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January 2012

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Mobile Video Quality of Experience, Part I

January 31, 2012

Device manufacturers and carriers are touting the quality and speed of their offerings. You’ve probably noticed that they’re always advertising how fast movies and videos can be downloaded, the quality of video streaming, and the sharpness of video quality.  Meanwhile, television networks and other content providers are promoting the convenience of video on demand. Together, this provides an expectation among consumers that not only will they be able to view everything from football games to their favorite shows wherever and whenever they want, but that the experience will be similar to watching the same content in real time.

Mighty Morphing of the Network Border Element, Part 2

January 24, 2012

In last week’s blog, I introduced this graph showing the history and expected trends for network border elements - the Media Gateway and the SBC.



Graph derived from Infonetics data, November 2011







There are two interesting things going on in this graph.  First of all, you see the gateways declining and the SBCs growing as time goes on. 

Mighty Morphing of the Network Border Element, Part I

January 17, 2012

Network Border Elements connect two types of networks to each other, sitting at the edge, or border, of each network.  Looking at the data below from Infonetics, you can see a trend developing from back in 2007, which we will explore in more detail in next week’s blog. 

The wireline service provider border element of choice back in 2007 was a gateway. 

Skyping Along

January 10, 2012

Two years ago, Skype was doing about 13% of all International minutes.  One year ago, Skype was doing about 20% of all International minutes.  We should find out soon what the research analysts think Skype’s percent of 2011 International minutes is, but I’m guessing it will be over 25%, perhaps even approaching 30% for 2011. 

The Premise Network, Part 3

January 3, 2012

A few weeks ago, I explored how fast networks and cloud computing are impacting the Premise Network.  This week, the final blog of this series, let me explore some of the apps that could attach themselves to this kind of “new CPE” network.

First of all, we see some movement of so-called “non-essential” apps to the cloud.  A typical one falling into this area is fax. 

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