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By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
Unified communications (UC) service provider Nextiva is looking to do things a bit differently this year. The company-which prides itself on offering everything from small office phone systems to nationwide call centers and everything in between-is now looking to take things up a notch, and that includes a revolutionary new partner program, according to Ira Feuerstein, director of Nextiva's Channel Program, and Mary Miller, director of marketing.

By Blaise McNamee, Web Editor
ITEXPO is now in full swing, and Gold Sponsor MegaPath, a provider of managed data, voice, security and hosted IT services in North America, is certainly taking advantage of this unique gathering of technology professionals and enthusiasts. In addition to hosting an exhibition booth (No. 906), several of the company's executives will be participating in sessions regarding the cloud market throughout the week.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
The AudioCodes session border controller story keeps getting bigger and better. The company recently unveiled the new Mediant 9000, which is the company's biggest SBC yet, explained Alan Percy, who spoke with TMCnet at ITEXPO this week.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
For LiveQoS, one phrase sums up the company's value proposition above all else: "quality of experience." Because, simply put, at the end of the day LiveQoS believes that technology should be designed to improve the quality of experience for all transactions, especially for real-time applications.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
It's indisputable: Bring your own device (BYOD) is a massive and unstoppable movement. Businesses are increasingly elevating their awareness of the many benefits and competitive advantages of having employees connect personal devices to their corporate network. Even more, employees prefer to use their personal devices for conducting business. In fact, seven out of 10 said they choose to work using their personal smartphone or tablet, according to a recent study commissioned by Ovum.

By Sue O'Keefe, Senior Editor, Content Boost
Like many companies, Belgium-based Voxbone is seeing tremendous growth in mobile. The 10-year-old company, which provides worldwide geographical and toll-free telephone numbers for direct inward dialing (DID) to service providers around the globe, recently entered the mobile space by offering mobile phone numbers to its service provider customers.

By Rachel Ramsey, Content Director
PubNub's real-time network has powered solution kits for different industries at seemingly perfect timing - its stock trading, WebRTC and Bitcoin solution kits were all introduced at the height of those industries' hype, and it's at it again with the introduction of its connected car solution kit.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
Yesterday at ITEXPO, Vitelity Communications unveiled a solution called vMobile, which gives a mobile user all of the same PBX functions he or she would have access to using a desk phone at the office.

By Brooke Neuman, Content Producer
After working together building large call centers, the founders of Bolder Thinking had a vision; they wanted to reduce the complexity associated with operating call centers by offering a solution with a level of dynamic scalability that preserves the customer experience even in high demand periods, while still delivering far better value than many other solutions.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
CradlePoint is at ITEXPO and M2M Evolution Conference & Expo talking about a new product, a new relationship with Sprint, and a new offering related to ILS Technology's deviceWISE.

By Rachel Ramsey, Content Director
In a panel session at M2M Evolution Conference & Expo, titled "The Power of a Managed M2M Ecosystem," executives from Telit, CradlePoint, Sprint and Persistent Systems, Inc. discussed their approach to M2M and the value of an integrated ecosystem.

By Sue O'Keefe, Senior Editor, Content Boost
Mobile VoIP is showing terrific market potential: According to Infonetics Research, the number of global OTT mobile VoIP subscribers increased more than 550 percent in 2012, to over 640 million, and was expected to approach the 1 billion mark by the end of 2013.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
Sonus was at ITEXPO today, talking about what's new with its session border controller solutions.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
Let's get things straight: the cloud is not what it has been made out to seem like. This was the main point Adam Stern, founder of Infinitely Virtual, had to say at Editor's Day during ITEXPO East 2014-the company's first-ever ITEPXO event.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
MegaPath earlier this month introduced a solution called Enterprise Shared Voice, which does for voice what virtualization did for data center servers.

By Brooke Neuman, Content Producer
Today marks the first day of the M2M Evolution Conference and Expo - a collocated event of ITEXPO 2014 - and the sun isn't the only thing heating up this jam-packed event. Systech, a leader in M2M and Gold Sponsor of this year's M2M Evolution Conference and Expo, will be presenting a live demo of SysLINK Modular gateway, the company's full-function enterprise router that provides M2M connectivity for multiple applications, including point-of-sale, building automation, security, energy management, and mobile health.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
For Atrion Networking Corporation and XmarteK, technology is more than just about being bleeding-edge and bolstering productivity for companies; it's about bettering the world and bringing out the inner leaders in each and every one of us.

