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Episode 20: Telecom and the Developer Community

Season 1, Ep. 20

Summertime gives many of us a chance to travel somewhere interesting and different, and gain a new perspective. We've taken that to heart in this episode, as Robert and Francis spend time with someone who lives full time within the fabled "developer community" that features as a box on countless slides from telecom CSPs and vendors. For well over a decade, Alan Quayle has led an initiative to rally developers to leverage the potential of programmable telecom networks - the aptly-title Telecom Application Developer (TAD) series of events.


We ask: does telecom actually "get" developers? What innovation have we seen from third party developers? What are CAMARA's chances?

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