This year’s IMS World Forum is shaping up to be an excellent event, with a solid focus on WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). At last year’s event I asked the opening panel about the impact of WebRTC on their plans to a muted response. And this year there is a pre-conference WebRTC Workshop on the […]
LTE North America ran from 13-15 Nov in Dallas. There was a record 1000 delegates at the show, with 60 unique carriers in attendance from small local rural players such as the Texas-based ZIPnet US, to regionals such as MetroPCS, and of course, the duopoly of AT&T and Verizon. North America is a unique market […]
LTE Asia proved to be a refreshingly frank, open, and interesting event. With 800 attendees over the 2 days, some of the sessions I attended were packed with standing room only. At the end of this article are some slides with a few of the many highlights from the conference, and a few of my […]
The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) Global Summit 2012 takes place in Rome from the 11th-14th September. On Tuesday the 11th September is the API focus day. I recently founded a Telecom APIs group on Linkedin, its generating some interesting discussions such as: Discussion on “Is WAC Dead?” Survey on “The recently specified OMA RCS APIs?” […]
In the slides below I capture highlights from 3 presentations of note given in the conference. Larry Baziw (Rogers): Rogers One Number Larry gave the highlight presentation of the conference that reviewed RON (Rogers One Number), a consumer UC (Unified Communications) service between the mobile and the PC, using the mobile number as the unifying […]
At the IMS (IP Multiedia Subsystem) World Forum I gave a pre-conference workshop that summarized some of the results gathered in the IMS Status Report. The conference backed up the findings in the Report, and highlighted the many technology and business challenges we face as IMS rolls out. An interesting discussion point raised on both […]
This report provides an extensive update to the original IMS Status Report written in 2009, it compares and contrasts the 2009 and 2012 results to understand how the industry has changed. It also provides an update on the status of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based on a market survey performed from November 2011 to January […]
This year I brought my wife and 2-year-old son to Barcelona; we arrived on the Thursday before MWC (Mobile World Congress). Barcelona is great for small children with lots of playgrounds, some with crèches that bring out their toys to play with making it great fun. The restaurants go the extra mile in making the […]
This entry shares some interesting data on the total global telecom revenue gathered in putting together a report I’m currently writing called: “The Services Domain. Market Status, Case Studies and Strategic Analysis.” The term Services Domain is used as the term SDP (Service Delivery Platform) is simply too ill-defined, abused by suppliers, and limits its […]
The purpose of the slides shown below is to provide a flavor of the issues discussed at IMS World Forum with a commentary on what they mean and where IMS is going. It can only capture my perspective given the streams I attended, but I hope provides more insight into what was covered in the […]