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April 27, 2007
My Mi-Inter-Tel
The Inter-Tel acquistion by Mitel strikes me as a great move.
While normally my view of mergers is very negative. This one I understand. Mitel needs to expand its channel. Mitel has a strong product line that does well in the higher end of the middle market. Inter-Tel is good in small market.
For Mitel the services side of Inter-tel escalates them as well.
I expect good things here.
Posted by carl at 03:17 PM | Comments (0)
April 26, 2007
Fixed Mobile Success?
Ericsson Reported that they had a 27% rise in revenue according to the Wall Street Journal.
This contrasts with the Alcatel - Lucent merger pains that has had issues gaining market share.
However, Qualcomm according to the journal also had comparable growth.
The Ericsson earnings pointed to strong growth on the infrastructure side. So that indicates some markets are nearing full scale deployments.
I am impressed that Ericsson has done so well. I am curious how many people have Sony - Ericsson phones or Qualcomm. The people I see are using more PDA type phones, so I have a limited experience.
Kind Regards,
carl
Posted by carl at 07:47 AM | Comments (0)
April 25, 2007
Nominum on IPTV today.
Should be a good session today.
And I have a special offer. A free VON pass for the person that finds the Next Gen TMN slide and email carl.ford@pulvermedia.com Of course if you catch it, your my kind of thinker and I may ask you to speak.
Here is a hint its still FCAPS even if it is in the wrong order and maybe uses a synonym for one of the letters.
Below is the information to register.
IPTV is a critical offering in converging communication services. But, delivering IPTV services on a large scale presents many technical challenges, including:
* How do you scale IPTV provisioning and service to millions of subscribers?
* How quickly can you restore critical network services after outages or disruptions?
* How do you create a conducive multicast IP channel to the subscriber premises for IPTV delivery?
This webinar focuses on the role of IP addressing services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) in delivering IPTV to the home.
Nominum invites you to join Ted Lemon, a leading authority on DHCP on April 25 for a practical discussion of IP addressing requirements for IPTV.
The webinar will cover the critical role of DHCP in IPTV delivery infrastructure.
Register now.
Posted by carl at 02:36 AM | Comments (0)
April 24, 2007
Four one one - security
I have a lot of friends in the industry who have me talking about security on a regular basis. Its not clear, that the industry has a handle on its requirements.
Listen to the advocates and you would think that telecom is big brother. And sometimes I am shocked to hear of the level of sophisticated spying we have enabled.
More often than not I am faced with my fathers' adage; Never assume malice when incompetence is viable.
When it comes to meeting the needs for secure authenticated names, I believe the neglect is less than benign, but more than incompetence.
I think carriers do not know how to sell the idea of identity, and the reason they do not know the value the value themselves.
People are more than numbers (and URIs are only a piece of it as well). Number 6 may have been off target when he said I am not a number I am a name.
I am a presentitity with lots of alias's and psuedo presentities.
Finding the way to sell me a secure authenticated identity is not going to be about how I present myself to world, but how I present myself to world.... follow that.
Its about self control its about knowing when call screening is valuable and when I need to override it. I want my identity to be known and I want the people that know it to see it the way I want.
I feel like this could be a whole conference on its own.
Everything from SAML to Stanford's ergonomics labs. Not to mention Rob Fulop explaining flirting.
Not that I would know about flirting.
Posted by carl at 02:22 AM | Comments (0)
April 20, 2007
Dual Mode
Given the controversy that Vodafone and Orange have asked Nokia to disable the dual mode of the N95. The Dual Mode Phones Session is going to be interesting at Spring VON Europe.
Many of us saw this phone and others like it as the device that makes office mobility as productive as possible. So the point of this session is what opportunities exist for the end user both corporate and mobile consumer to pressure the market in the other direction.
Dual - Mode Phones: The Single Device of the Future?
