Carriers are examining different strategies to staff to meet the needs of an IP transition. Some carriers will be able to leverage existing in-house expertise at the data layer, while others will look outside the organization to hire a few key players to lead the transition. Some carriers will turn toward third-party providers for access to transition expertise.
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Why Collaboration Matters in an IP Transition
I suggested companies join the RPX patent protection club back in 2008 as I have seen how patent litigation can destroy a company’s profitability and force it to lose focus. RPX as you may remember is a firm whose goal is to allow companies to buy into a pool of patents which can be used to protect them against future lawsuits. The idea is a company will think twice about pursuing a patent lawsuit if you can countersue using a huge pool of patents.
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Patent Pooling Taking Off
Three fascinating new takes on Mumbai as an international financial centre: Mukul Asher and Azad Singh Bali in DNA a few weeks ago. In the February 2010 issue of Pragati released yesterday, there are two articles on this: by Percy Mistry himself, and by V. Anantha Nageswaran
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Mumbai as an international financial centre
Livecage came to ITEXPO East 2010 last week in Miami and the colocated Smart Grid Summit and recorded a number of video interviews which are posted here . I hope you find them useful. Here are some of the people who participated in the interviews: John Bryan Jeremy Griesbach Jon Arnold Sharon S.
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Smart Grid Summit East 2010 Videos
This week, my team has been busy getting ready to move TMC out of our building at 1 Technology Plaza as we prepare to move down the street to River Park. Our new headquarters will allow us to accommodate our rapid growth and we hope to double our size at our new address. By Monday, we expect to be up and running and look forward to the next phase of our company’s growth
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TMC Moves on Friday
Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO thinks Wow Mobile is doomed. To be fair, Peter is cynical but then again, he is right most of the time. In this case he thinks a MLM, get-rich scheme which sells mobile service has no chance — especially when you consider the history of MVNO failure in the US
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Is Wow Mobile Doomed Already?
I used a slew of technology at the show but two products are worth special mention. The first is the Flip Mino HD video recorder which excelled in low-light conditions and allowed me to take rapid and high-quality videos of the show. Thanks Cisco for providing me with this device
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Tools I Used at ITEXPO East 2010
A humble thank you to my followers who came out in support of ITEXPO this past week in Miami. Thank you conferees who braved a tough economic climate and came to the show. I also want to extend appreciation to the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at the show
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ITEXPO East 2010 Miami a Great Success Thanks to You
Before checking out this post be sure to put on your propeller hat — Oh and by the way turn down the sound if you ever want a chance at getting a date this decade. GM Voices is a long-standing company recording voice prompts for companies. They are one of the most consistent companies I know in the telecom space — exhibiting at shows for about 15-20 years
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Asterisk Gets a Song
I just heard from a reliable source that Goldman Sachs bonuses have been switched from cash to stock. Recently the company announced this would be the case for those at the top of the organization but now my source tells me this will be the case for the whole company. With the massive government and public backlash against banks and the amount of their compensation, this seems like a very very smart move for Goldman.
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Breaking: Goldman Sachs Bonuses all Stock?
If you stream any video on your site, this news could drastically increase your future costs. Here is an excellent article from Christopher Blizzard on HTML 5 video and H.264 which delves into the potential problems we could see on the web when a company demands to get paid for technologies which users may have thought were open.
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HTML 5 Plus H.264 not as Open as you Think
Randomized 3D Layout using Coordy and Away3D New year, new homepage ! My new year’s resolution: Publish a new experiment every month… And update this blog more often! This month it is using a newly discovered layout API called Coordy . The 3D is rendered using Away3D and tweens are handled via TweenMax . For coloring the cube I draw a random feed from the Kuler API and the blog data is a custom RSS Feed from my Wordpress blog.
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January’s Landing Page Experiment
Who would have thought the government of China would be responsible for tightening security across the Internet? Google not only is getting involved in the politics of blocking censorship in the People’s Republic but moreover has now changed their default email protocol to https . Tags: china , gmail , google , https , security Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries Will Silicon Valley go to War with China
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Response to China Hacking – Increase Security
At the last ITEXPO I received many comments from attendees who came to my blog to see videos and could not. You see, for large videos I am forced to compress them and upload them to a Flash player because they are just too large for posting as a traditional iPhone file. It’s that dreaded no Flash support Apple tax I keep talking about
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TMCnet iPhone Site Now Does Video
Today we sent out a confirmation and update regarding next week’s ITEXPO and I wanted to make sure my readers were aware of many of the happenings at the show. One of the more interesting questions I get in passing is – “Rich, are you still giving away a car at the show?” The answer is yes, a Honda Element and also a Honda motorcycle. Pictures and show details follow: ITEXPO January 20-22, 2010 Miami Beach Convention Center Collocated with 4G Wireless Evolution — Digium/Asterisk World — Smart Grid Summit — M2M Evolution — Cloud Communications Summit — Virtualization Summit — StartUp Camp Telephony — SIP Tutorial CONFIRMATION AND SCHEDULE UPDATE
Most carriers are now delivering multiple types of services and applications for customers, or if not now, have plans to do so shortly, and the vast majority of these services are being delivered over IP. Many of these services, such as IPTV or videoconferencing, have bandwidth needs that are much more intensive than that of voice, so that the IP transport networks are increasingly dwarfing TDM infrastructure. Size has further advantages for the IP marketplace
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The Many Facets of Cost Savings
As I research Google’s move into energy, I become fascinated by the idea that Google’s influence on our lives may just be beginning. Sure the Google Toilet ( video ) may not be a real product but analysis of Google’s potential in the smart grid market, coupled with the company’s Android operating system leads at least one analyst, Jon Arnold to see a bright future of collaboration between smart devices in the home and the electrical grid
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Google’s Energy Ambitions and Smart Grid Implications
One of the most trusted names in communications Carl Ford – was explaining to me recently how the upcoming tutorial on SIP at ITEXPO, January 20-22, 2010 in Miami will be the best session on SIP – anywhere. He mentioned it in passing and then I realized – wait a minute – I didn’t even blog it
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Can’t Miss SIP Tutorial at ITEXPO
Jamie Siminoff is someone I have great admiration for… He launched a company called SimulScribe which later became PhoneTag and what it did was transcribe your voicemails and send them via email.
