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March 2011

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A Unified Communications Outlook

March 29, 2011

Last week, we held a small event with some of our key Unified Communication partners.  We invited Jim Burton from UC Strategies to speak to the group, who by the way this week is running his own UC Strategies conference in La Jolla.  While readers of my blog know that I spend a lot of time discussing mobile communications issues and thoughts, some readers may not know that Dialogic has been a huge innovator with IP and unified communications over the years, ranging from being involved in the first VoIP gateway in 1997, to enabling many unified messaging solutions around the same time, to driving pure IP-based handsets in the early 2000’s and to working closely with enabling the various “unified communication hubs” from the large vendors.  We have been at the forefront of this incredible innovation and continue to participate actively in it as it’s still a significant part of our business today.

South Africa and Bandwidth Optimization Techniques

March 22, 2011

Last week, I was in Johannesburg for the Mobile Network Optimization Africa conference, where I spoke on techniques for removing bottlenecks from wireless networks, specifically in the backhaul part of the network.  South Africa is interesting in this regard since if you look at the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) report from February 1st, South Africa is expected to be one of the leading countries (in a few years) when measuring average mobile network connection speeds, which means the mobile network can handle more data, which is good, but may also mean trouble for congestion within the network.

The conference was interesting since it looked at optimization of all aspects of the network, from the backhaul part as I mentioned above, to the optimization of the spectrum, optimization of the antennae technologies, optimization of network performance and coverage, load balancing, WiFi offload, and of the new networks such as LTE. 

Prepaid Mobile Internet Services

March 15, 2011

I will be going to Singapore in a few weeks for the Telco Strategies 2011 conference, and I always like going to Asia since the mobile market is different than the US market.  For instance, one difference that’s important to understand is how people pay for the usage of their phones.  In the US, people predominately pay by monthly fee subscription.  And outside of Korea and Japan in APAC, people predominately pay in a prepaid mode. 

N-1-1 Services and Their Evolution

March 8, 2011

Why am I writing about “boring” N11 services?  Well first of all, I used one a few weeks ago that I hadn’t used before (511) and it proved really useful.  And it got me thinking about them and where they could go.  Some of these N11 services are forms of  value-added services and mobile value-added services, and have good growth potential.

Where Do I Stand with Net Neutrality?

March 1, 2011

In last week’s blog, I explored the “free” part of the Net Neutrality issue.  In this week’s blog, I want to explore the wireless internet, since as the wireless capabilities increase, we are getting more and more of a broadband experience wirelessly.

In the wired broadband world, a throttling of content would be frowned upon. 

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