I’m often asked what’s the difference between Aepona, Apigee, Twilio, Voxeo? The diagram below is my attempt to provide a framework to understand the similarities and differences between the 4 suppliers. This can only present a current snapshot and my view, other frameworks are possible, and of course all 4 suppliers have a future vision […]
The week of the 23-26 April is going to be busy for anyone involved with IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) or policy control and real-time charging. From the 23rd-26th April 2012 at the NH Eurobuilding, Madrid, Spain the IMS World Forum will be running. In reviewing the status of IMS: Verizon continues its aggressive roll-out of […]
The 6th SDP Asia Summit was held in conjunction with 3 other conferences: Smartphone Applications & Operating Systems (OS) Asia 3rd Mobile Value Added Services Asia OSS/BSS & Convergent Billing Asia The SDP Asia Summit and Convergent Billing Asia were run as a single stream which made sense as they are both platforms necessary to […]
This report provides an extensive update to the original IMS Status Report written in 2009, it compares and contrasts the 2009 and 2012 results to understand how the industry has changed. It also provides an update on the status of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based on a market survey performed from November 2011 to January […]
I’ll be giving a Webinar on “Making Money through Service Exposure (APIs) and the New Business Models It Enables” on Wednesday, April 04, 2012; 12:00pm – 1:00pm New York / 5:00pm – 6:00pm London. You can sign up here. In the webinar we’ll be covering: Why telecommunications is lagging behind most other industries in API […]
An operator is composed of three domains: Network, IT and Services. Historically we’ve treated the services domain as something that can be solved by a piece of technology, called the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). This has resulted in the industry’s slow response to the competitive threats of web-based service providers, which are now starting to […]
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” John Donne (1572 – 31 March 1631) In putting together the “The Services Domain. Market Status, Case Studies, Analysis and Recommendations” report, peer review is critical to delivering a quality product, no man is […]
The 6th SDP Asia Summit is being held in conjunction with 3 other conferences: Smartphone Applications & Operating Systems (OS) Asia 3rd Mobile Value Added Services Asia OSS/BSS & Convergent Billing Asia The report “The Services Domain. Market Status, Case Studies, Analysis and Recommendations” report discusses the importance of the services domain to the future […]
I recently took part in a round-table discussion in London organized by OpenCloud on the changes occurring within the telecoms landscape: how operators need to change to keep up with market dynamics, with a focus on innovation in services and service-charging. This was in conjunction with OpenCloud’s launch of Rhino Sentinel to help operators boost […]
In this article I highlight just a few of the many interesting presentations made at the SDP Global Summit, the slides are shown below. Jose Valles, BlueVia, gave a presentation on the best of the current API recipes: Operators are not attractive to developers because of the sins of the past (e.g. Orange Partner), arrogance […]