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August 2016

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Open Source Software and NFV

August 30, 2016

Early this year, Dialogic commissioned STL Partners to find out more about how service providers view open source software in their networks.  I’ve written about this a few times in my blogs.  Recently, I’ve been reading about service providers saying that they want more open source software in their networks, especially as it relates to NFV. 

End of Messaging?

August 23, 2016

Chetan Sharma has been discoursing on what he calls the “4th wave of mobile communications” for some time.  And I’ve commented on some of this from time to time.  He recently put out an update of the 4th wave paper called the “4th Wave Index: Benchmarking the Growth and Evolution of the Mobile Ecosystem.”  It’s an excellent paper.  On the last page, there is a bold subhead that totally caught my eye. 

Robocalls Call for Service Provider Intervention

August 16, 2016


Robocalls have been getting quite a bit of ink lately in the United States.  Robocalls are those annoying auto-dialer calls you may get.  The US FCC has stepped in and asked the US service providers to provide robocall blocking services.  In many ways, this really is nothing new. 

HD Voice Finally Comes of Age

August 9, 2016

It’s been quite a while since I wrote about HD voice.  When HD voice was first coming to the market 7 or 8 years ago, Dialogic was pretty active in marketing it’s importance and talking about it.  We knew that HD voice would be used when VoLTE was implemented. 

NFV - A Big Step Forward In Service Agility

August 2, 2016


In the beginning of June, I did a talk at Bynet Expo titled “Powering the Agile Operator.”  Part of the talk was about how NFV could help power the agile operator.  As most readers know, NFV promises lower CAPEX, lower OPEX, and faster rollout of services. In other words, agility.  As such, NFV is a key component of the “agile” strategy.

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