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Asia-Pacific I 2013 (16)
Theme: Pipes within pipes - fast lanes in the Broadband highway
As LTE is marching on, Satellite is getting affordable and WiFi islands provide a city-network patchwork – the world of access providers creates pipes-within-pipes in a wholesale market, while the world of applications is moving into the web sphere. How is the landscape of network providers and service providers changing with the advent of Broadband?
View items...Asia-Pacific III 2012 (15)
Theme: The evolution of Charging and Billing
The transformation of Telecom forces a similar evolution of the billing systems. Some systems cannot evolve to cope with entirely new business models and different methods of charging. The existing flat rate for Data Services is considered destructive and must be replaced by charging for user-perceived value, using far-reaching charging rules. Mechanisms for micropayment are no longer a myth – just look at what the Apple App Store has achieved! The success of Mobile Money in certain regions means that at long last, the financial side of Telecom is progressing. Paperless bills and real-time charging are now overtaking that traditional billing system, while user credit and financial transactions remain in sharp focus.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2012 (18)
Theme: Head in the cloud, head for business
Cloud is set to deliver services to the enterprise as well as the consumer segment. Telecom players compete for this business with web giants like Google. Carriers are hoping to leverage their trust relationship and enhanced networks to make headway in storing data and hosting applications. However, there is much to resolve in terms of compatibility, between clouds vendors and between private and public clouds. There is more to do for fast logical retrieval (e.g. tagging), efficient delivery (e.g. mono/multi casting and cascading) and high performance (e.g. buffering, cashing and data compression). No use having ‘head in the clouds’, better have ‘head for business’ when reaching the clouds.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2012 (13)
Theme: Message to the World – the voyage from SMS to Twitter
Messaging has changed the way the masses communicate. In fact, it added another way for us to communicate, one that youth often prefer. It is laconic, silent, not intrusive and will be right there when you are ready. Messaging has grown to encompass both worlds of Data and Voice. Platforms that can manage both IP based web applications as well as Telco Voicemail applications are deployed by both ISPs and telcos. Many websites use SMS for communicating with users and between users, bringing the web closer to being interactive and real-time with quick ‘sound-bites’. Now Twitter has re-invented messaging, adding circles of social networking around the basic concept of ‘text-bites’, and YouTube’s popularity shows that ‘Video-bite’ is enormous role to play. Messaging business continues to grow. Where else will Messaging go from here?
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Asia-Pacific III 2011 (17)
Theme: Mobile phones vs PCs - we are all winning
While smart phones deliver PC functions, PCs are used as communication tools, wired or wireless. The latest advent of slim-line tablets blurs further the traditional roles of devices. This gives rise to a new range of ‘Mobility Services’. Such services range from shop-floor information flow that speeds up manufacturing, machine-to-machine (M2M) automation, mobile money and mobile eCommerce, which are slated to bring future growth.
These new services may be predicated on the devices’ current and future capabilities, such as NFC (Near Field Communication) or image recognition, but their versatility comes from the constant connectivity to the Internet and to the Cloud. Content streaming in both upstream and downstream directions is essential to these new breed of applications, where ‘Mobility meets Content’. The fusion of Content, in particular dynamic content, with mobility and immediacy is a mesmerising combination that is yet to spawn numerous innovative ‘apps’.
With multitude of devices per person, we need the same service environment delivered on several devices. Service ubiquity means more than just access wherever we are, but also availability on whatever smart device we prefer to use at the moment. As ‘consumerisation’ becomes widespread, work-life merges with personal life, and the same clever device becomes the ‘remote control for life’. This is facilitated by the Service Layer moving to the Cloud, both ‘fixed’ and ‘mobile’ clouds. This has many advantages, not least the ease of introducing innovative services. Storing sensitive data in the protected custody of the cloud, instead of leaving it on vulnerable mobile device that can get lost or stolen, helps to make crucial information available anywhere safely.
With the population of connected devices grows rapidly, the evolving supporting systems begin to groan. M2M services, both tethered and mobile, require a huge number of devices to be provisioned and dormant services activated as and when required. This not only increases the pressure due to volumes, but also demands integration of support systems for converged services.
