Real Time Communications World

David Walsh, CEO of GENBAND, took the stage at Perspectives14 and started his presentation talking about the importance of speed – saying the world is changing very quickly. He said there are twice as many people on the map than there were 45 years ago and then segued into the fact that 880 billion photos are taken per year. “If you have fast pipes, ubiquitous access and over 3 billion devices, you get enormous change,” he said. He then showed a chart of the national debt on the right and the number of connected devices on the left. U.S. debt is spiraling out of control, he said to audience laughter. He also said we generally ignore it – more laughter. He then said the growth of … Read More

From chief security officers to chief information security officers and beyond, the C-level has a lot to think about in the course of its workday. A new report from Akana suggests that there's one big new concern for the C-level, and that's application programming interface (API) security practices. The report sought to get a handle on just how mature API security practices actually were, and while there were steps taken, there were still significant holes to address across the board. The Akana report titled, “Global State of API Security Survey 2015,” offered up comment from over 250 individuals involved in security, including those C-level staffers as well as the more general security … Read More

Thanks in large part to social networking, as well as a growing number of mobile devices going online, a new report states that the WebRTC market is only going to get bigger and better. The report, titled, “Web Real-time Communication (RTC) Solution Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment, 2015–2025,” says the WebRTC solutions market is going to expand at a CAGR of 45.2 percent by the end of 2025. The report actually breaks down the larger WebRTC into a number of different sectors such as solutions and services. The report says the solution accounted for more than 50 percent of the global WebRTC market in 2014. While that news is a positive for firms looking to set up … Read More