Jim Machi
Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week
There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in...
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NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability
One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of...
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SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market
Cloud computing has really become a household word with mainstream media outlets running stories on television about the growth in the space...
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Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB
At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and...
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Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco
The software telco(r)evolution representing the move from hardware to software is perhaps the biggest trend in the world of carrier telecom this...
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WebRTC Screen Sharing Using Openfire
I've written about WebRTC screen sharing, but today I came across another WebRTC screen sharing solution leveraging Openfire and using WebSockets and...
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LTE Network Interactions
According to a recently released GSMA Wireless Intelligence infographic, there are 163 live LTE networks today, and that figure is expected...
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State of Natural Speech and Italy
April 5, 2011Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at InteractiveMedia’s Speech Workshop in Rome. Speech recognition has become much more mainstream and accepted in the past 5 years, due mainly to the industry making huge strides in getting speech recognition to work, and also frankly to it being more ubiquitous, such as in cars, so people are more comfortable with it.
While I used to be very embedded in the speech scene, I haven’t been lately.
A Unified Communications Outlook
March 29, 2011Last week, we held a small event with some of our key Unified Communication partners. We invited Jim Burton from UC Strategies to speak to the group, who by the way this week is running his own UC Strategies conference in La Jolla. While readers of my blog know that I spend a lot of time discussing mobile communications issues and thoughts, some readers may not know that Dialogic has been a huge innovator with IP and unified communications over the years, ranging from being involved in the first VoIP gateway in 1997, to enabling many unified messaging solutions around the same time, to driving pure IP-based handsets in the early 2000’s and to working closely with enabling the various “unified communication hubs” from the large vendors. We have been at the forefront of this incredible innovation and continue to participate actively in it as it’s still a significant part of our business today.
South Africa and Bandwidth Optimization Techniques
March 22, 2011Last week, I was in Johannesburg for the Mobile Network Optimization Africa conference, where I spoke on techniques for removing bottlenecks from wireless networks, specifically in the backhaul part of the network. South Africa is interesting in this regard since if you look at the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) report from February 1st, South Africa is expected to be one of the leading countries (in a few years) when measuring average mobile network connection speeds, which means the mobile network can handle more data, which is good, but may also mean trouble for congestion within the network.
The conference was interesting since it looked at optimization of all aspects of the network, from the backhaul part as I mentioned above, to the optimization of the spectrum, optimization of the antennae technologies, optimization of network performance and coverage, load balancing, WiFi offload, and of the new networks such as LTE.
Prepaid Mobile Internet Services
March 15, 2011I will be going to Singapore in a few weeks for the Telco Strategies 2011 conference, and I always like going to Asia since the mobile market is different than the US market. For instance, one difference that’s important to understand is how people pay for the usage of their phones. In the US, people predominately pay by monthly fee subscription. And outside of Korea and Japan in APAC, people predominately pay in a prepaid mode.
N-1-1 Services and Their Evolution
March 8, 2011Why am I writing about “boring” N11 services? Well first of all, I used one a few weeks ago that I hadn’t used before (511) and it proved really useful. And it got me thinking about them and where they could go. Some of these N11 services are forms of value-added services and mobile value-added services, and have good growth potential.
Where Do I Stand with Net Neutrality?
March 1, 2011In last week’s blog, I explored the “free” part of the Net Neutrality issue. In this week’s blog, I want to explore the wireless internet, since as the wireless capabilities increase, we are getting more and more of a broadband experience wirelessly.
In the wired broadband world, a throttling of content would be frowned upon.
What's Going on with Net Neutrality?
February 22, 2011Net Neutrality is a hot topic in the United States. Essentially, it means “let the internet be open” and let whatever it’s used for, whatever is connected to it, etc. happen as long as it’s lawful. The FCC has rules regarding the internet and they are designed to prevent content discrimination on the Internet.
Mobile World Congress Overview
February 17, 2011On February, 1st, I wrote a Mobile World Congress preview blog and said I expected to see Mobile Backhaul at the show. Here I am at the last day of the show, and I want to tell you about the major themes I’m seeing.
First and foremost, the major theme is mobile broadband optimization, which includes mobile backhaul as one of the improvement mechanisms.
ENIAC - The Face of Innovation from 2 to the 6th Years Ago
February 15, 2011As the computer engineer reader knows, 2 to the 6th is a key number in the binary numeral system. It also happens to be the number of years ago (plus 1) on February 14th that the first digital computer, the ENIAC, was born, at the University of Pennsylvania. When I went to Penn many years ago, the ENIAC was sort of there, or shall I say, pieces of it were there, strewn in a room that we all passed by pretty much everyday on our way to classes. You could have gone in there and taken the leftover vacuum tubes, which were the size of Starbucks Venti cups.
The Future of SMS - Rich SMS
February 8, 2011Two weeks ago, I gave some opinions about why SMS will continue to grow. I also think SMS will, over time, fundamentally change from today’s 140 character experience. We’ll start to see video incorporated into SMS, making it more of a “rich” SMS experience. For instance, I’ve written in the past about location-based services and context aware location-based services.
