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. 

Looking Back on an Action-Packed Six Months!

I cannot believe that we are already nearly halfway through the year.  The first half of 2016 has been an amazing ride for me and my team, to whom I have to give a major shout-out and without whose commitment to excellence our company could not do what we do so successfully.  Not only has my team produced a number of awesome events including Mobile World Congress, Enterprise Connect and our very own Perspectives1

Telco 2.0™, ICT and the Exchange of Everything in the Digital Economy

The business model of Communication Service Providers (CSP), traditionally known as telcos, is under attack on multiple fronts. For decades, the telco business model has been one-sided: telcos provide services to consumers in a completely unidirectional paradigm where they define the offering and consumers can take it or try and find another one-sided competing offer.

GENBAND, fring and Kandy: Looking forward to a Sweet Week at #MWC16!

MWC is probably the largest and most important mobile conference in the industry and I can’t tell you how excited I am to get what is going to be an awesome week under way. We have a great show planned with tons of customer and partner meetings and briefings with media and analysts from all over the world. We also have some strategic customer announcements planned - so stay tuned.

Federation for This Generation: The fring Alliance Changes the Messaging Game for Good

Today GENBAND announced it is planning to establish the world’s first neutral exchange making it possible for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to participate on a massive scale in the fast-growing multimedia messaging industry, by bringing their subscribers a more fun, more intuitive, and more powerful experience than all the “OTT” challengers put together.

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The Acceleration of Transformation: Massive Network Transformation Changes Everything in 2015

Change or lose. Transform and win. Transformation in the real-time communications software industry is all around us - there is software everywhere, in the network, on the edge, on devices and endpoints, in the applications and embedded in applications. Nothing is standing still, and those who develop a score for transformation will orchestrate value creation while the rest will be doomed to cacophony.