The IoT is introducing efficiencies across dozens of industries, but what are the unintended consequences for workers whose jobs become obsolete? Ken suggests a way forward.

Tags: IoT, M2M, IIoT, healthcare,

Editors Day Boston 2014 Interview with OneSimCard

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M2M Evolution Conference and Expo. August 11-14, 2014. The Rio Las Vegas, Nevada

Tags: m2m evolution, m2m, carl ford, expo

www.itexpo.com

Tags: carlson wireless

Discussing the specific infrastructure requirements for healthcare and why Cisco and Miami Children’s Hospital partner to provide reliability, flexibility and strong connectivity.

Tags: Miami Children’s Hospital, Cisco, healthcare, infrastructure

Paul Speciale, CMO, Appcara

Tags: cloud, appcara

Monisha Perkash discusses using wearable technology to improve posture, monitor health information to help improve your lifestyle.

Tags: Lumo, wearable technology, posture, healthcare, fitness

Aashu Vimani, Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Sonus Networks.

Tags: SBC, Modular, Design, Sonus, Lync, microsoft, dsp cards, dsp,

Mykola Konrad, Sr. Director & GM, Trunking & Policy Business Unit, Sonus Networks.

Tags: SBC, Modular, Design, Sonus, Lync, microsoft, dsp cards, dsp,

Bill Scudder, CIO, Sonus Networks

Tags: SBC, Modular, Design, Sonus, Lync, microsoft, dsp cards, dsp,

Erik Levitt from Open Data Centers discusses the cloud's role in driving enterprise mobility.

Tags: Erik Levitt, Open Data Centers, Cloud Expo, cloud computing, Erik Linask, TMC, carrier neutral, colocation, data center, IT provisioning, enterprise mobility, desktop infrastructure, network infrastructure, unified infrastructure, cloud desktop, clou

Graham Holt VP, Sales Solutions & Engineering of Daitan Group tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about how the company helps carriers, cloud and other companies with their network deployment and how WebRTC is the next big thing in the market.

Tags: webrtc,carrier,service provider, daitan group

Lance Fried of SoCoCare tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about how the company helps companies deal with customer care in the age off social networking.

Tags: lance fried,sococare,social networking,call center, contact center

In today’s global, software-centric economy, competitive businesses must be able to deliver a consistent end-to-end customer experience. A holistic eCommerce platform, which enables businesses to quickly and easily roll out new products and services, and allows customers to make transactions in the same manner, is no less critical to rounding out a positive customer experience.

Tags: TMC, Rich Tehrani, Avangate, Carl Theobald, eCommerce, mobile commerce, cloud computing, SaaS, software-as-a-service, customer experience, payment platform

Brett Calder, Director, North American Sales, Wireless of Globecomm tells Rich Tehrani of TMC about how his company helps tier three operators with their LTE rollouts.

Tags: ctia,globecom,lte,4g,carrier,wireless

David Tipping, VP & GM SBC Business unit, Sonus Networks, talks about a new announcement to its new modular design for the SBC 5210, and SBC 5110.

Tags: SBC, Modular, Design, Sonus, Lync, microsoft, dsp cards, dsp,

David Tipping, VP & GM SBC Business unit, Sonus Networks, talks about a new announcement to its new modular design for the SBC 5210, and SBC 5110.

Tags: SBC, Modular, Design, Sonus, Lync, microsoft, dsp cards, dsp,

TMC Managing Editor Rich Steeves speaks with Rammy Bahalul, VP of marketing at Omnitron. Omnitron has received Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification from the MEF.

Tags: Carrier Ethernet, Metro Ethernet

TMC Web Editor Rich Steeves talks to StarupCamp7 Judge’s Choice winner ThruView. ThruView’s mobile applications stream videos from smartphones directly to customer agents offering visual context requied to deliver more efficient customer service, reducing truck rolls increasing efficiency.

Tags: StartupCamp, Mobile Apps, Customer Care

Coca-Cola Bottling found that the answer wasn't in having more fleet it was in knowing where the fleet was and how to use it better thanks to Spireon.

