Telecom Disruptors

Telecom Disruptors

Interviews with key telecommunications industry movers and shakers that are changing the way the world communicates.

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September 30, 2021 17 mins
Network Transformation, the process of converting a legacy TDM network to SIP, was a hot topic at the 2021 NTCA conference in Nashville. In this podcast we speak with Jim Dalton from TransNexus about STIR/SHAKEN and robocall mitigation, Dave George from netsapiens about transitioning from older platforms to a next generation platform, Camille Issa at Alianza about why it's important to know your Present Total Cost of Ownership befo...
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Ride along with James Body as we talk about the evolution of open source communications and dodge traffic headed to London’s Heathrow Airport. James is a pillar in the open source community, sharing some of his backstory with a look to the future of communications.

David Duffet’s session from CommCon 2019 on the Open Source Survey Results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N591Mi6qzWc
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Chris is the Director of IP Comms and RTC Solutions at Comcast and a major contributor to the STIR/SHAKEN framework, now mandated by the TRACED Act. In this episode, Chris shares how he and Comcast got involved in the process and the role of STIR/SHAKEN in stemming the tide of illegal robocalls. Chris also shares his vision for the future for STIR/SHAKEN, enabling new rich-media communications.
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A discussion with Pascal Menezes, CTO at the MEF Forum and past Principal at Microsoft, looking back at how Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business grew the Unified Communications market. Also, his new efforts at the MEF Forum, defining SD-WAN and software-based network infrastructure. And on how his music production hobby has driven his vision for the network infrastructure of the future.

Pascal shares a summary of his keynote here:...
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Chris Matthieu, Senior Director of Distributed Services at Magic Leap shares what the future of augmented reality communications will be like and the path he followed into the communications industry during an interview at CommCon 2019.
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In this podcast we preview our upcoming "How to Enable New Services with CPaaS and SBCs" webinar. Service providers are challenged to offer new services to their subscribers and build new value to prevent customer churn. Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) is a means to offer an open API-based development environment to businesses of all sizes, allowing them to build custom business applications to improve their customer e...
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Erik Lagerway, VP of Product at SignalWire shares his telecommunications journey and insight on the future of real-time communications
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Jeff Rodman, one of the founders of Polycom shares the story of how high-quality voice conferencing systems came to fruition and his vision on what the addition of Plantronics means to the company, joining forces to become Poly.
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Founder of the pioneering magazine focused on VoIP in 1998, Rich is also the founder and chairman of INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO, a leading conference focused on VoIP since its launch in 1999. In this podcast he shares how VoIP started with hobbyists and is now ubiquitous in telecom networks worldwide.
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Join us as Allison explains how she got into the business of doing voice-overs for Asterisk and some of the unusual projects where she’s provided a voice.
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Jeff shares his story of turning his love of communications technology into the highly successful VON events, and his work behind the “Pulver Order”, a key petition to the FCC that allowed VoIP service providers to avoid regulation.
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Alon Cohen is the co-inventor of the Audio Transceiver that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry. He also shares his thoughts on the cloud, his vision of the future of APIs, telephony and travel!
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A pioneer in the development of the SIP protocol shares some insights about the current state of SIP, enterprise SIP applications now and into the future and the transition to the cloud.
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We discuss how to put a stop to illegal robocalls, returning trust and transparency to the voice channel, and how legitimate - often vital - robocalls will get through.
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Join us for a conversation about the state of robocalling - and what's being done about it by carriers - with Jim Dalton recorded at the SIPNOC 2018 Robocall Summit.
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Our own Alan Percy sat down and recorded a podcast with FCC Chief Technology Officer Eric Burger, discussing one of our favourite subjects, robocalling fraud and actions the FCC is taking to protect consumers.
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January 2, 2019 3 mins
A welcome and introduction to Telecom Disruptors - A podcast focused on sharing the stories and journeys of the people that made major contributions to creating the new communications industry.

Hosted by Alan Percy, a long-time participant in the telecommunications industry who got his start in the industry writing software in the late ‘80s that collected call detail records from switches. Later he worked on voice mail systems ...
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