Tag Archives: NGN

Broadband World Forum Summary Day 1: FTTH is now Global, but we’ve got to Stop Wishing Business Models and Start Building Viable Business Models on Top

The Broadband World Forum continues to grow with attendees from 120 countries, 280 speakers (most were operators), 150 sponsors and exhibitors, 400 service providers and over 7500 attendees.  Gavin Whitechurch and his team deserve much respect for transforming BBWF into the Broadband event of the year.  At the session I chaired on next generation broadband […]

Singapore’s Experiment with Broadband Open Access Part 2

Back in September I did an entry on the IDA’s IN2015 (Intelligent Nation 2015) initiative.  Quoting from their website:  “The Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII) is Singapore’s new digital super-highway. Next Gen NII comprises complementary wired and wireless networks to ensure Singaporeans enjoy seamless connectivity.  The wired broadband network or Next Generation […]

Singapore’s Experiment with Broadband Open Access

Singapore is running an interesting experiment with its IN2015 (Intelligent Nation 2015) initiative.  Quoting from their website:  “The Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII) is Singapore’s new digital super-highway. Next Gen NII comprises complementary wired and wireless networks to ensure Singaporeans enjoy seamless connectivity.  The wired broadband network or Next Generation National Broadband […]

A critical gap that means most service platform (IMS/SDP) business cases keep failing

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) continues to struggle in market acceptance for a variety of reasons.  Hugh Bradlow from Telstra did a good summary recently.  The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) through a lack of standardisation is becoming a vast architecture with multiple definitions.  Linking IMS and SDP would appear to be a sure-fire-way of killing any […]