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The Copa Argentina (English: Argentine Cup), officially known as the "Copa Argentina Sancor Seguros" due to sponsorship reasons, is an official tournament organized by Argentine Football Association (AFA), with the aim of qualifying clubs for the Copa Sudamericana. The first editions of the championship were contested by teams in Primera División that did not earn eligibility to participate in the Copa Libertadores of the following year, and by the best clubs in the regional leagues.
The tournament was re-launched in 2011, with teams of all divisions that form the Argentine football league system taking part of the championship.[1] [2]
Boca Juniors is the most successful team with two titles, (1969 and 2011-12).
A new international competition, Copa Ganadores de Copa, would be held by CONMEBOL in 1970 as the South American equivalence of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. AFA thus started a cup competition, the Copa Argentina, in 1969 and the winner would qualify for the Copa Ganadores de Copa 1970.
The competition was contested by 32 teams using a two-legged elimination format. Two points were awarded for winning a leg, one for a draw and null for a loss. The teams having more points would qualify to the next round. If both teams had same numbers of point, it would be determined by the total number of goals, total number of goals conceded, and penalty shootout accordingly.
First edition: 1969[edit]
All teams in the Primera División Argentina participated the competition with some top teams from the regional leagues, except teams that had already qualified to the Copa Libertadores, namely, Vélez Sársfield and River Plate, the winners and runners-up of 1968 Nacional respectively, and Estudiantes de La Plata, the champions of 1968 Copa Libertadores.[3]
Boca Juniors and Atlanta entered the final. Boca won the tournament by defeating Atlanta 3-2 on aggregate after two matches were played.
However, as Boca later won the 1969 Nacional and qualified to the 1970 Copa Libertadores, Atlanta qualified to the 1970 "Copa Ganadores de Copa" as the runner-up.[3]
Second edition: 1970[edit]
Apart from teams that had got the Copa Libertadores eligibility, namely Boca Juniors and River Plate, the champions and runners-up of Nacional 1969, and Estudiantes de La Plata, who won the Copa Libertadores 1969, all clubs in the Primera División Argentina participated this competition. The champions of Primera B, Ferro, also took part in the tournament, alongside with 13 top clubs from regional leagues.[4]
Copa Argentina 1970 never finished. 32 teams played the competition and San Lorenzo and Vélez Sársfield entered the final. The tournament had been lasting for a long period in that year. Starting in March 1970, the first leg of the final was played in March 1971. At that time, the Copa Ganadores de Copa, which the winner of Copa Argentina would be qualifying for, had already started. Moreover, as Huracán Buceo and Deportes Concepción, the two other team in the same group with the Argentine representative in the Copa Ganadores de Copa, had not confirmed their participation, so the organizer announced the Copa Ganadores de Copa would become a friendly tournament.[5] Therefore, after the first leg of the Copa Argentina final was held, which the teams drew 2-2, the second leg was never played. No Argentine teams participated in the Copa Ganadores de Copa 1971.
The reschedule of the Copa Argentina -officialized in 2011-[6] includes 186 teams of 7 divisions of the Argentine football league system in a knock-out system competition. All the matches are disputed in neutral locations. The teams of the first division are included in rounds of 32. The champion of the tournament will qualify for the next edition of Copa Sudamericana.
For the relaunching of the tournament, a new trophy was designed. The cup, made of aluminium, was manufactured at the Norberto Ambrosetti factory of Lobos, Buenos Aires.[7]
The 2012 final between Boca and Racing was scheduled many times due to fixture congestion. The match was finally played on August 8, 2012, at the Estadio del Bicentenario in San Juan.[8] Boca Juniors won its second trophy after defeating Racing Club by 2-1.[9]
The 2012–13 Copa Argentina was scheduled to begin October 23, 2012 in a new two-phase knock-out competition.[10]Arsenal defeated San Lorenzo and won its first trophy of this competition.
The 2013–14 Copa Argentina began in October 30, 2013
The following is the list with the finals played:
|Boca Juniors
|3–1, 0–1
|Boca Juniors
|San Lorenzo
|0–0 (5–4 p)
|Rosario Central
- 1 San Lorenzo and Vélez Sarsfield qualified to play the finals. The first match ended 2–2, and the second leg was never played so there was not a champion.
Titles by club[edit]
|Years won
|Boca Juniors
|1969, 2011–12
- ^ "Confirmaron el lanzamiento de la Copa Argentina", El Cronista, 18 May 2011
- ^ "Presentaron la Copa Argentina", Diario Uno, 19 May 2011
- ^ a b 1969 Copa Argentina - RSSSF
- ^ 1970 Copa Argentina - RSSSF
- ^ Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes 1971
- ^ "En medio de las polémicas, Grondona lanzó la Copa Argentina", Notio, 2011-05-19
- ^ "Concluyó la realización en alumnio de la Copa Argentina", Lobos News, 14 May 2012
- ^ 2012 fixture
- ^ "Boca se sacó la espina y pegó el grito de campeón", Clarín, 8 August 2012
- ^ "Se larga la segunda edicion", 18 October 2012
External links[edit]
- Official website (Spanish)
- Argentina - Domestic Cup History - Argentine Cups, RSSSF.com

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Nicole da Silva (born 18 September 1981) is an Australian actress. She is well known for her roles in Wentworth as Franky Doyle and in Southern Star's AFI award winning drama Rush as Senior Constable Stella Dagostino, for which she received continuous critical acclaim over the show's four-season run. Nicole also gained a Best Actress nomination at the Monte Carlo Television Awards for her role in Carla Cametti PD, as well as a Graham Kennedy Logie Award nomination for 'Most Outstanding New Talent' for her role as E.C in Dangerous. Other television roles include East West 101 and All Saints.
