Category Archives: Announcements

The Power of Open Source in Telecoms: Mobicents

OpenHub published a fresh report with metrics on the Mobicents open source projects. Some of the highlights include: Contributors up 85% from previous 12 months Commits up 31% from previous 12 months Code base grew 2x (to 3M lines of code) since Telestax took over in 2011 Mobicents codebase is now worth $51M at an average […]

The Network of Last Resort – What Viber Nexmo Deal Means

Nexmo recently announced a partnership with Viber for application to person communications over Viber’s messaging platform via Nexmo’s Chat App API.  I’ve been warning about the risk to telcos of becoming the communications network of last resort for many years. This deal heralds the turning point in A2P (Application to Person) communications that will lead to the […]

TADSummit 2015, 17-18 November Lisbon

TADS is a grass roots initiative that is only 2 years old. However, TADHack is now the largest telecom focused hackathon in the world, and doubled in size from last year with 1400 registrations, see the 2015 TADHack global event summary. And TADSummit has become the place to meet the leaders focused on making business success in new services […]

Next Generation Service Platforms Review

Shortly after TADHack Global the Next Generation Service Platforms (NGSP) event took place on the 17/18 June in Munich.  Below are 2 sets of slides, the first reviews some of the key presentations given at the NGSP event, and the second is my presentation that provides some background on TADHack and a brief review of […]

TADMeetup Singapore and CommunicAsia

We have a bunch of TADHack sponsors (Forge by Acision, hSenid Mobile, Tropo) and people involved meeting up in Singapore for a TADHack / WebRTC Meetup on the 2nd June 6:30PM to 8:30PM, at JFDI.Asia at 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #05-16. We were unable to get a TADHack Singapore location running this year, I’ll avoid descending […]

LTE Asia and TADMeetup Singapore

LTE Asia (23-25 Sept) is a big event with over 1000 attendees, 60% of whom are representing operators from 50 countries across the region and beyond. You can see the agenda at a glance, and you’ll notice on the evening before the main event kicks off we’re running a TADMeetup Singapore on Tuesday 23rd September from […]

TADS Vision

The TADSummit website is live, you can see we have an unprecedented line-up of sponsors and partners supporting TADS including: Sponsors: APEX Communications, Apidaze, Ericsson, hSenid Mobile, Huawei, Nexmo, OpenCloud, Oracle, Shango, Solaiemes, Telestax, Tropo, Ubuntu / Canonical, and Voxbone Partners: Metaswitch, Truphone, Tyntec and many more helping get the word out on what we’re trying […]

IMS World Forum Workshop: IMS and WebRTC

IMS may not be everyone’s ‘favorite cup of tea’, but it’s there in most networks. Put simply, for any operator migrating their services to IP, and in particular voice, what choice do you have? But rather than complain about architectural correctness, it’s time to get over the silly academic architectural wars and focus on services […]

Taking TADS Local with TADMeetup

TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is an independent grassroots initiative to raise the profile of telecom application developers with the resources to support them, and create a sustainable and profitable telecom application ecosystem. One of the requests from people who could not make it to the TADSummit last year was to help organize local events […]

Telecom Application Developer Summit

Most of my working life has been spent building telecom applications within telcos (BT), vendors (Lucent, Cambridge Technology Partners), in my start-up Teltier (mobile presence applications), and working with many tens of telecom application developers as an independent. Based on this experience, telecom application developers exist and are grossly under-served by the telecom industry.  A […]