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September 2012

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Who's Going to Deliver Mobile Video Services?

September 25, 2012

On October 4th, I will be speaking at the Mobility Tech Conference and Expo in Austin, Texas.

The title of the talk is called “When Visions Collide” and the abstract reads in part “Do service providers have the ability to make the transition to video calls or should we accept that these calls are going to be ‘Over the Top’?”

I’d like to explore that topic a bit in this blog prior to the talk next week.

Solving the Mobile Congestion Crisis, One Network at a Time [Infographic]

September 19, 2012

Lately, service providers have been facing an influx of subscribers who’ve been unable to complete phone calls or send text messages, or have experienced extremely slow data speeds, all the while having to deal with relatively small data caps! This poor mobile experience is partly due to the network congestion issues in the service provider’s mobile data networks. I think it’s safe to say we’ve all experienced this one way or another by now. And if you think it’s getting worse, it is!

Video Communications as an OTT App

September 11, 2012

Two week ago, I explored Voice as an OTT App. Looking at the Cisco VNI report, I went a little deeper into the Voice as a type of data than the high level reporting provided. In the course of doing that, I found that video communications, which is basically video calling, is larger than voice communications. Given that an Exabyte is 1024 Petabytes, in 2016 video calling would be over 30x more prevalent on a mobile data network than voice!

The IP Network Interconnect Problem and the GSMA IPX Solution, Part 2

September 4, 2012

Two weeks ago, I introduced the concept of the IPX as a standardized interconnect service for IP networks.  But what is required to be IPX compliant? One good place to start is by reading the GSMA IPX White Paper.

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