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Da Silva commenced her acting career in 2005 when she received a recurring role in the medical drama series All Saints, as Sasha Fernandez. In 2007 and 2009, she appeared in leading roles in the short-lived drama series' Dangerous with Khan Chittenden and Brooke Satchwell, and in Carla Cametti PD, both of which consisted of one season. She received a Logie Award nomination in 2008 for her role in Dangerous. Da Silva was recognized for her role in the police drama series Rush as Senior Constable Stella Dagostino, which played in all four seasons from 2008 until the show's cancellation in 2011. Her television guest roles include Home and Away[when?] and East West 101.[when?]
Da Silva is perhaps best known for her role in the SoHo television drama series Wentworth, a reimagining of the classic Network Ten series Prisoner (Prisoner: Cell Block H), which ran from 1979 to 1986. Da Silva portrays Franky Doyle (initially played by Carol Burns in Prisoner), a tough lesbian inmate of Wentworth Correctional Facility fighting for the position of top dog, until fellow inmate Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack) takes her on in a fight in season two, forcing Franky to step down and proudly announce Bea as the new top dog. Da Silva earned an Astra Award for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor - Female in 2013 for her portrayal of Franky.[citation needed]
In 2014, da Silva appeared in the feature film Drama.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
In February 2014 she was announced as the first National Champion of UN Women NC Australia.
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Re: Best Planet Of The Apes sequel?
Enterprise is Great wrote:
I think that the Star Trek time cops really only care about timeline changes that affect them in their own time period.
There's a line in one of
's DTI novels that mentions Daniels and his people "isolating" a timeline. Specifically:
the one featuring the aborted new animated series, with the explosion of Omega molecules which tore the Federation in half and made much of the quadrant impassable to warp drive.
Maybe they did that with this one as well.
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A day after the defence ministry said it had "initiated action for cancellation of contract" in the VVIP chopper deal, Italian helicopter firm AgustaWestland remained defiant on Saturday, saying it is confident that "the good conduct" of its executives will come to light as far as the contract is concerned.
The manufacturer also claimed that the defence ministry has not cancelled the Rs 3546-crore contract for 12 choppers, but has only sought information on the recent investigations.
"As for media reports alleging that Indian authorities have cancelled the VVIP helicopters contract, AgustaWestland clarifies that the Indian ministry of defence has not cancelled the contract but has given notice requesting information within seven days. AgustaWestland is preparing its answers to timely meet the Indian ministry of defence's request," said a statement issued by the company today.
However, the defence ministry's statement on Friday clearly stated that the contract is being terminated. In the statement titled "MoD begins process of cancellation of AgustaWestland helicopter contract", the defence ministry said the firm has been put on a seven-day notice after which the contract will be terminated.
Reacting to the statement by the helicopter manufacturer today, defence ministry officials said the government's position is very clear and the process has been initiated to cancel the contract and recover the money that has already been paid.
"The government position could not be clearer. It has been stated that all payments that were being made to the company have been stopped. Also, a formal decision has been taken to terminate the contract. The seven-day notice is part of the procedure," said an official.
Sources said the process for recovery of the money that has already been paid by India would also begin after a formal cancellation of the contract for violation of the integrity pact that is very strict on the payment of bribes or commissions to middlemen. IAF personnel who are currently training in the UK to fly and maintain the choppers will also be called back shortly, while the three delivered choppers will be returned to the company.


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October 8, 2015 - In the past five years 33% of all new medicines approved by the American Food and Drug Administration have focused on rare disorders often called "orphan diseases." A category that numbers approximately 7,000, "orphan diseases" impact 350 million people around the planet. The best known is cystic fibrosis.
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And the Smallest Shall Lead - The Marshall Islands Tackle Renewable Energy
October 7, 2015 - Small island nations are most vulnerable to fluctuating energy costs. They also are most vulnerable to climate change. It makes sense, therefore, that their governments take the lead in finding a path to a sustainable future that doesn't rely on fossil fuels.
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October 5, 2015 - All the boxes have been unpacked. All the cupboards are stuffed to the gills. Finally I can begin to get back to what I like doing, writing about science, technology and the future.
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October 2, 2015 - This last week has proven to be tougher than both my wife and I thought. Moving at our age leads to lots of aches and pains. There is only so much that these old bones and muscles can endure before they protest seeking acetaminophen or something stronger to stop the ache.
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Money is the primary mechanism for storing and exchanging value, especially in our daily purchases, and it's heading rapidly into a faster, smarter and more mobile future. Nevertheless, the constant in the midst of change will remain levels of human trust in the proliferating forms of money.
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The East coast show is all cloud with many booths of with unknown logos. Granite, Bullseye, AT&T, Verizon, Windstream and, ooh, Sprint were the only telcos boothing it. I think that the agents may not care that much for the topics and the constant lectures from the stage of how they have to sell cloud or die. (I know I am.) For example, the topic sponsored by Broadsoft: The Death of PSTN.
There was a small invasion from global players with Telstra and Colt at the show, along with Portugal's IPBrick (pitching an open source Office365 product). Interesting to note that Cardi Prezzi and Carl Grivner were at PacNet when Telstra bought. Prezzi is still at Telstra Enterprise. Grivner is the next CEO of Colt.
