http://www.richardgrigonis.com The telecom blog, buyers' guide and personal website of internationally-known editor, writer and industry pundit, Richard Grigonis (RichardGrigonis.com). en-us Copyright 2009, 2010 Richard Grigonis Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:42:38 -0500 http://www.rssfeedssubmit.com/rss-generator/ http://www.richardgrigonis.com/images/Zippys Telecom Blog.jpg http://www.richardgrigonis.com 115 118 http://www.richardgrigonis.com/index.html Since PrivacyStar's U.S. launch on the BlackBerry platform in December 2009, several changes have occurred which have both broadened its scope and enriched the service. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-02-10.html SUPERCOMM 2010 had been scheduled for October 26-28 at Chicago's McCormick Place convention center, but the show has been cancelled for 2010 and no one knows if it will reappear in the future. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-02-03.html NGD announces that two large-scale custom built data halls for BT and Logica have been completed in record time at the new NGD Europe data center, allowing both anchor tenants to commence managed services operations ahead of schedule. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-01-29.html This Long Beach, California-based company has announced a breakout conferencing feature for FreeConferencing.com. During a live conference call, a conference host may now distribute callers into up to four breakout conferencing rooms. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-01-15.html GoAhead Software, known as a pioneer in the world of High Availability (HA) middleware, enters a new, though related area - the configuration management space - by acquiring the embeddedMIND business from S3. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-12-14.html Interview with Simon Taylor, whose company, Next Generation Data, has unveiled in the picturesque countryside near Newport, Wales, a truly stupendous Tier 3 75,000 square meter (807,300 square foot) data center, almost certainly the largest, most resilient, most secure and most technologically advanced building of its type in Europe. Known as NGD1, it can house 19,000 racks of servers. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-11-02.html TechROI is a concept formulated by telecom industry pundit Richard Grigonis. TechROI involves technologies that soundly and measurably save companies money. To be specific, TechROI is about: One, communications technologies that genuinely save money. Two, managing and optimizing how those technologies work together to further save money, and Three, squeezing the costs out of critical business processes by reducing human error and cutting the time it takes to complete any given business process. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-10-30.html On October 26, 2009 RadiSys, a global provider of embedded computing solutions for telecom and other industries, announced the RadiSys ATCA 4.0 initiative, the company's 4th generation of AdvancedTCA (ATCA) products designed to support the next generation of high bandwidth applications. RadiSys ATCA 4.0 equipment supports an astonishing 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps or Gbs) on the backplane and in switching configurations. Interview with Eric Gregory of RadiSys. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-10-27.html Tail-f Systems provides on-device configuration management software and tools so that networking equipment providers can build carrier-grade network management systems. Their advanced software can be found in the realms of both Tier-1 equipment providers and next-generation startups. You can even find Tail-f System technology in enterprise IT environments. Tail-f software's success results from its design philosophy: be scalable, be secure, be continuously available, be able to meet the needs of demanding environments. Interview with CEO Hakan Millroth. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-10-22.html Anybody should be able to easily and seamlessly communicate with anyone else anywhere at anytime, in any way they desire, and yet the user experience should be the same in terms of connectivity and security. This concept has reached a crescendo with Cisco's marketing of the Borderless Network, their new architecture, the key component of which is a new generation of routers. Cisco's new version of their venerable Integrated Services Router (ISR) is called, not surprisingly, the Integrated Services Route Generation 2 (ISR G2). http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-10-19.html Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 20804 Ethernet Transport switch is their latest addition to the BlackDiamond 20800 Series of high-performance, carrier Ethernet switches for Tier 2 and 3 telcos. The 20804 is specifically engineered to handle the increasing bandwidth demands of residential video, business Ethernet and mobile backhaul services. An interview with Mark Showalter, Director of Service Provider Marketing, and Peter Lunk, Senior Director of Service Provider Marketing, Extreme Networks. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-10-07.html An Interview with Asif Naseem, President, SA Forum. SA Forum specifications enable an ecosystem of best-of-breed software components designed to be employed in carrier-grade systems, thus reducing the need to develop proprietary software solutions to meet the High Availability (HA) requirements in the demanding telecom environment. SA Forum members include everything from hardware platform vendors to providers of operating systems, high availability middleware, systems management software and databases, protocol stack providers, etc. - companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Emerson Network Power, Enea, Ericsson, Fujitsu, GoAhead Software, HP, MontaVista Software, Nokia Siemens Networks, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems, to mention a just a few. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-09-25.html Rob Campbell is one of those people who always happens to be in the right place at the right time. He was at Apple in its early days working directly for Steve Jobs, then at Microsoft, working directly for Bill Gates. A serial entrepreneur, he's responsible for two of the most popular software items in history: FileMaker and PowerPoint. And now, Campbell has been asked to lead Voalte, a company whose existence can be traced to March 6, 2008, when Apple released its Software Developer's Kit for the iPhone.