TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Tag: Equipment
Top SBC vendor Acme Packet snapped up by … Oracle
February 6, 2013
Who knew? Your new critical network infrastructure vendor may be not Cisco, not Juniper, not Avaya, but Oracle. Okay, it may take some steps to get there. At the start of this week, Oracle announced it was buying Acme Packet, … Continue reading
The physical nature of telecommunications is still immutable
November 7, 2012
Everybody understands that you’re reading this blog post in cyberspace. There is no print version of TC2’s David Rohde on Telecom, as there was with my old Network World columns of the 1990s. Especially now with a choice of PCs, … Continue reading
Navigating Microsoft Lync to SIP Trunking services and gear
August 15, 2012
As unified communications now finally moves into the arena of corporate procurements – more often than not in the form of deployment of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 – you need some new information resources at your fingertips. That’s particularly true … Continue reading
Networking’s top dog makes its pitch for distributed SIP Trunking
April 5, 2012
In the broad community of IT and networking vendors, there’s a consensus that the winners in SIP Trunking so far are the makers of Session Border Controllers, or SBCs. For everyone else in the game of selling stuff to corporate … Continue reading
Excuse me, but there appears to be a tablet in my wireless contract
January 21, 2011
You wouldn’t buy a laptop from Verizon Wireless, but purchasing an iPad seems perfectly natural, even though it has no ability to connect to the Verizon Wireless network. Why is that? Continue reading
From devices to “endpoints”: Thinking big on the user interface
January 13, 2011
Over the course of the last 18 months, corporate wireless procurements have gone from almost an exclusive focus on networks, coverage and rate plans to add a keen focus on devices and applications. And the new AT&T vs. Verizon competition … Continue reading
A new day, a new design: The multiple cost considerations behind SIP Trunking
November 16, 2010
The following is a guest post by TC2 Project Director Pat Gilpatrick, who is based in Baltimore. The appeal behind SIP Trunking is deceptively simple. Enterprises have long been interested in taking voice off the circuit-switched telephone network and onto … Continue reading
Practical issues come to the forefront in SIP Trunking
September 3, 2010
A few years ago one of my old colleagues at Network World got hold of an analyst report on MPLS, and we started discussing it by email. Contrary to almost every market research report up until then, the analyst’s survey … Continue reading
- Apparently feeling left out, Verizon adds an Administrative Expense Fee
- Data pooling plans gain momentum as data usage accelerates
- Softbank’s fight with Dish for Sprint runs far afield from the enterprise
- Getting a grasp on your telecom inventory – is it possible?
- Declining account support and the rise of the vendor “Program Management Office”
- Machine-to-machine: A whole new wireless pricing ballgame
- Transformation projects require their own timeline and approach
- CenturyLink cuts shareholder dividend as necessary transition accelerates
- Data sharing plans already add usage … and devices
- Nextel subscriber run-off hits hard as Sprint struggles to remake itself