SofNet Day Two. A Jungle of Capabilities and a Services Desert
Summarizing day two of SofNet. Panel session, “How Can 21CN Help Make Customers Successful?” was a who’s who on UK telecom executives with John Cunliffe, Ericsson; John Frieslaar, Huawei; Geoff Hall,...
View ArticleWhy is IMS getting lumped into IPTV?
Telco IPTV market status / performance varies greatly by country, because of differences in broadband / PayTV penetration and the telco’s access to competitive national content. Generalizations are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
API Management Whitepaper
API Management has been touched upon by several articles in this weblog. To expand on this topic to help us understand its function and strategic importance to operators I’ve put together a whitepaper...
View ArticleIs QoS Monetizable for Consumer Services?
We’re seeing lots of wishful thinking in the industry around being able to monetize QoS (Quality of Service) for consumer services. In part its coming from the current LTE (Long Term Evolution) sales...
View ArticleStartups to Watch: Apigee, API Management
At the start of this year I created a white-paper around API management for Apigee (previously called Sonoa Systems). Apigee is a 65-employee company with 55 engineers (10 working on the Facebook...
View ArticleWhat WebRTC means to Telecoms
As promised in the IMS World Forum summary article, here is a quick review of WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). WebRTC is a HTML5 standard being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mobile Broadband Use is Changing, Policy Needs to Catch Up. Summary of Policy...
The Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference took place between the 16-17th April. Its a ‘who’s who’ of Policy Control and Charging (PCC), and provides a great litmus test on the state of industry....
View ArticleIMS. What Choice Do You Have? IMS World Forum 2013 Summary.
In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, it’s fair to ask, “IMS. What choice do you have?” Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and they’ll...
View Article
