Categories
Engineer Mobile mobile connectivity UC

Mobile Unified Communications Network Architecture – an Operator Perspective

Introduction to Mobile Unified Communications Network Architecture Vodafone Group Solutions Architect Juan Hernandez presents us with an authoritative look at mobile Unified Communications Network Architecture Unified communications (UC) is a hot topic in the industry. Although the provided services may be pretty much the same in different market niches, the way in which such services […]

Categories
End User security

Secure data stolen from Lloyds Bank datacentre

lloyds bank data theft I note Police are investigating the disappearance of a storage device that contains people’s names, addresses, sort codes and account numbers, after it was taken from a data centre in July (Telegraph). Some thoughts here. Why would the Telegraph store this kind of info unencrypted on a data device? Indeed why would they store […]

Categories
Engineer UC webrtc

Neill Wilkinson talks standardisation for WebRTC

standardisation for WebRTC Neil Wilkinson was the author of “Next-Generation Networks: Technologies & Services” – for John Wiley and is the owner of Aeonvista Ltd (http://www.aeonvista.com/) . Aeonvista is an ICT Consultancy created by Neill in 2007 who look to maximize the best in class technology thinking to inform their customers. So generating strategic solutions […]

Categories
Business webrtc

WebRTC where is the money?

webrtc monetisation Carlos Aragon, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at GENBAND, asks ‘how might UC vendors and service providers profit from WebRTC’? Carlos has extensive experience with both mobile and fixed-line UC services, Unified Communications as a Service and WebRTC. Today, he is intimately involved in GENBAND’s Hosted UC offers to both service providers and enterprises. […]

Categories
Business webrtc

Another step forwards for telecommunications for business

Onwards and upwards for business telecoms WebRTC says Peter Gradwell In the fourth of our WebRTC articles this week Peter Gradwell , Founder of Gradwell Communications, explores the buzz surrounding WebRTC and what it means to small business. Peter started Gradwell Communications because he couldn’t find the communication technology he needed for his own business, […]

Categories
Business webrtc

WebRTC and client container technology – lower deployment costs without sacrificing functionality

WebRTC and client container technology – lower deployment costs without sacrificing functionality In the third of our WebRTC articles this week, Ralph Page, Strategic Solutions Director at GENBAND, looks at the emergence of client container technology. We’ve seen an explosion in Unified Communications solutions, each bringing their own ecosystem of apps to match a bevy […]

Categories
Business Cloud voip webrtc

The role of the reseller in a software world

  Telecoms resellers becoming obsolete? In the second of our WebRTC articles this week, Chris Barley asks ‘what might the comms reseller look like in a software world’? Chris has spent too many years in telecoms, starting out in business development in the early days at NTL, where he was responsible for satellite services and […]

Categories
broadband End User fun stuff

GoPro Pigs GoPro

GoPro Pigs GoPro on broadbandrating.com Needs no introduction really but if you were one of the global audience that saw the original broadbandrating pig racing video you will know that a GoPro camera was strapped to the back of one of the pigs as part of the filming. GoPro pigs! Well this is that pure GoPro […]

Categories
Business webrtc

The Disruptive Potential of WebRTC to Communications Networks

WebRTC Disruptive Potential to Communications Networks This is the first of our WebRTC articles this week, Greg Zweig, Director of Solutions Marketing at GENBAND, introduces WebRTC and suggests that its solid engineering and developer-accessibility has the potential to disrupt how we communicate today. Some background on VoIP Until fifteen years ago communications networks were primarily […]

Categories
Apps Business social networking

Sentiment analysis experiment ends

Sentiment analysis experiment ends I’ve ditched sentiment analysis as a metric on the broadbandrating.com website. The idea that we might be able to rate broadband providers according to social media sentiment was a good one but in reality most people commenting on their broadband provider were slagging them off (to use the venacular).  Most positive […]

Categories
End User security

Global village – a world where everyone knows everyone else

Online privacy is a thing of the past My son Tom is currently editing the next broadbandrating.com video. You will have to wait and see what it is all about but if follows on from last week’s pig racing (if you haven’t seen that vid click on the link – it’s very good). The next vid is taking […]

Categories
broadband Business fun stuff

How to choose the fastest broadband provider – go pig racing

fastest broadband pig race Fastest broadband pig race brought to you by broadbandrating.com The video says it all really. This is the latest in a fun filled series of videos by broadbandrating.com which brings a different slant to how to go about choosing a broadband provider. In this case the fastest broadband provider is represented […]

Categories
Bad Stuff End User scams spam

HMRC scam spam

HMRC scam spam forwarded to my accountant Thought you’d appreciate this public service service announcement re HMRC scam spam. Got the following email text notionally off HMRC and with lots of links: Hello TREFOR.NET, You can’t afford to miss your payment deadline If you submitted a self-assessment form in January, your second payment instalment is […]

Categories
broadband End User

The future of data storage bandwidth usage

Bandwidth usage – the only way is up I periodically discuss the bandwidth usage on our home broadband and the growth trend in data storage on our NAS box, driven by the number of photos we store. This usually prompts a discussion on home broadband data usage and for your entertainment and delight I’ve put this […]

Categories
Business business applications fun stuff

How to be a woman in tech

How to be a woman in tech When the wonderful @tref was looking for ‘women in tech’ to write a guest blog I had to answer a few questions: am I in tech, how did I get here, and what can I do to encourage others? What do you do? I perform the pivotal role […]

