Since the WAVES project I have been focusing on another CaaS project with Ribbit - ‘ Ribbit for Windows 7 .’ The solution is an excellent example of Software + Services applied to the telecommunications industry: a rich Windows 7 client experience using...

I spent a good amount of time in November and December focusing on the WAVES solution that was demonstrated at the TMForum’s Management Americas show.  WAVES is a multi-industry effort to develop a reference architecture allowing a consumer to access...

Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) was a collaborative project between Microsoft and BT’s Ribbit subsidiary.  I mention R4SL below at the Ribbit Spawn event.   R4SL is a set of drag/drop Silverlight controls that make it easy for Designers/Developers...

As companies become more cost conscious they are seeing large savings from ‘Over the Top’ communications providers.  These multi-tenant “cloud” platforms open markets to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) that can’t afford to purchase expensive...

Over the last year, I had the pleasure of working with a talented group of technologists at the AP to assist in their Azure adoption.  The AP implemented a solution to open up a highly scalable application programming interface (API) that developers...

Last November, Jamie Adler and Matt Cochran of IntelePeer and their ReachLive application was highlighted in the ‘ Faces of .NET ’ campaign for their use of Microsoft technologies.  Faces of .NET highlights the personalities behind the applications...

The January issue of Xchange Magazine, a telecommunications industry publication, presents a number of articles on cloud computing for the telecommunications industry.  Since no other industry faces as profound transformation from cloud computing...