The CLECs were talking (to me) about Managed MPLS with fail-over to broadband. Both Level3 and AireSpring spent some time telling me about this option being available now. While several people think MPLS is on the way out, both carriers said that MPLS is stil a hot seller.
Considering that a utility in CT still runs a frame relay network, I am guessing that all those pronouncements of things dying are just hopeful wishes.]]>
DCI-TRAQ will allow agents to get information, collateral and quotes about data center infrastructure, like PAAS, IAAS, VPS, colocation, virtualization, hybrid cloud. (Yes, every keyword I could think of.) Take a listen for yourself.
Note: I would classify it as a partner portal with a knowledge base, similar to the Microcorp"s Nautilus™, "the most advanced, accessible, back office portal for managing the sale and support of telecom and cloud solutions."
I will see Dany in Boston in a couple of weeks. If you will be in Boston, let's meet for coffee.
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BTW, we both agree that training is a necessity for partners to really own cloud services.
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Rumor has it that there will be a new Channel Chief at EarthLink.
DaaS provider, nGenx, appointed IndependenceIT Alum, Scott Markley as a channel sales executive.
"Master agency Converged Network Services Group (CNSG) has passed $1 million in monthly billing with Windstream, earning exclusive partner status." [channelvision] That is quite a goal.
One of Birch's channel partners, Renodis, has decided to roll Birch's cloud services out to its customers. This coming after Birch lost a court battle with another partner, TDM. Just goes to show you that for every agent with a horror story for a CLEC, there is another agent that doesn't know what the fuss is about.]]>
On the pre-med school path in college, The Dip is Organic Chemistry. You have to pass it in order to even think about succeeding in med school.
I think in telecom The Dip is cloud services. You can dabble at it, but that is like going on a diet. The diet works only if you dedicate and commit to the diet.
Up till now, telecom was all about replacement sales. Sure, there were some complex sales that involved network design, security, maybe some compliance issues, but no one had to be a sales engineer just to talk about it. And these kinds of deals were not every week.
Now we are at a point where cloud is in the mind and business plans of the customers. They are looking for someone to guide them through it. It being the intangibility of cloud and the plethora of AAS. Public, private, hybrid. SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, VPS. There is a lot to know. Security, disaster recovery, data integrity, backup, compliance, privacy, mobility, BYOD, yadda yadda. It is overwhelming for the sales channels in the space. Imagine what it is like for the buyers?
You can choose to continue to do business as you have. And that's fine. I saw an article on LinkedIn today about saving money on telecom. *facepalm* So obviously this is still going on (and will continue for a while). Just remember, selling the network (layers 1-3 on the OSI Model) is the EASY part. The person who sells your customer applications, AAS, cloud or even managed services will easily take the network piece away from you.
Cloud/AAS is The Dip. You can choose to push through it with learning, training, a renewed energy for the unknown or the new frontier - or you can choose to recognize the dip and go another way. It is a Dip because it is a chasm of new terms, technical detail, moving parts, integration, migration and more. It requires a change in the way that you sell. Cloud isn't a replacement service. You can try to sell it that way, but no one will be happy.
With cloud you are selling change. It is a tough road. According to a number of studies, SMB decision makers choose to go to cloud for flexibility, productivity and competitiveness. To get those gains, you have to change. So sell that change. It's a Dip not a Dead End or a Desert.]]>
We saw Netwolves do it earlier this year with IBM and Palo Alto Networks. IBM just announced a deal with Box. Many CLECs white label managed services and cloud services. MozyPro and SilverSky are probably two of the more popular CLEC vendors.
What does this mean for the channel? Bundles are easier to sell. More value. And partners don't have to worry about integration. (Not every partner has the skills for software integration.)
On the flip side, it means more partners have to embrace Solution Selling. These bundles don't really replace anything. These services are about adding productivity, security, efficiency and, yeah I'll say it one more time, integration into the business. These types of solutions can be about BPI - business process improvement. Selling BPI requires discovery. That's Solution Selling. Tying business outcomes to technology.
We will be seeing more of these partnerships as consumerized apps like Box make a move up-market. And they will be taking the channel with them.]]>
So what does a channel partner do when Gigabit is just $70?
You can try to sell it, but who wants to even do the paperwork for a $70 circuit?
Usually there is a triple-play bundle (even to businesses) for no more than $300. So what are you going to do?
You can educate the customer on the difference between best effort broadband and dedicated Internet access, what an SLA is and how vital the Internet is to her business. That is a starting point.
You can sell a backup circuit - 4G or fixed wireless or duopoly (cable/dsl).
You can talk about the Internet traffic. What is going over that pipe? VoIP, conferencing, video, SAAS, what? That will lead you to the many OTT apps that you can offer, like Hosted Exchange, Voice Powered Office365, Hosted PBX, mobile device management, CRM and so much more. However, to do that, you have to step away from network. You would have to leave the comfort of selling the replacement service that has been your security blanket since LD went away.
The funny thing is businesses are going to teh cloud. They are buying cloud -- just not from you. Change that. You don't have to be an expert on everything. You just have to get comfortable being uncomfortable and learning as you go. Trust in your Partners. Or go sell $70 broadband, but you better be selling 2 per day!!!
You could sell security or disaster recovery.]]>
Some gems of advice for agents here, including how sticky cloud services are. Still relevant after 5 years despite 3 of the 4 companies represented being acquired.
