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#MWC19 starting in one hour pic.twitter.com/nOx6JSWaWx — Raul Castañon (@rcastanonm) February 25, 2019 Excited to attend MWC for the fifth time. A lot of briefings lined up including Samsung, VMware, Tango Networks, Ericsson, Huawei, Telefonica, Polycom, Ribbon Communications, Infobip, Tata Communications, Twilio, Buddy Platform ... too many to list. I'll be publishing a spotlight report on the event and company impact reports from my different briefings. Also proud to be judge for the MWC Glomo Awards for the fifth time. A lot of work ahead this week but very happy to be back in beautiful Barcelona.

I had the opportunity to attend the Cisco 2019 Collaboration Analyst Summit in San Jose. This was very good timing on Cisco's behalf. The company shared upcoming updates that will be announced next month at Enterprise Connect; the event also provided an opportunity to meet Amy Chang, SVP and GM of the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group. My main takeaways are that Cisco is streamlining its Collaboration portfolio and improving the end user experience with a strong focus on workflow integration; it is also working on improving how it does business with its customers and partner network. 451 Research subscribers can read my comments following this link .

Excited to attend the analyst summit for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) Connex '19 in Monaco. It is a special occasion as ALE is celebrating its first 100 years. This is my first time attending an ALE event but they have been on my radar for the last few years. Last year I wrote about how its acquisition of of a majority stake in Austria-based Sipwise would enhance ALE's CPaaS and UCaaS offerings; 451 Research subscribers can read my report by following this link . My key takeaway from the event: ALE plans to leverage its networking and communications portfolios to focus on five key verticals (education, government, transportation, healthcare and hospitality) with digital transformation initiatives. The company will face intense competition but its vertical-focused approach and position as a vendor of CPaaS, UCaaS, IoT and networking technologies provide an important differentiation. Daniel Doppler from @quicktextAI talks about Zoe at Connex 2019, an intelligent assist