By: Tim Young
Over the last few weeks, Iāve been engaging in what has become a little annual tradition. A notification hits my phone that a new iOS update is available, and I proceed to ignore it for a
couple of weeks. The nicely rendered red dotāa symbol that my South Carolina upbringing will forever cause me to associate with liquor storesāgraces my settings icon for days and days while I
attempt to ignore its beckoning. The dot contains a single digit crafted in the Helvetica font. After the update, that font will be replaced with a slightly different font, which will cause
inexplicable anger for someā¦
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
Get rid of the ominous swivel chair. Automate. Break down silos. Integrate. We've all heard the story before. Service providers need to leverage a combination of both new and legacy resources
from disparate silos to be competitive in today's marketplace and improve their customers' experience. But the reality is, many service providers are still struggling to evolve and our traditional
thinking may be fundamentally flawed. The emergence of new technologies and key technical trends such as the adoption of open source standards, big data analytics, and virtual networks and network
functions (SDN and NFV) are changing the gameā¦
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By: Andrew Morawski
The M2M market has changed dramatically in the past few years. It is no longer a niche technical term or delegated only to the IT department. It has evolved into a driving force for innovation
in our cities, homes, cars and workplaces and its potential is being recognized by leaders in every industry ā where it is being used to transform businesses as a whole. To examine this new phase
in the evolution of M2M, Vodafone recently published its third annual Vodafone M2M Barometer Report which revealed rapid, significant progress toward a truly connected world rich in transformative,
sophisticated M2M applicationsā¦
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By: Steve Hateley
The telecommunications landscape is shifting under operatorsā feet. Digital technology puts more services at consumersā fingertips than ever before, lifting buyersā expectations for
personalization, independence and speed of delivery.At the same time, connectivity is no longer a telco-exclusive problem, as businesses from entertainment to healthcare are embracing digital
services. Meanwhile, entirely new verticals are springing up with mobility and connectivity at their heart ā just take one look at how Uber and AirBnB have created the āsharing economyā¦
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By: Ann Hatchell
Itās a simple dynamic: smartphones are quickly taking their place as the central hub people use to manage their digital lives. Their versatility, portability and sheer ability to
seemingly do pretty much everything have made them indispensable to consumers and business users. Accordingly, 77% of consumers surveyed by Hot Telecom use more than 1 mobile device and over 40% of
them use 3 or more mobile devices on a day-to-day basis. But thatās just the first part of the equation. The corollary is that people, precisely because they depend on their mobile devices so
completely, demand a high-quality, consistent network experience everywhere, all the time, no questions askedā¦
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By: David Liu
Businesses and consumers are always clamoring for more services, more bandwidth, and lower prices, and service providers large and small must find ways to deliver. Subscribers are used to
dialing up new capabilities on their smartphones with the click of a button, and they want Internet services to have the same ease of use. For their part, service providers want to enable customer
self-provisioning, new services, and automated provisioning not only as competitive differentiators, but also as a way to reduce costs and speed time-to-revenue or time-to-payback for new
servicesā¦
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By: Tony Merenda
The Internet of Things promises to be a transformative technology, potentially replacing or augmenting nearly every item in our daily lives (and likely introducing others not even dreamed of
yet). The Fitbits and Nest thermostats of today are merely the beginning ā Gartner foresees that as soon as 2020, the IoT may already include 26 billion connected units. The world to come is one in
which every home, office, and place of business will be dense with IoT devices, from smart appliances to smart products to RFID tags and sensors, not to mention that each individual may be covered
in IoT wearables everywhere they goā¦
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By: Prabhu Ramachandran
Communication service providers (CSPs) need service orchestration to improve their business agility by streamlining operations and helping them realize the benefits of new technologies such as
SDN and NFV. However, full service orchestration requires unification of all FCAPS functions across the end-to-end service. This large scope often makes a single phase implementation impractical.
This article focuses on a practical, initial step CSPs may take to progress towards service orchestration ā unifying performance and fault management (PM and FM) across end-to-end servicesā¦
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By: Hubert Selvanathan
With the connected home market continuing to grow in size, the question is no longer, āShould I play in this market?ā but āHow can I best monetize this opportunity?ā As the number of
market players and the sheer volume of dollars being thrown at the connected home rapidly skyrockets, so too does the market complexity. There seem to be as many business models, ecosystems,
and pricing strategies as there are offerings and players in the market, with no signs of simplification on the horizonā¦
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By: Tim Young
āEvolution never looks to the future.ā- Richard Dawkins, The Blind WatchmakerFor years, weāve referred to wireless evolution and the evolution of the network, but I donāt know that Iāve
ever referred to the words of an actual evolutionary biologist. Dawkins is mostly known to broad audiences for his role as an atheist firebrand, but his influence on the field of biology has been
substantial. He points out that evolution, unlike human design, is a response to present conditions rather than an anticipation of future conditionsā¦
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By: Scott St. John - Pipeline
Advances in innovation This month, Analogix launched a product called the SlimPortĀ® NANOāCONSOLE which enables Android users to connect their smart phones to external monitors. The Analogix
product allows users to use their Android device as a TV, gaming console, PC and more; and it rivals products currently on the market, such as Google Chromecast - with several unique
differences. Unlike Chromecast, the NanoāConsole connects to the Android device via the SlimportĀ® and to the user's screen of choice via HDMIā¦
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