First of all, we’d like to extend thanks and congratulations to Lee Dryburgh and the group of folks who organized and executed this year’s Emerging Communications Conference. In rapid succession, attendees were exposed to new ways to perceive and prosecute business opportunities that take advantage of new networking and computing architectures. Opus Research used it as an opportunity to introduce a broader audience to the Recombinant Communications (RC) strategic framework.

Feedback on our talk was very positive. It is also gratifying to see a number product and business initiatives that take advantage of, and indeed leverage RC. An early case in point was provided by Cullen Jennings, from Cisco, who described the latest developments around ViPR, the acronym for Verification Involving PSTN Reachability. I had previously written about ViPR (although I didn’t know the IETF naming) here, when I described Cisco’s IME (Inter-Enprise Media Exchange). Suffice it to say that the documentation surrounding standards making based on ViPR at the IETF are designed to use the traditional PSTN as a mechanism for building “trusted” networks of networks in the IP Cloud, thus establishing the foundation for constant growth and assimilation of new users and applications.

eComm also served as the launch event not only for Recombinant Communications (RC), but also for entrepreneurial firms like RingIO, Bzeek and Teleku. The first is a cloud-based service provider bringing the “big company” feel of industrial grade IVR, CTI and call handling, to medium-sized businesses. Bzeek is a company that provides a way for computer users to share capacity on their WiFi access points securely in answer to the need for faster, more efficient local links. Finally, Teleku turns out to be living, breathing RC. As demonstrated by Chris Matthieu, it is a cloud-based resource that brings in speech recognition, text-to-speech rendering, directory management and call processing logic on an as-needed basis under the control of RESTful application development environments.

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