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Last week we made it about halfway through SmartPhoneMan’s day. Let’s finish his day. Right now, he’s in a rush to get home for the fantasy baseball draft. Everyone is scattered across the country and uses different methods to call in – people call in from POTS phone, though not...

Media servers play an important role in enabling many of the real-time communications applications many of us use every day. When you retrieve a voice mail, have an email read back to you while in the car or get on a conference call, a media server is involved. Media servers provide the back-end voice...

When Disruptive Analysis first started writing about “The Future of Voice” about five years ago, the term “media server” only appeared relatively rarely. It mostly arose when talking about traditional telecom networks or enterprise communications, when discussing voicemail, recorded...

A traveler has been sitting at the airport for four hours, waiting anxiously for his plane to show up, when the gate agents relay the bad news: his flight to Paris has been cancelled. Within seconds, the massive line takes shape. Dozens of fellow travelers hound the gate agents, each hoping and praying...

Tsahi Levent-Levi’s white paper, “ Seven Reasons for WebRTC Server-Side Processing ,” details a variety of WebRTC-related scenarios that necessitate a media server. Last week, I wrote about reason number six: processing of the media stream . This week, I’ll discuss reason number...

57 percent of respondents to our WebRTC Impact Survey have WebRTC solutions already in development. Next week, Dialogic will head to Atlanta for the WebRTC Conference & Expo . While there are many WebRTC-focused events out there offering demos and expert advice, I consider this one to be the best...

Last Thursday night, Dialogic hosted a TAD (Telecom Application Developer) MeetUp for New Jersey, which was organized and run by Alan Quayle . Approximately 25 folks attended and we covered some interesting topics like WebRTC, what it really means and when it will be ready and virtualization. One...

Did you know that more than a billion smartphones, tablets and PCs already support WebRTC , with that number projected to increase exponentially over the next two years? That increase creates both a vast opportunity for mobile revenue growth and new challenges related to managing the increase in video...

Mobile World Congress is happening this week, and the excitement is palpable here at Dialogic—and not just because it gets us to Barcelona for four days. We’re looking forward to a jam-packed schedule of demos, meetings and speaking sessions, with a special eye out for information about hot...

There’s been a lot of talk recently in the United States about mobile price wars, such as Quartz’s and Reuters’ reports on T-Mobile’s aggressive move to win over customers from AT&T and Verizon. If the combined voice/data average revenue price per user (ARPU) is dropping everywhere...

When I was at IT Expo, I participated in a panel for the Cloud Communications Expo as part of the conference. The title of this panel was “ Cloud Communications for the Enterprise.” We ended up having a good interactive chat with the audience which covered a variety of topics. I had some...