Thursday, June 14, 2007, 9:00am - 9:55am
Everywhere you turn today the talk is never about the phone service, but the phone itself. And no wonder. Bundles of Cameras, PDAs, IM, music, and video come with each new device. But dual - mode represents an opportunity for the network to have some value again. Or does it just mean you will access features from your traditional service provider?
Are dual-mode phones subsidized?
Can seamless pass through occur for all features?
What concerns do service providers have in supporting these phones?
Claudio Adriani, CTO, Elitel S.p.A.
Claudio Adriani has spent more than twenty-seven years in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industry, where he has been always dealing with innovation and advanced technologies for mission critical solutions and services. Mr. Adriani began his professional career in 1979 joining the Olivetti group at its headquarters in Ivrea, Italy, where he held different positions at corporate and group’s company level, including that of Director, Corporate Technology Strategies, Head of System Offer Architecture, and Networking & Communications Product Planning Manager in research and development. More recently, he was also Vice President, Solution Development at Unisys, Head of Internet Strategies and New Services & Solutions at Olivetti Tecnost, Chief Technology Officer for a start-up company in the Getronics group, Integration Services Director at Getronics and Wang Global. Mr. Adriani joined Elitel in November 2003. Mr. Adriani earned a Degree in Informatics at the University of Pisa, Italy.
James Body, Network Director, Hurst farm, Truphone
James Body is responsible for the Truphone network infrastructure. A founding member of the UK Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), he has been closely involved with the implementation and regulation of new internet based telephony systems for past four years. He was responsible for SIPCall, the first UK public SIP<>PSTN system and was also co-founder of Gossiptel, a leading consumer based VoIP offering. He spent 20 years as a an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals before retiring from the British Army to focus on implementing VoIP based telephony systems.
Frank Kettler, Dipl.-Ing, HEAD acoustics
Frank joint HEAD acoustics in 1991, one of the leading manufacturer of speech quality test systems. He has experiencs for more than 10 years in this field. HEAD acoustics is working closely together with ETSI in conducting the ETSI's international Speech Quality Test Events for VoIP.
Posted by carl at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)
April 19, 2007
Service Delivery [and, or, vs.] IMS
In the Marketplace right now are a lot of people who talk about service delivery and IMS. But are these the companies the anti-IMS group in disguise? I am working on a conference about IMS and Service Delivery and I am trying to comprehend where how they intersect.
I asked the basic question. I believe that service delivery will be the make or break for IMS as a strategy. What do you think.
Here is the reply from one friend in a large carrier.
Our company has deployed an IMS for the field test planning to roll out IMS based IM (instant messaging) service soon for subscribers which is mobile internet. We also plan to provide VoIP service through IMS anticipating repid VoIP market growth in near future.
Under the circumstances that the growth rate of communication market has been slowing or saturating in recent years, I don't think operators are willing to invest money to IMS unless there is no new business opportunity or new value that can be created by deploying IMS. Developing and deliverying services that can generate more revenue are essential parts in deploying IMS. So, in that sense I agree with you.
Posted by carl at 08:53 AM | Comments (0)
April 18, 2007
Dear Yahoo, I can help
The Wall Street journal reported Yahoo! earnings dropped by 14%
Yahoo! talked about the relationship with the newspapers. But the issue is that the newspapers are a dying breed on their own.
The real goal has to be using them for your advantage beyond career builder.
If all politics is local, Yahoo! with their federation of newspapers needs to have a pow wow about making the look and feel of the newspaper industry websites integrate with Yahoo!.
Yahoo needs to become the new API.
I have more ideas about this if they want me I am available for a house call.
Posted by carl at 05:44 AM | Comments (0)
April 17, 2007
Irony - I am writing I am just not posting
Here is an interesting issue.
I am writing more the last few weeks then when I blog. But its for corporate reasons.
