It’s not every day that an opportunity falls in my laps not only to talk about something dear to me, but also to have a press release accompany it. And when opportunity knocks, who am I to say no. If you haven’t noticed, we’ve published a press release about MediaTek selecting our 3G-324M stack for their system-on-chip solutions for handset vendors. I thought I would share with you a short story of what went on behind the scenes… A
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 20th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
There’s been a lot of talk lately about mobile VoIP. People feel like the mobile operators are about to lose their businesses to all those startups offering free and low cost calling by utilizing the data path of cellular networks. I have provided my views already on why I think these startups are not growing anywhere, and why IMS will wipe them out of the market altogether. Guess what? I’ve been prophetic in this one. This week, a distinguished group
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 9th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
Last month I’ve mused about Mobile VoIP, first suggesting IMS will kill it and then stating it is not going to happen any time soon. I think it’s time I stand behind my big words and explain why. Here are my 5 cents reasons: 1. Mobile VoIP is (Still) Downloadable Mobile VoIP is yet to be embedded as part of the natural user experience of a mobile phone. There are some handsets that support mobile VoIP, but finding it, configuring
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Mobile VoIP is probably going to be trumped down by IMS. It’s only a matter of time. When carriers will see VoIP as a real opportunity, they will embrace it, and that embrace will be in the form of IMS. While that is true, I believe we’re still a few years before mobile VoIP will be interesting enough for carriers. But don’t take my word on it – ask a better: Martin Sauter. In a recent post of his, Martin
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
This is just a quick note: a few days ago, we published the August issue of our Realize VoIP newsletter. This time, it’s focused on the use of VoIP in emergency and first response communication networks. I’d like to focus your attention to 3 specific parts of this newsletter, which I believe might be useful for you: 1. Seminars We’re now providing face-to-face seminars to companies who wish to know more about VoIP and it’s implementations in various federal communication
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 3rd, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
VoIP blogs have been filled with optimism lately about the prospects of mobile VoIP. Om Malik reports about this: But two recent statements by carriers from different parts of the world are making me wonder if the mobile phone companies are softening their stance on mobile VoIP. Last week, Verizon went out of its way to highlight the fact that it had tested VoIP calling on its new 4G wireless network. (The other 4G wireless company, Clearwire, has warmed up
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 27th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Tomorrow, July 16th at 10 AM EDT, we’ll be hosting a free webinar on HD video communication solutions for developers. This webinar is the first of a series of 3 webinars titled “SIP-IMS – from client through infrastructure to beyond telecomm.” We will then host a webinar on October 21st titled “Comprehensive IMS solutions from client to infrastructure.” The third webinar will be on November 18th and it will discuss usage of SIP for non-telecom applications – “SIP beyond telecomm.” Amit Lavi, our Product Manager for HD solutions, will be the main speaker on this webinar accompanied by Amir Zmora, out VP of Marketing and moderated by the one and only Carl Ford from CrossFire Media. Amit and Amir will be sharing their views on the development of HD visual communication devices. If you are planning on adding video calling to your products, or if you are unsure of where you should start, this webinar will help assuage your fears and identify common issues that might be holding you back. The 1 hour webinar will conclude with an open Q&A with the team. If you’d like to attend, registration for the webinar is needed. Hope to see you there!
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 15th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
FierceVoIP provides the highlights of an Infonetics report about VoIP and IMS. Finally, IMS is starting to gain a bit of momentum. Their observation, that IMS is making headway in fixed-line while mobile will come later, is similar to my own feeling these days from customer visits. Last week GrandCentral was rebirthed as Google Voice. It was blogged all over the blogosphere. What caught my eye is Dean’s thoughts on the subject over at VoIP User.
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 19th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
Know all of these great mobile applications that we keep seeing in the app stores? Especially the ones doing VoIP? Well, it seems like they’re not really made to stick – at least not if operators have their say about them. While one of the most interesting news out of MWC was the fact that Nokia N97 comes with a pre-installed Skype client and able to run on both WiFi and 3G, operators O2 and Orange are not thrilled. iPhone
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Clients
Michael Mace at Mobile Opportunity complains about market share statistics – he is so right, and it’s not only the smartphones market, it is for virtually any market and any product. Rich Tehrany from TMCnet states that VoIP isn’t Internet Telephony – I’d say that IPTV is not Internet TV or or that there is no such thing as UC, Social Media, Web 2.0 or Phone 2.0. It’s only semantics. Important ones, but still semantics. Josh Bernoff, one of the authors of groundswell, writes in his blog about his bad experience at Hyatt Regency Philadelphia. It’s not VoIP related, but a great read, especially if you’re on the road a lot. It might even make some rethink the video conferencing solution to reduce business trips J IP Business reports that Comverse is launching an application store. This one is targeted at service providers to deliver new application. Once IMS happens, such stores will prosper as it standardizes the network architecture and allows rapid development and deployment of services. I have started a similar roundup of interesting posts related to visual communications on my talking video blog as well. You’re invited to read it as well.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 19th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
