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Game of Phones: Kazoo 4.0 and KazooCon First Day Recap

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Game of Phones: Kazoo 4.0 and KazooCon First Day Recap

game-of-phonesFirst things first, I wish I could take credit for that super catchy play on words, but alas that credit belongs to the folks at 2600Hz. That’s the theme of the much-anticipated KazooCon 2016 After Party, and yes, you can bet your bottom dollar we’ll be there. However, one thing I can’t guarantee is that Las Vegas rules won’t apply – as in, what happens at KazooCon stays at KazooCon. Either way, I’ll keep you posted. In addition to coming up with fun ways for telephone engineers to unwind, the clever folks at 2600Hz have spent most of the day making sure we’re waist-deep in the latest and greatest feature of their all-new platform, Kazoo 4.0. Now, for many of you who are super excited about the ins and outs of the newest technology from 2600Hz, I regret to inform you that the technical information about the update made my brain melt a little. However, all is not lost! You can get every little bit of information on the update online by visiting Kazoo 4.0 on GitHub.

Not All for the Engineers

With so much having been accomplished over the past year at 2600Hz, needless to say, Kazoo 4.0 is just the tip of the iceberg. That being the case, once again presenting on the State of the Union was 2600Hz COO, Patrick Sullivan. Patrick was keen to stress a lot of the functionality of the new Kazoo platform, of course, but there were several other key takeaways fro his keynote –

  • Even having a bigger, badder, and much more intuitive Kazoo UI is no reason to throw out the old system entirely and therefore the old Kazoo UI will remain available for archiving on GitHub.
  • Because relationships are so important to the development of Kazoo, so too is an equivalently important support system for the people who use it. That’s why there’s a totally new Kazoo Support System that, based on how good this new platform looks, likely won’t be a place you spend a lot of time at.
  • Reinforcement of the policy of “Open Core vs Open Source” which is a new way for people to choose to contribute chains of code to the master technology or to create proprietary products from the original. This supports the many entrepreneurs who rely on Kazoo as the basis of their own products.

Looking Forward to a Bright Future

Ultimately, whether it was from the product team behind Kazoo 4.0, leaders of regional telecom reselling companies, or even the CPO of Vonage, Omar Javaid, there was one consistent theme throughout the day. Specifically, the state of technology makes this a very exciting time to be in hosted communications, both as a supplier or a consumer. The added functionality of the hardware and software available is redefining how we will communicate with each other beyond whatever we could have imagined. Additionally, insofar as the Kazoo 4.0 platform is concerned, Patrick Sullivan eloquently mentioned that holistic improvements from software, hardware, and servers all contribute to eliminate uncertainty in service. And no matter where you fall on the telecom user/engineer spectrum, that’s something we can all get behind.

More to Come

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