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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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IGEL Advances Future of Work

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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The Impact of $100 Smartphones

April 24, 2012

In last week’s blog I explored the surge in mobile data traffic. And when economical smartphones enter the scene, most likely throughout the course of 2012, the surge will simply continue. The IDC Asia “Confronting Telecom’s Network Challenge” report says, “Consumer behavior in these markets will be similar to that in mature markets. Consumers in mature markets have demonstrated an addictive nature to mobile applications…”

The Wireless Data Challenge

April 17, 2012

We’ve all read about the surge in wireless data traffic which has been happening for the past few years and is expected to continue going forward. You probably know people who own a smartphone and an iPad and a laptop and use all of those devices. Or you know people who are seemingly glued to their iPhones all day. So in your little world, you get it.

The Need for Data Speed: A Bizarre and Unexpected Trip to the Past

April 10, 2012

Last month, I was in Hong Kong for business. From an internet access perspective, I was expecting great things since Hong Kong has been a leader with internet access over the years. However; it turned out to be one of the worst internet connectivity experiences I’ve had in a hotel since the broadband era emerged. The hotel literally was at dial-up speeds for me.

The Over the Top Dilemma - Hug, Stiff Arm or Keep Enemies Close? Part 3

April 3, 2012

This blog series has delved into the Over the Top dilemma that was highlighted in the opening keynotes from Mobile World Congress which took place at the end of February. The dilemma for service providers is that they are competing in the area of communications services with the companies who are providing services on their data networks. And these services are taking revenue away from the service providers, who require CAPEX and OPEX to run the networks.

Last week, I explored at a high level what a service provider could do to compete, such as offering a unique twist to a value-added service. One area this could be in is the mobile video conferencing arena.

The Over the Top Dilemma - Hug, Stiff Arm or Keep Enemies Close? Part 2

March 27, 2012

Last week I delved further into the Over the Top (OTT) players competing with the service providers that their services are running on. I ended that blog with comments about service providers needing to “offer value” and a forward pointer here to this blog. So what can they do to compete with the OTT players?

1.  First of all, the service providers know how to really bill.

Over the Top Dilemma - Hug, Stiff Arm or Keep Enemies Close? Part 1

March 20, 2012

As I stated in my blog two weeks ago, at Mobile World Congress there was discussion about the top guys not paying their fair share.   At the opening keynotes during MWC, Telecom Italia and AT&T especially noted the competition from Over the Top players.  For instance, the ITU is reporting that SMS revenues are declining as users adopt different ways of messaging, including Over the Top services.

HD Voice Status

March 13, 2012

It’s been a while since I reported on the status of mobile HD Voice. Wideband voice codecs, which double the audio frequency spectrum encoded, are important since they give new clarity to talking on the phone. I’ve spoken to colleagues with wideband codecs on enterprise networks and it makes a huge difference.   If you don’t believe me, watch this video on YouTube.

Mobile World Congress 2012 Themes

March 6, 2012

Mobile World Congress was last week.  And while I was personally busy (see below) I did have time to check out the show and notice some key themes.

1.  There was quite a bit of hype about “User Experience.”  Dialogic has been speaking about this for some time, and in fact, our theme at MWC was about our ability to improve the Mobile Experience. 

Mobile Experience and Mobile World Congress

February 27, 2012

Mobile World Congress started today.   If you have not been to one of these shows, it’s an experience you will not soon forget.  If you walk by our pavilion on the main Avenue (AV-114), you will see a front graphic that looks like the image below.  The giant QR code will go to a video relating to Quality of Experience monitoring and tracking software that Dialogic announced just prior to Mobile World Congress.

Mobile Video Quality of Experience, Part 3

February 21, 2012

In last week’s blog, I discussed a new way that video quality can be measured, i.e. measuring perceptual quality of experience.  This week, I am going to build on that idea, and talk about the benefits that this type of measurement can have to operators.  For starters, once an operator can validate the perceptual quality for a specific piece of video content, the operator can increase revenue through a wide range of offers, including subscriptions or pay-per-view.

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