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Cisco may now be forced to buy 8x8 and Avaya will likely make a move as well. This move could even push Vonage to go after the SMB space. Mitel is an interesting question - they have leading edge tech but a troubled stock to use as currency.
"The UCaaS market today is comprised of pure-plays, network operators, cable MSOs, ISPs, system integrators, and traditional premises-based vendors. With a multitude of options, things can be confusing for businesses trying to find the right provider and service to fit their needs," said Diane Myers, senior research director of VoIP, UC, and IMS for IHS Markit and author of the fourth quarter 2016 Analyst Insight report. "Today, as our report and the data indicate, the leader is BroadSoft, comprising the larger share of installed base seats running over its platform."
In November 2016, BroadSoft announced it surpassed 15 million cloud UC lines deployed globally, – an industry leading milestone three times greater than the next nearest competitor. At the same time, BroadSoft market share for new cloud UC line shipments is double that of the next closest competitor, a key trend as BroadSoft expects the market for new cloud PBX/unified communications will surpass on-premise PBX/UC equipment shipments by 2020.
I'm sure you want to hear more from the company. Fortunately, I will moderate a Cloud UC panel on Thursday 2/9/17 at 9 AM with Enzo Signore of 8x8, Curtis Peterson of RingCentral and Mark Straton of Broadsoft. It should be awesome - be sure to come and learn more for yourself about the state of of the market.
An analyst told me once that the show is so full of information that you run around like a chicken with your head cut off, except he said it Yiddish which made it sound more exotic.
I wasn't sure at the time if it was a compliment but in a way it is the testament that the show has so much important information that you really need a team to cover it all.
Over three days – February 8-10 – you can attend workshops, sessions, keynotes, networking events and parties with the entire communications ecosystem. Most events take place at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center.
You really will learn all you need to about tech and telecom – all the trends, what is hot, what you need to sell and buy in 2017, etc.
We expect between 8000+ people in attendance for the events. Here are some of the highlights.
The 3-day ITEXPO experience is a carefully-crafted mix of education, networking, product research, and a little fun.
You can attend laser-targeted courses - some free with an Expo Plus pass - that prepare you to ask the right questions of vendors on the show floor.
Check out this list of workshops, seminars and presentations. These are in addition to the main ITEXPO Conference Program
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In addition to the great topics, we have some of the greatest speakers around… Jonathan Adelstein heads up the PCIA and was a former FCC Chairman; IBM's GM, Strategy & Development, Jamie Thomas; Sumit Dhawan is Senior VP and GM of VMWare; and Peter Bailey, President & CEO of Vertical Communications.
VoIP pioneer Jeff Pulver joined us before at ITEXPO and we welcome him back again as a major speaker at the IDEA Showcase Startup pitch event.
To be honest, I should list all the speakers because we not only have a great intersection of tech and telecom companies but we also have people who know their topics cold and are generally compelling. BTW – if you every find a speaker you don't like – I invite you to contact me and let me know. But I digress – here is the complete speaker list.
You won't want to miss the IDEA Showcase where the startups are judged, the networking party or the $15,000 cash giveaway at the end of the show – must be present to win (see below for details).
Drawing #1 - Thursday, February 9th, 5:00pm at IDEA SHOWCASE startup pitch event.
Attend IDEA SHOWCASE, Floridian Ballroom, 3rd Floor. Giveaway winners announced just before IDEA SHOWCASE voting. Each winner selects from the available prize packages.
Drawing #2 - Friday, February 10th, 1:45pm in expo hall.
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If this wasn't enough, there is a complete IoT event happening at the same convention center – on virtually the same dates. It's called IoT Evolution Expo and it too is loaded with content. For example, it's the only IoT Event where you can do all of the following under one roof:
Yes, this event too will have top speakers like Richard Soley of the OMG/Industrial Internet Consortium; J. Michael Palermo, Senior Alexa Evangelist; Lisa Peterson, VP Marketing and Connected Aircraft at GoGo Business Aviation; Ron Felice, Automotive Industry Architect, IBM Watson IoT; Fred Yentz, CEO, IoT Platforms, Telit; Uzair Siddiqui, Senior Product & marketing manager, IoT, Verizon; Ravi Srivatsav, Chief business development officer, NTT; and Chris Chang, Alien Technology – view complete list.
Here are more details on times and dates of keynotes and other important events.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events – it should be a fantastic start to our communications future and a fantastic 2017!
In some ways, it may be closer to Kandy from GENBAND.
His keynote focused on Disrupting the Pace of Innovation where he said, "The next level of innovation in the digital economy is driven by the ability to embed communications right into cloud-based applications." He continued, "Zang is on the forefront with dramatically simple tools and APIs that enable developers and designers to build their vision in a heartbeat."