There are 4 parts.]]>
Considering my client has been waiting 2 months to port DIDs from an AT&T PRI to Birch POTS lines, no kidding AT&T is not a Phone Company any more! Plus I have other clients that AT&T is calling to tell them to get off the copper. Move to fiber. The company only has one T1 technician for large areas (covering 5-6 central offices).
"We don't view ourselves as a phone company anymore," said Ralph de la Vega, the company's longtime mobile chief who took on greater responsibilities beyond phones after a company reorganization. [source]
AT&T is focused on Latin America and other global expansion; TV (hence the DirecTV acquisition it is still waiting for); US cellular with MDM and IoT; and home automation. It is now doing what Sprint tried to do 6 years ago by leading the cellular ecosystem with applications, tracking, etc. Even Verizon is getting out of the phone business. It is selling its stakes in FL, CA and TX to Frontier.
Europe is trending with all-Wi-Fi-based voice and data service. The US has a few versions of this - like Republic Wireless, FreedomPop, and Cablevision. Cablevision owns Freewheel, a wi-fi only device "powered by cableco's wi-fi hotspots". Is there enough wi-fi coverage to supplant a cellular data plan? Not yet anyway.
Bill Miller is making the case that the desk phone is going away. This is Part 2. I made the case against that notion HERE.
"Are carriers - now branching out beyond circuits and voice into all manner of cloud services, vertical offerings and even professional services - bringing channel partners along on this ride?" Good question from CP. In some cases, YES. In some cases, a specialized service provider like West IP or InContact make a better case for a channel partner.
I don't know how well EarthLink's retail offerings are pulling in the channel, but the story is right. It just depends on how many channel partners are selling retail (and trust EarthLink).
How many Channel Partners are out there? Another good question. At one time, it was said that the telecom channel was 7,000 strong. Just agents is probably in the 3500 range. Then on the VAR side, what used to be estimated at between 42,000 and 65,000 has probably shrunk to about half of that on the high side - 32K. Many VARs are still in business but doing other things like programming, integration and other tech work. Just selling stuff was never what they liked to do. But we can fight over these numbers any time you want.
A collection of start-up pitch decks. Look at the difference between deck 1 and 2 for MatterMark. I am coaching at Startup Surge Tampa next Friday. This will come in handy.]]>
Before Wall Street became so important, these kinds of scenarios wouldn't have occurred. the exit strategy wasn't on the forefront of everyone's mind -- it wasn't the driver of business decisions. Today, it is all that is thought about. Not how to build a great brand or how to wow customers, but how soon can we exit with millions stuffed in our pocket. Pretty said. It makes everything a commodity to be bought and sold.
TWC is the only top MSO to not take voice seriously. Even its sister cableco, Bright House, acquired a Broadsoft shop to gain some much needed VoIp experience. Charter, Cox, Comcast and Cablevision offer business hosted voice powered by a Broadsoft. Not TWC. But they did buy Navisite, which I still can't grasp.
The thing of it is: Telecom still sucks. I am waiting - today is 31 days - since the order was accepted by Birch for a port. It has been 9 days for a business triple-play from Comcast and no site survey done or numbers. Getting AT&T to pull copper to a new building took months. And everyone knows that a FOC date is anything but solid. Everything in telecom is one huge mess -- which is why agents still have an important part to play in the whole mess. Project management and voice of the customer!!]]>
One MPLS network is worth a lot more than 3 x 10MB DIA sites. When companies talk about moving up to mid-market, it is primarily that the size of the deal will make it worthwhile. The saying goes that it takes the same amount of time to sell 100 seats as 10 seats. That saying is said because it is true most of the time. After 7 phone calls and 40 emails, you eventually say screw it on a 10 seat deal. For 100 seats you will stick it out longer and push through the inertia of the deal.
Math: 100 seats is about $4200 and will ride on good plumbing, while 10 seats will be about $350 and ride on bad plumbing. It is almost a losing proposition when you think about all the project management and post-sales issues. Even at 20 points, that $70 check is going to look puny until you get 30 of them.
Multi-location deals are where the money is. You can bundle more into a multi-location deal - or at least farm it later for more share of the IT/telecom budget - with items likethe MPLS network (or WAN circuits), voice, security, conferencing, hosted email, backup and maybe some SaaS. It makes for a very nice deal.
The lag time between starting the sale till ink, then from ink until commission check is a really LONG time. And if that is a 10 seat deal or a 10MB Internet pipe, you are going to be staring at the check (months later) and thinking: Why am I doing this?
You will need long term thinking or you will start looking for a W-2 position right away. I saw many telecom sales people jump into agency and jump out because of the money. Couple that with as a newbie agent you have to do sales, paperwork, follow up, proposals, project management, quoting, etc. all by yourself. It makes for long busy days - that result in that first tiny check.
VARs don't like telecom because the puny check comes with so many strings that can mess up their relationship with the customer. Voice service being a bigger can of worms than data.
I have a voice deal now - SIP trunks on fiber and POTS lines for alarms, etc. - and the ILEC keeps stalling. techs come and go but haven't installed the copper. The certificate of occupancy for the building requires dial-tone. Three inspections were failed due to FOC dates that are meaningless. It is crazy the number of people involved in the project - yet no one has responsibility or knows what is going on. As the agent, I look like an idiot. It is a demonstration on why VARs don't want to do voice.
