Service assurance with the Cloud
Third time unlucky? It is said that two thirds of mobile users will give up any new service after only two failed attempts to use it. In a culture of instant gratification, churn is the service providers’ nightmare - hence the need for service assurance (SA) for an optimal subscriber experience
moreThinking Secure? Or Just Feeling Secure? The need to accelerate creative innovation on this side of the law
Nir Zuk, serial entrepreneur & founder, Palo Alto Networks, at NetEvents EMEA Press Summit Barcelona 2011 moreComing soon to a screen near you - the future of video
What will be the business, and societal, impact of mobile telepresence? How will video be delivered to the handset, let alone ultra HDTV to the home? When will the desktop be the dominant locale for affordable multiparty video conferencing and when will we see mobile deployment in LTE and WiMAX settings? What sort of backbone technology can bear the load?
moreGetting Ready for LTE
3GGP Long Term Evolution (LTE) is promising to blow 3G out of the water – with speeds as high as 100/50Mbps. Not to mention more services, lower latency, better QoE, simpler architecture and a network optimized for data traffic without the burden of a separate circuit-switched voice channel.
Putting all that power in the users’ hands could mean phenomenal uptake on the new technology – is this what we’ve all been waiting for? But that in itself poses a problem: will the infrastructure support the new demand? More generally are we, the industry and users, ready for LTE?