Excellent mobile customer experience is now the #1 factor keeping happy & paying customers. As the network grows in capacity, coverage, and complexity (heterogeneous network = complexity), the cost of constantly tuning the network also increases. The core mobility vendors[1] are putting forward a variety of “customer experience” tools. These tools work as an integral Read More
Category: Telecom
U.S. Anti-Bot Code of Conduct (ABCs) for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is now posted
The FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council’s (CSRIC) has now posted the U.S. Anti-Bot Code of Conduct (ABCs) for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This voluntary code of conduct is a milestone for the industry – placing new expectations on the eco-system required to safe guard our telecommunications system. The core of the code is Read More
NSP-SEC Top 10 SP Security Techniques – Updated Slides
NSP-SEC Top 10 SP Security Techniques is one of the core foundation tutorials for ALL Telcos, ISPs, Cloud Operators, Mobile Companies, and other large ASNs (including Enterprises). This is the foundation for network security. If you are being stupid if not doing these basics and trusting your “firewall.” Note though this that all the recommendations Read More
Beware, Security Liability does roll down hill
In a working “risk” system, security liability would roll “downhill” to an accountable party. Who wrote the code? Who did the audit? Who certified the system as “secure? In my own work, I mention to my peers how everything has changed in today’s Converged Internet/Global Telecommunications world. Liability and accountability roll downhill. If something happens Read More
Highlights of Mobile World Congress 2009
With about 47,000 attendees to the exhibition and conference in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress was quite a vibrant experienced indeed. What was of particular interest to me, was the Internet revolution on mobile- finally! How bringing the Internet (and its related applications such as social networking) has brought a brave new frontier for the mobile Read More
Submarine Cable Cuts – What is the Real Story?
We’ve seen a flurry of outages on some of the major submarine cable systems: http://www.getit.org/Mediawiki/index.php?title=Submarine_Cable_Systems_in_the_News Some points everyone is missing. First, as I pointed out on a NANOG post, cable outages happen all the time. Nothing new. that is why we have a large fleet of ships to repair cables. At the time of these Read More
Principles of Trans-Oceanic Systems
Interconnecting with Services Providers (SPs) across the ocean is expensive and risky. The cost of the links are often the largest entry in the OPEX budget. All of it in hard currency which leaves the company (vs paying another department inside the SP). The risk to these links is often over looked. Oceanic telecommunications systems Read More
Highlights of Mobile voice to Mobile Web- a TIE Wireless SIG meeting, Nov’06
This evening, the TIE Wireless SIG hosted a meeting on Mobile Voice to Mobile Web, and this attracted so many people from the Valley. The room was at standing room capacity and the audience were actively asking questions even after the session ended. (photos of the session and the panel names are listed at www.bayareajournal.blogspot.com) Read More
Harmful interference from WLAN devices
Harmful Interference Thanksgiving is a big holiday here in the United States so I have been offline for a time catching up and traveling. Whilst I was at my in-laws place, where my husband fixed a new WLAN solution, we found access to be sporadic and unstable. After some trouble shooting, we found that the Read More
Call for EU Regional Regulatory Body
The issue of having a regional regulatory body was raised again by Viviane Redding, Information Society Commissioner at the EU. Having 25 national authorities going back and forth with the EU as not made it easy for many operators to do business in Europe. She said that such a body could cut the red tape Read More