In a conversation, he told me the company wants to double-down on the concept of open-APIs and make development as easy as possible. He said he wanted a line-of-business owner to be able to develop apps. This echoed the sentiments of Gareth Smith of Microsoft who said yesterday, "Citizen developers will grow as IT becomes more pervasive in the enterprise."
Davide stressed that using Zang, developers can focus on the UI and build solutions on a globally accessible cloud with security and user-authentication built-in.
He exclaimed, "Without APIs, products are useless," and continued by saying their goal is to make the cloud as open as possible by exposing the APIs to the platform and to the applications built on the platform.
He cited an example – a company is using Salesforce and in a meeting is able to build a virtual meeting room which connects to Salesforce. This functionality would allow the team to set up and execute the campaign while in the meeting – saving precious time and resources.
Using their APIs he said, you can add a meeting room easily, allowing you to communicate in text and then escalate to video via a script based on their API.
He cited Zuzapp, a mobile customer engagement and messaging app used by hotels. He said, the company can focus on the UI while letting Facebook and others handle social and Zang handle communications.
He continued to say Zang uses open REST APIs which are comparable to those used by others in the space and pricing is comparable as well. It's about half a cent per SMS and call but if you need them to support and maintain the app, the cost is 2 cents and 4-5 cents respectively.
The company's new Engagement Designer has a drag-and-drop interface which means easier app development in the future.
I asked about DevConnect – the developer program for Avaya hardware and he said they have developers who use both but these groups aren't tied together.
A lot of new products are in the works – video rooms, contact center and a full-service cloud to name a few.
In my presentation at the All About the API event I mentioned that APIs aren't new but there seems to be a law similar to Moore's at work in this market – meaning APIs building on each other are ever-more powerful. If I were to formalize it, Tehrani's API Law says APIs are at least twice as powerful each year for similar or lower cost.
And this is the point of Zang and frankly many other companies providing programming interfaces. Davide said developers can now focus on the UI and let others handle things like CRM, communications and many other services.]]>
Here were the two comments which I placed in the bad category:
Apparently Siris agrees as evidenced by a quote covered in my colleague Paula Bernier's earlier article:
The industry is transitioning to a hybrid on-premise[s] and cloud-based unified communications environment," noted Dan Moloney, Siris executive partner. "We believe that as an independent private company,
Polycom would be best positioned to continue its heritage as a best-in-class communications solutions provider to more than 400,000 companies and institutions, channel partners, and the evolving unified communications ecosystem.
In addition, the synergies between Polycom and other Siris portfolio companies are worth delving into. In late 2015 Siris picked up collaboration and cloud UC player PGI for a billion dollars. One quarter later, they picked up Xura which itself is made up of Comverse and Acision – companies which are very strong in the communications service provider markets – voicemail and SMS respectively.
I covered Comverse in August of 2013 and February of 2014 – in general both meetings centered on the company helping carriers transform with the times or evolve. I've met frequently with Acision as well in the past – covering their SMS technology and evolution into a next-gen solution to help carriers compete with OTT. In addition, here is a video with CMO JF Sullivan on their WebRTC strategy going back to 2014.
Siris then has a strong portfolio of companies in the UC space for enterprise as well as service provider. In the case of PGI – much of the solution is cloud-based already while Xura is helping with the transition.
So we have enterprise and carrier innovation coming from the top down and the bottom up. Eventually, many of these solutions will overlap. Certainly they are heading in similar directions and may benefit from the same parent umbrella. It is unclear how closely these companies will work together but it's worth contemplating how they could be of greater value as a single entity to a larger buyer who wants to have a dominant position in these spaces.
In a way, GENBAND has similar assets but they also have Kandy which is similar to Twilio (they think Kandy is even better). Nexmo would have rounded out the Siris portfolio but Vonage picked them up recently instead. I imagine Twilio may be too expensive at the moment to contemplate acquiring.
Siris has put together a great arsenal of patents, companies and solutions. We can't wait to see what their next moves are.
Come see the world of APIs at All About The API. Our event will feature a variety of intensive hack-a-thons, in-depth company-focused workshops helping attendees understand the value propositions from key vendors, powerful keynotes, daily and nightly networking opportunities plus an exhibit hall full of companies demonstrating the latest innovations in today's market place. Every business has to pay attention to the new opportunities they are presenting or potentially be displaced. We hope to see you July 18-21 2016 in Las Vegas!
This is the only event where you can network and see keynotes from these thought leaders:
In a recent live interview with me, Dean explained the company has 100% in-sequence packet delivery, no packet drops and under one millisecond of jitter. They can in fact provide forensic information on every call made and get a MOS score as well.
