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Articles by Gary Barton
Agentic AI May Give IP Voice a New Lease on Life as Legacy Decline Continues
Research Director, Enterprise Technology and Services Summary Bullets: • While IP voice is less ubiquitous, when it matters it, it really matters • Agent-to-agent communication adds a new paradigm to IP voice services Calling IP voice a legacy service is a little unfair, but only a little. Innovation in this arena is still happening as can be seen by BT’s recent launch of its automated UC edge platform designed to help enterprises move numbers between UC platforms automatically.
AI-Powered Network Portals: SLMs, Proactive Observability, and Route Cause Analysis
Summary Bullets: Multiple small language models (SLMs) are likely to be more affective than one big large language model (LLM). AI can offer proactive route cause analysis informed by multiple data sources. Agentic AI has dominated the tech headlines in recent months and was the hot topic at this year’s MWC event in Barcelona (Spain). The technology will play a significant role in revolutionizing indirect sales and customer support processes across pretty much all verticals.
Exploring the Image of Drapery in Works of Art
Keywords drapery, art, classical sculpture, Flemish art College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract Dating from classical sculpture to the late nineteenth century, the image of drapery was an essential expressive tool for the artist. Artists recognized the immense expressive visual power of draped cloth. At times, the artist would fill up two thirds of the canvas with various drapes arranged specifically to create the desired expression.
FROM CONCEPTION TO COMPLETION: A SUMMARY OF PROCESS AND PROGRESS
Keywords drypoint, prismacolor, triptych, monotypes College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract The final results of my BFA show were much different than my original intentions. I had initially set out to create a series of triptychs using monotype, drypoint, collage, and drawing procedures, but I ended up abandoning the triptych format altogether.
Colt and Proximus’s Wholesale API Trial Highlights the Importance of Industry Standards Bodies in Achieving Automation
Summary Bullets: • Colt and Proximus partner for a proof of concept (PoC) focusing on API collaboration based on the MEF’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration Sonata designed to enhance carrier-to-carrier automation. • GlobalData expects wholesale providers to embrace API technology to enhance and automate inter-network functionality with the end target of delivering automated end-to-end services across multi-vendor networks.
"Community House" by Katie Campbell Rojas and Gary Barton
Keywords Community House, visual art, empty creation College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract Community House was a concept created to artistically represent individuals within a community. It was proposed that a group of 20 students and 2 professors would construct a house made up of 22 individual rooms. Furthermore, the house could easily be disassembled so that each artist might render his/her room personally.
Non-Toxic Intaglio Printmaking
Keywords non-toxic intaglio, printmaking, intaglio processes, acrylic grounds College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract Intaglio printmaking is a process that carries with it a tradition of hazardous chemicals and solvents that is not only dangerous for artists and students, but also for the environment. As an artist, I am concerned with the negative effects of working with these substances.
Allusions to Home
Keywords home, intaglio printing process, collage material, shelter College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract What differentiates a home from a shelter? What is a mother’s role in creating the environment we call home? What role does art and craft play in the creation of that environment? These are some of the questions I had in mind as I began this project.
"Distortions" by Isaac Howard and Gary Barton
Keywords distortions, multimedia productions, digital sound College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract The technological shifts in digital media have empowered individuals to create quality multimedia productions on a relatively limited budget. With the help of ORCA, I have been able to take a new direction with my art using digital sound and videotechnologies. I have spent the last year trying to learn how to use the new equipment in order to produce the art I have envisioned.
"(CON)TEXT" by Christopher Lynn and Gary Barton
Keywords communication, semiotics, harmonious phrase, signifier College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract Within the field of semiotics, methods of communication (languages) are separated into three distinct categories: signifier, signified, and sign. The signifier is a thing, like a ball. The signified is a definition or concept of the thing: a ball is a spherical object. When the signifier and signified are combined, the result is the sign.
Photographic Processes in Printmaking
Keywords photographic processes, printmaking, intaglio College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract The advent of photography brought about a change in the world of art. Many artists felt that they no longer needed to adhere to academic standards in rendering traditional subjects such as the figure, landscape, or still life. They even felt that it was necessary to separate their work from the confining standards of the academy and representation.
Telcos Need to Define Their Own Role Within the AI Value Chain
Summary Bullets: • Telcos can use AI both internally and in customer facing-roles to achieve differentiation. • There is an opportunity for telcos to help enterprises adopt AI and become AI enablers – both for large enterprises and the SMB market. “Nobody knows how AI will impact networks!” so said the CEO of one of the world’s largest telecoms technology vendors at a recent industry event.
Artistic Practice and Domestic Experience in New Zealand
Keywords artistic practice, domestic experience, New Zealand, artwork College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract For a while now I’ve been interested in the role that food plays in the interaction between individuals and groups of people. In my own home growing up I learned to love food and the gatherings that food facilitated, especially family meal-times. I more recently developed the desire to look further into how food affects our lives.
