Novotel Limited is one of the four international gateway companies in Bangladesh. Techistan met two of the four, Novotel Limited and Bangla Trac Communications. In 2007, Bangladesh invited private firms to bid on the open international gateways. The policy legalized voIP.
Mr. Hasibur Rashim, Head of International Carrier Relations of Novotel Limited, and Techistan were participating [...]

The VAR Guy queries Digium CEO Danny Windham, “What is the Asterisk Exchange?”
Mr. Windham replies, “Asterisk Exchange is a website that Digium is launching on Thursday the 21st in conjunction with ITEXPO. It is a marketplace that is designed to be a one stop shop for products that are Asterisk-based, add-ons for Asterisk, and products [...]

Guest editor Melinda Varley  is a Journalist, Commentary Desk, of Business Spectator, based in Australia.

Maneuvering their feet around for the brakes, Toyota execs are desperately seeking an end to the media furor threatening to dent its 73 year old brand image. However, its social media literacy might just save it.
The car [...]

ITEXPO East on Jan. 20, 2010, was a dynamite conference in a fun-filled, sunshine city of Miami Beach. Graham Francis and Alan Pesatty were in the press room. Graham was preparing to give a presentation during the SIP Trunking Summit which is run by Ingate. (Listen to Steven Johnson, president of Ingate, at http://www.didx.net/podcast regarding the Summit that took place during ITEXPO.)

Alan Pesatty asked all the questions that your company might ask about the SIP School before you enroll your team to learn about session initiation protocol and the benefits of such for more effective business processes, especially in the area of telecommunications.

and then reselling them retail or a combination of both. The second option helps CLECs to avoid buying switches, fiber optic transmission facilities or colocation facilities.Many have hinted at the fact that hosted voip providers have much in common with CLECS and in fact, could be the new CLECs.

What is a CLEC? It is a company which provides local telephone service — other than the incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (LEC). Much like a LEC, a CLEC will provide telephone service within a LATA. To handle InterLATA long-distance calls, the CLEC will connect to an IXC (IntereXchange Carrier). Quite often, CLEC’s will use the local loop (UNE-L) belonging to the incumbent Local Exchange Carrier.

  Steven Johnson, a President of Ingate Systems, served prior to this as CEO of Abrena, Inc., a business development consulting firm focused on assisting European and N. A. firms expand in the USA. Ingate’s heart and soul is housed in its Technology Center, located in Linköping, Sweden. We interviewed Steven on Ingate history, the [...]

  Al Gore’s book in the early 90s, “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,” and Rich Tehrani of TMC’s Green Technology World in September 2007 sparked a variety of responses: apathy, ridicule, inspiration, and action for many regarding green technology. Climate change activists publicize the idea, but the actual implementation depends upon [...]

Transcription of the podcast video of Carl Ford on Youtube:
Welcome to the podcast … if only the paranoid survive, then we’ve got a real strange case going on right now. Today Google is talking about NEXUS ONE, their brand-new standalone phone built by MOTOROLA for them that basically is not associated with any other [...]

By Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks
  The Internet is a tool that is enabling ubiquitous communications. From our computers to our handheld devices, televisions, video surveillance, financial institutions, hospitals, homes and beyond, applications are continually developed that require end users the ability to access higher bandwidth speeds. But speed isn’t the only factor to [...]

Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO of Jaymie Scotto & Associates (www.jaymiescotto.com)and publishers of Telecom News Now (TNN) is a graduate of New York University and known in the IP communications industry as a social media innovator and one of the best marketing and public relations consultant experts around. Their group, composed of Jaymie Scotto, Illissa Miller, [...]