line-cards to carry, which services to offer, workforce management and which growth areas to drive to solidify the monthly recurring revenue (MRC) streams. However, it’s important as you look at your business to also understand what vendor partner ecosystem are you in.
Every couple of decades or so, the telecommunications industry goes through a technology transition – analog to digital, for example – that profoundly impacts the way services are created and delivered, as well as the business models behind them. The ongoing and steady distillation of communications functions and features into pure software, which can be executed on generic and elastic hardware resources, is one of those industry-altering transitions.
In just a few short years, the communications industry has been turned on its head. While traditional telecom operators often defined the manner in which subscribers would communicate – voice or SMS, for the most part – end users are now much more influential in calling the shots.
Despite the widespread use in the past decade of IP-based communications systems known as IP PBXs, the TDM pipes that connect those enterprise platforms to the public network have only slowly been replaced by IP connections. For multiple reasons, the most prominent being the desire of some network operators to preserve a fairly hefty cash cow of TDM T1s, E1s and PRIs, this IP-based connectivity service – commonly referred to as SIP Trunking – is only now hitting its groove.
As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a major communications solutions provider, I am constantly identifying and investigating trends that indicate the direction of communications in our society. One trend that everyone planning for the future should understand is the generational shift in communications driven by the 18-29 demographic, known as GEN-Y.
GENBAND’s Director of Strategic Marketing Joe McGarvey sits down with Martha DeGrasse from RCR Wireless via Google Hangout to discuss how the newly formed GENBAND-Samsung alliance allows the two companies to deliver the ultimate mobile office experience by combining GENBAND’s Unified Communications SMART OFFICE software with Samsung Mobile’s market-leading SAFE™(Samsung for Enterprise) devices. With the newly formed alliance GENBAND and Samsung are bringing a “SAFE, SMART, and SIMPLE” us
Our recently announced collaboration with Samsung only serves to further validate our Making Networks Smarter vision and create a significant evolution for the enterprise communications experience. The new alliance combines Samsung Mobile’s market-leading SAFE™ (Samsung for Enterprise) designated devices with GENBAND’s