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Tech Rock Star Jamie Siminoff Keynotes Startup Camp Telephony
There is an unwritten rule that companies who compete with their customers are inviting trouble. When companies break this rule, generally their competition will use this information against them when there is a bid on the table. Over time, when you break this rule, it bites you in the rear.
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Google Breaks Cardinal Supplier Rule
In recent years, an empirical literature has begun to prise apart the management process of universities, seeking to identify the features which cater to excellence. In a previous blog post I summarised five useful ingredients that enable successful universities, from a working paper by Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Caroline M. Hoxby, Andreu Mas-Colell and Andre Sapir: No government approval required for budget; budget-making happens at the university and university alone.
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Six rules for building good universities
On 5 October 2007, I had written a blog post Does urban India favour liberal economics? , where I had used survey data released by the Pew Institute, which measures attitudes of roughly 45,000 people worldwide with roughly 2,000 in India . Their sampling mechanism has an urban bias
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Support for free markets and globalisation in India
So far, VoIP-based bilateral interconnects have followed traditional industry billing models of either bilateral agreements, or billing on an A-Z rate sheet. Most interconnections have been between incumbents or wholesale carriers seeking increased flexibility and incremental cost efficiencies in traffic exchange, not new ways to do business. However, emerging interconnection models, including voice peering and IPX, offer much more potential to change traditional billing arrangements by increasing the number of operators for whom a bilateral connection becomes commercially interesting.
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Billing Across the IP Interconnect
Howard Davies was a deputy governor of the Bank of England, and the first head of the UK FSA. He is one of the world’s leading thinkers on financial regulation and monetary policy, and one of the people who combines skills in both finance and monetary economics
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Five questions on asset prices and monetary policy
At its November 5th plenary , the Canadian ICT Standards Advisory Committee approved the recommendations of the Canadian IPv6 Task Group set up by Isacc in April. The 50 members of the Task Group were invited to individually produce a list of seven recommendations. Received inputs were collated, debated, ranked and ultimately distilled down to a pair of quite straightforward recommendations for immediate action: mandate support of IPv6 in Federal Government ICT procurements and set up a IPv6 Centre of Excellence with the help of Government, Industry and the Research and Education Community.
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IPv6 Medics Without Borders
US freezing assets of Iraq-based insurgent group WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department is freezing the assets of an Iraq-based insurgent group that has conducted or supported violent raids against U.S. and coalition forces. The department said Tuesday that since April, the group, Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi, has launched attacks using armor-penetrating grenades, rockets, and improvised explosive devices
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Treasury freezes assets of insurgent group in Iraq for attacks US and coalition forces
In week stuffed with repeats, CBS dominates rivals NEW YORK — The television ratings make it look like CBS was the only broadcast network working last week. With the exception of Sunday’s NFL broadcast and its pregame shows, plus “The Simpsons” on Fox, every show in the Nielsen Co.’s list of the most popular was on CBS.
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In week stuffed with repeats, CBS dominates its rivals in Nielsen ratings
Fitch leaves City National ratings unchanged CHICAGO — Fitch Ratings said Tuesday that City National Corp.’s ratings were unaffected by its recently announced acquisition of Imperial Capital Bank. Fitch said City National’s FDIC-assisted acquisition of Imperial is of “manageable size.” City National has a loss-sharing deal with the FDIC on $2.6 billion in loans, and Fitch said it … Read more : Fitch leaves City National ratings unchanged after announced acquisition of Imperial Capital .
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Fitch leaves City National ratings unchanged after announced acquisition of Imperial Capital
Terrorist attack feared after ‘03 Jackson arrest NEW YORK — Police concerns about a terrorist attack stemming from the 2003 arrest of Michael Jackson led to a request for federal help, according to FBI files kept on the late pop star. The documents also show that the FBI helped facilitate interviews in the Philippines by California … Read more : Police feared terrorist attack after arrest of Jackson for child molestation in 2003 .
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Police feared terrorist attack after arrest of Jackson for child molestation in 2003
Egyptian court upholds 4 years jailing of blogger CAIRO — Egypt’s High Appeal Court has upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt’s president.
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Court upholds 4-year sentence for Egyptian blogger convicted of insulting Islam and president