It’s been a fun few weeks in the API space. Lots of announcements and gossip which we’ve been discussing in the Linkedin Telecom API group. Oracle and ACME Packet, Oracle and Tekelec, Intel and Aepona, GSMA and OneAPI Exchange, Apigee and API Exchange, Orange closing down some of its APIs, QoS APIs, WebRTC and more… The […]
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 […]
On Day 3 of the Broadband World Forum I ran the session “Aligning to Developer Needs, Using Developer Communities to Lead the Service Innovation Race” 2009 was the year of the app store and developer community. In 2010 how are we doing as an industry? This session brings together the leading developer community managers with […]
I came across this old presentation today on the business case for operators to open their network, shown below, some of the material is over 4 years old, especially on developer needs. Yet operators continue to ask developers what they need and developers provide the same answers, perhaps operators continue to ask in hope of […]
Interesting innovations regularly come from island nations, for example the first 3G trial on the Isle of Man (where I grew up), from Singapore (Goto Camera), and most recently Sri Lanka with hSenid’s SDP in the Cloud, which was recently released and then deployed with Etisalat – Sri Lanka (formerly known as Celltel & then […]