Continuing the the series of weblogs highlighting businesses running on Telecom APIs, we review BLI Messaging, BeQuick Software and Meet.fm’s experiences of running on Telecom APIs. They are all customers of Aculab, a provider of Telecom APIs like Tropo, Twilio, Plivo, APIdaze and Bandwidth.com recently reviewed in this weblog. Aculab provides telephony resources on cloud, […]
Bandwidth.com provides Internet and telephony services primarily to business and government customers; for example, providing automated real-time pricing and procurement of business-class Internet connectivity. It also offers hosted VoIP, SIP trunking and bulk origination and termination services. Bandwidth.com manages the assignment of telephone numbers for Google Voice. And they offer Telecom APIs, which is the […]
The SDP Global Summit has become the must-attend event across all telecom service platforms, not simply service delivery platforms. Previous Summits from 2012, 2011 Day 1, 2011 Day 2, and 2011 Highlights are reviewed on this weblog and you can see they have predicted the course of the industry. I’m in particularly excited about the […]
TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is the ONLY GLOBAL MEETING place for Developers who want to learn, share, code and create with the latest technologies in free and open source telecom software, telecom APIs, unique telecom platforms, and WebRTC. TADS is also for Telcos wanting to discover new services and to understand how to work […]
Continuing the series of businesses running on Telecom APIs, I interviewed Sage Harrison, MSO (Marketing & Sales Officer) of Mercury Flight, about their experiences. Mercury Flight is a Broadcast messaging cloud based service that delivers an affordable way to communicate to clients, friends, employees and professional networks. Whether you need to call, text or email a […]
Before getting into the main message of this weblog, remember to beware “black and white thinking”. It’s about focus, not absolutes. This weblog came about as I realized this subtle but important distinction between mobile and telecom app developers is not broadly appreciated, it gets lost in the collective noun of developers. Most developers that […]
Most of my working life has been spent building telecom applications within telcos (BT), vendors (Lucent, Cambridge Technology Partners), in my start-up Teltier (mobile presence applications), and working with many tens of telecom application developers as an independent. Based on this experience, telecom application developers exist and are grossly under-served by the telecom industry. A […]
Intel and Amazon made an interesting announcement today, the Intel® Expressway API manager is now available on the AWS Marketplace. For many enterprises that are using AWS this makes adding API Management to projects quite easy. The obvious application is in enterprise mobilization, as discussed last year in this weblog article on mobilization, where using […]
Over the past 24 hours the emails, instant messages, and discussion in the Linkedin Telecom API group have been flowing faster than usual as people digest the news of Twilio’s latest $70M round with the usual fawning uncritical tech reporting that passes for journalism from TechCrunch. And don’t get me started on people who call […]
I thought it worth taking a moment to review some of the companies I’ve talked to over the past 6 months that are either running their business on Telecom APIs, or helping others run their businesses on Telecom APIs. Common themes from the interviews are: Focus on running the core business. Telecom APIs means a […]