I started this blog for discussing technical ideas and to share my view on different topics.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Who needs IMS ???
Verizon to Offer Skype on Smartphone
Skype expands mobile push with Symbian support
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Service Provider Cloud Based Services
Few early examples:
Orange Unveils Cloud Formation
Verizon debuts cloud computing service
BT and Cisco Deliver on Cloud Computing Vision with Launch of Pioneering Hosted Unified Communications Services
Mood based video search
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=185858&site=cdn&f_src=lrdailynewsletter
Cloud Computing tools and platform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop
Computing: ????
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Video and Telco's future
Verizon to Hulu: You’ll be dead in two years, anyway
The challenge for large media companies — and Verizon with its FiOS service now sits squarely in that camp — is whether they can keep up as smaller competitors innovate away at the next new thing. The real problem for incumbents is that such upstarts can be incredibly disruptive to the status quo without really having any chance to survive and thrive as an independent company.
In the end, though, it doesn’t matter if Hulu — or Roku or any other video start-up — actually survives. What matters is whether the innovations they introduce stick and how those innovations change, or in some cases shatter, the industry status quo.
Perhaps even scarier is whether or not true innovators get bought up by larger competitors. It’s easy to laugh off a Silicon Valley start-up. It’s not so easy when they get acquired by Google or Cisco or some other giant and become the status quo.
Watch out Hulu, Facebook is taking over video
Top 10 Online Web Brands Ranked by Total Streams | ||
Video Brand | Total Streams (000) | Unique Viewers (000) |
YouTube | 6,632,964 | 105,923 |
Hulu | 632,662 | 13,472 |
217,765 | 31,594 | |
MSN/WindowsLive/Bing | 183,556 | 17,301 |
Yahoo! | 173,482 | 24,265 |
Fox Interactive Media | 160,698 | 13,142 |
ABC Television | 136,348 | 5,642 |
Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network | 119,850 | 5,741 |
ESPN Digital Network | 109,799 | 8,625 |
CBS Entertainment Network | 103,741 | 6,973 |
Source: Nielsen VideoCensus (via newteevee.com)
Najam Saquib
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Iliad Reports Q3 2009
The growing usage of added value services available to Free and Alice subscribers. Revenues generated by these services thus totalled more than € 348 million to 30 September 2009, an increase of close to 36% over the period.
Iliad Reports Q3 2009
Najam Saquib
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Amazon links cloud to enterprise data centers
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Interesting stuff for Telco 2.0
Operators continue to generate revenue from downstream, retail markets, but they can augment that revenue with new sources from upstream – people that use their network to deliver services, using the network capabilities to enhance the services, if you like.” More....
Using the cloud to broker small-business outsourcing:
8K Miles, which takes its name from the diameter of the Earth, launched three months ago with $1 million and a mission to help small businesses outsource tasks by connecting them with a community of service providers that specialize in everything from software development (expected to be the lion’s share of transactions) to legal and accounting advice. More....
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Science
Next Genration of Media Push Vs. Pull
Pull media like internet, IPTV, VOD etc
Reading newspaper with advertisement or reading blogs.
Advertisement what i want to see not what a media outlet want to show me. personalized ad and personalized TV
CAC (Call admission control)
One option could be to use ISIS TE extension to announce core link utilization. As soon as a core link reaches a preconfigured threshold, ISIS sends an update with this information to the edge of the network. At the edge RSVP could be used to signal this to the application or Customer edge (CPE).
IMS for Telco
Thursday, May 14, 2009
No Future for Blu-ray Disc - DVD
Najam
Cloning
Fertility doctor on brink of cloning human: report
Interesting...........
Najam
Next Generation Professions
This was the case few hundred years before but then we move to a narrow down version of these professions and now are the time to merge these qualities again to take the next step in humanity.
There are enough examples in Chinese, ancient Greece, Arabic golden age.
Current education system is not capable to deliver the professionals of tomorrow. The education system is already got outdated, most of the things people study in their academic time are not any more useable in the practical field. There is some change currently going on in some universities for example MIT is doing big steps to update things for future, an example can be seen on following link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/13physics.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1
But still it is not what the NG professionals will look like, this way a good physicist can be produced but not an inventor of next generation. We need bottom to top complete change in the education system, and continue change. Not only the one time change rather a change after every few years.
Generating new Revenue streams - Internet Service Providers
Following are few ideas to increase ARPU:
- End user will get free or subsidies access (dsl,FTTH etc) service if they agree to share their storage and home CPU for a SP cloud. SP cloud than can sale these resources to the interesting parties. A part this is already done by some of the P2P and video distribution companies, but an SP have much better position to do this due to the ownership of transport infrastructure.
- Providing Internet based High Def. Video services for home users (The main business will be webcam ladies)
- Providing billing for end customer for online shoping
- Location services for search and advertisment
- IPTV platform for media companies, no wall garden approch