When you look at CDW, they have a telecom agency that produces quite a bit of commissions, but it is a tiny fraction of the $12 billion in revenue that CDW did in 2014. It kind of explains why Tech Data ($26.8 Billion) never really invested in the relationships with Cbeyond, Telovations, XO and Microcorp.
Commissions are declining along with revenue and prices. Long term that will have an effect on the sector.
Multi-location businesses and enterprises are the golden goose that everyone is chasing. It used to be just the RBOCs but now every service provider has turns its attention to this target. Red Ocean.
Makes me wonder what will happen with SMB, especially the VSB (10 employees and under). Self service?]]>
Storagecraft writes, "According to a study by CompTIA, four out of 10 IT companies are monitoring the impact cloud computing has on the MSP market before deciding to offer managed services."
"ScanSource CTO Greg Dixon explains why it's imperative for solution providers to build managed services into their product offerings in order to boost recurring revenue and expand their value add." [source]
Let's examine each one.
First, the Duopoly doesn't even do research. They have industry labs (e.g., CableLabs) and vendors that do the research and development. G.fast wasn't developed in an ILEC lab. So if the Duopoly isn't doing R&D, how would a VAR? Is Comcast doing R&D? No. Cable Labs does it for them.
On developing IP (intellectual property), I have to wonder what they mean. Most VoIP providers have noone of their own IP. ISPs don't have any IP; hence why so many were open to DSL patent suits. [see here and here]
On the second point: Build their own cloud services. Well, MCPs (Microsoft Certified Partners) used to run their own MS Exchange email servers and Small Business Services for small business. Microsoft kind of squashed with the end of life of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and SBS and the launching of its own cloud services, highlighted by Office365.
Channel partners are being encouraged to resell from the cloud brokerage platforms that Ingram and Tech Data have. These cloud services brokerage (CSB) compete directly against the carriers. They offer email, backup, apps, CRM, etc.
Backup services are offered by a number of VARs and MSPs. These partners already offer managed router and other managed services. Again this is directly in competition with the carriers and other vendors.
It isn't cheap - CAPEX wise - to start a cloud services business. One could buy IAAS or PAAS or VPS and resell it to customers, but that is low margin, low control business.
I looked at a few MSPs. Global Data Systems is on the MSP Mentor Top 50 list. GDS is a CLEC and Cisco VAR with MSP lines of business. Is that the model that these channel experts are advocating?
Claris is a cloud provider and a healthcare MSP. Other than some network, what kind of partner would Claris be to the Duopoly?
Appia is on the MSP Mentor list too. They are a Hosted UC shop. Appia advocates to VARs that their business model is dying - so they have that in common with channel experts.
There are VARs that perform system integration. It is a special skill set - one that even the Duopoly can't provider (which might be why they want the partners to do it).
The dig on Agents as channel partners is that Agents are mainly good at transactional sales like network services. They aren't very good at selling cloud or managed services. I think that will be proven incorrect in the next couple of years.
One thing that all the partners can provide: a multi-vendor solution or complete solution selling. I'm not certain that all carriers want to see a multi-vendor solution being presented. Until the carriers themselves offer a turn-key solution, customers will lean on channel partners for one. (And this is actually the sweet spot that Agents need to step up into.)]]>
Arnold says that it is presented as a TDM replacement service. Why then is VCE promoted online in VZ Enterprise? Mixed messaging from a company with so much segmentation and so many divisions no one can find anything or talk to anyone. [This from experience. Note I am a telecom agent who has tried to sell VZB; I am a Tampa resident where VZ used to be the ILEC; I have VZ wholesale clients.]
Back in the day, every CLEC offered Integrated T1s which were used for converged POTS replacement. Today, every single CLEC now offers Hosted PBX. Every ILEC and RLEC offers HPBX, too. In the case of RLECs, they are targeting small business like they have never done before.
There are almost 28 million small businesses in the US and over 22 million are self employed with no additional payroll or employees, according to the SBA. (That's about 5.8 million businesses with less than 500 employees = the target market. BTW, that works out to 2900 businesses per provider offering HPBX. Simple Signal had just 1600, so 2900 could be a healthy business.)
One Problem: Cable
Comcast Business Services revenue increased 21.9% to $4.0Bn (that is 60% of growth driven by small businesses and ~40% driven by mid-size businesses). "Low penetration with a large $20-$30Bn addressable market!" In other words, Comcast isn't finished vacuuming up the SMB market with its voice and Internet offerings yet. (Which is good news for VARs, the preferred partner of the cable sisters).
Comcast sells more Broadsoft licenses than any other company in the US every month. Polycom doesn't even have a class to put them in, since Platinum Partner doesn't cut it. (TelePacific is a Platinum Partner.) My guess is Comcast probably sell as much as the next 4 combined in the Top 10 Hosted VoIP space.
"Speaking to investors during the Sanford C. Bernstein Thirtieth Annual Strategic Decisions Conference, Jeff Gardner, CEO of Windstream, told investors that cable will continue to focus most of its attention on the small to medium (SMB) business space....The customers that cable is chasing typically spend less than $750 a month," according Fierce.
The RBOCs gave up the SMB race to cable. They were purely focused on wireless -- but it came at a price. The RBOCs talk about the copper plant problem, but it is what is keeping revenue flowing. Their wholesale UNE and T1 business, their own U-Verse service, and even EoC are all riding that copper plant, providing them with revenue -- and customers who are not giving all of their money to cable.
