It is almost October, when my beloved Minnesota Twins shall attempt again to do what they did in 1987 and 1991. This morning, my mother mentioned that a complete recording of a 1960's era World Series was found among the many video recordings in Bing Crosby's collection (I assumed it was on videotape, since his company, Bing Crosby Enterprises, was instrumental in the invention of videotape). So I pulled up Wikipedia, read about the history of videotape, recalled with fondness the Beta vs. VHS war of the 1980s, and then recalled a more recent "format war" from about 10 years ago. It was all about MPLS.More...

Love reading all these blogs about “convergence” from a technology standpoint. But I think there’s a gap in the dialog. Viewing convergence from a network/technology (i.e. supplier/carrier) standpoint doesn’t necessarily align with convergence from a user standpoint. More...

In my role as Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Sprint, I obviously need to pay attention to the shifting winds in the industry.  I thought it would be helpful to share with you seven shifts that I think will be particularly meaningful to business telecom managers. More...

The Is-VoIP-Dead debate goes on, and it’s performing a valuable public service by making us all re-examine what VoIP was, what it is now, and how it fits into the AoIP (Applications over IP) concept that Steve Parrott talked about on January 19. More...

Steve Parrott made lots of good points in his blog entry about the VoIP-is-Dead Debate, but I’d like to focus on one comment in Om Malik’s original GigaOM posting quoting Alec Saunders on VoIP. Saunders characterized VoIP this way: “Voice over IP is just a transport and signaling technology. It’s plumbing.” More...

The blogosphere has been buzzing about whether VoIP is dead, ever since Alec Saunders posted 2008: The Year that VoIP died on his blog, which lead to other posts, including a post by Om Malik on his GigaOM blog. Each has presented some interesting points though it’s a debate that I feel is missing the point. More...

If you’re confused about unified communications and what it can do for your company, you’re not alone. Actually, you’re in the majority. More...

I don’t know about you, but I’ll be glad when VoiceCon arrives. By then the election will be behind us and we can focus on moving forward, leaving behind such distractions as Sarah Palin’s glasses and Barack Obama’s middle name. More...