Yesterday marked the 138th anniversary of the first phone call. “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.” These were the first words spoken on the world’s first telephone call on March 10, 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell here in my hometown of Boston. The technology that made that call possible has been made obsolete long...
AT&T’s recent FCC filing describing the two trials for all-IP services and removal of TDM contains some interesting perspective and revelatory details on how one of the largest providers of voice and data will firmly move into the all-IP world this decade. The end-of-life of the PSTN is coming soon and the cloud can play...
Alianza’s views on legacy migration/transformation were illuminating, starting with: “One of the secrets: don’t rebuild or run a voice network – outsource it to the cloud!”
This is a nice way to start the new year: Carrier Cloud Voice, Alianza’s joint VoIP solution with Level 3 wins a 2014 Product of the Year award from Internet Telephony.
Given the business model transformation that service providers have demanded and vendors have failed to deliver for VoIP, I think 2013 showed some strong momentum for an emerging voice delivery model that addresses that need. Here at Alianza we believe a new technology and business model is essential for VoIP given market dynamics and the...
Service providers have a high-wire act to pull off: they must balance the need to have voice services in their portfolios along with the mandate to reduce spending on that very network.
LINDON, Utah, December 5, 2013 – Alianza, Inc., the leader in cloud voice platforms, announced today that Kevin Dundon has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Business Development. In his new role Dundon is responsible for overall revenue growth at Alianza, including partner development and strategic customer relationship management.
Since joining Alianza in March I’ve spoken with a number of industry analysts about VoIP market dynamics and why there is a compelling need to change how voice services are delivered. Some analysts I’ve know for many years since my days as a member of that same institution of industry illuminators or from my time...
I absolutely love this new article by Geoffrey Moore on the power of software as a service (SaaS) business model. In SaaS’s Real Triumph he writes: “by far the greatest contribution of SaaS is to free the enterprise from the tyranny of the product release model.“ He cites the operational burden, enterprise-wide distraction, and associated...
At last month’s Competitive Carrier Association Convention I was interviewed by bnetTV about the Alianza VoIP solution, working with mobile providers and why the CCA is an important organization. Here is the video clip of the interview.