Categories
broadband Business

B4RN the movie

B4RN storming video 🙂 B4RN as all of you should know is a rural broadband network providing a 1Gps symmetrical service to parts of the countryside near Lancaster. B4RN has produced a video that has been entered into a competition. It features @cyberdoyle plus many volunteers seen out digging trenches high up on the hills […]

Categories
Business voip

The SIP trunk market will die

SIP Trunk Market Futures Sounds a little negative does’t it? SIP Trunks? A big growth area? Die? SIP Trunks? Well I’m not talking straight away. It’s got plenty of legs yet. The point it that SIP trunks are a replacement for ISDN lines into an on premise PBX. It’s the PBX that is going to […]

Categories
agricultural broadband Business fun stuff

The making of the broadbandrating.com bullet proof internet movie

Exclusive behind the scenes footage of how we utterly destroyed some routers in the interest of science in the making of our broadband movie Most of you will have seen the broadbandrating shotgun movie by now. Actually to call it a movie is a bit of a stretch. In fact we would have to stretch […]

Categories
Business

Announcing trefor.net Technology Marketing

trefor.net Technology Marketing At trefor.net we regularly get asked if we can help out with content generation. Add to that our PR, video production and graphic design skills and you have a powerful mix of capabilities. Enter trefor.net Technology Marketing. trefor.net Technology Marketing is a fully blown marketing agency that can help you get your […]

trefor.net Technology Marketing

Expert Technology Marketing Technology marketing by talented people who understand the business of technology. Who should use trefor.net Technology Marketing? Vendors looking to sell products and services into Network Operators, Cloud operators, ISPs and ITSPs/Communications Providers. Network Operators, Cloud Operators, ISPs and ITSPs/Communications Providers looking to sell directly to businesses and to channel Why use trefor.net Technology […]

Categories
Business webrtc

Where is the WebRTC money? We don’t just do this for fun.

WebRTC monetisation – where is it at? Last week I chaired a WebRTC workshop. There seem to be a lot of them around at the moment. Very trendy/topical. It was an ITSPA/trefor.net event. We previously had a WebRTC workshop two years ago where a room full of engineers  were treated to fairly uninspiring demos of […]

Categories
End User social networking surveillance & privacy webrtc

Real Time Campaigning: How will WebRTC and other tech impact elections in 10 years’ time?

What might a WebRTC enabled democracy & election process look like in 10 years’ time? (Or, technically, 12) There’s a lot of pre-election stuff that’s the same every year. The campaigning, the squabbles, the gaffes and the villains: they’re all regular plot lines in Britain’s most depressing pantomime. As we go to the polling stations tomorrow, however, we can […]

Categories
Engineer gadgets webrtc

Hacking together a WebRTC Pi in the sky – keevio eye

WebRTC on a drone Team ipcortex put together the keevio eye hack for the TADHack London mini hackathon at Idea London on 11-12th April. The idea was to develop a proof of concept for WebRTC running headless on small embedded devices and talking to our keevio video chat interface. Hardly mission critical but TADHack is a load of fun, and a […]

Categories
Engineer surveillance & privacy video webrtc

Wormholes, WebRTC and the implications of algorithmical analysis

James Batchelor is Founder and Chief Executive at Alertacall, an organisation which uses neat technology to deliver services which increase human contact with people at risk and are used to improve the lives of many thousands of vulnerable people. Prior to that he was involved in the creation several ventures in the internet service provision, internet […]

Categories
Business internet social networking webrtc

Matrix.org: Defragmenting today’s communications

Matrix.org Comms Federation In his week as guest curator Rob Pickering of ipcortex now has a post by Amandine Le Pape who discusses WebRTC federation. I’ve held a view for a long time that the world would be a better place if there were a widely used standard for messaging federation, so that I could for […]

Categories
Engineer webrtc

WebRTC – where are the real world applications?

I’ve been working with WebRTC for a few years now and from time to time talk in public about the technology and its potential. A pretty popular question goes along the lines of “that’s all very well, but where is the revenue in it for me?” Around the time we did our first end-user demo […]

Categories
Engineer webrtc

ipcortex WebRTC week cc @ipcortex

Welcome to ipcortex WebRTC week on trefor.net. It is with some terror that I accepted the invitation to contribute a series of posts here on the future of communication technology – Tref’s readers are a pretty smart bunch and this is a great opportunity make complete fools of ourselves when our crystal ball inevitably turns […]

Categories
Business voip voip hardware

Practical IP Phone Design

Practical Applications for Your IP Handsets In the last of her articles on IP handset design Snom Marketing Manager Lesley Hansen talks about practical applications including ip phone hot desking. IP phones are unique in that they were built to support IP first and telephony second. When businesses embrace the richer world of unified communications the […]

Categories
Business UC voip voip hardware

Designing for the Financial Director – IP Phone ROI

Why does the Finance Director care about IP Phone Design? It’s all about IP Phone ROI In her sixth post this week the SNOM’s prolific Marketing Manager Lesley Hansen talks about IP Phone ROI (Return on Investment). The best quality and most elegantly designed IP Phone in the world will not be widely accepted unless […]

Categories
fun stuff Weekend

Moped wanted for movie short

Moped motorbike or scooter I’m looking for a moped to star in a video that is extremely time sensitive – has to go out before the general election. It could be a motorbike or scooter. Location London. Will explain more if you want to get in touch. Ta Tref