Tags: Joe Gibbs, Race Cars, Coca Cola Bottling company, CCBCC, M2M, Business Intelligence, ROI, CRM, Fleet Management,

Rich Tehrani, TMC’s CEO and Group Editor-in-Chief, speaks with John Ellis, Global Technologist, Connected Services & Solutions, Ford Motor Company about how the automobile app ecosystem is a crucial part of the company’s strategy going forward.
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Tags: 2013ces, ces, consumer electronics, gadget, wireless, accessories, smartphone, car, automobile, ecosystem, app, app store, app ecosystem, smart car, smart automotive

Ako Gurjinyan, director of software sales, talks wholesale and retail switching solutions and why ITEXPO offers great networking opportunities.

Tags: Speedflow Solutions, VoIP routers, switching, carriers

Allan Schwartz, SVP of strategic planning and business development, talks multiple Internet access methods offerings and how it sets itself apart from competitors.

Tags: UNSi, MPLS, carrier-grade solutions, service provider

ANPI appoints Ronnie Bailey as General Manager of Business Solutions and talks plans for the future.

Tags: ANPI, communications, wireless carriers, telecom

TMC’s Rich Tehrani speaks with Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Global Marketing Manager Cloud Segment, Interxion about the company’s cloud and carrier-neutral data centers.

Tags: cloud computing,cloud expo,cloud, carrier-neutral,data center,hosting

TMC’s Rich Tehrani speaks with Brian Patrick Donaghy, CEO, Appcore about how the company delivers local cloud infrastructure for Enterprise Private Clouds and Service Provider Public Clouds.

Tags: cloud computing,cloud expo,cloud,public cloud,carrier,enterprise,private cloud

Vecima Networks is delivering solutions for Fleet Management that boost productivity, support green initiatives and conforms to information transfer of driver log which will be required by DOT 1/1/14. The requirement will be that trucks stopping for weigh ins will also use Wi-Fi to transfer Drive Log information.

Tags: Neil Wieler, Carl Ford, Vecima Networks, Fleet Management, Green initiatives, route optimization, DOT compliance, 1/1/14, DOT, Weights and Scales.

Cradlepoint delivers Wi-Fi services via their embedded 3G /4G devices that allows restaurants and other retailers the ability to support customer Wi-Fi use while shopping. In addition, Cradlepoint is used by RedBox to support their commerce solutions. Cradlepoint is being used a variety of M2M, Cloud and other enterprise solutions. A key value of Cradlepoints solution is the fail over capability which they have demonstrated with Ethernet cable cuts being done on the show floor at previous event.

Tags: Cradlepoint, Ken Hosac, Carl Ford, Cloud, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G, Fail over, M2M, RedBox

nShare has expanded to support multilocation IP PBX solutions which allows the service provider to also offer the solution as both a hosted / cloud and premise based service. This enables the carrier to match their customers requirements of location while at the same time embedding disaster recovery.

Tags: Eric Hernaez, NetSapiens, PBX, IP-PBX, Hosted, Cloud, Managed Service, Carrier,

Digitalk provides a High Availability cloud solution that allows the carrier to implement their routing solutions without any hardware. This complements their high availability session controllers.

Tags: Wholesale, Termination, Cloud, Routing Tables, DigitTalk, Paul Bassa, Carl Ford

SNOM 710 is the latest phone that supports up to 4 SIP URIs and can be used either as a standalone or part of the system, including SNOM’s new miniPBX that can be used for up to 50 stations.

Tags: SNOM, IPBX, IP-PBX, SIP URI, SNOM 710, SNOM MiniPBX, Tommy Lee, Carl Ford

Doug Mohney reports on the iPhone5’s ability to support HD Voice which is active in Europe on the HSPA networks and not available in the US – yet. However, there is the possibility that Sprint has something planned for in the future.

Tags: HDVoice, iPhone5, Apple, Sprint, HSPA, HSPDA, GSM, CDMA, Joyn, Doug Mohney, Carl Ford

TMC’s Stefanie Mosca speaks with David Byrd, Chief Marketing Officer for ANPI about the company’s wholesale voice and data carrier solutions targeted at wireless service providers, CLECs, ILECs and interexchange carriers.

