In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, it’s fair to ask, “IMS. What choice do you have?” Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and they’ll simply right it off as dead. For a dead technology, the conference was very much alive, the busiest I’ve ever […]
Here is the final agenda for the WebRTC pre-conference workshop we’re running on Monday 22nd April at the IMS World Forum. The interesting stuff is at the end with all the WebRTC demos, its going to be exciting, there’s a rich variety of demos showing just the tip of the iceberg of innovations we’re going […]
In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013. 2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!). The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]
Apologies for typos and lack of links in this article, Hurricane Sandy took out our power and broadband, so I’m on a congested 3G network with lots of time-outs limiting online editing. BBWF (Broadband World Forum) continues to be a ‘sweet spot’ conference, not as big as MWC (Mobile World Congress) where prices are silly […]
Voxeo Labs announced today the availability of Ameche, a Communications Platform as a Service (cPaaS) that delivers “Apps in your Calls™” to stabilize and grow voice, video, messaging, and value added service revenues, an over $1 trillion market. Ameche is a developer platform that provides the tools, execution environment and revenue models for a new […]
At the Mobility Tech Conference in Austin 3-5 Oct, Verizon, AT&T, Ericsson and a real live developer recently wrangled from the wild will take part in a frank and open discussion on the future of Service Innovation at 11 AM on Wednesday Oct 3rd. Panelists include: Bill Goodman, Director – Technology, Verizon Ivelin Ivanov, Founder […]
In a recent No Jitter article on “The Future of Over-the-Top Enterprise Services” I conduct a thought experiment on what would happen if Salesforce.com decided to buy Twilio? Much is made of the impact of OTT (Over The Top) services such as Skype–applications that run on top of legacy public networks and offer, at reduced […]
Overall Summary The fog of ‘hype / BS’ and ‘strategic consulting organization misdirection’ lifts, revealing a focus on real business coupled with an eye to long term survival. The conference was packed with quantified API case study successes. The end of this weblog has some slides with a few highlights from the conference. The biggest […]
I recently read “WebRTC, APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web by Alan Johnston and Daniel Burnett.” It provides an excellent review of the current status of the standard covering: An overview of Web Real-Time Communications; How to use WebRTC; An explanation of WebRTC Peer-Peer Media; W3C WebRTC documents and protocols; IETF WebRTC […]
Here is a link to an article I wrote for No Jitter on the dawn of true information communication technology (ICT) services, in which IT and Communication services are enabled and integrated by cloud computing and APIs. Cloud-based document management services are growing rapidly, e.g. DropBox, Box.net, Mozy, KnowledgeTree, SpringCM, WebEx and recently Google Docs. […]