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By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
The rapid adoption of cloud-based solutions and increased use of more complex applications and smarter devices is transforming the way enterprises do business today. But despite the improved collaboration and enhanced productivity these technical developments are now providing, they are also causing an explosion in bandwidth needs that is putting tremendous pressure on hyperscale data centers.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
This morning's keynote speech delivered by Mite President and CEO Rich McBee was truly riveting and entertaining. An unparalleled industry leader-Mitel's revenue more than doubled under his leadership-McBee imparted invaluable insights, best practices and advice to this morning's audience regarding cloud and hosted unified communications as a service (UCaaS).

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
CoreDial is at ITEXPO this week promoting its complete cloud-based solution for channel partners. CoreDial SwitchConnex provides channel partners with everything they need to sell, support, and charge for cloud-based services such as hosted PBX, SIP trunking, unified communications as a service, and VoIP.

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
Anyone who watches even a little television has likely seen commercials where co-workers each pay their part of a restaurant bill using a mobile phone or a couple pays a babysitter from a movie theater with mobile banking. These are certainly interesting use cases that make for cute advertisements, but Panamax Inc., the technology unit of the international Bankai Group, is looking to take mobile finance to an entirely new level.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
Voxbone, a provider of virtual local phone numbers, has announced the availability of SMS outbound capability for mobile DID numbers. The service, which was in betas with 20 customers as of the middle of last year, is generally available as of yesterday.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
Strategic consulting firm 151 Advisors recently launched IoT/M2M and small cell/DAS practices, and is seeing strong business from international businesses that want to set up shop in the U.S., partner Steve Brumer told TMCnet this week at ITEXPO Miami.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
The event, which drew 250 people, included a business track and a technology track, both about the Internet of Things. The audience consisted of a collection of enterprise representatives, operators, and system integrators. Verizon was the gold sponsor; Google Cloud Platform was an event partner; and B+B SmartWorx, MultiTech, and Option were silver sponsors.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
Navigating the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine landscape can be difficult. Not only do organizations have to contend with how best to combine the broad array of solutions from the cornucopia of companies out there, they also have to make sense of what exactly suppliers mean when they refer to platforms and services.

By Carl Ford, Partner, Crossfire Media
I am sitting here at ITEXPO in Miami waiting for my conferences to start, and I have been trying to manage a better delivery system for the PowerPoints

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
Garrett Smith, Founder and Principal Consultant at Pitch and Pivot, has been in the IP telephony marketing space since before VoIP was one of the hottest buzzwords in the technology industry. After 10 years training other marketers in VoIP at another organization, Smith launched his own company in 2013 to address what he saw as a significant hole in the VoIP industry-marketers with the technological expertise to create compelling campaigns.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
If there is one message ANPI, a leading provider of voice and data solutions for both the carrier and small business markets, hopes to get across in 2015, it's this: the company is committed to equipping its reseller and agent market with the tools needed to drive revenue and grow expediently.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
Since its inception over 30 years ago, Sangoma has risen to become a household name in the realm of IP telephony hardware and software. The company takes pride in being an industry pillar that continually reinvents itself to meet and exceed its customers' chief needs, according to Sangoma Director of Marketing Kathleen Reed. In continuing the company's evolutionary process, Sangoma recently acquired two companies, Schmooze Communications, Inc., a developer of FreePBX, one of the world's most widely used IP PBXs, and RockBochs, Inc., a fax-over-IP solutions provider.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
The reality is that people are really lazy-or perhaps disinterested-when it comes to entering and logging critical business information. So bad, in fact, that most of the time employees log 40 percent of the information they should, Vertical Communications Director of Product Management Kevin Butler told TMCnet at ITEXPO today.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
When you think of some of the most powerful joint ventures out there, you might think about synergistic companies who have teamed together to mutually serve their markets, like Disney and Pixar or Google and Apple. But can you think of three companies that have put their heads together to create real market impact?

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
Anybody who attended CES this year is now well aware that the M2M/Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming the focus for many of the world's largest electronics manufacturers. These enterprises are going all-in on robotics, automated lighting systems, smart HVAC and other IoT devices. In fact, Samsung CEO BK Yoon announced at the show that by 2017, 90 percent of his company's offerings would be IoT products.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
IBM's Gurvinder Ahluwalia was at ITEXPO Miami today talking about how the company and its partners are working to move the Internet of Things forward via the creation of an architecture called ADEPT that leverages bittorrent technology, the block chain technology that underpins BitCoin, and telehash.

By Casey Houser, Contributing Writer
TransNexus, a developer of VoIP network management software, recently announced the launch of its NexOSS-FC tool that seeks to prevent telecom fraud without the use of call detail record analysis.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
Here's a question for you… how much do you know about cellular signal boosters? If the statistics indicate anything, you are most likely part of the 96 percent that knows little about the industry.


 

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FEATURED KEYNOTES

 
Gurvinder S. Ahluwalia - CTO Cloud Computing for US Market at IBM
8:15 - Wednesday January 28

M. H. Raza - Fiber Mountain™, Founder & CEO
9:30 - Wednesday January 28
Richard D. McBee - President and Chief Executive Officer, Mitel
9:00 - Wednesday January 28

Stefan Karapetkov - Enterprise Architect, Oracle
3:30 - Wednesday January 28
Danny Windham - CEO, Digium
9:00 - Thursday January 29

Shane D. Wall - CTO, Printing & Personal Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company
10:00 - Thursday January 29
Diane Salvatora - Vice President, Global Circuit Sales Unify
9:30 - Thursday January 29

Gary Davis - Chief Consumer Security Evangelist - McAfee, a division of Intel Security
10:30 - Thursday January 29
SPECIAL KEYNOTE PANEL
Parker Smith - Director, Business Development and Sales Engineering, Bluesocket Business Group, ADTRAN
4:00 - Wednesday January 28
Aubrey L. Wood, III - Capitol Broadcasting Company, WRAL-TV and the Durham Bulls, IT Manager
4:00 - Wednesday January 28
Dennis Bloss - Frontier Communications, VP/GM North Carolina
4:00 - Wednesday January 28
Integrating M2M and VoIP
8:15AM - Thursday January 29

Key Insights From:
Carlos A Huerta - President, PLC International ; Luciano Braverman - Solution Sales, Microsoft Latin America ; Juan Pablo Pazos - President, XmarteK ; Fernando Herrera - LATAM Accounts Director, Multinationals America Business Unit., Telefonica Global; Gustavo Sorgente - Director General de Cisco Systems, Cansac; Gustavo Scheveloff - President, HiperPBX


 

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It all comes back to how we make IoT/M2M easier. Interesting discussion from industry leaders in Miami @M2MEvolution

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