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While the consumer may be driving the method and manner that their content is delivered, what is the business model that supports this? New technologies such as switch digital video allow cable operators to target ever more specific demographics and thus increase the value of their advertising. Just as important, the 'Next 40 Channels' become a a very important revenue opportunity.
The marriage of mobility and the Internet promises to define the way people view connectivity forever. As devices become intelligent personal mini-computers, consumers will have the full power of the Internet at their fingertips anywhere and anytime, dramatically shaping the way they manage their everyday lives. Nowhere is this playing out more clearly than in mobile commerce, giving our highly mobilized society the ability to pay bills or purchase goods and services on the go. This has the potential to unleash an entirely new economic model, and mobile operators are well positioned to take advantage of this lucrative market, which represents billions of transactions and revenues going forward.
Larry Dennison, the founder and CTO of Soapstone Networks, says his company’s full product rollout will happen in the second half of this year. When it does, Dennison says Soapstone hopes to convince carriers that using its control plane will allow them to automate operations across several different types of physical networks. He describes the value of his company’s recent announcement with ANDA Networks and talks about what’s happened to the Avici routers inside AT&T’s network.
Collaboration and communication has changed. It is no longer just an internal tool, but one that extends to partners and customers as well. But the technology has also quickly evolved. The Internet has enabled much richer communication and collaboration, in the form of real-time collaboration, on both wired and wireless infrastructure. We talked to Bruce Morse, IBM's head of Unified Communications Software, and Marty Parker, Principle of UniComm Consulting about the realities of these changes.
Shankar Narayanaswamy, the VP Network of Architecture at Reliance Globalcom says his company is planning a $200M worldwide expansion of its Ethernet services for enterprises. Reliance says it will invest in dark fiber, Ethernet equipment, and it will strike agreements with carriers all over the world in order to connect to the cities where it plans to expand. The cities on its radar at the moment include London, Paris, Dubai, Bombay, and Singapore.
PBT is seen as a technology on the rise. It’s not widely deployed yet, but it continues to win support with carriers the world over. Will it be used only in niche applications, or does it have potential to solve some real problems with carrier Ethernet multipoint services?