So here is a question for the blogosphere. Can you write for the blog and write for other reasons as well.
send a note carl.ford@pulvermedia.com
Posted by carl at 12:15 PM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2007
Future IETF Meeting Schedule
Clash List
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/clash_list.html
Spring 2008 - 71st IETF
March 9-14, 2008
Host: Comcast
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Summer 2008 - 72nd IETF
July 27 - August 1, 2008
Host: TBD
Location: Asia (Provisional)
Fall 2008 - 73rd IETF
November 16-21, 2008
Host: TBD
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Spring 2009 - 74th IETF
March 22-27, 2009
Host: TBD
Location: Europe (Provisional)
Summer 2009 - 75th IETF
July 26-31, 2009
Host: TBD
Location: Asia (Provisional)
Fall 2009 - 76th IETF
November 8-13, 2009
Host: TBD
Location: North America (Provisional)
Spring 2010 - 77th IETF
March 21-26, 2010
Host: TBD
Location: North America (Provisional)
Summer 2010 - 78th IETF
July 25-30, 2010
Host: TBD
Location: Europe (Provisional)
Fall 2010 - 79th IETF
November 7-12, 2010
Host: TBD
Location: North America (Provisional)
Posted by carl at 06:36 PM | Comments (0)
April 13, 2007
Events Resumes
I have just finished writing documents that represent the events for the rest of the year. Some of them are short, some are long, but all of them are good starting points to seek advice.
Whether I make money with the advice or not, I am sure the discussions with our customers will be helpful.
I have written the event resumes for Fall VON, Unified Communication, Fixed Mobile Convergence, VONDEX and the New Market Peering Summit.
Posted by carl at 06:13 AM | Comments (0)
April 12, 2007
Success with Europe
When I first invited people to the Peer to Peer SIP webinar I had only 10% pick-up by Europeans.
We ended up with over 300 Europeans of our 1200+ registrants.
Thank you, all.
I particularly want to thank Guy Kewney for his blog
posting
Posted by carl at 05:59 AM | Comments (0)
April 11, 2007
Peer to Peer SIP Webinar today
Title: P2P SIP will do to VoIP what VoIP has done to the PSTN
Date: April 11, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM EDT (New York)
Cost: FREE
Register Now!
http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/mult001/22058
The Internet continues to expand and for VoIP the evolution is to Peer to Peer technology. Embracing Peer to Peer the VoIP industry is moving to a model that matches the ideal of the Internet: Distributed, self organizing endpoints. Come hear where the Internet is going and what the impact is for the voice and multimedia of the future.
Come hear where the Internet is going and what the impact is for the service model of the future.
P2P SIP self organizing is nothing less than automation applied to VoIP, presence, IM and multimedia. It also shifts the cost of computing to the endpoints, where there is an abundance of unused CPU, storage, bandwidth, electricity and real estate. In many cases the users perform themselves the small residual maintenance such as software updates and configuring audio/video peripherals and various applications of their choice.
P2P SIP will benefit end users, service providers and enterprise networks alike. It will enable the full innovation potential of application developers.
P2P SIP will do to VoIP what VoIP has done to the PSTN.
Speaker: David A. Bryan, Founder, SIPeerior Technologies
David Bryan is a leading expert in the area of P2PSIP. He chairs the IETF P2PSIP working group, and has published numerous IETF drafts, academic papers and industry trade articles on the subject. David is active in the SIP community, including heading up p2psip.org, the leading community site for P2PSIP, and is involved with SIPFoundry, the reSIProcate project, and Vovida.org. David was co-founder and CTO of Jasomi Networks, a pioneer in the SIP Session Border Controller (SBC) market. Jasomi was sold to Ditech Communications (Nasdaq: DITC) in 2005. David previously worked for Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Vovida Networks. David holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Richard Stockton College in NJ, as well as a master's degree in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary, where he is completing his Ph.D.
Moderator: Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia
Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulvermedia conferences. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. His professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.
Register Now!
http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/mult001/22058
This discussion is a precursor to the session that will be held at VON Europe Spring 2007 in Stockholm June 11-14. And all who register for this webinar are encouraged to join us at VON Europe Spring:
Posted by carl at 06:11 AM | Comments (0)
April 10, 2007
Webinars promoting Spring VON Europe
I chatted with some friends starting with this email.