This allows a company to see packet loss, latency and jitter – if any is related to call quality. In addition, the company focuses on giving the same user experience abroad and this is achieved through a network of partner carriers worldwide.
What may be most interesting is the company's new services – powered mostly by WebRTC. They are:
Visual Automated Attendant (VAA) - one of the first commercially available WebRTC solutions from a cloud communications vendor that enables real-time voice calls directly from any web page
Virtual Meeting Room (VMR) - a cost-effective video conferencing system using WebRTC where participants can meet via video any time, from anywhere, on any device – and do not require prior account registration or app downloads
Dean believes that WebRTC will have a significant impact on customer engagement, as companies want a way to transform an ordinary Web browser into a full-featured cloud communications portal. With WebRTC, end users simply open browsers to launch calls with voice, text, images, videos, content-sharing and other media.
Dean says WebRTC is gaining traction because of its three biggest benefits: agility, cost savings and persistence:
Dial by name directory is in beta – I had a chance to use it. Quite interesting. It's similar to calling in to a company but instead of pressing numbers equating to a person's name, you use a keyboard. The way God intended . Once you find someone, you can see their presence, start a call, share a screen, etc. In short, it's the future of communications.
Masergy doesn't charge extra for the inbound traffic generated through this service and a company can put in controls such as email authentication so they aren't overwhelmed with spam callers.
The most important takeaway was when he said, "We want to open up communications to an indexed way of finding people."
This is exactly what the company seems to have done here. It will be interesting to see how much traction the idea gains in the market. Is this the standard which replaces phone numbers? We'll see.]]>
I spoke with Sajeel Hussain about the new solution and he emphasized that it works with Microsoft Edge and can interwork with in-room systems from Cisco and also work with Microsoft Skype for Business. In addition, he emphasized companies can save 75% on their bandwidth utilization as Chime can cluster four video sessions as a single session which connects to the MCU. In addition, it can dynamically download codecs to eliminate the need for transcoding.
My colleague Erik Linask had a great piece on this solution where he points out it can save a company about 70% on TCO as compared to other products on the market.
In addition, Sajeel discussed Kickstart, which is a new way to access CafeX APIs for non-programmer business analysts. Steve Anderson covered this news recently on the WebRTC Solutions Online Community sponsored by Oracle. In addition, Supervisor Assist is a great way for today's geographically distributed contact centers to more efficiently service customer needs. Supervisors for example are able to whisper and barge and capture recordings of agent conversations. There is also the ability to allow for chatting and co-browsing
We all know that software is indeed eating the world. It explains the move to NFV and SDN for carriers. It further explains why the world's largest taxi company doesn't own cars. The world's largest media company doesn't produce media and the world's largest hotel company doesn't own real estate.
Similarly, real-time and other communications is moving towards the direction of being hardware-free. This accounts for some of the savings associated with such solutions as well as the increased functionality they provide.
To learn more about CafeX and see them in person, be sure to come to RealTime Web Solutions August 1-4, 2016 in NYC.
Vincent and Craig more recently saw the opportunity to disrupt enterprise communications the same way they've disrupted the consumer IP communications market time and time again. Their cloud-based solution has huge news – a major win, supplying communications for Motorola – 6,000 users in total. When 8x8 launched its service it focused on the SMB – likewise for many cloud vendors… It's a big deal to have such a large customer so early in the process of launching a company.
In addition, they have changed their name back to Dialpad, after successfully purchasing the URL from Yahoo.
They also announced three experienced, high-profile additions to the team, including Morgan Norman (from NetSuite) as Vice President of Marketing, Steve Milner (from Rackspace) as Vice President of Sales and Omar Lee (of Google/YouTube) as Head of Design.
"The largest open social network is the phone -- it's how we connect across our personal and professional lives," said Craig via a press release. "Dialpad's approach to voice allows companies and coworkers to take greater advantage of it and always reach people on their own terms. But fully 'socializing' voice this way required a complete rethinking of how we present communication services to workers from any device or application. The result of this effort is our simple Dialpad."
Vincent echoed this sentiment on a conference call interview with me where he said the enterprise has moved to the cloud but their phone systems haven't. He went on to say in a written press release, "Our user-centric design strategy addresses the needs of the new generation of mobile and tech-savvy workers, such as those at Uber and Motorola, who want a more consumer-like communications experience at work."
