The purpose of this article is to explain a simple model to understand the programmable communications market. I divide the market into 3 domains: Aggregation, Technology, and Applications. I’ve shown a number of similar frameworks in the past, see this one from TADSummit 2018 given during the State of the Union presentation. The reason I […]
I was fortunate to be invited to take part in a conversation with Dave Michels and Evan Kirstel, TalkingHeadz. The focus was: what is a CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service)? I consider the term CPaaS to be as dumbass as Cloud Communications. They were both created when referring to cloud was ‘essential marketing cool’. And […]
Before we start, do not worry about all the acronyms in this potted history of Programmable Telecoms, there is an irreverent acronym list at the end of this weblog to help you through them. And yes, this is a long weblog, at 4k words it should take about 20 minutes to read, but its easy […]
RCS (Rich Communication Suite) has failed, we need an RCS reset, according to Dean Bubley its been a Zombie Technology for several years. My conversations with telcos over the past year on RCS have recurrent themes of it being too expensive, too complex, increasingly detached from the market reality, and most importantly has lost the […]
WebRTC Paris is a 3 day event, focused on the European WebRTC community. Compared to the US events it shows Europe is as, if not more innovative than North America, has a lot less hype, and is definitely more focused on the practical realities of implementation. An important theme that came out from both Telcos and […]
The SDP Global Summit proved again to be the must-attend event. I’ve reviewed Summits from 2013, 2012, 2011 Day 1, 2011 Day 2, and 2011 Highlights on this weblog and you can see they have predicted the course of the industry. This year we ran a post conference workshop on the 20th Sept entitled, “Independent […]
At Rich Communications 2013, we have a great pre-conference workshop lined up on the 28th October entitled, ‘WebRTC Workshop, the HTML5 Real-Time Web.’ We’ll have a mix of deep technology and strategic discussions, followed by some great demos exploring WebRTC and RCS. Presenter will include Sam Machin from Tropo, Juan Mateu from Solaiemes, Victor Pascual Avila […]
Three additional start-ups will be joining the demos at the WebRTC pre-conference at the IMS World Forum, Barcelona, 23-25 April 2013. Note the focus of the demos is start-ups sharing their experiences in implementing services with WebRTC straight from the developers, not established vendors promoting their equipment and filtered through marketing. apidaze.io is a cloud communications API […]
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 […]
ALU (Alcatel Lucent) has done something interesting in the API Gateway space with their latest announcement. They’ve open sourced their API Management platform, it’s called apiGrove. So rather than offering freemium access to an API gateway, they’ve taken the route of allowing developers to use apiGrove and do it themselves. ALU have done open source […]