IP has enabled the IT, Telephony, Web, and Broadcast domains to battle for the subscriber’s wallet. Successful players in this radical market environment must have a Service Delivery Environment (SDE) built on a vision and framework which will enable them to quickly take advantage of the new trends, new service requirement opportunities and find ways to generate new revenue. Patricia Lopes, Vice President of Services Transformation at Alcatel-Lucent talks about the SDE, what it means to the market and how it accelerates service innovation and end user QoE, with the delivery of profitable, user-centric blended services.
In this podcast, Patricia Lopes addresses the following:
1) What market dynamics are driving Service Providers to transform the way they bring new services to market?
2) IP technology has been a major enabler of the market dynamics and it has allowed non-traditional competitors to capture voice and data revenues. How do Service Providers need to respond to this changing market and competitive landscape?
3) How does a Service Provider provide new value to end-users?
4) What is the difference between service delivery environment, service delivery platforms and service delivery framework?
5) What are the four pillars of the Service Delivery Environment and what makes each unique?
6) How ...
Kenneth Moelis has a unique talent for translating his 25-year career on Wall Street into the kind of information that financial specialists from the Street and beyond need the most. In this keynote podcast, Moelis puts the current Wall Street climate in clear perspective, from explaining how he sees the ...
“None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection before converting to common, Parr says he’s seen funds change ...
When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations?
In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction that deal flow in the U.S. will drop below the impressive ...
Whether you call it a credit crunch or a credit squeeze, there’s evidence to be found that the chilled climate for deals has spread from the realm of the mega-deal into the middle market. To discuss the new economic realities in deal-making, The Deal convened a panel, “Deals ...
The communications industry is experiencing the explosion of the “Me-We” phenomenon! Customers want “Me” services that are personalized, easy to use and focused on their needs. At the same time they want what we call the “We” experience, access to their friends and their social communities, such as ...
Michael Proper is the CEO and entrepreneurial vision for the fast-growing DirectPointe, a provider of managed computing services that make technology simple, manageable and affordable for small and midsize businesses. DirectPointe has established itself by offering great support to organizations who are looking for a partner to manage ...
Many are considering the “Millennials” as being the next big market for communications services. In this podcast, Jay Peterson, VP of Global Market Development for user-centric services for Alcatel-Lucent, talks about who the Millennials are, why they should matter to service providers and how Alcatel-Lucent can help service ...
Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Hitesh Anklesaria to explore the importance of categorizing the risks of outsourcing vendors. Whether it’s the local landscaper or the offshore technology support center, financial services organizations outsource various operations to multiple service providers all over the globe. Each vendor presents its own set of ...
Broadband Service Providers (including WiMax Providers, Cable Operators, ISP’s, Telco’s, Managed Service Providers, Satellite Broadband Operators, etc.) are feeling pressure from customer churn because competitors offer bundled packages that include voice (VoIP) services. Alianza enables these same service providers to deliver commercial, private label VoIP products to business and ...
Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating the access network from the service network. IMS will ...
Is the Internet dead? Listen in as LSI networking experts Jas Tremblay, director of Enterprise and SMB Solutions, and Mark Wilson, director of Network and Systems Applications, discuss bandwidth, traffic management, and networking technologies designed to breathe life back into the internet. The conversation focuses on bandwidth restriction issues, ...
Competition is coming for broadband providers SBC and Comcast. So say the investors in emerging service such as WiMax and BPL. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Patrick Campbell - Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, who moderated the panel “Desirable and Viable: Broadband Alternatives and ...
Sameer Sisodia is a cofounder of Ziva Software, the makers of Zook, a mobile search service. Its an interesting company that is incubated at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Ziva Software has built the world’s first Mobile Social Answer Engine. The mobile answer engine delivers precise answers ...
You won’t believe who is hosting the Web sites of Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations.
The number of Americans killed fighting terrorists and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan is now 3,628 and counting. But, apparently some U.S. Internet Service Providers don’t care enough to look into who some of their ...
Pandora is one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It then brings you more music that’s similar to that. Here Pandora’s CTO, Tom Conrad, talks about the service, demos its new ...
Here’s the highlights of a conversation I had with Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora, one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It then brings you more music that’s similar to that. ...
India has the fast growing mobile market in the world, and Bangalore is the hotbed of mobile innovations and start-ups. Mobile search is the new hot word in India, and Ziva Software wants to be a significant player in this area.
The one-year-old mobile search company is located in an ...
IT solutions of all colors are required by enterprises and service providers to effectively and efficiently manage their IT organization. These solutions address management requirements at the IT infrastructure, services and business layers and leverage several best practices, such as ITIL, eTOM, or CobiT.
Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of ...
When Frank Russell founded GeoLearning ten years ago, the landscape for delivering corporate training materials was quite different from what it is today. As the network became more and more vital for business, and as software-as-a-service began to mature, Frank saw GeoLearning’s business grow and change in dramatic ways. In this podcast Frank relates his experience as CEO of GeoLearning, and talks about how SaaS plays a vital role in their success.
Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast Paul discusses the challenges he faces in building and maintaining such a network, shares some knowledge learned in his ten years at OARnet, and explains the fish problem.
This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.
We sat down with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA, to discuss strategies for management of an MPLS VPN rollout. There are some great benefits, but along with those benefits come serious challenges. Venu helps you sort out the important things to know to face those challenges and manage your VPN proactively.
Today we meet with John Merrells, CEO of Embrace Mobile, at the Hatfactory in San Francisco. Merrells’ company provides market research surveys to mobile phones. He tells us a bit about how a simple idea on the face is actually quite complex in implementation. With hundreds of cellular ...
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