I am running the next several months of webinars with the goal of promoting Spring VON Europe. BUT the registrations are coming primarily from the US still.
I could explain it a number of ways... but I need your help to make sure I am not kidding myself.
1)Webinars are more popular in the US.
2)The time slot of 2PM GMT is not good.
3)The copy is too American somehow. please see http://webinars.pulvermedia.com/archives/2007/03/peer_to_peer_wi.html
The content of this session is fresh from the IETF meetings in Prague so I think that is not the problem. Which leaves some issues with my presentation.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The feedback has pointed out, how myopic I am in looking at time.
Many people are far more observant than I am about the details which I tend to gloss over.
It should be an interesting to see how much I improve.
Posted by carl at 05:35 AM | Comments (0)
April 09, 2007
Peering in Three Acts
It took two hours to get me to the point where the camera was not throwing me off.
Posted by carl at 05:56 AM | Comments (0)
April 06, 2007
Retroactive Posting
My history is that I do not grok how incompatiable views such as Ayn Rand are to my Quaker consensus \ expectant silence.
I do however appreciate irony.
The bell system was built on the strict defense of patent 174445 (I believe).
It's ironic that the bell system may be a one trick pony.
Its ironic that the courts that tried to promote competition now block it.
Its ironic that vonage which has been a customer acquistion machine has to leave its sweet spot.
It will be ironic if returning the customers to the pstn and reversing the LNP process wins anyone happy customers.
Its ironic that the best work around for vonage is public ENUM. Something jeffery did not want to do.
its ironic that the cable companies have been so ostrich like in this court case.
Its ironic that the Internet, built on freely given IPR, is being tortured by the beneficiaries of this IPR.
Its ironic that the author of the 711 patent found his patent more broadlly interpreted than he "claimed" and only one claim survived.
Its ironic that jeffery citron who scared wall street with his alternate network (island) and did care about the opinions of analysts, now has to suffer listening to all of their opinions on his alternate network (vonage).
I am sure more can be found. I may have to go on ebay, but I intend to go back to vonage.
Posted by carl at 06:39 AM | Comments (0)
April 05, 2007
Next Generation
My Next Generation Network hat is on...
Its a cap that says "Tourist" because the lingo has changed and areas that appeared familar are now strange to me.
Can someone give me a soure they trust on these topics.
Service Delivery,
Unified Communications,
Anything 2.0
I went from giving it, getting it, too... questioning it.
Help welcome.
Posted by carl at 06:20 AM | Comments (0)
April 04, 2007
Retroactive Posting
Okay here is a question.... what about countries like China, Dubai, etc.
How do we account for deep packet inspection and session controllers?
Do I count packets being sniffed as "unfettered"?
Posted by carl at 06:36 AM | Comments (0)
April 03, 2007
Retroactive Blog Posting
Does it have adverse impact on people's RSS feeds?
Let me know.
carl.ford@pulvermedia.com
Posted by carl at 06:25 AM | Comments (0)
Retroactive Blog Posting
Does it have adverse impact on people's RSS feeds?
Let me know.
carl.ford@pulvermedia.com
Posted by carl at 06:25 AM | Comments (0)
April 02, 2007
Retroactive Posting
Imho the IETF has punted and for good reason.
The IETF has given over the addressing and management to the ITU and the UN.
The result in the SIP space is peer to peer (free webinar today but that's not why I write) (see http://webinar.pulvermedia.com )
The Internet needs to be about the connection between end points. I say this as a bell head. As long as the IETF works in that direction the tension will always be there.
As long as I as a bell head need someone to use my network, they can bend my will. Of course I need to have competition. And from my perspective I do.
The minute the focus is away from the edge, as I think they have seen repeatedly problems arise. As long as the edge continues to innovate, my middleware models will constantly be behind. It maybe that one day the edge replaces the core entirely... It wont happen by being married to the core.
Posted by carl at 06:34 AM | Comments (0)