Tag Archives: Cloud Communications

Avaya CPaaS – A Communications Platform for Today and Tomorrow

September 20, 2018 · by · in Avaya CPaaS, Zang · Leave a comment

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now… Joni Mitchell It wasn’t that long ago that ownership was everything.   I bought CDs for music and DVDs for movies.  I went to bookstores for the hottest summer reading.  I filled a filing cabinet drawer with disks to install TurboTax, Photoshop, Windows and Mac operating systems, and […]

Delivering SIP Via the Cloud

October 19, 2015 · by · in Cloud Communications, Unified Communications · Leave a comment

We have come to embrace cloud delivery for many critical business services and understand the value the cloud provides. On the surface, carrier SIP Trunks may look like a cloud service because they are delivered via an IP-like connection, but when you dive in, you find that they don’t share the typical benefits associated with […]

Cloud Communications for Business Continuity

March 12, 2014 · by · in Cloud Communications · Leave a comment

I hit a deer on my way to work Monday morning.  Actually, the deer hit me since I was minding my own business when it leapt into the path of my car.  Thankfully, I wasn’t hurt and the damage to my car is manageable.  Sadly, the same cannot be said for the deer. In case […]

The Need for Speed

February 24, 2014 · by · in Cloud Communications, Session Border Controller, Session Management, SIP · Leave a comment

I never saw the first computer I worked on.  It was 1975 and I was a senior at Coronado High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Those of us who took advanced math classes were allowed to sign up for a course in computer programming.   I forget the instructor’s name, but I remember that he only had […]

Computer Telephony Integration and API’s

November 12, 2013 · by · in Cloud Communications, Unified Communications · Leave a comment

I have been involved with communications Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) since the dawn of Computer Telephony Integration (CTI).  I remember flying to Beaverton, Oregon in 1993 to meet with Intel to discuss this thing they were cooking up with Microsoft that they called Telephony API (TAPI). Along with a few of my Nortel coworkers we […]

Current Trends in Unified Communications

October 28, 2013 · by · in Cloud Communications, Mobility, SIP, Unified Communications · 2 Comments

I’ve been in this industry longer than I care to admit.  I was working at Northern Telecom in the 1980’s when we announced something called “The Digital World.”   Not to be confused with the IP-PBX which came years later, this was the transformation away from analog telephony to digital telephones and ISDN.   Speaking of the […]

Cloud Communications

July 29, 2013 · by · in Cloud Communications, SIP · 2 Comments

Who among us doesn’t use cloud services every single day of his or her life?  I no longer download music to my iPhone.  Why should I when I can hear just about everything I want from Pandora, Spotify, or Amazon Cloud Player?  I’ve been using cloud-based email since the 1990’s.  I am an amateur photographer […]