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Deutsche Telekom (DT) and France Telecom (FT) have formed a joint venture for procurement. Shouldn’t they just merge and get it over with? In the Orange announcement last week, the two telecommunications companies are establishing a “50/50” joint venture in the fourth quarter of 2011. After three years, the two expect to save a [...] I’ll be at two shows in May. Interop Las Vegas 2011, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV Running around the show floor on Tuesday, May 10 and Wednesday, May 11. TIA 2011, Gaylord Texas, Dallas, TX Wednesday, May 18 – “HD Voice: Implementing the Advantages” 8:30 am – 9:15 am. After my [...] I’m currently going through 88 pages of HD voice report on what should be the best-and-final editing run. TMC is preparing its end to distribute and promote the report, so I think it all should come together next week, barring any major difficulties. Service providers mentioned in the report include: 3, 8×8, [...] I’ll be out in Los Angeles next week for IT EXPO West, one of the few remaining games, er events around for IP Communications/VoIP these days. It’s a great channel partners/resellers show and a good vendor/service provider show. Looks like I’ll be moderating three (3) panels, one on HD voice, one on mobile VoIP [...] Polycom (www.polycom.com) and Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) have declared their love, er a “global strategic agreement” for developing and marketing “integrated,” standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions. The agreement makes Polycom a member of Microsoft’s “key strategic global alliance” for UC; both sides will invest in product development, sales, and marketing. Polycom will develop a broad [...] CounterPath (www.counterpath.com) has released Bria 3.1 for the Mac and Windows. The latest version of the VoIP soft client includes support for multiple accounts. Users can select on-the-fly which account to use for voice, IM and HD video calling, regardless of the type of network (wired or wireless) in use. Bria 3.1 also includes [...] CounterPath (www.counterpath.com) has launched Bria for Linux, the latest OS the company is supporting; Mac and Windows clients are already available. Bria for Linux is already deployed at two Fortune 500 companies and is also available for embedded products ranging from mobile handsets to set-topboxes. The new software supports Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04, multiple [...] Most of my time over the past couple of weeks has been spent on HD Voice issues (www.hdvoicenews.com) and preparing for the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES. This week I will be out in Las Vegas and will likely be spending most of my Twitter-Time on HDvoicenews, but there will be some DougonIPComm [...] You’ll find three (3) pieces about HD voice from AstriCon over at the HD Connect Now website (www.hdconnectnow.org)– AstriCon 2009: It is all HD voice (handsets) AstriCon 2009 – Dialogic talks HD voice media server From AstriCon: Rumors of AT&T running HD voice in San Antonio Bottom line: You have to look REALLY hard [...] |
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