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March 2015

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The NFV End Game and Ushering in a New Wave of Players

March 31, 2015

The clock is ticking and it’s about to strike midnight.  NFV will usher in an era of change for the telecom industry yet again.  The players will change, just like they changed with the ushering in of VoIPNortel is no more, Alcatel and Lucent merged, and Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and others emerged as huge telecom players.

SmartPhoneMan and His Interaction with Media Servers on St. Patrick's Day

March 24, 2015

Last week we made it about halfway through SmartPhoneMan’s day.  Let’s finish his day.  Right now, he’s in a rush to get home for the fantasy baseball draft.  Everyone is scattered across the country and uses different methods to call in – people call in from POTS phone, though not as many as the year before, some are on a laptop at home, some have a nice tablets on LTE networks, some are on cellphones, and a few have smartphones over Wi-Fi at a coffee shop. 

Media Servers and St. Patrick's Day

March 17, 2015

Last week I wrote about the important role media servers play in the network.  Today is St. Patrick’s Day and let’s see how SmartPhoneMan interacts with Media Servers. SmartPhoneMan is just like you and me.  He keeps a smartphone on him all the time and has interesting apps downloaded that he thinks makes his life better or allows him to stay in touch more easily. 

Media Servers Will Play an Increasingly Important Role for Telco Apps

March 10, 2015

Media servers play an important role in enabling many of the real-time communications applications many of us use every day.  When you retrieve a voice mail, have an email read back to you while in the car or get on a conference call, a media server is involved.  Media servers provide the back-end voice and/or video transcoding to/from different networks or to/from different endpoints, play/record, mixing of voice and/or video into mashups or conferences, echo cancellation, text to speech and speech to text, text/picture overlay and simple digit detection to name some of the functions of a media server.

In other words, they enable interactive communication applications.

The MWC 2015 Reality

March 3, 2015

A month ago I wrote a blog about what I’d expect to see at Mobile World Congress.  At that time, I expected to see 5G messaging, NFV, some VoLTE and video.  So how did I do?

Based on being there just on Monday, and based on the fact that I don’t have time to go over to the smartphone and overall consumer gadget area and see what is going on there, and that I’m focusing more on infrastructure, I feel the following is what this MWC is about:

  1. VoLTE messaging is pretty large.
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