Introduction Here is the PDF for the content Vance presents. If you find an acronym, check out the abbreviations in this PDF. Slava summarizes the session best, “if I had received the kind of information years ago when I was just starting to explore the telecom world, it would have saved me hundreds of hours … Continue reading An introductory dive into Telecoms, with Vance Shipley
Background Apologies for the slight audio quality issue. I made the mistake of maxing the gain on my microphone. Its audible, though a little annoying. I’ll not do that again. We experience it everyday, incoming calls labelled ‘scam likely’, even more annoyingly voicemails left from those scams calls. For some customers, SMS is not as … Continue reading Why has the US PSTN pollution remained so bad? with Alex Quilici, CEO YouMail
Over the summer I had a number of conversations that included vCon. This is a chance for some of the vCon team to share the latest updates. Mindmaking is really exciting for me, its building the vCon Store, its applications and dashboards; supported by some of the TADHack community. More on that later in this … Continue reading vCon Progress Report
Introduction to the Erlang Session Viacheslav Katsuba, is widely known in the Erlang community as “Ukrainian Erlanger”, active blogger and co-creator of the Hello Erlang podcast, and a contributor to discussions shaping the future of functional programming. He is the Founder & CEO of Scalicon, a US registered software engineering company focused on Erlang/OTP development, DevOps, … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Why Erlang Matters More Than Ever in 2025, Viacheslav Katsuba
It was Alex Henthorn Iwane of Wire’s article on SignalGate that attracted our interest. Wire has been part of TADS for years, here are the old CEO and CTO keynoting at TADHack in 2015. This is a fun discussion, as Johnny made clear at the start he is a fan of Wire, he was there … Continue reading Podcast 112: TADSummit Innovators, SignalGate, Alex Henthorn Iwane, Wire
This ended up a long but worthwhile discussion. The Simwood potato is relevant across the telecoms industry, from legacy telcos needing to leapfrog technical debt, to Simwood competitors missing features and services, to enterprises needing to add features overnight, and all the startup voice AI companies needing to plug their telephony gaps. It’s a surprisingly … Continue reading TADSummit Online Conference, 2 April, Simwood Potato
Here are the TADSummit and TADHack 2025 plans, so you know the big picture. This post lists the agenda, and links to recorded sessions Links to Recorded Sessions Google rejects SMS OTP for QR Codes? I understand the SMS bit, but QR codes? Kevin Graham, Bohdan Hopanchuck, Noah Rafalko, Johnny, Dennis Kersten (audience), Ahmed Serag (audience). From the Trenches, RCS / RBM … Continue reading TADSummit 2025 Online Conference Agenda
Podcast Directory Dan is a man of many hats: Nimble Ape, CommCon (London 5-6 June and San Francisco 12-13 June), and Everycast (Broadcast Bridge). His focus is the merging of RTC (Real Time Communications) and Media (video streaming). We had an interesting discussion on the emergence of Media over QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). While … Continue reading Podcast 49: TADSummit Innovators, Dan Jenkins, WebRTC and more
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
In this weblog we review the presentations focused on programmable communications at TADSummit EMEA Americas 2021. The presentations include: Panel Discussion: The Challenges and Opportunities of merging UCaaS and CCaaS. João Camarate, CTO Broadvoice and GoContact, Shai Berger, CEO Fonolo; Adnan Saleem, CTO Software and Cloud Solutions, Radisys; Al Balasco, SVP Communications Solutions, Radisys; Thomas Howe, … Continue reading Slice of TADSummit: Programmable Comms