It will be interesting to see how many people remember the Dialpad name and if it resonates more than the old one. Ironically, for all the talk of how new cloud is, Dialpad was one of the first cloud communications solutions on the market – yet most people may not know it. Going forward, it will likely be the company's mission to explain, they more or less founded this market decades ago and want to lead it today.]]>
In my opinion, the company's mission has always been to enable communications to become far more flexible and cost-effective by leveraging commoditized hardware. For example, much of the voicemail market relied on their boards and when carriers wanted to add ring-back services, quite often they used Dialogic components.
In the late nineties there was a big trend in the market to provide application generators or app-gens – the idea being you could use a drag-and-drop interface to develop IVR, ACD and other voice applications… Press one for sales, press two for service, etc. As hot as the market was at the time, it became less talked about as developers started to leverage open-source and cloud solutions instead of traditional in-house or customer-premise based solutions.
Jim Machi with Dialogic discusses the significance of this news with me at ITEXPO Fort Lauderdale 2016
An interesting thing has happened over the years… Customers still need to develop solutions based on Dialogic products and they need help doing it but they don't have as many options available to them. As a result, Dialogic has purchased application development leader, Apex Communications – the company founded by Elhum Vahdat, based in southern California. Apex has had close ties to Dialogic for decades.
Dialogic PowerVille (formerly PowerApp)Overview
Dialogic PowerVille will be the name of the company's new applications division. Some may see this move as a conflict with existing partners but it really doesn't seem to be, as Dialogic has said they do not plan to offer application services in the contact center or fax markets as they already have partners in these spaces. What kind of apps might we see? Ones which ping your phone when a camera detects motion or which integrate WebRTC with social networks. In other instances, we might see a traditional voice app being converted to the cloud, VoIP or even VoLTE.
Dialogic's Alan Percy discusses the company's PowerVille Load Balancer, NFV, open source in the carrier market and more at ITEXPO Fort Lauderdale 2016
Prepackaged apps will consist of things like white label Centrex, visual IVR, audio and video conferencing and a number of Class 4 and 5 applications. The company will continue its relationship with Broadsoft as customers want to move more into the Class 5 arena.
Dialogic may be unique in being able to combine custom and prepackaged apps and enabling elements under one umbrella. Their portfolio includes a variety of applications that can be customized easily to meet the needs of operators around the world, including adding video to existing voice solutions, migrating existing voice / video solutions to WebRTC-based solutions and/or IMS/VoLTE-based solutions, and various forms of IoT communication applications.
Dialogic Vision
The first arbitrage opportunity I spelled out at the top of this piece – using off the shelf hardware to produce more flexible communications systems is similar to what is powering the carrier move to NFV today. Expect this company with its media server and new flexible real-time communications load balancer to be on the short list of carriers looking to virtualize their network functions – especially when solutions can now become more flexible thanks to custom app development.
The Dialogic Road Map - Eventually we Can Expect the Apps to be Delivered from the Cloud
Dialogic also released a new logo and Tim Moynihan and Jim Machi promised me there will be lots of exciting news soon to report such as a large win in a tier one mobile operator in Japan. Stay tuned.
If you want to check out Dialogic in person, be sure to visit them at MWC in Barcelona or All About the API in Las Vegas.]]>
The news of the day, though, is the company has a new CEO, Bill Crank, a man with tremendous telecom experience – in M&A and business development. He is at the helm of this organization that was once a division of Intel – then spun out to later become a public company through an acquisition to later become a private company owned by Novacap.
I spoke with Bill for a while to learn where the company is headed. Here is a recap:
Much of the proprietary hardware they once made, has moved to software and the cloud which means for the most part, they make the software powering next-gen networks.
The specific product likes consist of:
Basically – they are moving to software and still supporting the legacy products which make sense as their partners still sell these boards and other solutions.
You know, I've been one of the biggest proponents of NFV – the move to software by carrier equipment providers. I've pushed hard on the concept of software telco – the idea that carriers will over time rely on "off the shelf" computers and software rather than proprietary hardware to run their networks. Bill shares this vision and explains this is a big part of the reason he came to the company.
He expects to continue investing in R&D and even upping the spend. The company's next-gen solutions are now in 50 labs – many are in testing and will soon announce deployment. Moreover, Dialogic has partnered with Mavenir, Ericsson and others who in some cases are competitors on other product lines. This coopetition is best described as working with partners to fill holes in your product portfolio in order to keep customers happy.
The biggest challenge, according to him, is the confusion in the market as the pace of change keeps speeding up. Consider that carriers can choose from hardware, software and cloud, and as the transition has taken place, a host of new vendors and options have presented themselves, making it more challenging to determine what to buy. Throw in competition from OTT, social, WebRTC, mobile and other newer technologies and you can see it is a tough time to make a decision which could cost millions of dollars and lock in your direction for years to come.
