Survival is the mother of innovation. As customer behavior, rather than technology and competition, significantly impacts a service provider’s business, threatening the core revenues; the Telco API (Application Program Interface) is one method for operators to foster innovation on their networks. The Telco API enables operators to expose capabilities from their networks such as location, […]
As requested by reader feedback, I’m providing some foresight on up-coming conferences I’m attending, rather than just reviewing conferences I’ve attended. For June I’ll be running panel sessions at Sigma Systems‘s first user conference and at the Voice Peering Forum. Sigma Systems‘s first user conference (June 4th-6th, Barton Creek Resort, registration is free), will explore […]
I thought it would be timely to share a little more on my perspective of the Telco API, given my attendance at some upcoming conferences around Web/Telco 2.0 where this will be topic of discussion: TeleStrategies Telco + Web 2.0 Service Creation conference were I’m running a pre-conference workshop on “Successful Strategies for SDP Deployment” […]
SDP Asia was held in Singapore 26th-29th November 2007. It’s the 2nd such event Informa has run, and presented a chance to test out some of the ideas I’ve been developing within the US and European markets around the Application Network Interface and its role within the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). SDP is a broad […]
The telecom and IT industries tend to suffer more than most from the hype cycle. What surprises me is the hype tends to be around technologies rather than solutions. I guess it’s easier to get excited about a something that ‘could do’ rather than ‘can do.’ At present the hype machine in gearing up on […]