Earlier this month I gave a weblog preview of Informa’s SDP (Service Delivery Platform) Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll also be attending Informa’s IMS/SDP (IP Multimedia Subsystem) North America conference (5-7 November) in Dallas TX. This weblog article provides a preview of the North American event. Bringing the discussion on IMS and SDP together is […]
Over the past couple of years I’ve been helping operators understand ways they can harness open innovation. Using a quote from Henry Chesbrough, UC Berkeley, from his book ‘Open Innovation’ to explain: “Open innovation means that valuable ideas can come from inside or outside the company and can go to market from inside or outside […]
O2 Litmus, O2’s planned co-development community, headed by James Parton is not yet launched, but its unique approach already has the internet chattering about what is coming with articles in Paul Golding’s WirelessWanders, Contagious Magazine, MobileNews, and Infibeam to name just a few. I must disclose that I was fortunate to be asked by James […]
In a previous weblog article I discussed how the Telco API is much more than a method of exposing capabilities from telco networks to third party applications. As these slides show, Telco API.pdf, the Telco API impacts all services in an operator’s business. Using the classic demand curve, we can break its impact into three […]
Survival is the mother of innovation. As customer behavior, rather than technology and competition, significantly impacts a service provider’s business, threatening the core revenues; the Telco API (Application Program Interface) is one method for operators to foster innovation on their networks. The Telco API enables operators to expose capabilities from their networks such as location, […]
Overall Summary / Opinion An important first step in meeting the competitive disadvantage VZW faces compared to the GSM operators. A device centric ODIS (Open Device Interface Specification) defines what a device must do to interface to the VZ RAN (between the device radio hardware and the access network), and the support structure to help […]
I thought it would be timely to share a little more on my perspective of the Telco API, given my attendance at some upcoming conferences around Web/Telco 2.0 where this will be topic of discussion: TeleStrategies Telco + Web 2.0 Service Creation conference were I’m running a pre-conference workshop on “Successful Strategies for SDP Deployment” […]
The Application Network Interface (ANI) is an interface through which operators can expose capabilities from their networks to third parties such as single sign-on, location and presence. At SDP Asia I gave a presentation on “Examining the importance of the SDP to an Operator’s Web / Voice / Telco 2.0 strategy” where I covered a […]
SDP Asia was held in Singapore 26th-29th November 2007. It’s the 2nd such event Informa has run, and presented a chance to test out some of the ideas I’ve been developing within the US and European markets around the Application Network Interface and its role within the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). SDP is a broad […]
The telecom and IT industries tend to suffer more than most from the hype cycle. What surprises me is the hype tends to be around technologies rather than solutions. I guess it’s easier to get excited about a something that ‘could do’ rather than ‘can do.’ At present the hype machine in gearing up on […]