The prestigious IT Market Research firm IDC believes that we are on the cusp of a “Third Platform” that will dominate the IT landscape till 2020 and beyond.  That platform consists of some mash up of: Cloud computing, mobile broadband, mobile services/devices/software platforms-OSs/apps, social networks, and big data- analytics.  Many or all of those technologies… Read more →

Introduction: Darryl Brown, formerly of Telx and now with Appcore, was a speaker at the recent Cloud Connect 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA.  His talk delineated the many challenges end users face when connecting their private WAN to a network which will deliver Private Cloud services.  He also indicated that many network operators/telcos would… Read more →

As you might expect, the the Ethernet Technology Summit, Feb 21-23, 2012 in San Jose, CA, explored the many ways in that Ethernet is everywhere.  In particular: • Broadband access: Ethernet over Copper is Ethernet over VSDL or ADSL,  EPONs have been deployed in Japan, Korea, China and elsewhere in Asia • Transport:  100GE being… Read more →

Introduction: At Cloud Connect 2012, there were several audience members clamoring for a common API that could be used to access cloud services from Amazon, Rackspace and other leading public cloud providers.  There was also discussion of the networking issues, with the consensus being that the public Internet could not provide the security, performance guarantees,… Read more →

The ITU-R (Radiocommunication Assembly) approved both LTE Advanced and WiMAX Release 2.0 as IMT Advanced standards this week at their plenary meeting in Geneva.  The ITU-R had previously referred to IMT Advanced  “4G” but then changed its definition to accomodate all the mobile operators who were calling LTE and WiMAX 1.0 “4G”  (they are actually 3G+ RAN technologies.  The… Read more →

This article was written by Louis Schreier,VP, Portfolio Development and Technology, Products & Innovation, T-Labs US.  The article was edited by Alan J Weissberger. Having established an Industrial R&D Lab in Palo Alto in 2008, Deutsche Telekom’s (DT) T-Labs has expanded its mission in the Silicon Valley.  T-Labs already has ties to Stanford, UC- Berkeley,… Read more →

Introduction: Global mobile app downloads will reach nearly 18 billion this year with sales of $15.1 billion, nearly triple last year’s revenues, according to Gartner Research.  How much of that $15.1B went into the pocket of carriers (vs Apple and Google)?  We would expect that number to be close to zero! Having missed the first… Read more →

Building a Platform for the Emerging M2M Dialogue Upcoming International Conference in Atlanta Will Highlight M2M Advances By Cheryl Blum, Vice President, Technology and Business Development, TIA  The last two years have seen a remarkable renewed interest from wireless carriers, telecommunications equipment suppliers and standards development organizations (SDOs) in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. M2M protocols and… Read more →

Viodi View Managing Editor Ken Pyle writes: “Alan Weissberger may have said it best when he suggested that the Google purchase of Motorola Mobility is representative of what has become a sort of patent mania these days.  At approximately $734k per existing patent and $500k if pending patents are included, this is at least comparable… Read more →

Background:  SEP 2 was selected in 2009 by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a standard profile for smart energy management in home devices. The profile is suitable for operation on a variety of IP-based technologies. This consortium establishes a communications technology-agnostic forum to unify and accelerate the realization of interoperable… Read more →