Below are a few slides that capture some of the interesting tidbits discussed at Cloud Asia 2011. Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) will grow at 40% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) over the next 3 years in Cloud services to $5B by 2014. Most Operator’s role in cloud remains unclear Focused on the importance of end-to-end […]
Cloud Asia ran from 30 May – 2 June 2011 in Singapore. It was co-organized by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, who is investing heavily in Cloud to make Singapore a hub for the region, and Informa. In attendance were around 250 delegates from enterprises of all kinds, cloud technology suppliers, cloud service providers […]
Below is a presentation that summarizes some of the interim results of the update I’m doing to the original “IMS Market Status” report described in this article. It was prepared during the IMS World Forum conference to fill-in for a potential gap in the schedule, but the gap did not happen, so it wasn’t presented, […]
BlueVia is Telefonica’s API program where developers get paid to use Telefonica’s APIs. We’ve seen a number of case studies promoted within a few months of its launch, see slideshows at the end of this article. Developers are making money through using BlueVia’s APIs. BlueVia has announced a partnership with Microsoft to create the BlueVia […]
TM Forum was founded in 1988 by BT and AT&T, they had created similar support system architectures, see the BT Tile Architecture shown below. Now this architecture was created nearly 30 years ago so its understandable why it suffers from the classic ‘Bell-head’ ‘box and wire’ design. The TM Forum today brings together members (700 […]
Verizon now carries the iPhone. It runs on its CDMA network not LTE, which means voice and data do not work at the same time, in my experience that’s a relatively rare use-case, so not a big issue. Facetime still works as voice and WiFi can work at the same time. It also includes a […]
In April I’ll be running a pre-conference workshop at the IMS World Forum on “Market Status and Case Studies,” its aimed at both non-technical and technical managers responsible for, or whose platform / service will need to inter-operate with, IMS. The workshop’s objectives are: Provide a deep-dive quantified analysis of the IMS market status, enabling […]
Over the past few years I’ve interviewed hundreds of operators and suppliers in the TV distribution industry on deployment experiences, market requirements, competitive landscape, and technology trends. In the document below I bring a sample of some of my work in this space examining the evolution of Hybrid and Over the Top TV. If you’d […]
My experiences with being a customer of a mobile operator have not been as good as most of my other service provider experiences. There is a significant gap between what we say and do as an industry. I covered T-Mobile’s extortionate billing and their poor customer service experience compared to Amazon. The last straw came […]
Apple Facetime looks like its going to be another in the series of video communication applications that are proving to be more successful than the mobile industry’s attempts at video telephony, which began at the turn of this century and unfortunately have changed little since. Skype was the first video communication service to hit mainstream. […]