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Featured Articles » Why Mobile VoIP is a Global Hot Commodity » Video Conferencing for Verticals: A Cloud-based Webcast/Conferencing Hybrid Targets Enterprises » Report: NSA Vexed by VoIP » The Next Level of Videoconferencing: Mobile Use, Point of Contact » Survey: IT Hones in on VoIP Hardware   Sponsored By: ITEXPO ITEXPO Conference: January 27 - 30, 2015 Exhibits: January 28 - 30, 2015 Miami Beach Convention Center Register Today / Exhibit & Sponsor [Discover] The Next Frontier in Communications Discover Communication Tools that Dramatically Increase Productivity while Reducing Total Cost. New tools to improve customer engagement Hosted communications to improve services and reduce TCO Web-based applications to empower the mobile workforce SDN, NFV, UC, WebRTC, SIP, SBCs and More   Top Stories » Are Firms Finally Moving Email to the Cloud? » Unify Square Discusses the Benefits and Challenges of Lync/Skype for Business Migration » PanTerra's Unified Business Analytics Platform Draws on the Cloud for Power » Unified Communications Have Unexpected Impact with SMB Market » Truly Wireless Offers VoIP-Like Enterprise Calling-via Cellular   From The Expert Corner January 05, 2015 AT&T to be First U.S. Carrier with Commercial Support for WebRTC By Peter Bernstein Senior Editor WebRTC solutions finished 2014 on a roll, including the final results from the Business Intelligence Hackathon API (BIHAPI) to be released later this month.  It has picked up right where it left off with the announcement from the 2015 AT&T Developer Summit today now taking place in Las Vegas at the same time as the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES).  And, as with BIHAPI the focus is on energizing the developer community to invent the future using WebRTC. Specifically this makes AT&T the first US carrier to launch commercial support for WebRTC via its AT&T Enhanced WebRTC API.  This is obviously significant news for the entire WebRTC community. It is also a harbinger as to why 2015 is going to be a big year for the real-time communications standard.  The apps are going to start to emerge in what will likely be something way more than a trickle. Time to kick the tires of the AT&T Enhanced WebRTC API   Here is the good news to get a jump on things. The AT&T Enhanced WebRTC API is now available in an open beta program. Plus, for those following industry developments, it offers several enhancements to the basic WebRTC standard. According to AT&T these include: Enhanced WebRTC communications can now extend to land lines and mobile numbers, not just P2P or browser-to browser sessions. As they point out, “This is valuable for developers and customers and will spur growth by eliminating a key barrier to adoption.” The ability for developers to programmatically enable Caller ID for WebRTC communications through the use of their end user's AT&T mobile number, for calls placed from WebRTC-enabled browsers. Developers now can enable end users to move or transfer a call starting on a PC, MAC or tablet to a smartphone. "AT&T's powerful new Enhanced WebRTC API will allow developers to re-imagine phone and video calling experiences for our connected, IP–centric world," said...Read More Read more about Cable, Satellite, Information Technology   Featured Video WebRTC Atlanta 2014 Keynote: Vidyo   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Why Cloud May Be Your Best Option for Quality Management and Improved Customer Experience » The Adoption Curve: Top-10 Characteristics of Pervasive Adoption of Audio / Video Conferencing & Collaboration » Hosted UC: Benefits and Cost Analysis   Featured Channels » Business VoIP » Cloud Contact Center » Hosted PBX   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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