Category Archives: Innovation

Findings from SDP Asia 2007

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 […]

Web / Voice / Telco 2.0: Just understanding the lay of the land

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 […]

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 […]