The WebRTC Global Summit runs in London from April 1-2, with a pre-conference workshop on Monday 31st March from Tsahi of bloggeek.me focused on “WebRTC in Telecoms”. Some of the highlights of the agenda, apart from catching up with lots of good friends focused on WebRTC such as Victor Pascual Ávila, include: Patrice Crutel, from […]
The first ever Telecom API conference ran in London from 11-13th November. We ran a packed pre-conference workshop (see picture opposite) entitled, “All You Wanted to Know About Telecom APIs, But Were Too Afraid to Ask!” with about 30 attendees from around the world. Presentations included Tropo, Apidaze and Telestax. Below are the slides presented […]
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 […]
Previous weblogs and The Services Domain Report have discussed that the term SDP (Service Delivery Platform) is not appropriate. We’re talking about the Services Domain, see the diagram on the left. A telco is composed of three ‘domains’ the network domain, business and operational support systems (BOSS) domain, and the services domain. The services domain […]
Ivelin and I have known each other for many years; he’s the classic technology entrepreneur with a brain that can hop between deep technology discussions to a business discussion without a moment of hesitation. He founded Mobicents an Open Source VoIP Platform to help create, deploy, manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is […]
The SDP Global Summit has become the must-attend event across all telecom service platforms, not simply service delivery platforms. Previous Summits from 2012, 2011 Day 1, 2011 Day 2, and 2011 Highlights are reviewed on this weblog and you can see they have predicted the course of the industry. I’m in particularly excited about the […]
In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, it’s fair to ask, “IMS. What choice do you have?” Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and they’ll simply right it off as dead. For a dead technology, the conference was very much alive, the busiest I’ve ever […]
The Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference took place between the 16-17th April. Its a ‘who’s who’ of Policy Control and Charging (PCC), and provides a great litmus test on the state of industry. The discussions this year were quite frank with open disagreements; the worry of signalling storms appeared to have abated. Reviewing the […]
The overall feel of MWC (Mobile World Congress) this year is upbeat. More people attending, up from 67k to 72k. The money being spent on LTE (Long Term Evolution) is starting to percolate through the industry, and later this year LTE-A (Advanced) as Telstra and several other operators announced. In these articles from 2008 and […]
Now in its third year, the Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference has followed the progress of policy in the industry, in the first year the focus was ‘what is policy’, last year focused on ‘how do you deploy policy’, and this year ‘how do you make / save money with policy’. This year’s focus […]