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TMCnet Week in Review: The BlogsGroup Editorial Director It’s been quite a week for news this week, and not just the run of the mill product announcements, customer wins and such. Some rather big things went down this week, and the TMCnet family of bloggers was all over the important developments.
It seems like a month has gone by, but in fact it was just this week that Obama officially tapped his former Harvard law classmate Julius Genachowski to head up the Federal Communications Commission or FCC (News - Alert). According to his bio, he was chief counsel to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, a VC and led the development of the president-elect's technology and innovation agenda. Rich also covered the ascension of Carol Bartz to the position of CEO at Yahoo!
The news spread like wildfire that a Verizon executive spoke to a Bloomberg reporter about a world, just seven years hence, when the carrier would no longer be offering voice over copper lines. So I thought, ok, yeah, that’s worthy of inclusion on my blog. The next day, Verizon’s senior VP of media relations Eric Rabe said, effectively: Not True! Which, I thought was, you know… worthy of inclusion in my blog too. The upshot? As Rabe wrote in the company’s Verizon Policy blog:
Perhaps the biggest story in telecom this week was Nortel filing for bankruptcy. Rich was ahead of the curve with his initial post, and then several of us followed, weighing in from various angles. I addressed the issue here and here, Tom Keating wrote about the Nortel situation on his VoIP and Gadgets Blog that
Rich followed up his original post with an interview he did with Nortel Enterprise President Joel Hackney, where Hackney played down the bankruptcy element of the week’s events and focused on the restructuring.
Peter Radizeski gives his insights here.
David Byrd (News - Alert) added his thoughts on his SIP and Serve blog, noting that as Nortel falls, another company in this space, AudioCodes, is rising.
And Brendan Read wrote a great piece about Nortel from the Canadian political perspective, and that any potential dismantling of Nortel to US firms would likely be a tough sell. Brendan, a Canadian with a political science background, writes that such a purchase in whole is not likely to happen:
HD Voice, or high-definition voice, based on wideband audio codecs was in the TMC (News - Alert) blog buzz this week as we announced plans to host a panel exploring the benefits of this emerging technology at the upcoming ITEXPO.
Rich, who will serve as the moderator of the panel, which features speakers from Polycom, AudioCodes, Texas Instruments (News - Alert), Octasic, and Alteva offered up some excellent analysis of the technology in his post, Communications Must Go HD.
Writing on TMCnet’s VoIP and Video over IP blog, GIPS VP of engineering Jan Linden continues the discussion of HD Conferencing as he describes a way to approximate a telepresence experience at a much lower cost.
Kim Devlin-Allen, writing in her IP Communications Design blog, revisits the issue of the health and vitality of VoIP and comes away with a positive feeling.
I wonder what Hunter Newby would say? For one thing we can expect he would make his case for proper naming conventions, as he takes the position in his VoIPeering blog that VoIP is NOT Internet Telephony.
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Greg Galitzine is editorial director for TMC’s IP Communications suite of products, including TMCnet.com. To read more of Greg’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here. Edited by Greg Galitzine |