If VZ IS indeed targeting SMB, it is a little late. You can't sell off 1.5 million of the 5.5 million FiOS customers and all that wireline territory (and fight to replace copper with fixed LTE), and still say you have an answer for small biz. Sure in tiny pockets (and in cellular). Yes, VCE can ride OTT -- putting it in competition with the vast majority of companies that have been providing Hosted VoIP for a long time like 8x8, RC, FV, Nextiva.
VZ just made a noise at the Channel Expo. Well, an exec from VZ Enterprise was a keynote speaker, so I guess you call that buzz. The only buzz I heard was over the agent agreement, which contains as many gotchas as it has in previous renditions - you know, all the other times that Verizon opened or re-vamped its channel program.
If VZ wants help selling VCE, it is going to have to actually become channel friendly. A video with two partners reading cue cards isn't going to cut it. The cable sisters have been wooing the channel for 4 years without any blunders. They have put a lot of feet on the street. Not certain that VZ can mount that same type of push without seriously embracing the channel (starting with the agreement and providing a road map to SME and contacts inside VZ that won't be useless before the ink dries. And by useless I mean, many employees are going to Frontier with the sale in 2016; others are always being let go; the remaining folks are so burnt out or overworked that their voicemail is always full and their email inbox is close to maximum capacity.
VZ exhibited at the show, but I can't remember their booth. I remember Jive because of the green Jeep. AT&T because of the espresso bar (thanks btw!). Windstream, Simple Signal, Vonage, Equinix, AireSpring - because of size and placement. Tata and Rackspace because like why are they here?! VAR Dynamics because Tony, duh! TelePacific because of the folks trying to ride the stationary bikes to light up the board. The VoIP folks tend to blend together because take away the logo and it could be anyone's booth. I noticed master agencies like TBI, Colotraq and Telarus. But can't recall the VZ booth.
It is very hard to change culture under the big top that is Verizon. Verizon has so many fiefdoms - wireless, enterprise, residential, telecom, VZB, et al. The product catalog is so vast - except that the channel can only sell a portion of it and to only a portion of the businesses. That makes it a challenge - channel conflict, deal registration, commission debates.
I look at VCE and think: is VZ serious about this offering? They have so many voice products. This one isn't even bundled with cell phones or tablets - even Sprint can make a cellphone an extension off Broadsoft. AT&T has an integrated bundle of mobile and Hosted VoIP with its RingCentral offering. VCE has to up its game a little. At least VCE will still be a viable offering post sale to Frontier for agents. It isn't tied to wireline or territory.
I wonder if the Enterprise focus isn't because now that cable owns so much of the SMB market that most CLECs have moved up market. Where it just used to be the RBOCs and maybe Sprint or Qwest fighting for GEM accounts, today it is Windstream, Level3, CenturyLink, AT&T, Verizon, Frontier, Cable and a number of smaller but specialized players like Masergy or Mettel. That is a lot of competition and pricing pressure - in the last bastion of high margin service offerings, in an arena that they used to own (like they owned SMB).
To me, it is the Big Dog who has been lauding over his kingdom for a long time, who took a look and realized that someone was eating not just his lunch but his garden too. And now they have to figure out how to, not just stave it off, but turn it around, because that $116 Bn in debt isn't going away. The other players are all seeing declining revenue in wholesale and other areas due to price compression and competition. VZ probably is too. Continuing market share erosion and slipping revenue coupled with the pending sale of 3 states means that VZ better make some big moves fast. And by big moves I don't mean more acquisitions. I mean, start smartly marketing your services while embracing the channel.]]>
During the prospecting stage, the Service Provider (SP) loves the Partner. Loves them.
Of course they love a free lead generation machine. Who wouldn't?!
But then the sale closes. And the CEO and CFO look at that balance sheet. That commission line item is so big! Why does it keep growing? Why do we keep paying agents for deals that closed more than a year ago?
It's called a contract, you big C-Suit wearing doofus. We bring you business according to this agent agreement we both signed. We hope you honor it - even though, even as we put ink to that piece of paper, we know that at least once, you will likely disregard this piece of paper and screw us.
"At that time the agent is valuable, but if you ask the same person about the agent and the account a year later, they have forgotten the value," an agent wrote me recently.
Channel executives have a quiet secret: that CFO's and CEO's make them justify the channel every year.
As consolidation accelerates, more agent business will be held by fewer companies. (With the tw telecom purchase, Level3 gets a bigger piece of agents' business. Zayo increases an agent's holdings with each acquisition.) It's a sobering thought.]]>
Reason 1 that some people need a slap is Larry Walsh on CPZ saying that partners need to spend money on R&D. Never mind that he doesn't explain what he means by R&D. How does he not understand that partners are sales distribution channels for carriers. The R&D should be coming from the carrier. Innovation and Telecom today means a new app to run on a smartphone.
G.fast, WebRTC, MIMO and the like come from the hardware (CPE) vendors for the most part. These are not embraced by the Duopoly, but by companies on the fringe of the telecom ecosystem (like Citrix, Dialogic, Vidtel).
Reason 2: Verizon's Schijns: Partners Need to Market Themselves Better. Partners need to market? Your shiny brand is being sullied by a lot of actions that fly in the face of the rules and laws (encryption blocking, Netflix scuffle, paid prioritization, FCC $1.25 mill fine, FCC $7 mill fine for privacy). Schijns, do you realize that marketing is more than telling people you sell stuff, right? Marketing is literally everything a company does, every aspect of it. It's actions define a company. So what are your actions saying about your company? A lot (and none of it good). VZ actions lately says VZ will do anything in the name of the almighty dollar even trample over our customers who provide that dollar. What partner would want to associate with that brand??