From the outside, looking in, its not just Bill who gives me confidence that the company has a story worth believing in. The ever-talented Jim Machi has been onboard for well over a decade and has done an amazing job navigating through turbulent waters and business transformation during that time. Tim Moynihan rejoined some time back, and is another major telecom talent. Finally, there is Alan Percy who joined from AudioCodes – someone who is well-respected and has one of the best set of relationships in the market.
In short, there is something special going on at this company, and if you think of Dialogic as the old board company from the eighties and not the new software company powering next-gen networks around the globe, you are missing out on one of the best kept secrets in the communications space.]]>
There will be lots of discussion regarding network modernization. For example the company will discuss its new Q50 distributed SBC/Media Platform which will allow a graceful migration to a virtualized, NFV-based system from current fixed-function hardware.
In addition, Verizon will also emphasize its network transformation roadmap as well as modernization from a PSTN transformation perspective. We can further expect a talk from the EPA on energy consumption and power – a big deal for data centers and telcos of course. They'll also touch on regulatory issues. We can further expect SAP to speak on what they are doing with Kandy – specifically with their CRM cloud for customer platform.
There is more – be sure to check back at 9:00 am tomorrow morning for the details of what's happening at the show.
Now we have Facebook as our consumer collaboration platform. The funny thing is we consider Facebook to be a time-waster. I know of precious few people who use it effectively as a business tool.
These are the thoughts I had about online worlds and to some degree social in general. Everyone says email is broken and we need collaboration tools to work more effectively. Perhaps – but if this is the case, why do so many people rely on email to manage their social networks?
The counter view was certainly expressed to me by Charles Studt, VP, Marketing at Redbooth, a leading collaboration and communication platform.
He told me, "We think of ourselves as a single place workers can collaborate get things done and have a persistent workplace with integrated, real-time communications tools tied to their work." He continued, "Teams are more productive, accountable and work really gets done – not just talked about.
6,000 companies use the solution and he continued to tell me the users have less email when they use it. Hmm, maybe I was wrong after all. He reiterated Redbooth allows more work to get done and onboarding team members is faster as well. He concluded that there is less email reading and document searching as a result.
I asked who he sees as competitive and he responded no one has the exact capabilities they have but they do get compared to SharePoint. He thinks this isn't accurate. He added Wrike comes up as well.
A bit of history. Redbooth used to be in the task/project-management space - they were named Teambox. From there, they added real-time communications.
He noted as they added real-time modalities, use and engagement expanded exponentially. When they added chat about 12 months ago, they saw growth of nine times. Moreover, users who use chat tend to become power-users on the platform. They then added screen-sharing, HD audio and video. WebRTC is on the way he says.
This is a differentiator actually as the platform tightly integrates the communications with the tasks allowing rich context. He contrasted this to what he calls generic IM and presence – embodied by Slack or HipChat.
For example if you are in meeting with your marketing team, you can IM with a single button click within a project or team workspace. You can also chat about something abstract. Users can also embed audio and video in the workspace. This in addition to embeddable notes, discussion threads, documents, etc.
There are also APIs for integrations – Box, Google Drive, Outlook and Gmail are some examples of current system integrations.
In 2010 I met with Cisco and was blown away by their Quad product which they touted as the future of collaboration and communications. I bought into it. It made perfect sense to me. Shockingly it didn't catch on.
So I asked Studt about Quad. He thinks people consumerizing IT investments is more prevalent than ever before. He thinks adoption expands from one line of business out which was different than the Cisco approach of trying to get enterprise adoption at once.
He does say Cisco Spark is somewhat competitive as they have good integration with WebEX but there isn't structure regarding tasks and workflow integration – he said, "That's missing." More recently they added analytics to check performance of teams and individual members to see if work is getting done on time or people are overloaded.
The company's growth rate he says is 100% which is always a good sign.
I've been burned in the past saying online business collaboration was going to change the face of communications. It does make sense to have an enterprise Facebook for projects but for whatever reason the market wasn't ready back in 2010. Perhaps with the integrated analytics solutions available today, an enterprise Facebook for projects can actually be monitored and measured to ensure usefulness. Certainly RedBooth tells a great story. Moreover 100% growth and 6,000 installs means there is a solid base on which to grow.
I remain more optimistic on the space going forward and would love any customer feedback.]]>
It enabled among other things, carriers to target expat groups which called home a lot with special offers consisting of low per-minute rates to their home country and more.
While this has been a successful model for the company, GENBAND has decided to take it to the next level by spinning the now Kandy-powered Fring back out into the Fring Alliance – a company which will be owned in-part by GENBAND as well as the carrier-customers.
