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He added, “We have a jam-packed session agenda with so much
information to learn and grow your business. Your brain should hurt by
the time you’re done with this.”
Vendor Spotlights are a new addition to the mix for this year.
“We have added a dedicated sixth track for vendors to offer their
roadmap, walk through products, offer demonstrations and so on,”
Stooke explained. “We have a number of major manufacturers that have
information that they need to share, so we’ve given them that platform,
in an integrated manner with the rest of the education.”
Speed dating has returned to the agenda as well. Participants
give their names, where they work and answer a question, like where
they went to high school, what their last book was, or what the one
thing they own is that they wish they didn’t. After the ice is broken, an
industry-specific discussion question is posted to facilitate idea sharing.
WISPAPALOOZA 2016 is the sixth iteration of the show, and it’s well on
its way to being another record-breaker, with plenty of new vendors and
its best attendance to date.
“We’ve grown up as an industry, and businesses have gotten large
enough now that they know they need someone dedicated to HR, or
accounting,”Stooke said.“That’s been the most exciting part of growing
the show. Six years ago when we started it was almost purely technical and
regulatory-focused. Nowwe have record attendance and people are bringing
multiple people and we have full marketing tracks. People are running
complex businesses and they need that level of insight and education.” o
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6 WISPAPALOOZA 2016 • OCTOBER 11-13, 2016
NetSapiens Celebrates 10
Years of SNAPsolution UC
NetSapiens Inc. (Booth 504) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of
its SNAPsolution platform. SNAPsolution, originally launched in
October 2006, was designed to be a core application platform that
was future proof, innovation friendly and focused on bringing sustainable
value to service providers and their end users.
“When we set sail 10 years ago, our goal was to take the platform to
market to shake the status quo,” said Anand Buch, CEO and co-founder of
NetSapiens. “We wanted to change the way that telephony vendors were
dictating the best practices of how to build next generation VoIP networks.
We designed SNAPsolution to give service providers the ability to make
their own choices, create better services for their end users, and be able to
compete with the largest carriers on the market.”Anand continued, “The
fact that many (if not all) of our initial deployments from 2006 are still in
service and growing today suggests that we are on the right track.”
This mission of providing the tools that service providers need to grow
and compete in the marketplace has stayed with NetSapiens over the
past decade to guide the product into what it has become today. Since
its release, SNAPsolution has seen significant advancements in its suite of
user portals, customizable user scopes, call center applications and new UC
features that businesses are increasingly demanding from their ITSPs.
In many ways, the progress that has been made in SNAPsolution is a
reflection of the company as a whole with NetSapiens seeing substantial
growth in nearly every aspect of the business. SNAPsolution has become
the core platform for more than 100 service providers around the
globe. And, the company has increased staff across multiple disciplines
throughout the company, opened a new headquarters in La Jolla, Calif. and
launched a satellite office in Canada.
NetSapiens has also broadened its reach by developing many
relationships with third-party partners and creating interoperability
opportunities between products.
“The past 10 years of SNAPsolution success is a testament to the every
NetSapiens teammember that had a hand in making it happen and also
to the strong community of NetSapiens service providers who continue to
help push us forward into the next decade of growth,”Buch said. o
TraditionallyWISPs have served areas where there is limited rural
broadband access and little competition. Now, they are seeing growth
beyond the rural residential core, and are expanding into businesses, the
government sector and institutions, Schaeffer said.
Also, he pointed to the growth in the number and sophistication of
mobile devices.
“Cellular mobile is combining with fixed wireless,”he said. “Devices work
inside the house onWi-Fi and then switch to mobile on the go. We’ll start to
see more opportunity from that.”
Overall, the study found there to be plenty of growth and daylight for
WISPs.
“The future looks positive for this industry,” Schaeffer said. “There is
present and future consumer demand for their services, software and
hardware, and the economics are attractive because of the nature of fixed
wireless physical routers.” o
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