BYU Stamp Scavenger Hunt
Keywords BYU, stamp scavenger hunt, ink stamp College Family, Home, and Social Sciences Abstract The goal of this project was to provide an informative and unifying activity for BYU students through an art installation and exhibition. It was inspired by Japanese Eki (Train) Station stamps, which promotes tourism throughout all of Japan, to popular and unknown areas, due to people interest in collecting ink stamps placed at each station.
Colt’s Completed Lumen EMEA Asset Grab Gives it Scale to be a New Force in the Enterprise and Wholesale Markets
Summary Bullets: • The acquisition doubles Colt’s EMEA network capacity, gives it 10+ subsea cable systems and landing stations, and cements its position as a leading partner for hyperscalers in the region. • Colt has achieved growth and stability through a laser-tight market focus – the scale of this acquisition will challenge that stability.
Whitley Circuit Clerk takes down a bull elk – The News Journal
Whitley Circuit Clerk Gary Barton recently harvested this bull elk in Pike County. Elk hunting is legal in Kentucky, but is limited by an annual lottery for elk permits through the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. A total of 594 elk permits were available in 2021.
SASE for Enterprises in the Post-COVID World
G. Barton Summary Bullets: SASE promises the unification of security and network routing policies. To achieve a SASE methodology, enterprises need to think about both policies and technology. The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the move towards cloud/SaaS adoption and work from home (WFH). The crisis has proven that, even with rushed deployments in less than ideal circumstances, both cloud and WFH are efficacious ways of doing business.
Should Network Underlay Still Matter to Enterprises?
G. Barton Summary Bullets: Network underlay matters less than it used to, but should not be ignored by enterprises. Overlay network technologies offer many benefits, but cannot cure all potential network problems. SD-WAN has seen significant adoption in the enterprise network services market in very little time.
SD-WAN for Homeworkers: Prohibitively Expensive or a Realistic Option?
G. Barton Summary Bullets: Homeworking has changed the dynamic for SD-WAN, which usually relies on physical or virtualized CPE at the corporate site, but options are available for those working from home. Hardware-based solutions for homeworkers are falling in price, but may only be suitable for ‘power users.’ A growing number of SD-WAN technology vendors and network service providers (SPs) have either launched or have stated that they are developing SD-WAN solutions for homeworkers.
What Do Businesses Need to Do to Support Homeworkers?
G. Barton Summary Bullets: In COVID-19 times and the aftermath, enterprises need to think about both collaboration and connectivity. Businesses should consider talking to their telecoms and/or IT providers about developing a new digital transformation strategy.
Making Money from AI: Use Cases and Experimentation
G. Barton Summary Bullets: Enterprises should be prepared to be ‘guinea pigs’ for large tech companies seeking to develop replicable AI solutions. Off-the-shelf AI solutions for vertical and horizontal use cases are being offered by a growing number of providers. One of the biggest challenges to adopting AI is knowing where to start. In theory, AI can be applied to any and all aspects of an organization’s day-to-day operations.
Be Smarter When Building Smart Cities
There have been successful ‘smart city’ projects. Orange Business Services (OBS) has enjoyed success working with Saudi Arabia on large-scale projects in the kingdom. OBS has also helped ski resorts identify where visitors are travelling from and how they can make it easier for them to visit their resort. This later example is not strictly a smart city program, but both of these projects point to important aspects of why projects seeking to use technology to aid communities can succeed and fail.
Losing a lover to AIDS
That last month, I could look only in his eyes, for that is where he was. His face was covered with raw open sores. His gray translucent skin was stretched tautly from bone to bone. He had become a body with which I had no history. When I got scared, I held him in my arms and stared into his eyes. They were clear and beautiful and familiar. That is where we connected now. That last month I remember as snapshots of black and gray. Even the blood Rob bled, in my memory, lacks color.
Losing a lover to AIDS
GARY BARTON was an actor and former senior vice president of production at Walt Disney Co. In 1992, along with his partner Rob Hershman and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, he won the Leadership Award from AIDS ACTION in Washington. (Photo from Barton’s Facebook page) That last month, I could look only in his eyes, for that is where he was. His face was covered with raw open sores. His gray translucent skin was stretched tautly from bone to bone. He had become a body with which I had no history.
GDPR: What’s an Enterprise to Do?
• Encryption is at the heart pf GDPR and can protect enterprises from potential breaches and mitigate the problems if they occur. • Enterprises cannot expect ICT providers now to simply accept the risks associated with data handling and should look to work collaboratively. At its analyst day on June 29, Interoute set out its view on GDPR and how it is seeking to help customers prepare their own operations for when GDPR goes live.
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