Tag Archives: EVDO

LTE Asia, 18 – 19 September 2012, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

I’ll be chairing the first day of LTE Asia, which is much broader in scope than simply the air interface LTE (Long Term Evolution).  Its focused on the evolution of an increasingly important service to customers, broadband internet access, and the networks that support that service.  I purposefully did not insert the term mobile, as […]

End of Year Review, Awards and Predictions: Its been a quiet year in Telecoms, but not Elswhere…

Given all the activity in the technology industry: Sun disappearing into Oracle (aka The Borg); HP’s ex-CEO’s escapades with an actress (normally in the joke its a bishop) and then joining The Borg; Microsoft finally getting its PC OS right and making Office 2010 a pleasure to use; Twitter, Facebook and other’s crazy valuations; Wikileaks; […]

Defining SOA, SDP and IMS; and how they fit together

I would like to thank Jeroen Visser from BT for his suggestion of this article to explain SOA, SDP and IMS; and then explain how they fit together. Service Oriented Architecture Defined SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) has emerged as a successful integration framework for BOSS (Business and Operational Support Systems) within operators.  We are now […]

SofNet Day 3

Just summarizing my panel session speech on day 3 of SofNet, “A Pragmatic Approach to Developing IMS-Services.”  I addressed two questions I’m often asked. “Is IMS dead?”  Both Sprint and Verizon are deploying their flavors of IMS for the simple reason they decided voice over EVDO (the CDMA version of 3G) will be supported by […]

The Divergence of CDMA and UMTS Operators on IMS: Summary of IMS Executive Conference, 19-20th September 2007, Washington DC

I attended the FierceMarket’s IMS Executive Summit 2007 on the 19th and 20th September.  The agenda included keynote presentations from Stuart Elby, Vice President, Network Architecture, Verizon; Mark Kaish, Vice President of Voice Development and Support, Cox Communications, and Narothum Saxena, Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Systems Planning, US Cellular. Learning from the event […]