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TADSummit 2023: Open Source

Open source telecom software is the foundation upon which programmable telecoms / communications is built. It is also a critical technology for telcos to make the leap to Techco. Put simply, if telcos continue to use their legacy closed source vendors, the Techco vision will not happen. This advice comes from the fixed line telcos, … Continue reading TADSummit 2023: Open Source

TADSummit Podcast Episode 7

Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators This is an amazing multi-decade review of Dave Horton‘s telecoms journey, through Open Development Systems, Pactolus that supported the prepaid calling card industry so he and Johnny have much in common, to where we are today with Drachtio and Jambonz, enabling CPaaS to run on free and open source software. I … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 7

Deutsche Telekom get your act together on programmable telecoms

DT just announced it became Ericsson’s first commercial operator partner in its drive to target developers and enterprises with access to communications and network APIs, a strategy pushed by the vendor after its $6.2 billion buy of Vonage last year. I reviewed the Vonage Acquisition at the time it was announced in 2021. Essentially an exit deal … Continue reading Deutsche Telekom get your act together on programmable telecoms

Welcome & What Happened? Review

These TADSummit 2022 reviews are a chance to give all the excellent content deserved attention and add my commentary on its importance. I cover only my ‘Welcome and What happened since we last met? Where is the Programmable Comms market going?’ presentation as the article ended up being quite long and a bit soapboxy (warning … Continue reading Welcome & What Happened? Review

Innovator Interview: Manjeet Singh, CEO & Co-founder at Buddy4study

Programmable Communications Innovator Interview: Manjeet Singh, CEO & Co-founder at Buddy4Study I first met Manjeet in person at TADSummit 2015. He presented in the Telestax slot, in an illustrious morning plenary of the first day of TADSummit with: Tropo (who had recently been bought by Cisco); Nexmo (who were soon to be bought by Vonage); … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Manjeet Singh, CEO & Co-founder at Buddy4study

Programmable Telecoms: What is in IT for Telcos? by Sebastian Schumann

Programmable Telecoms – What is in IT for Telcos? by Sebastian Schumann, Technology & Innovation at Deutsche Telekom Sebastian’s presentation does a great job of bridging the thinking across the traditional telco world, and the CPaaS world (or CXTech world). He explains the NT (Network Technology) / IT (Information Technology) view within telcos, where IT … Continue reading Programmable Telecoms: What is in IT for Telcos? by Sebastian Schumann

TADSummit EMEA 2019 19th Nov Morning Session

TADSummit began in 2013, focused on Programmable Telecoms (Telecom APIs back then). We get a diverse mix of people, with telcos, CPaaS/UCaaS/CCaaS providers, developers, and enterprises. The diversity and the small size (about 70 in total this year) create an insightful and fun event. A big thank you to our sponsors Wazo, VoIP Innovations (now Sangoma), TeleSign, Automat Berlin, SiPalto for making … Continue reading TADSummit EMEA 2019 19th Nov Morning Session

TADSummit Americas Day 2 Morning

TADSummit Americas 2019 ran on the 15-16 Oct, in parallel with the IIT RTC Conference. This weblog provides a summary of the presentations and discussions from TADSummit Americas Day 2 morning. Thank you to TeleSign and Mio for sponsoring TADSummit Americas, all our partners (VoIP Innovations, Apidaze, IIT RTC Conf, IIT RTC Labs, Mind Commerce, Aplisay, The Fast Mode, Disruptive Analysis), … Continue reading TADSummit Americas Day 2 Morning

TADSummit 2017 Planning

The focus of TADSummit 2017 remains, since its inception, a place for practitioners across multiple industries to come together and share their experience-based thought leadership in telecom app development. Telecoms is now programmable, almost every aspect of Telecoms can be considered an app, just like the Web. This shift remains poorly understood within the telecoms industry, … Continue reading TADSummit 2017 Planning