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June 2012

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Ubiquitous Video Calling - Myth or Reality?

June 26, 2012

We all have the same expectations when we place a phone call – it’s going to work and go through. Not going through doesn’t even enter your mind. Whether it’s the landline in your house calling another house or a mobile phone, or the business phone calling another business phone or a mobile phone, you just pick up the phone and dial - and it works. That’s just how it is.

Now put yourself into the realm of making a video phone call.

The Mobile VAS Ecosystem on a Page

June 19, 2012

Last month, I wrote about the Mobile VAS Ecosystem and I was asked a few questions about this topic. I figured the best way to answer these questions was to show this slide and then explain the slide.

First of all, Value Added Services (VAS), in the context of what I’ve been writing about for a long time, are services that consumers would be willing to pay extra for, and would be network-based services.

Backhaul Optimization Technology Even in the Ethernet Backhaul World

June 12, 2012

Last week I talked about mobile backhaul and optimization of the backhaul playing a key role going forward. Another item to consider with backhaul is the movement of backhaul from TDM to Ethernet. There is significant movement in this space going on right now, with Ethernet growing and TDM declining as you would expect. And this trend will clearly keep going as the wireless industry moves to 4G/LTE.

Additionally, this large market and shift to Ethernet backhaul has attracted the attention of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), who have announced Carrier Ethernet 2.0 and their “Mobile Backhaul Initiative.” Essentially, Carrier Ethernet 2.0 enables multiple classes of service over interconnected networks.

The Case for Backhaul Optimization Technology

June 5, 2012

We all understand that mobile subscriptions are growing, and that pretty soon there will be more connected mobile devices on the planet than there are people. And I’ve written in this space before about the Cisco Visual Networking Index, which gives interesting information about past and future mobile data use. One interesting tidbit that came from the last report from February 2012 is that although smartphones represent only 12% of total global handsets today, they account for over 82% of global handset traffic. 

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