February 07, 2008
The Problem with Customers
In the Wall Street Journal yesterday a new lower end iPhone was discussed which is aimed at giving higher data speeds as people browse the Internet. This phone is probably going to end up in Europe far quicker than the US and is priced in a way that will reduce the iPhone purchases by European tourists. Given that it is 3G it will probably have announcements for new partnerships in Asia.
It’s important to remember that the Internet is what sells Apple’s phone. Canalys has created this categorization of converged smart devices and places Apple in third place ahead of Motorola.
Motorola’s proxy fight is about to play out. Carl Icahn feels that the Ed Zander should split off the Wireless unit. The problem I have is that the wireless unit has been building for carriers based on the carriers specifications. In a conversation a friend heard a Nokia exec share that they had over 2000 phones in the market.
This is the problem with the categorization of Canalys. They took some products that were built for very different needs and bunched them together. I agree a new category is needed, but not sure its defined based on convergence, but on consumer list. The real story is bandwidth for wireless apps. Track the total category and we probably get the full story.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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:
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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.
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