Tags: VoIP, data solutions, ANPI, carrier solutions

Bill Doyle tells Rich Tehrani from TMC about how Dexter helps carriers and other companies manage their backoffice operations – especially when it comes to using a blend of human and machine intelligence to maximize the efficiency of handling complex tasks requiring the analysis of billions of permutations.

Tags: carrier, service provider, back office, dexter

Kevin Bocek discusses the difference between security and compliance in the cloud and the adoption of cloud services in heavily regulated industries, like healthcare and financial services.

Tags: Ciphercloud, cloud security, cloud compliance, office 365, gmail, cloud apps, cloud communications, cloud services, regulatory comliance, healthcare technology, financial technology

Mannix O'Conner with MRV tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about his company's Carrier Ethernet and optical WDM solutions.

Tags: wdm,dwdm,optical,fiber,ethernet,carrier ethernet,networking,mrv,service provider,carrier

Z Hosain of Aeris Communications tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about his company's machine-to-machine (M2M) network.

Tags: wireless,m2m, machine-to-machine,carrier,service provider,aeris

Bernard Aboussouan from GainSpan discusses the opportunity in embedded M2M in healthcare and connected home markets.

Tags: Gainspan, m2m, machine to machine, wifi, connected home, connected healthcare, embedded mobility, chipsets

Joel Brand of Contextream tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about his company's software defined networking solutions focusing on carriers. He feels the service provider data center of tomorrow will resemble Google as opposed to the big iron carrier solutions of yesterday.

Tags: carrier,service provider,contextream,sdn,virtualization,software defined networking,google,yahoo,sun

Yossi Zohar tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about Amdoc's research in the zero touch customer management space which details the trend towards customers being ready to use mobile devices to effectively manage their interactions with carriers.

Tags: amdocs,crm,mobile crm,customer service,wireless,gadget,carrier,service provider

Steve Gleave tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about how Metaswitch enables carriers to be successful. In addition he explains how carriers need to potentially embrace OTT social services in order to compete. In other words competing with existing social solutions may not be feasible in any/all situations for service providers.

Tags: metaswitch,carrier,service provider,sbc,session border controller,class 4, class 5, softswitch,wireless,social,social networking,twitter,facebook

John Yung of Appcara details its company's solutions for application management which migrate between public and private clouds.

Tags: cloud computing,application lifecycle management,appcara,private cloud,public cloud,aws,appstack,appcara

Carriers can be more than a dumb pipe when it comes to M2M solutions.

Tags: axeda, m2m, carrier, at&t, value chain, white label, integrator, axeda connexion 2012

Mobile video conversations often suffer from service quality. Eyeball Networks guarantees 100% connectivity for it's voice and video over IP services for high quality mobile enterprise communications.

Tags: Eyeball Networks, VoIP, tablet, smartphone, video call, IP services, mobile video, eyeball networks, carrier-grade, video telephony, NAT Traversal, call quality

Sandy Orlando of IP Infusion tells Rich Tehrani about the company's SDN Solutions for mobile backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and more

Tags: : sdn, software-defined networking, network equipment manufacturers, NEMs, backhaul, carrier Ethernet, carrier, networking, service provider, public cloud, cloud computing, private cloud, cdn, ipv4, ipv6

Kosten Metreweli at OnApp tells Rich Tehrani about the company's cloud enablement solutions including its CDN and storage product lines

Tags: cloud computing, CDN, cloud storage, cloud services, IAAS, infrastructure as a service, carrier, service provider, amazon

Ixias Eddie Arrage tells Rich Tehrani about his company's purchase of network monitoring vendor Anue Systems (look up) as well as the company's evolving network testing and monitoring solutions

Tags: SDN, network testing, network monitoring, carrier, enterprise, cloud computing, virtualization,

Cradlepoints broad wireless business and focus on carriers has allowed it to grow with the expanding wireless market

Tags: wireless solution vendor, m2m, carrier, service provider,

Jack Jachner discusses with Rich Tehrani enterprise communications collaboration, the sale of genesis, benefits of provided enterprise and carrier solutions.

