<div dir="ltr"><div>Their Phoenix office is in the same building as one of my offices. I almost went there today. It's not tall enough for anyone to jump out of a window, but it could have been fun nonetheless.</div><div><br></div>Perhaps Cisco can perfect Broadsoft's use of WebRTC to enable synergistic collaboration with Slack over Twilio middleware, all run in Docker and managed by systemd.<div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Peter Rad. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@4isps.com" target="_blank">peter@4isps.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This transaction says that being a stand-alone telco vendor doesn't work any longer. Taqua, Tekelec and Acme Packet for examples. ALU isn't exactly setting the world on fire. Consolidation means fewer customers.<br>
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And despite the analyst forecasts, UCaaS is not rocking the world. It is all going toward CPaaS.<br>
<a href="http://channelplaybook.com/telecom/the-ucaas-numbers-dont-add-up/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://channelplaybook.com/tel<wbr>ecom/the-ucaas-numbers-dont-<wbr>add-up/</a><br>
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Sonus and Genband have been in talks for months.<br>
No idea what Metsaswitch will do.<br>
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I find it funny they wait until their customers fly out to Phoenix to get kicked in the nuts. If they had leaked it 2 weeks ago, some of the attendees could have saved the airfare.<br>
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Also, BSFT needed a new C-Suite like 3 years ago. Slack kicked their ass and they took forever to try to catch up. Never even integrated with Slack!<br>
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They compete directly with their customers (BroadCloud). It's not a good formula for the 400 clients who are not the Duopoly.<br>
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Peter Radizeski<br>
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On 10/23/2017 2:57 PM, Brian Murray wrote:<br>
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Very shocking news to say the least. A strange vibe here at the 2017 Broadsoft Connections for sure. Very curious to see how this pans out. I do agree that this would bode well for other players in this space, but honestly for how long. Everyone is ultimately for sale.<br>
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Brian J. Murray<br>
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Subject: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize<br>
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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-broadsoft-m-a-cisco-systems/cisco-buys-broadsoft-for-1-71-bln-in-software-push-idUSKBN1CS02Q" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/articl<wbr>e/us-broadsoft-m-a-cisco-<wbr>systems/cisco-buys-broadsoft-<wbr>for-1-71-bln-in-software-push-<wbr>idUSKBN1CS02Q</a><br>
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I cant say im surprised but in this day and age i suspect there will be far less technical synergies than anyone is hoping for.<br>
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I suspect this bodes best for Metaswitch and netsapiens as some SP's will undoubtedly reconsider BSFT as a platform strategy.<br>
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Also directly from the article:<br>
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"BroadSoft provides software and services that enable mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to offer so-called unified communications over their internet protocol networks." ... ouch<br>
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Any other thoughts?<br>
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