By Blaise McNamee, Web Editor
As expected, more news continues to flow out of ITEXPO down in Miami. This time it comes from Schmooze Com Inc., the developer of FreePBX, a popular open source PBX platform. The company has announced that it has completed interoperability testing of Uniden's new EXP1240 SIP DECT line of cordless telephones.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
There are a lot of great and disruptive wireless mobility technologies and plenty of tech-savvy people behind them, but many of those offerings and individuals could benefit from the assistance of specialists that can help bring those solutions to market.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
Things are heating up for BlueOSS, and not just because the Washington D.C.-based cloud billing service provider is in sunny Miami. As a first-time attendee, the company is looking forward to all that ITEXPO has to offer, CEO Tim Cook and Co-founder and CTO Youssef Yaghmour told TMCnet at Editor's Day.

By Rory Lidstone, TMCnet Contributing Writer
Appcelerator has received a unique honor from Skyhigh Networks, the cloud access security company, by being among the first to be awarded the highest Skyhigh CloudTrust rating of Enterprise-ready for the Appcelerator Program. Cloud services that achieve the rank of Skyhigh Enterprise-ready are those that fully satisfy the most stringent requirements for data protection, identity verification, service security, business practices and legal protection.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
With ample networking opportunities ahead for participants attending ITEXPO East 2014 in Miami, Fla., this week, having a session titled "Doubling Your Sales in Telecom" the first day of the convention certainly attracted the masses. After all, sales managers, marketers and channel partners grabbed every spare seat in the room to find out how to augment their sales practices with a new year ahead of us.

By Brooke Neuman, Content Producer
The cloud is here to stay. Businesses will be moving to the cloud. It's not if, but when….

By Michelle Amodio, TMCnet Contributor
Wireless network services provider KORE teamed up with M2M communications products provider Multi-Tech Systems for an educational program offering, helping companies in North America with the upcoming transition to 2G GSM networks.


 

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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz - VP of Software Standards - IBM Cloud Labs & HiPODS
3:30pm - Wednesday - 01/29/14

Cassidy Shield - Vice President of Marketing, IP Platforms - Alcatel-Lucent
9:00 to 9:30 AM - Thursday - 01/30/14

Dr. Satwant Kaur - First Lady of Emerging Technologies
9:30 to 10:00 A.M - Thursday - 01/30/14

Battle in the Clouds
4:00pm - Wednesday - 01/29/14

Key Insights From:
David Schoenberger - CIO - TransCertain ; Chris Hasenauer - President, Allworx, Windstream; Yunexy Eloy - CIO, Whoa.com

CIO Roundtable: Rationalizing the Dataverse - How Big Data is Changing Everything
10:00am - Thursday - 01/30/14

Key Insights From:
Tery Howard Senior VP, CTO - Miami Dolphins; Herman Nell CIO, Rent-A-Center; ; Ramon Millan VP & CIO, Carnival Cruise Lines; Dr. Jani Byrne Director, Marketing, IBM Enterprise, Mid Market & MSPs

 

ITEXPO Buzz


 
Elastix @elastix
Elastix is present at @ITEXPO! visit us at booth 720 Asterisk World Pavilion. We will unveil big surprises. @digium @asteriskpbx

Open Data Centers @OpenDataCenters
At #ITEXPO? Stop by booth 410 where we will be collocated w/ our sister company, #Endstream or email [email protected] to schedule a meeting

Dialogic Inc. @Dialogic
Want to learn more about generating revenue with #WebRTC? Hearc @chadwallacehart and others discuss at @ITEXPO

Conquest Technology ‏@Conquest247UC
Come join us at @ITEXPO at 2:30pm today - Ben Tosado VP of Prof Services is a panelist at "Making Lync Work For Your Enterprise" session

Tobias Goebel @tpgoebel
Speaking at IT Expo in Miami this week: "Strategies for Successfully Blending Human & Virtual Agents"

 

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