Reason 3: the repeated advice to the channel about how they should run their business.
Your direct sales force for the past couple of months is quoting $3000 for 10GB circuits to my customers, while the quotes I get range from $8K to $18K for the same circuits. So either there is an internal quoting issue or your direct sales folks are misquoting or your are screwing me.
Now let's talk about quota, revenue numbers and $3K 10GB waves, shall we? How in the world do you think you can meet Wall Street expectations when you give away waves???? With all the pricing pressure on every aspect of telecom, it is disturbing how much sales activity is necessary to make the same income. Who would have time for R&D or marketing when you are scrambling every day just to get ink? Then you look at the numbers on those contracts and you realize you can't take a celebratory lap yet because you have to sell even more.
Look, channel heads are giving a lot of advice to the channel partners on what they have to do. How about you focus on what your own company has to do?]]>


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So much for politesse, or lack thereof -- something to expect in a Kerry administration. Remember Debate Two? Kerry was unguardedly true to his sun-kingly self when justifying a tax hike for Americans, including small-business owners, who earn $200,000 or more. "Looking around here, at this group here," he said, "I suspect there are only three people here who are going to be affected" by his tax increase: himself, the president and ABC's Charles Gibson. In other words, John Kerry scanned that room full of American citizens and decided no one looked his equal. Le top bracket, c'est moi. Yuck.
Was he right? Not about voters' incomes, but, really, about anything? Was John Kerry right to champion the cause of North Vietnam's brutal communist dictators? (They think so: The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City depicts Kerry as a hero of its victory against the United States.) Was he right to boost the Soviet-supported Sandinista regime in Nicaragua? To knock the liberation of Marxist Grenada as a "bully's show of force"? To embrace the nuclear freeze movement during the height of the Cold War? To vote against the first Gulf War? If Americans elect John Kerry president, they will answer yes, validating a long career of uninterrupted, unshakeable leftism that has opposed, time and again, the expansion of freedom and democracy.
If Kerry had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, and in Kuwait. If Kerry had his way, Ronald Reagan's military expansion, which bloodlessly defeated the Soviet Union, would never have occurred. Indeed, Kerry called the Strategic Defense Initiative, the visionary straw that broke the U.S.S.R.'s back, a "cancer on our nation's defense." If, in a time of war, we elect a man whose idea of protecting American lives is holding summits, canceling such vital weapons programs as "bunker-buster" nukes, and allowing such enemies as Iran to keep its nuclear power plants in exchange for promises, we would not only be repudiating the security-boosting moral interventionism of President Bush. We would also be rejecting the doctrine of peace through strength that Ronald Reagan applied with triumphant result against communism's evil empire.
Of course, John Kerry called the Reagan years a "moral darkness." Was he right? I would hope the answer breaks the tie.
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CD34-Positive Cells Exhibit Increased Potency and Safety for Therapeutic Neovascularization After Myocardial Infarction Compared With Total Mononuclear Cells
ABSTRACT We compared the therapeutic potential of purified mobilized human CD34+ cells with that of mobilized total mononuclear cells (tMNCs) for the preservation/recovery of myocardial tissue integrity and function after myocardial infarction (MI).
CD34+ cells were purified from peripheral blood tMNCs of healthy volunteers by magnetic cell sorting after a 5-day administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), 5x10(5) CD34+ cells/kg, 5x10(5) tMNCs/kg (low-dose MNCs [loMNCs]), or a higher dose of tMNCs (hiMNCs) containing 5x10(5) CD34+ cells/kg was transplanted intramyocardially 10 minutes after the induction of MI in athymic nude rats. Hematoxylin and eosin staining revealed that moderate to severe hemorrhagic MI on day 3 was more frequent in the hiMNC group than in the PBS and CD34+ cell groups. Immunostaining for human-specific CD45 revealed abundant distribution of hematopoietic/inflammatory cells derived from transplanted cells in the ischemic myocardium of the hiMNC group. Capillary density on day 28 was significantly greater in the CD34+ cell group (721.1+/-19.9 per 1 mm2) than in the PBS, loMNC, and hiMNC groups (384.7+/-11.0, 372.5+/-14.1, and 497.5+/-24.0 per 1 mm2) (P<0.01). Percent fibrosis area on day 28 was less in the CD34(+) cell group (15.6+/-0.9%) than in the PBS, loMNC, and hiMNC groups (26.3+/-1.2%, 27.5+/-1.8%, and 22.2+/-1.8%) (P<0.05). Echocardiographic fractional shortening on day 28 was significantly higher in the CD34+ cell group (30.3+/-0.9%) than in the PBS, loMNC, and hiMNC groups (22.7+/-1.5%, 23.4+/-1.1%, and 24.9+/-1.7%; P<0.05). Echocardiographic regional wall motion score was better preserved in the CD34+ cell group (21.8+/-0.5) than in the PBS, loMNC, and hiMNC groups (25.4+/-0.4, 24.9+/-0.4, and 24.1+/-0.6; P<0.05).
CD34+ cells exhibit superior efficacy for preserving myocardial integrity and function after MI than unselected circulating MNCs.
