Source: www.voip-news.com

How can you bridge the divide between traditional telecommunications and VoIP? That’s a secret that Sonus Networks say they know and are going to share at NXTcomm 2008 in Las Vegas from June 17-18. The company will be explaining how operators can launch a revolutionary solution to redefine telecommunications.

“Sonus has been focused on the future of voice for over ten years,” said Hassan Ahmed, chairman and CEO at Sonus Networks. “Now, our vision is being realized as operators across the globe are rolling out IP-based networks to deliver the next generation of voice services. NXTcomm08 validates the idea that subscribers are ready for new multimedia services. Sonus is uniquely positioned to provide those services with our end-to-end, IP-based infrastructure solutions.”

According to the company:

Sonus will showcase its vision of the future at booth SU9208 with live demonstrations of solutions and applications that depict the experience in each crucial element of the network including:

– Residential and Business Services: Sonus solutions open up a new world
of IP-voice opportunities beyond the traditional network edge to
business and residential customers. At NXTcomm, Sonus will demonstrate
how it’s Voice over Broadband (VoBB) solutions can deliver IP
voice/multimedia over copper, cable, DSL and WiMAX.
– Connectivity: Sonus will demonstrate how it’s changing the way networks
connect, by reaching out to the past with PSTN interconnectivity and
looking forward to the future with centralized call routing, number
portability solutions, international gateways and more.
– Security: The Sonus Network Border Switch is the evolution of border
security. See how Sonus’ unique solution combines softswitch
functionality with advanced session border control features for a
low-cost, high-security solution to secure peering.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

It’s taken Lee Dryburgh a while to get all his eComm video posted, but one of the waits was worth it.

Client Fonolo captured the eComm Best New Product.

You can view CEO and founder Shai Berge’s presentation on the page as well.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Check out Jon’s perspective on eComm.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Despite all the hurdles first time events have, eComm came off basically without a hitch yesterday, and by the looks of some early "press" the event seems to have hit the mark the right way.

Sure, everyone will like some speakers and find faults with others. That’s the nature of all conferences, and thankfully, we live in a country where free speech is still allowed.

Here are a few highlights:

The Industry Standard/IDG Steve Lawson which also made it into MacWorld and a few other IDG related sites.

News.com’s Tim Lebrecht who is part of their blogger network.

Information Week’s Rick Martin also weighed in with a very concise round up that is theme based and really captured the spirit of eComm.

VoIP-News’s editorial team was out as well, one of the few industry pubs that came by, which was a shame. I expect to see VON Magazine’s new editor here today based on my call with Paul Kapustka yesterday.

The Register weighted in with their usual cheeky style. It’s one reason why I like to read it.

Uber Analyst from the UK, Dean Bubley, weighs in with the kind of insight about the USA’s lack of competition and more.

Stuart Henshall also has some highlights…

More today….

Source: www.voip-news.com

Influence and persuasion might be better words for the eComm2008 conference than the popular word in use here, disruption. For example, Thomas Howe of the Thomas Howe Company (one of our top 20 VoIP Influencers) spoke on the topic of commodities and using both paprika and corn as examples explained how voice has become a commodity. People want and expect all voice experiences to be the same. He asked the attendees to ‘make it our mission to accept voice as a commodity,’ and urged people to do new things with voice. “We should be cooks, not farmers.”

RJ Auburn of Voxeo talked about how telephony sucks and how it is complex, arcane and proprietary and instead should be simple, ubiquitous and open. And then talked about the Voxeo model and VoiceXML and CCXML. You can find out more at http://evolution.voxeo.net/.

Irv Shapiro of ifbyphone.com gave one of the best received speeches in introducing their new mashup services including an application that you call up , speak a phone number at or near your current location and a second number at or near where you want to go and in return receive voice driving directions. He talked about how the best practices for voice mashups include a technology agnostic API, dialog support (voice forms, dtmf, text to speech, speech rec), call management (outbound, inbound, scheduling) and support services. And finally he announced that they are giving away a million free minutes of calls a month to developers in North America – you can find out more at www.phonemashup.com.

Source: www.voip-news.com

Today through Friday, the Emerging Communications Conference is taking place at the Coputer History Museum in Mountain View. If you have time there is still the opportunity to hotfoot it over there and get an inside view into the future of communications. If you can’t make it, we are going to do our best to bring you roundups and reports with some of the highlights.

Already this morning we have heard about the past ten years of communications over IP from Jonathan Christensen of Skype, an inside look at presence and where that might take us (the real-time Internet apparently) from Peter St Andre of Jabber and a passionate discourse/discussion about network neutrality or rather the ’structural separation’ of the Internet.

The key word at the conference so far is ‘disruptive’ with speakers and attendees alike sharing a real drive and passion for shaking up the communications industry and forcing change on the telcos and local operators.

Source: www.theregister.co.uk

eBay has dispatched one of its own to take the helm at Skype, in the hope he can go some way to justify its increasingly baffling multi-billion quid purchase of the profit-lite VoIP app.

Josh Silverman, current CEO of eBay price comparison tentacle Shopping.com, will take over on 24 March. In his inaugural blog post, he writes: "Skype is one of the defining internet technologies of our era… it’s changing the world. You don’t look forward to something like that. You drop what you’re doing and jump aboard."

Skype certainly is one of the defining internet technologies of our era. It was over-hyped, overvalued and has no discernable business plan, other than to recruit more free users.

The number of Skype users continues to grow, but is not reflected in an increase in revenues for eBay in advertising or ecommerce. It makes the $2.6bn soon-to-depart eBay CEO Meg Whitman gambled on P2P VoIP look like a bad bid.

In fact, Silverman’s task is enormous. The auction house is facing investor calls to cut its losses - a $1.4bn write down last year - and offload the service.

Skype’s founders Nikolas Zennstrom and Janus Friis apparently appreciated the merits of such a strategy when they trousered $530m - a third of their projected take if Skype had been a winner for eBay. ®

Source: www.voip-news.com

eComm 2008 is coming. What is it? A brand spankin’ new telecom conference that will be held in Silicon Valley from March 12-14 at the Computer History Museum.

eComm 2008 will bring together speakers from a number of players in the telecom industy including Skype, Motorola, Google, IBM, Embarq and Microsoft Research. The conference speakers will cover the past, present and future of communication.

Potential topics include:

• Is the mastery of different distribution systems a key to winning both technically and financially? Will the Internet subsume the other systems?
• Do WiMAX, LTE, WiFi mesh, 4G, UWB, SDR and wireless grid technologies represent opportunities? What about VoIPo3G?
• How can communications be enhanced with attention metadata, positioning, presence and digital reputation?
• Will open spectrum unleash a torrent of wireless innovation?

To learn more, click here.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Even though the O’Reilly folks chucked eTel, without any real public rationale that would sooth most VoIP developers, Lee Dryburgh has picked up the slack and is seeking to pull off a real “people’s event” called eComm 2008 that continues in the spirit of eTel and goes one better for three days, March 12-14 in Mountain View, CA.

Pal Martin Geddes reminded me that it’s time to really start thinking seriously about the conference, and I for one am thrilled that Martin will be there. Martin links to a few ways to save money. I say it’s worth ever penny based on what eTel was like last year.

What’s more, Lee was smart enough to run into the weekend that leads into VON so for one trip you can spend a whole week in San Jose and cover all your VoIP and next generation communications meetings, meet up, panels and more. These events don’t really compete, they actually coexist nicely so book your travel, schedule your meetings and plan on a lot of fun in San Jose.