The BYO-Epiphany: From Eureka to IT Transformation - WebRTC World

Latest Featured Articles » The BYO-Epiphany: From Eureka to IT Transformation When the Greek scholar Archimedes experienced history's most famous epiphany, legend says he shouted Eureka!, and then ran through the streets of Syracuse naked. When your IT department has what I call a BYO-epiphany - please keep your clothes on - but do be ready to strip off the blinders of an outdated mindset that has kept IT departments from meeting their potential. » GENBAND, HP to Jointly Demo NFV Solutions NFV, as you may know, is a new wave in networking. Traditionally network functionality for service provider networks was provided via appliances, which coupled specialized hardware and software. With NFV, however, next functionality is provided as software only; that frees up CSPs to use industry-standard and most affordable hardware on which to run the software. And it opens the door to more agile and flexible network architectures that promise to allow CSPs to go to market with new service offerings more quickly and affordably. » Comcast Lets X1 Subscribers Stream Live Video to Set-Tops Using WebRTC It is always nice to be a first at anything, especially when it comes to the commercialization of what many have called game-changing technology. For those of us in the WebRTC Solutions Community firsts are a great thing, true game-changer or not. It is why a posting by Franklyn Athias, Senior Vice President, Comcast IP Communications Services about the launch of Xfinity Share app is a grabber. » GENBAND's First Kandy Internal Hackathon On April 30th and May 1st, Kandy held its first internal hackathon at GENBAND's offices in Plano, Texas. This 24-hour event, comprised of 9 teams formed from various GENBAND's departments including R&D, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Sales and IT. The teams were tasked with designing applications that embedded the Kandy elements in a functional context that would improve the real-time communications experience. Many of the teams have never used Kandy's API's to add real-time communications into their applications, but with Kandy's easy to use SDKs they successfully added the elements such as video calling, chat, PSTN calling, presence detection, online collaboration and more to their applications. » All Service Providers Can Benefit from WebRTC Nearly everyone agrees that the future of Unified Communications goes through WebRTC, with affordable, lower-cost tools to add voice and video to everything from in-house communications tools to customer-facing websites and call centers. The first opportunity for WebRTC is the eat your own dog food approach (although I am partial to drinking your own champagne) by incorporating it into business call center operations. » WebRTC-enabled Wire App Makes its Mobile Web Appearance At the end of last year, and with quite a bit of fanfare at the time, Zug, Switzerland-based Wire, the communications app backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, was launched. Well the WebRTC-based desktop app has gone mobile with expansion of its service to the Web in the form of Wire for Web. It is worth the free download so you can kick the tires of this mobile app. Top Stories » FireRTC Expands Beta Program » Jive Enters the Growing Business Messaging App Space » Conferencing Will Only Be a Greater Part of the Workday to Come » From Consumer Mobile to Business Apps » Real Time Communications Finds a Place in Our Homes » W3C Updates Working Draft for Clipboard APIs and Events Featured Resources » Network Selection to Connect Edge Devices to the Internet of Things and the Enterprise » Internet Quality Report » Cloud Usage Risk Report Featured Channels » Next Generation Digital Services - Next Generation Digital Services » Real Time Communications » WebRTC Solutions - WebRTC Solutions Advertise With Us Contact us Become a WebRTC columnist! Become a WebRTC World columnist! Want to contribute your thought leadership and expertise around this exciting new collaboration technology to a rapidly growing audience? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the WebRTC World and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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