Carriers can use the modifiable service for a nominal fee and in exchange, their users can benefit from a federated directory. Moreover, carriers need to promote the service as powered-by-fring and also display and share presence information. The equity is determined by the initial number of subscribers and all carriers get equity based on active users.
In a sense, shareholders are continually diluted but in terms of overall value, networks such as WhatsApp, Fring, etc. show a massive spike in valuation once active user numbers get to significantly large numbers. In other words there is the potential for an exponential boost in value if enough carriers participate. The company believes the magic number, where the valuation jumps is around 100 million. Expect GENBAND to announce a new set of customers at their Perspectives conference this summer – and I hope to see you there.
One other point – Brad Bush will be leaving the company at the end of June and new CMO Patrick Joggerst will be talking the helm. We wish them both well – there are lots of exciting things happening at GENBAND these days.
Finally, this move is a really big deal. GENBAND management is not afraid to take risks. They purchased fring which competed with their customers to some degree in order to allow their customers to deploy a service instead of installing equipment. Now, they are looking at the lofty valuations of the most popular apps and developing new ways to get themselves and their customers into the game. Fring may never be worth the $100 billion some say WhatsApp could be worth but that misses the point. GENBAND is moving faster than the field - even after they purchased the relatively huge Nortel carrier business. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out but as I've said in the past, its better to be fast than right. It's very possible with these latest moves, GENBAND is both.
In short, Vonage helped shape the broadband and related information services market we enjoy today. A consumer was able, for example, to ditch a $70/month bill for a PSTN line in exchange for $20 DSL and $15 phone service. They saved 50% and got broadband as a bonus.
Fast forward just over ten years and many of the same people who brought you the incredibly disruptive Vonage phone service are back and they're ready to take on a new market with an equally disruptive model. YipTV.
The primary idea behind the YipTV service to be formally launched soon is how $15 per month will give you access to a wealth of television channels produced initially for markets outside the US.
You can check out the leadership team for yourself, but for now I'll focus on Michael Tribolet the Chairman, CoFounder & CEO of the company. You may recall, Mike was recently honored at ITEXPO for 20 years of innovation in VoIP. Now he is on to something else which may one day be as big. I asked him half-jokingly if he would be getting a similar award for disrupting television in 20 years.
The premise of the company is simple – content providers are finally stepping away from cable and satellite providers to provide programming directly to consumers. Until now, there hasn't been a central interface to access all this content. It really makes no sense for a user to have individual apps per channel they watch. In my opinion, this is the wrong way to go about accessing video content on every device ranging from set top box to laptop to mobile. That's where YipTV comes in with its goal of offering consumers personalized choices of programs they want to watch on an OTT basis for $15 per month.
YipTV aims to do one thing well – it will provide lots of live and eventually on-demand content to users through mobile apps as well as HTML5 support for web browsers.
Currently in beta, there are 35 live channels with another 136 coming soon. YipTV plans to have many more after that.
I asked Mike about Chromecast and what a great enabler it is for his platform and he agreed, adding that Apple TV is as well. Really, any connection between a phone or computer and TV will benefit the company.
In terms of differentiation, they have built a very scalable infrastructure to deal with billions of minutes and millions of viewers. It is for this and other reasons that they have been able to get some of the largest content providers to be part of their package at launch. By the way, they use perhaps the most robust CDN network around to deal with the routing of traffic – something many VoIP providers have chosen to do through the years. This also gets around any peering issues and net neutrality concerns as the peering agreements already in place will get content delivered to users.
Moreover QoS is further addressed through variable bit rate video delivery, which varies from 300K to 1.5 Mbps depending on the connection speed.
VoIP services like Vonage and others took off because they were cheap. Consider today if people want to access channels from their home country of Argentina, for example, they might have to pay more than $100 to buy a bundle of channels and then add on a package for a specific country. The average cable bill is $140 or so meaning that YipTV will cost about a tenth of the competition. Moreover, it will allow the content to be displayed on any device. Your cable provider sort of does this as well but it is a challenge and most of the content can't be viewed out of the house. You can buy a Slingbox but that introduces another layer, another cost and another hassle.
In addition, many of the customers of a service such as YipTV are prepaid when it comes to their phone bills – they buy their credits at a local bodega. YipTV plans to be available in the same retail locations. Moreover, they think they will appeal to cord cutters as well as people who could never watch cable. Parents who want to share their local children's programming with their kids in the US can now access YipTV to do exactly that.
In short, YipTV brings the same disruptive ideas to video delivery that Vonage did to telecom. I wrote in 2010 that TV disruption will happen more slowly than you think because of the $32 billion per year of affiliate fees.
