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February 2015

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Why Carriers and WebRTC Don't Have to be the Same Magnet Polarization and Can be Partners Part II

February 24, 2015

Last week, I started exploring why WebRTC is interesting for carriers and wrote about extending existing applications with WebRTC to keep the offerings fresh.   But WebRTC may also be a way to compete with OTT apps that are riding on top of their network.   Apps that are free and don’t provide revenue to the carriers.  These apps have taken important value added service revenue away from the service providers, which have been estimated from Ovum to be in the billions of dollars and a few percentage points of overall revenue. 

Why Carriers and WebRTC Don't Have to be At the Same End of the Magnet Part 1

February 17, 2015

 

While WebRTC seems to be emerging as an enterprise play, because of it’s contact center enhancement capability, I’ve been asked more than a few times why WebRTC might be good for service providers or carriers.  This is an especially important question with Mobile World Congress looming.  In fact, in the Dialogic booth we will have some IMS and VoLTE product demonstrations, which you might expect of us at Mobile World Congress, but we’re also having a demonstration involving WebRTC. 

Moving Forward with NFV and OPNFV

February 11, 2015

There has been and continues to be a lot of hype around NFV.  The benefits are highlighted above – namely CAPEX and OPEX reduction because of a move to software running on COTS servers in cloud based environments, and the resultant expected new service delivery because of these moves.  As such the market is growing, and eating into heretofore hardware-based network infrastructureInfonetics expects the global service provider SDN and NFV market to reach $11B by 2018.

What to expect at MWC 2015

February 3, 2015

Mobile World Congress is right around the corner. While there are some constants, such as crowds, lots of walking, even more meetings and those ubiquitous cheese and/or jamon sandwiches for lunch, there are changes in messaging from year to year.  This year’s theme is “The Edge of Innovation” but I’m not sure MWC is the place to go for intense innovation.  Sure, there will be new smartphones announced which are innovative from a continued evolution standpoint, and I think we’ll see a spate of 5G messaging (even though it’s not defined yet) but you’ll have to dig deep for some innovation. 

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