Tags: : PBX, Communications server, collaboration, IP Communications, IM, chat, SIP presence, iPad, smart phone, mobility, carrier, service provider, smb, skype, facebook

Carl Ford of Crossfire Media summarizes the event that took place in Santa Clara last week and speaks about the upcoming DevCon event in New York City

Tags: HTML5, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Rapheal.JS, ALICE, Node.JS, JTouch, JQuery, PhoneGap, Mobile Applications, Software Development, Web Development, Kiran Prasad, Linkedin, Jason Hoffman, Joyent, Sy Choudhury, Qualcomm, Carbon5, Adobe, SFUG, Peter Lubbe

Tags: HTML5, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Rapheal.JS, ALICE, Node.JS, JTouch, JQuery, PhoneGap, Mobile Applications, Software Development, Web Development, Kiran Prasad, Linkedin, Jason Hoffman, Joyent, Sy Choudhury, Qualcomm, Carbon5, Adobe, SFUG

TMC's Rich Tehrani speaks with Ryan McGee, Technical Expert, Ford Research and Innovation at CES 2012 in Las Vegas

Tags: ford motor company, ford, CES, Las Vegas, fuel cell, green, efficient cars, connected cars

TMC’s Chris DiMarco speaks with Carl Teo, President of Ecocarrier

Tags: Ecocarrier, ITEXPO West 2011

TMC's Stefanie Mosca speaks with Jim Carlson, CEO of Carlson Wireless

Tags: Carlson Wireless

TMC's Stefanie Mosca speaks with Carl Teo, President of EcoCarrier

Tags: EcoCarrier

TMC's Erik Linask speaks with Steven Ray of Carnegie Mellon

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TMC's Rich Tehrani speaks with Ray Bareiss, Director of Educational Programs for Carnegie Mellon

Tags: Carnegie Mellon

TMC’s Rich Tehrani speaks with Gary Johnson, President and CEO of Voice Carrier

Tags: Voice Carrier, San Jose

Tags: Voice Carrier, SMB-VoIP

For those of you traveling long distances this Summer, these apps are sure to help you get to your destination.

Tags: Rest Stops Plus, Roadside America, Trivia Master, Music Car Control Player,

Carl Ford speaks with Mitch Henyan, Director of Professional Services and Business Development for CareFusion at the Axeda Connexion 2011 event in Boston MA

Tags: CareFusion

Machine to Machine communications in the health world

Tags: carl ford, M2M

iPad2 and the future of communications

Tags: apple, carl ford, crossfire, 4gwe

4GWE Update and Mobile Enterprise

Tags: Carl Ford, Crossfire, 4GWE

David Nowicki demonstrates Airvana's femtocell solutions and how the technology can be used by carriers to provide a variety of enhanced services.

Tags: Airvana, Femtocell, CTIA, David Nowicki, Carrier, Enhanced Services

TMC's Erik Linask speaks with Carl Teo, President, EcoCarrier

Tags: EcoCarrier, ITEXPO East 2010

Ericsson and Kapsch Win Bid for Nortel's...
Internet Use in the Classroom is Low...
Video Conference Calls Become Mainstream Technology...

Tags: Ericsson, Kapsch, CARDET, Eagle Conferencing

TMC's Erik Linask speaks with Kevin Breault, VP Sales & Business Development, Dash Carrier Services

Tags: Dash Carrier Services, ITEXPO West 2009

Telcobridges Reduces Carbon Footprints...
Proposed Changes to U.S. Tax…
Degama Software to Acquire IgeaCare…
D-Link Suggests Tech Gifts…

Tags: Telcobridges, Degama Software, IgeaCare, D-Link

Greg Galitzine speaks with Vixxi Solutions Senior VP of Sales Bucky Wallace and Dash Carrier Services VP Sales & Business Development Kevin Breault

Tags: dash carrier, vixxi solutions, tmcnet, itexpo, comptel