While this is still the case, the market is changing as content providers have decided they can have their cake and eat it, too. Consumers too are willing to pay more to access the content they want on the go. Finally, YipTV will have such a low price-point that it will be a no-brainer for anyone who is interested in getting access to a massive amount of content at a low cost.]]>


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ones. They bloom great in the spring, about die off in the heat of summer and
quit blooming, but then have a nice show again when it cools off till the
snow/hard frost hits. Can't say I seen them seeding around tho....
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] sweet william
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Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:53 PM
I suspect (don't know) that it's a perennial. Most Dianthuses are.
On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Kitty wrote:
> I've been shredding leaves all week. I pile them in a temp bed out front ,
then shred. Every 4 bagsful I load up and take to the backyard pile. Each
trip takes me past a clump of Sweet Williams, Dianthus barbatus. I've
purchased them for our MG cottage garden over the years, but had never grown
them until this past spring I picked up some seed. They grew easily from seed
but I got a bit anxious waiting for the flowers so I bought a quart already in
bloom. I planted them just across from my backdoor and they have bloomed all
season long. They are still blooming - not just the last few flowers of the
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Even those who claim not to like cauliflower are often converted by this creamy gratin, which gets a dose of heat from a generous quantity … read more
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Capital has been looking at its interests in GWR for some months, but a decision has been catalysed by the imminent departure of Richard Eyre, chief executive. Mr Eyre joins ITV as chief executive this week. His replacement at Capital, David Mansfield, previously group managing director, has been conducting a strategic review.
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As we age cellular defects accumulate and promote aging of an organism. Conserved clearance pathways, in young individuals maintain cellular homeostasis, through balancing new production with the elimination of old components. In the young there is coordinated regulation between nutritional/growth signaling pathways (i.e. Insulin and Insulin-like Growth Factor, IR/IGF) with downstream components such as autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). This balance is essential for healthy aging. Often dysregulation occurs with upstream signaling pathways leading to altered expression profiles of key clearance components. This disconnect appears in part to be the molecular underpinnings behind diseases like metabolic syndrome and type-II diabetes. These disorders are increasing in frequency, accelerate with age and are known risk factors for disorders such as Parkinson and Alzheimer's diseases. My research has focused on macroautophagy (autophagy) and its role with neuronal aging and the clearance of protein aggregates. We have found there is an age-dependent decline in autophagy gene expression and by enhancing message levels of rate-limiting genes (i.e. Atg8a) in the adult CNS we can increase aggregate clearance and the Drosophila lifespan by over 50%. We have also found that defects in the IR signaling have a profound effect on fly longevity and enhance autophagy in aging neural tissues. Other clearance pathways, such as UPS show a profound functional change with age, and are also partly under the control of metabolic signaling. The hypothesis of this proposal is that expression profiles of key components in signaling (i.e. IR, TOR) and clearance (i.e. UPS, autophagy) pathways will be altered with age. This regulatory disconnect, in turn will limit the production of factors required for the effective removal of cellular damage. Once genes are identified that have age-dependent changes to their mRNA profiles;we will use Drosophila genetic/transgenic techniques to preferentially manipulate their expression profiles to a more "youthful" pattern and individually assess their "anti-aging" properties.
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The cellular processes that control aging are highly conserved and share striking similarities between worms, flies and humans. By identifying which genes are critical for healthy aging and how they are regulated, we will better understanding the cellular processes that control human aging and neurodegeneration. This understanding will serve as the basis for the prevention or treatment of disorders such as type-II diabetes, metabolic syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.


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Royalty free book cover
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Book Title: Ganville. A Mother's Grief
Author: June Ollerenshaw
This is an autobiography of a mother whose two young blonde headed daughters aged 18-20 died in 1977 Granville train disaster. You can google and youtube the disaster.
The girls who would normally get on the second carriage of the train this morning were running late and had to get on the fourth carriage. Everyone died on the fourth carriage and all survived in the second carriage.
The train was bound for Sydney and the girls got on at Parramatta. The carriages were "red rattlers". Google and youtube red rattlers and you will see the type.
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Total Fat 82 g126.7%
Saturated Fat 53.5 g267.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
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I have a site in wordpress who needs a few minor modifications for a guru who knows the system. The site is [[url removed, login to view]][1] I need the following modifications:
1. You will see a Events widget on homepage which should show up on all pages but the problem is the blue color is out of place and we need it to be maroon. I can supply the maroon color code. Ideally it would be nice to have a plugin the will automatically scroll of upcoming events (maybe 2 or 3) based on the google calendar which has the events. There should be a plugin that exists somewhere to do this but I just don't know and frustruated with trying to make this work.
