SDP Global Summit Summary: A Significant Change in the Industry. Rays of...
Overall SummaryThe fog of 'hype / BS' and 'strategic consulting organization misdirection' lifts, revealing a focus on real business coupled with an eye to long term survival. The conference was...
View ArticleLTE Asia 2012 Summary
LTE Asia proved to be a refreshingly frank, open, and interesting event. With 800 attendees over the 2 days, some of the sessions I attended were packed with standing room only. At the end of this...
View ArticleThe Future of Over-the-Top Enterprise Services
In a recent No Jitter article on "The Future of Over-the-Top Enterprise Services" I conduct a thought experiment on what would happen if Salesforce.com decided to buy Twilio?Much is made of the impact...
View ArticleWhat "The Real-Time Cloud" means to Telcos and Enterprises
There's an emerging category called the "Real-Time Cloud." Put simply it's a high-performance cloud infrastructure that supports real-time services and APIs for any internet connected device. The...
View ArticleDeveloping the Ecosystem for Service Innovation at the Mobility Tech...
At the Mobility Tech Conference in Austin 3-5 Oct, Verizon, AT&T, Ericsson and a real live developer recently wrangled from the wild will take part in a frank and open discussion on the future of...
View ArticleMy Initial Take on the Telenor / Telefonica Announcement on APIs
Telefonica and Telenor made an announcement that they will be cooperating on APIs. Here's my initial take given the information available:As normal the press have confused apps and APIs. This has...
View ArticleSummary of the Mobility Tech Conference & Expo 2012
Mobility Tech is part of about 14 conferences that run in parallel, covering topics such as: ITExpo (Internet Telephony), MSP (Managed Service Provider) World, HTML5 Summit, VideoWorld, StartupCamp,...
View ArticleVoxeo Lab's Ameche delivers "Apps in your Calls™" to Stabilize and Grow...
Voxeo Labs announced today the availability of Ameche, a Communications Platform as a Service (cPaaS) that delivers "Apps in your Calls™" to stabilize and grow voice, video, messaging, and value added...
View ArticleBBWF 2012 Summary
Apologies for typos and lack of links in this article, Hurricane Sandy took out our power and broadband, so I'm on a congested 3G network with lots of time-outs limiting online editing.BBWF (Broadband...
View ArticleA Rapidly Growing Problem for Mobile Operators: NOT Security of Network...
It's not discussed in public by operators or regulators or the BSMA (that is an intentional typo on the GSMA given some of its PR). Though this weblog has been discussing it for a number of years when...
View ArticleMind The Mobilization Gap
Enabling employees to work as effectively outside as inside the office remains a wish rather than a reality for many businesses. To do that today requires much more than a voice connection; they need...
View ArticleTelco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit
I'll be in London next week (3-5 Dec) at the Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit, it's the first time this conference has run, and I think presents an important opportunity to cut through all...
View ArticleLTE North America 2012: Tinder Box Market Ripe for a Firestorm of Disruption
LTE North America ran from 13-15 Nov in Dallas. There was a record 1000 delegates at the show, with 60 unique carriers in attendance from small local rural players such as the Texas-based ZIPnet US,...
View ArticleThe Quiet Canadian: The Leader in API Management, Layer 7 Technologies
APIs (Application Programing Interface) in telecoms have a long history, starting in 1998/1999 when Telenor began its Content Provider Access API program and the launch of the Parlay API standards...
View ArticleTelco Big Data Conference 2012
The Telco Big Data conference ran from the 3-5 December in London. This is the first time for this event, which was well attended, and packed with operator presentations on their experiences in using...
View ArticleEnd of 2012 Entry: An Eventful and Noisy Year
In this end of year article I'll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013. 2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we're busy working and raising our...
View ArticleThe AT&T Developer Summit: A Telco Gets it Right on APIs and Developers
I was impressed with the AT&T Developer Hackathon that ran over this weekend, 400 developers with about 470 attendees in total, 74 apps created, lots of innovative uses of the Call Management API...
View ArticleCES Summary: A Cambrian Explosion of Devices
Home by 9PM on Saturday from the family vacation and back on a plane at 9AM Sunday for the flight to Las Vegas. On the napkin on the United flight to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) it said "Taking...
View ArticleStart-ups to Watch: myaNUMBER Simple, Secure Family Communications using...
At the AT&T Developer Summit myaNUMBER gave an excellent presentation of their Telecom API-enabled service, there's a sweet video demonstration at the end of this article. At the AT&T event I...
View ArticleWebRTC at the IMS World Forum, Barcelona, 23-25 April 2013
This year's IMS World Forum is shaping up to be an excellent event, with a solid focus on WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). At last year's event I asked the opening panel about the impact of...
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