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The Voice Report: Telecom Junkies – Marc Lindsey and George David. Summary: You can’t read the trade press these days without seeing ominous headlines about the recently announced “exhaustion” of IPv4 internet addresses and the imperative to adopt the new IPv6 number format. But is IPv4 exhaustion really an urgent […]
Joaquin Gamboa and Marc Lindsey. Unified Communications and Cloud Computing – Enterprise Connect (formerly VoiceCon) is the leading U.S. conference dedicated to information and communications technologies for the enterprise. During the 2011 conference, Marc Lindsey participated in a Keynote Panel. The session, “Will the Cloud Take Over Enterprise Communications?,” put […]
No Jitter (www.nojitter.com) Ben Fox & Kevin DiLallo All four national U.S. wireless network operators are now offering services branded as “4G.” As exasperating as it is to purists, marketing departments couldn’t give a hoot that none of these services actually fulfills the ITU’s data rate requirements for 4G. 4G […]
For many enterprises, procurements are an exercise in “filling in the blanks.” It doesn’t really matter what the customer is buying-office supplies, soap, ergonomic chairs-a procurement is just a matter of taking the customer’s boilerplate documentation, specifying the price, type and quantity of the applicable goods or services and-voilá!-there’s the […]
The vendors’ Terms of Service, Service Guides/Publications/Schedules are drafted by the vendors’ lawyers with no customer input, and they are rarely read by customers. Not surprisingly, they are grotesquely one-sided. You want examples? The vendors demand that you pay within thirty days of bill date; they never say that they’ll […]
Contrary to what the providers tell you, the correlation between commitment and great prices is a lot lower than the correlation between leverage and great prices. The provider sales teams get compensated in part on the basis of the commitments they secure. Commitments (unlike actual spend) are “bankable,” and a […]
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