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L'importance et l'étendue des barrières légales et administratives dans le cadre de la directive « Bolkestein » : une analyse comparative entre la Belgique et ses principaux partenaires commerciaux
This paper investigates the importance and scope of legal and administrative barriers In Belgium as compared to its main trade partners within the framework of the recent Bolkestein directive proposal. After a short review of the literature on the impacts of economic deregulation on macro-economic performances as well as a summary of the contents and aims of the EU services directive proposal, the paper presents various indicators reflecting the intensity as well as the heterogeneity of legal and administrative requirements and rules at the macro and meso-economic levels. These indicators allow one to compare the Belgian situation with the one of its main trade partners as well as Its evolution over the recent period. On the whole, Belgium appears to be In an intermediate situation as regards the level of deregulation of its economy (before France and Germany and behind The Netherlands and UK) and this level has increased over the recent past.
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Purdue is pretty good for food information, Jim. I've seen the New Crops
page b4 and it is interesting, even though I don't 'do' food.
Even though I don't grow much of anything in common with you, I enjoy it
when you post something like this that sends me looking. I like helping
others out and I enjoy research. I may never use the info, but it's fun to
come across something interesting like your whortleberry, a chance to learn
something new. I may forget it soon afterward, but if the subject comes up
again later, I can often recall having come across it and can sometimes even
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> Thanks, Kitty, that was great stuff--and it jogged me into doing
> several "advanced" searches [slow day at work today]. I've four big
> cuttings of the Whortleberry and, since they grow to small tree size,
> I'm considering building a raised bed for them. Thus, medium is a big
> question, and one of the things I found was not only directions for
> building a raised bed for cactus, but also a recipe for the medium.
> What made my day, however, was the discovery that Julia Morton had a
> chapter in her warm climate fruit book on Hylocereus undatus, Dragon
> fruit, and that Purdue had posted the chapter.
> For those interested in indigenous new world food crops, Purdue
> University's "NewCrops" page is a must. I think it also have links to
> the National Academy of Sciences classic study, Food Sources of the
> Incas [I hope that's the title; it's available in PDF].
> On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 07:51 PM, Kitty wrote:
> > Comon names are BLUE CANDLE, GARAMBULLA, WHORTLEBERRY CACTUS, Bilberry
> > Cactus, Blue Flame, Padre Nuestro, Organ pipe cactus, Blue Myrtle,
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After enjoying some risk appetite during the last sessions, investors turned cautious favoring USD gains across the board. The euro failed to extend its recovery above the strong 1.3160 resistance area and pulled back, also weighed by mixed eurozone economic data.
The pound and the yen trade virtually unchanged against the USD while the Loonie is among the worst performers, weighed by domestic data. The AUD holds onto gains, but off daily highs. U.S. equities trade with small gains after Wednesday's surge, while gold fell below $1600 an ounce.
In the macroeconomic domain, U.S. Q4 GDP was revised into positive territory as expected, but the increase was just 0.1% and fell short of the 0.5% growth expected. Meanwhile, initial jobless claims dropped to 344,000 in the latest week.
"For now FX market sentiment remains somewhat uneasy and our bias remains for further foreign currency weakness in the near-term", says Nick Bennenbroek, Head of Currency Strategy, Wells Fargo Bank.
Euro fails to sustain gains, slide back below 1.3100
The recovery of the euro against the dollar stalled at the 1.3160 area on Thursday where a congestion zone converges with the 50% retracement of this week's decline between 1.3298/1.3017. Failure to break above this technical level, put the EUR/USD back under pressure during the New York session. Having set a daily low of 1.3057, the pair has scope for further losses with 1.3017 as next support area, followed by the 2013 low at 1.2997. A break below this latter would encourage bears and could drag the pair towards 1.2950.
On the other hand, the EUR/USD would need to regain 1.3160 as a first step to ease the immediate pressure. However, at this point the pair seems biased lower and the correction might be short lived in the absence of fundamental triggers.
"From a technical point of view, the EUR looks like it could see a rebound in the coming days, but the broader trend is still bearish for the weeks ahead", said the TD Securities team. We continue to see rallies as selling opportunities".
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James has always lived in the shadow of his best friend, Stefan. Now Stefan is rich and cool while James has only a half share in some bad game show ideas. But James has Victoria, the girl of his dreams. Then he does the unthinkable and engineers a meeting between his best friend and his best girl.
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Bill Dare created Dead Ringers and produced The Mary Whitehouse Experience. He has worked with the cream of British comedy talent including David Baddiel, Meera Syal, Paul Merton, Sean Hughes, John O'Farrell and Griff Rhys Jones.
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