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- "However, it should be emphasized that the whole spectrum of bone-marrow derived CD34+ cells contains cell fractions that do not present functional characteristics of progenitor or of stem cells. Preclinical studies have shown that despite of their heterogeneity, human CD34+cells can stimulate neovascularization in ischemic myocardium by increasing capillary density and improving function in models of acute and chronic myocardial ischemia [7]. Clinical trials in the field of cardiovascular medicine also provided evidence that enriched pools of autologous CD34+ cells can improve clinical outcome results when administered by intramyocardial, intravascular, or intramuscular injection and supported further clinical development of this treatment strategy [8], [9]. "
ABSTRACT: Circulating CD34+ progenitor cells () gained importance in the field of regenerative medicine due to their potential to home in on injury sites and differentiate into cells of both endothelial and osteogenic lineages. In this study, we analyzed the mobilization kinetics and the numbers of CD34+, CD31+, CD45+, and CD133+ cells in twenty polytrauma patients (n = 13 male, n = 7 female, mean age 46.5±17.2 years, mean injury severity score (ISS) 35.8±12.5 points). In addition, the endothelial differentiation capacity of enriched CD34+cells was assessed by analyzing DiI-ac-LDL/lectin uptake, the expression of endothelial markers, and the morphological characteristics of these cells in Matrigel and spheroid cultures. We found that on days 1, 3, and 7 after a major trauma, the number of CD34+cells increased from 6- up to 12-fold (p<0.0001) over the number of CD34+cells from a control population of healthy, age-matched volunteers. The numbers of CD31+ cells were consistently higher on days 1 (1.4-fold, p<0.01) and 7 (1.3-fold, p<0.01), whereas the numbers of CD133+ cell did not change during the time course of investigation. Expression of endothelial marker molecules in CD34+cells was significantly induced in the polytrauma patients. In addition, we show that the CD34+ cell levels in severely injured patients were not correlated with clinical parameters, such as the ISS score, the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II score (APACHE II), as well as the sequential organ failure assessment score (SOFA-2). Our results clearly indicate that pro-angiogenic cells are systemically mobilized after polytrauma and that their numbers are sufficient for the development of novel therapeutic models in regenerative medicine.PLoS ONE 05/2014; 9(5):e97369. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0097369 · 3.23 Impact Factor
- "In our in vivo model of recovery from radiation induced myeloablation, different cell populations were transplanted into sublethally irradiated mice. It has been shown that transplanted ECs do not engraft in the BM [45], however, peripheral blood [46], [47], bone marrow [18]–[20], liver [48], [49] or lung [50] derived ECs have also been isolated in vitro and the transplanted ECs could restore impaired neovascularization in a hind limb ischemia [47], [51] or myocardial ischemia [52], [53] model. In our study the transplanted BM ECs were able to home and lodge in the BM, either at or adjacent to the vasculature. "
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ABSTRACT: Two distinct microenvironmental niches that regulate hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell physiology in the adult bone marrow have been proposed; the endosteal and the vascular niche. While extensive studies have been performed relating to molecular interactions in the endosteal niche, the mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell interaction with bone marrow endothelial cells are less well defined. Here we demonstrate that endothelial cells derived from the bone marrow supported hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells to a higher degree than other endothelial or stromal cell populations. This support was dependant upon placental growth factor expression, as genetic knockdown of mRNA levels reduced the ability of endothelial cells to support hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in vitro. Furthermore, using an in vivo model of recovery from radiation induced myelosuppression, we demonstrate that bone marrow endothelial cells were able to augment the recovery of the hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. However, this effect was diminished when the same cells with reduced placental growth factor expression were administered, possibly owing to a reduced homing of the cells to the bone marrow vasculature. Our data suggest that placental growth factor elaborated from bone marrow endothelial cells mediates the regulatory effects of the vascular niche on hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell physiology.PLoS ONE 08/2013; 8(8):e67861. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0067861 · 3.23 Impact Factor
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- "Advances and expansions have been made involving therapeutic effects of BM-derived stem and progenitor cells. Formerly, transdifferentiation into vasculature and/or cardiomyocytes was thought to be the predominant mechanism responsible for cardiac regeneration or repair [17, 20, 21, 39-47]; however, recent studies exposed such notions were overestimated [48-50] and that humoral or paracrine effects are the main mechanisms. The humoral mechanism benefits regeneration or restoration of myocardium and peripheral vascular tissues by inducing neovascularization, protecting ongoing cell apoptosis and degeneration, and promoting regeneration of endothelial cells, cardiomyocytes, and smooth muscle cells through soluble factors or cell-to-cell contact [42, 51-58]. "
ABSTRACT: While bone marrow (BM)-derived cells have been comprehensively studied for their propitious pre-clinical results, clinical trials have shown controversial outcomes. Unlike previously acknowledged, more recent studies have now confirmed that humoral and paracrine effects are the key mechanisms for tissue regeneration and functional recovery, instead of transdifferentiation of BM-derived cells into cardiovascular tissues. The progression of the understanding of BM-derived cells has further led to exploring efficient methods to isolate and obtain, without mobilization, sufficient number of cell populations that would eventually have a higher therapeutic potential. As such, hematopoietic CD31(+) cells, prevalent in both bone marrow and peripheral blood, have been discovered, in recent studies, to have angiogenic and vasculogenic activities and to show strong potential for therapeutic neovascularization in ischemic tissues. This article will discuss recent advancement on BM-derived cell therapy and the implication of newly discovered CD31(+) cells.Blood Research 06/2013; 48(2):76-86. DOI:10.5045/br.2013.48.2.76