Brent Newsome's blog

Anyone who follows football (whether it be soccer or American football), basketball, field hockey, or rugby knows that in order to win the game, you have to keep the ball moving forward down the field into the other guys territory eventually to a net or end zone to get points.  All the while your opponent is trying to seize the ball to go the other way.  Keeping the ball moving is as important a part of business as it is of sport. A team that fails to seize the initiative and watches the other team grab the ball and run loses. 

In the RCS space it’s my view that mobile operators are standing around watching the ball be moved around their home playing field by a nimble team of players from the Internet world.

At the Rich Communications Conference last year in Munich the sole focus was on deploying RCS in an IMS based paradigm.  The sponsors and exhibitors at the conference were all major equipment vendors.  When our team talked with operators, the feedback received was that they would consider no other option. We got blank stares and polite head nodding in response to our hosted or “RCS in a box” proposition.

Since launching our RCS product in February 2012, our team has been actively testing  NewPace rcsConnect with a large number of operators, client developers and other infrastructure providers.

We have provided these organizations with opportunities to test their solutions with our RCS-e system as well as the use our product for a development environment.  These informal partnerships have provided us with opportunities to test with both new and accredited clients and work closely with development teams around the world to collectively make the RCS vision a reality.

For a mobile operator deciding which RCS-e/joyn system to purchase, one of the key considerations is interoperability. No one wants a service that only works within its own network.

NewPace has been working to continuously test against a variety of providers of various RCS-e solutions to ensure that NewPace clients have the ultimate RCS experience.  As NewPace continues to enhance its RCS-e as a Hosted Solution product, we have been testing interoperability with a host of suppliers around the globe.

Recently IPneo completed its interoperability phase with NewPace and is now considered a compatible product to the NewPace product. IPneo has clients for Android, Android tablet, iPhone, iPad, Win32, Mac and Linux.

In the technology space it is pretty evident that the teens rule the world and shape the way we experience and use technology. From the Sony Walkman to Apple’s iPod and the fact that Facebook is now a household word, we owe these and many other trends to the youth.

Young people have this admirable quality where they can see a technology (even in its infancy stages) and see where its future possibilities can be. We use them as test cases and trendspotters.  They try out products, make suggestions and then show their parents, family members, neighbours and all the technophobes of the world how to use these technologies.