applications

The Future is in Applications

August 7, 2006

Rich Tehrani and Greg Galitzine were amongÂ those who heard Yankee Group’s Zeus Kerravala speak this morning at the Avaya Developers Conference.Â Kerravala’s theme was that the future of VoIP is in applications.Â The money is in call centers, softclients, and convergedÂ mobileÂ applications.Â According to Kerravala: “We are at the beginning of the market – where the PC [...]

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The Search for Cool Apps

September 27, 2005

Telephony Online published a write-up of the VON Panel "The Search for Cool Apps". This is perhaps one of the most unfortunate panels at the show. Forever consigned to the last day of the show (this year, the last session of the show), and populated with speakers who aren’t applications people, I think this might [...]

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Forrester sez Forget About the Price!

August 25, 2005

According to the latest Forrester Research from analyst Marybel Lopez, 70% of consumers have no interest in switching to a VoIP service. "Providers still haven’t made a compelling case for their services". Ouch! "Offerings focus on price, not compelling applications," Lopez writes. "Today, providers lead with cheap unlimited calling packages that mirror circuit-switch offerings. Consumers [...]

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Shift Happens: VNO’s and Dumb Pipes

April 19, 2005

I’m sitting in Pulver’s opening speech at VON Canada. It’s called "Shift Happens". The whole theme is that the IP shift is happening. One of the big themes is that end-to-end IP is finally happening. All we need is DUMB PIPES, and virtual network operators that ride on top of these pipes. Jeff makes a [...]

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VoIP and Watermelon Seeds

April 13, 2004

Via Jeff Pulver: Tim McElligott’s The Tao of VoIP. Short, but inciteful… to be anything more than a cheap, commoditized blending of voice and data into a stew of packetized content, large service providers need to utilize platforms that can spit out targeted application for very specific customer needs like watermelon seeds.

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