The offering of a complete virtual network by cloud providers to enterprises, bypassing the service provider, shouldn’t come as a surprise. This will happen through acquisition of SD-WAN vendors or self-development.
Service providers should take their destiny in their own hands when it comes to enterprise network services or they will be left to do only the plumbing work.
Geographical Silos vs. Service Silos… Guess Who Faces Crexit
As Michael Lewitt mentions in his post, the rich get richer but looking at it from a technology and business standpoint rather than from a financial one we see that those who adapt to globalization, technology cycles and user behavioral changes are at the top of the list. It is true in communications and also in retail. WebRTC is helping global service providers enlarge their cake
Why Dropbox Must Take WebRTC Seriously
Although it looks like the Dropbox WebRTC honeymoon wasn’t a successful one, looking at the market Dropbox is operating in, it must take WebRTC and unified communications seriously. The major gap it has now is in the unified communications part (voice, video and messaging). WebRTC is what can help Dropbox close this gap and become its growth engine in the enterprise space.
What’s Wrong With Microsoft’s WebRTC Announcement
Companies such as Microsoft are shifting their revenue mix to services. In such a business model, opening the service to developers to integrate with is a power multiplier, not in R&D resources but in creativity and innovation. That is a paradigm shift from POBX vendors closing their system for their phones only to making it as open as possible.
Why The WebRTC Video Codec War Is Not Over Yet, VP8 & H.264 Are Still In The Boxing Ring
There are 2 main decision criteria for choosing a video codec – technical and business. Tsahi touched the technical part in his post. While I’ll get a bit into the technical aspects as well, in this post I also want to cover some of the business considerations. Let’s put one thing behind us. The difference between H.264 and VP8 from quality perspective is more of a religion than anything else.
Patent Settlements: Only Lawyers are to Lose
The idea behind patent registration is valid, allow inventors and companies to protect their investment in innovation and extract value from it. The competition between companies has led to endless lawsuits between giant companies yielding a zero value game. In today’s reality, engineers at large and even small companies are many times paralyzed