Back in September 2012 I published this report “TV Delivery Evolution: Hybrid TV, Over The Top (Internet) TV and TV Everywhere (Multi-Screen) TV. Status Report and Projections 2012-2017.” A friend recently asked if they could buy the report, so I reread the material, and I was surprised at how far we have moved in the […]
A complete rewrite of the TV Delivery Evolution Report is now available, its now titled: “TV Delivery Evolution: Hybrid TV, Over The Top (Internet) TV and TV Everywhere (Multi-Screen) TV. Status Report and Projections 2012-2017.” The table of contents, figures and introduction are available to download here and shown at the bottom of this article. […]
An API (Application Program Interface) is a great way to expose services or data from your company for use by your company, customers, partners and independent innovators, that is across the tail as discussed in the SDP Asia article. Doing cool stuff isn’t limited to people who code for a living which the term developer […]
CloudAsia 2012 is the second year of the conference co-organized by Singapore’s IDA (Infocomm Development Authority), the summary of 2011 is here and here. In a later article I’ll review the main conference. CloudAsia 2012 is a great event to meet the decision makers across the cloud computing eco-system from enterprises, telecom operators, regulators, government […]
As an experiment we’ve decided to have a go at cutting the payTV cord this week. An important facet of our TV viewing that enables us to consider cutting the cord is we do not watch sports nor reality TV. Since we got a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) several years ago our viewing of live […]
This weblog has discussed previously the technology bias of the telecom industry given its history. Building a reliable, cost-effective, national network requires significant focus on technology and architecture. However, people need a phone service, so selling isn’t required only marketing, the business side is relatively easy. But when the objective is a service not the […]
The Broadband World Forum continues to grow with attendees from 120 countries, 280 speakers (most were operators), 150 sponsors and exhibitors, 400 service providers and over 7500 attendees. Gavin Whitechurch and his team deserve much respect for transforming BBWF into the Broadband event of the year. At the session I chaired on next generation broadband […]
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 […]
At the start of this year I created a white-paper around API management for Apigee (previously called Sonoa Systems). Apigee is a 65-employee company with 55 engineers (10 working on the Facebook team), run on $40 million in funding from Bay Partners, Third Point Management Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Juniper Networks and SAP Ventures. Its […]
I recently responded to a friend’s weblog post, Ric Ferraro, when I read through his article about a day in his life in 2020. I thought I’d use this article to give my perspective on how some technologies and behaviors may look by then, as well as some ramblings on a few related topics. An […]