Today is the Acme Packet University and Analyst Day. Some of the tweets had some nuggets I thought I would share: Acme Packet Analyst Event: Now that SBC is standardized, what's preventing others from catching up? Acme Packet CTO MeLampy answer: Complexity has risen; so overwhelming that it's a barrier to entry; APKT hired 200 ppl in the last 18 months to tackle it. Acme Packet CTO: standards complexity is killing the potential for end-user services. Patrick MeLampy discusses the newer complexities of multimedia communications. MeLampy: increased SIP complexity: 215 different RFCs related to SIP, 35 Internet drafts 2012 YTD, 80 Internet Drafts last 6 months @Acme_Packet: MeLampy: all our old competitors tried to solve the sbc problems like a firewall, and they all failed. MeLampy: making a simple call :136 messages , 17 entities , 6 protocols; Session state in 7 difference locations MeLampy: Making a 3GPP call (SIP session layer): Phone registration: 30 messages, 11 entities , 5 protocols. Andy Ory: As service providers are pushing to #LTE there are three problems, the business challenges, tech issues, and complexity Ory: our role in session enablement is to allow for simple implementations, so service providers can compete with free voice services Dan Warren - IMS brings everything good about TDM to an IP level. <so we are back to talking about IMS, huh?> Thank you. Regards, Peter Radizeski RAD-INFO, Inc. - NSP Strategist Bandwidth * Circuits * Consulting 813.963.5884 http://www.rad-info.net/contact.htm