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Simon Woodhead

Introducing Conversation Intelligence: the carrier advantage nobody else has

Part 4 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 Voice calls have historically been the least visible channel in business comm…

Simwood has always shipped early: from L3 switches to containers to carrier AI

Part 3 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 The thing about infrastructure decisions is that by the time the rest of the…

The AI-accelerated build: how this platform was designed, documented, and shipped

Part 2 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 There’s a version of the AI-in-software-development story that you’ve probabl…

The biggest thing we’ve ever shipped – and almost nobody had to touch it

Part 1 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series We’ve shipped a lot of things over the years. We were virtualising infrastructure before mos…

Kaizen that remembers

We’ve come a scarcely believable distance with AI. There are mic-drops coming on the product side, but it’s the internal story I want to tell. We hav…

The Slough incident that wasn’t

Some of you will have noticed an entry on our status page on 15 June: “Reduced network redundancy in Slough availability zone.” What you won’t have n…

Aww bless – protecting consumers is too hard

Ofcom recently released “Statement: Reviews of Call Termination Markets and End-to-End Connectivity Condition”, a consultation we had a lot to input…

Enshitification in telecoms

En-shit-i-fi-cation is a term coined by Cory Doctrow a few years ago to describe how once good digital platforms or services become ever ‘shitter’. W…

Kamailio CVEs

A few old vulnerabilities have been discovered in Kamailio (formerly OpenSER and SER) code, and two CVEs released: – CVE-2026-39863: Core – TCP Data…

Welcome Raj: giving the revenue engine some cylinders!

Those who’ve been around Simwood a while will know we’ve never really gone in for fancy job titles or buzzword bingo. “Chief Revenue Officer” is defi…

Call Quality Reports

Effective today, you will be receiving weekly emails highlighting call quality on your account as a courtesy. These are in beta so we welcome feedbac…

Diseconomies of Scale

When I was at school, business was about growth: growth leads to scale, scale leads to market share, and market share leads to margin. Big businesses…

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