The Role of Media Servers in NG911 and e911
By Jim Machi, Dialogic, Inc. While we take for granted now that we can use text, video and data to communicate with each other, this is not yet the case for emergency communications. However, enhanced...
View ArticleWebRTC Cannot Escape the Codec Challenge of the Past: The Need to Transcode
By Tsahi Levent-Levi All the signs direct to a sad truth: transcoding will be an integral part of our WebRTC future. It started out nicely. The utopian idea that a single voice codec and a single video...
View ArticleAdding Voice to Your Windows Apps Just Got Easier
By Tim Moynihan, Dialogic, Inc. There are millions of .NET developers out there, with more to come now that Microsoft has made .NET an open-source platform. Yet .NET developers with hands-on experience...
View ArticleSending a Message About the Importance of Medication Adherence
By Tim Moynihan, Dialogic, Inc. Maybe the old physicians’ line should have gone, “Take one pill and call me in the morning.” That’s because nearly half of all patients don’t take their medication as...
View Article5G and NFV: Part 4 – Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined...
By Chet Berry How will 5G ever become actualized if it requires CSPs to make sweeping changes to their legacy investments and infrastructure? Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined...
View ArticleWhy Are Mobile Operators Tuning Into Music and Video Services?
By Tim Moynihan – Dialogic, Inc. Maybe you’re one of those people that still uses the factory-default ring tone, and that’s fine. Not everybody wants to hear the opening strains of Beethoven’s Fifth...
View ArticleFour Good Reasons to FoIP
By Tim Moynihan – Dialogic, Inc. The death of the fax, to paraphrase Mark Twain, has been greatly exaggerated. While traditional fax services are declining, there are still more than 40 million fax...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take to Bring Back the Ringback?
By Tim Moynihan – Dialogic, Inc. Waaayy back in 2008, ringback tones were music to the ears of the telco industry. The ringback tone (RBT) market in the U.S. had just peaked at $200+ million, and...
View ArticleVoLTE / IMS Take on OTT Apps
By Jim McLaughlin – Dialogic, Inc. Initially, Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile networks were deployed in order to address an ever-increasing demand for faster mobile data speeds. However, the latest...
View ArticleIPX Can Enable Revenue Innovation for Voice Wholesalers
IPX Revenue Innovation Part 2 By Jim Machi – Dialogic, Inc. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about a couple of revenue generating ideas for IPX providers. So how can an IPX provider go about this?...
View ArticleTalkin’ Bout the Future of Interactive Voice Response
By Tim Moynihan – Dialogic, Inc. Interactive voice response (IVR) systems are—how do I put this nicely?—not one of the most beloved technological advances of the last century. They can be cumbersome,...
View ArticleExploring the Current Status of WebRTC
By Jim Machi – Dialogic, Inc. Last week I was doing some research on WebRTC and I noticed that a lot of the information related to this topic was not from 2015; rather, it was from 2013 or 2014. As a...
View ArticleADG LDI Ltd Reaffirms Utmost Commitment To Quality-Of-Service
We are thrilled to announce that ADG LDI Ltd has decided to modernize their interconnect network! As a premier telecommunications provider, ADG LDI offers interconnect services to both fixed and mobile...
View ArticleHow Getting Rid of Gray Can Keep Mobile Operators in the Black
It’s a billion-dollar problem for mobile network operators: blocking gray routes that allow Short Message Service (SMS) fraud to eat up network bandwidth and slow down network performance. And it’s...
View ArticleLose Unsightly Bulges and Pounds with… Mobile Wallets
By Tim Moynihan – Dialogic, Inc. Let’s face it: physical wallets can be a pain in the you-know-what. If you’re tired of sitting on a deck of cards—credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, etc.—the...
View ArticleNFV Vendor Challenges Part 1
We’ve all likely seen the Gartner hype cycle for emerging technologies curve. I remember many, many years ago when I first saw that curve. I don’t even remember what it was about, but it had the Peak...
View ArticleVoWi-Fi: Risks & Rewards
With voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) now natively supported by both the Apple iPhone and Android-based handsets, telecom service providers are actively evaluating the risks and rewards of this new...
View ArticleNFV Vendor Challenges Part 2
Last week, I introduced the NFV-based network diagram, and the complexity of all these pieces of software interacting. But how will they interact? This is all to be done via a Management and...
View ArticleSix Strategies for More Roaming Revenue
Roaming, to borrow a phrase, wasn’t billed in a day. Revenue from roaming subscribers is an important part of overall carrier revenue, but generating mobile roaming revenue isn’t a simple matter of...
View ArticleHow Secure Is Your Fax Transmission?
By Daniel Dorsey – babyTEL When Dialogic introduced the SR140 “virtual fax board”, it provided clients with the flexibility to move all their fax traffic to an IP network, thus lowering telephony...
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