Today more than five billion people use mobile devices worldwide, many of them smartphones. The number of smartphones and tablets shipped to consumers outpaces shipments of laptops.
Since moving into a marketing and communications role at GENBAND, one of the things I miss most is the unofficial camaraderie shared with fellow analysts. Though we competed fiercely at times for clients, pithy quotes in media outlets and prime-time exposure at industry events, we did so in a collegial manner, and always in an atmosphere of mutual respect and shared experience.
Operators have devoted massive investment and attention to transforming their networks to converged IP architectures but, before the entire dream of an all-IP environment can be achieved, they must address the risks associated with their legacy TDM networks. It is all too easy to imagine an IP transformation that will happen overnight with the flip of a switch.
Is email becoming obsolete in today’s always on, social media crazed society? According to a recent article posted on Yahoo! News it is…at least for one company.
Mobile World Congress has become the biggest event in telecom and with more than 60,000 attendees expected to descend upon Barcelona from February 27th thru March 1st, this year’s show promises to be bigger and better than ever. Last year’s conference proved to be a great show for GENBAND as we unveiled our Mobile Office and Mobile Voice VPN solutions and this year will be even better as we introduce our new mobile application designed for families ‘on the go’; GEN
Every couple of generations the culture undergoes a shift so pronounced from what has come before that it earns a label of notoriety. In recent Western history, for example, the terms Gilded and Jazz have been used to label time periods featuring notable social and industrial transitions lasting a decade or more.
The current snapshot of human culture, defined by unprecedented access to information and other humans through inexpensive and portable devices, is already being labeled by some commentators as the Technology Age.
Faced with a barrage of strategic trends that include cloud-based applications, IMS, LTE, Social Networking, and Over the Top (OTT) multimedia content delivery, many service providers are being forced to revisit their go-to-market-strategies and service offering differentiation. But to offer services anywhere, on any device, at any time, most networks must undergo IP network transformation.
Network transformation is about services. One of the most important benefits, beyond the operational costs and reliability benefits of investing in Network Transformation, is the ability of the Transformed Network to enable new services. This is very important at a time when end-users are increasingly looking to social networking and Over The Top (OTT) Content Providers for communications and entertainment services. Business users are also relying upon social networking and internet video content to provide an important means of marketing products and services to their customers.
Mobility is de rigueur in enterprise communications these days. The explosive growth of smartphones and tablets is rewriting the rules of how we communicate and how and where we do our work. This trend is being driven by employees’ desire to use these devices to do their jobs - even while in the office. For instance, how many times have you walked through the office and seen someone sitting in front of an idle computer typing an email on a smartphone?
