On May 19-20th in London will be the Mobile Operator Smart Pipes and Applications Conference. In attendance will be Steve Glagow, head of Orange Partner; Pieter Knook, head of Vodafone Internet Services, Sune Jakobsson, Telenor Open Services; James Parton, head of O2 Litmus; plus many more operators. As well as leaders from Nokia Ovi, Google, […]
Overall view of the show: Better than ever to do business. The number of meetings, their quality, and the decisiveness of the people involved was up. MWC (Mobile World Congress) has returned to the days where the focus is business not hype. I hope they can keep this quality and focus in the years to […]
This article provides a brief summary on Day One of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 26th November. A preview of the conference was given in this article. With 70 registered attendees and about 55 attendees in the room on Day One, APAC is bucking the trend in conference attendance by showing solid […]
Following in the series of market landscapes such as On Device Portal, Fixed Mobile Convergence, Service Management, and a very high level one on Service Delivery Platform (SDP). I’m presenting a richer SDP landscape, however, it is challenging to compare SDPs because of the vast scope of functionality and the numerous definitions that exist. A […]
SofNet brings together three of the main drivers in the telcom industry, NGN (Next Generation Network), Web 2.0 and the telecom service layer (also known as the SDP, Service Delivery Platform). Now when it comes to the definition of SDP, I’m usually reminded of this quote from “Through the Looking Glass:” `I don’t know what […]
What is a ‘service delivery architecture’? It really depends upon with whom you are talking. Are they are a vendor trying to sell IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or a Java games download platform; or are they an operator responsible for value-added communication services, IPTV, or content services. Each will likely give quite different answers. Service […]
As part of the SDP (Service Delivery Platform) workshop a run, I have a section on the ODP (On Device Portal), where I run through the ODP landscape. I maintain a table of companies I consider relevant to the ODP Landscape, if you see any gaps or errors let me know, thanks. During the years […]
UC (Unified Communications) brings together the communication and data networks of an enterprise. The Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA), led by Nortel and Microsoft, is creating the hype surrounding UC. The purpose of this article is not to discuss UC within the enterprise, rather look at the emerging mobilization of UC and the impact it could […]