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.

There is a lot of buzz in the industry about Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud technologies. So what is all the buzz about? It is about the insatiable demand of consumers for reliable, personalized and innovative services accessible from anywhere and at any time, and more pointedly, about the ability for service providers and their networks to meet these demands.

An industry and government approach to supporting PSTN to IP transformation over the next decade

The public switched telephone network (PSTN), is arguably the largest legacy network in the world. While the Internet has grown, and a significant portion of voice calls today travel over the Internet, the importance of the PSTN is still very real and there remains a need to connect people with the quality voice services they’ve come to rely on. In fact, more than one billion people globally and the majority of all businesses still rely on the PSTN.

Once again our employees have demonstrated their commitment to GIVING by embodying the true spirit of GENBAND and I could not be more proud. As part of our recent trip to South Africa the team wanted to do something special for the local community. The decision was made to adopt a cause that would benefit those in need. 

We are just over one month away from our annual customer and partner summit, Perspectives14, and I couldn’t be more excited about the stellar line-up of keynote speakers and panelists we have assembled.  Perspectives14, which takes place June 9 -12 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, will bring together senior telecom executives and decision makers from all over the world to hear from critical thinkers and thought leaders from today’s leading global organizations.

This week I am attending and speaking at the Telco Cloud World Forum in Munich Germany.  Hot topics at the conference include Cloud Technologies; Public, Private and Hybrid Telco Clouds; and go-to- market strategies for service provider cloud services.

Earlier this week we introduced Generation Enterprise, our new enterprise framework, and SMART OFFICE 2.0, the next generation of our real-time communications platform. The response to both announcements from our customers, partners, analysts and the media has been overwhelmingly positive.

We recently  announced Generation Enterprise, a unique and disruptive way for enterprises to communicate in real-time.  GENBAND has built its reputation on transforming communications networks,  now we are transforming enterprises – adding to an already impressive list of vital organizations that we’ve been helping for years such as universities, healthcare systems, financial services firms, government agencies and multinationals.

For those in the technology business, the staggering advancements in communications and computational efficiencies that have given rise to the Internet, intelligent portable devices and broadband networks are merely a measure of progress.  The potential societal impact of 24/7 access to mind-numbing amounts of information or the staccato of attention-robbing Tweets, IMs and Facebook updates is not a topic of quarterly board meetings.