The OSS sends an SOS message when another silo is needed to manage a new type of service. It signals that an entirely new thinking is required to unify management of the multi-device multi-technology network, and to address new concerns about security and quality. An example of new requirement is the emerging need for service assurance for Internet Video streaming, instead of the current unreliable ‘best effort’ approach. Another rising requirement is WAN (Wide Area Network) optimisation, extending the Enterprise network to remote sites and enabling it to deal with the growing packet volumes from both PCs and smartphone data services.
In fact, the merging of PC capabilities into mobile devices has already brought high pressure on the access and backhaul networks and caused carriers to revise their strategies. Carrying large data service volumes on ‘flat fee’ necessitates increased capacity at minimal costs. Therefore, carriers are revamping their 3G fast service, WiFi capabilities, optimising enterprises global WANs and focusing on metro-Ethernet and Microwave Ethernet which are growing in popularity. The old ‘Silk Road’ is morphing into the ‘Fibre Road’, and both WiFi and Ethernet are back in vogue.
Asia-Pacific II 2011 (15)
Theme: When things generate more data than we do
Machine-to-machine communications, is a market-changing force - it’s not that big yet, but the change is coming soon. M2M, is the automatic sharing of data between machines, between sensors and devices of all types. Although sometimes called the Internet of Things, and the Internet Protocol is often used, the Internet itself is often bypassed in favour of connections via, say, GSM devices or via satellite for remote field operations. Most M2M interactions take place without human intervention continuously, at programmed intervals or when a sensor of some sort detects an ‘event’ or reaches a pre-programmed threshold. With M2M, utility meters, household appliances, factory equipment, automotive devices, ATMs, point-of-sale displays, cameras, remote sensors, laptops, remote health monitors and much more can be interconnected to support application that improve productivity, safety, efficiency and convenience. Some forecasts predict 50 billion machine-to-machine connections by 2020.
Today most of M2M applications use cellular networks and most of the data exchanges amount to little more than a weekly or hourly status update via text message. But new uses for M2M arise each day and many of them are ‘always on’ - always, or almost, transmitting or receiving. Imagine, for one, readers programmed to constantly download the latest news streams, books, films and concerts.
Currently, most M-2-M traffic is on GSM networks, but it will increasingly run on the Internet, cable systems, satellites, indeed via any and every channel that can handle the traffic.
With a growing number of devices and the proliferation of data hungry applications, it won’t be long before machines will generate more data traffic than people do. What then are the implications of this massive shift in traffic patterns for networks service providers, the ICT sector, users and society as a whole?
Asia-Pacific I 2011 (14)
Theme: The video renovation
Video is the fastest growing traffic category on the net, by the end of 2010 it will have surpassed peer-to-peer traffic as the growth volume leader. By 2014, according to one unusually accurate source video will account for more than 90 per cent of consumer Internet traffic. Managing an increase of this magnitude will tax the ingenuity, financial structure, human resources and physical infrastructure of communications service providers and vendors at every level of the value chain. Worse, competition is pushing down prices and ARPUs are falling – just when networks must be expanded to handle the growing traffic.
Mobile data will grow almost 40 times between 2009 and 2014 and video will account for the biggest part of the growth. Overall, by 2014 3D and HD video traffic will account for more than 40 per cent of Internet video.
Operators have to build new business models and network capacity in parallel and they have to discover how to turn video traffic into cash. Their core business will no longer be telecoms – most of their revenues will have to come from other related sources, billing for bits is not enough, service providers need to discover ways to bill for what they deliver and equipment vendors of all types will have to race to help them do it more efficiently and cost effectively.
Finding ways to earn more from higher margin business users will help, as always, but not enough; consumer traffic is growing more rapidly than business traffic – analysts expect that business will generate less than 15 per cent of the traffic by 2014.
Asia-Pacific III 2010 (18)
Theme: Wireless - it’s in the air and on the move
The comparative ease of building wireless, and the affordability of infrastructure, are speeding the roll-out of wireless almost everywhere. There are problems, certainly - maintenance and accessibility, clean power supplies for base stations and users alike, among others, but it is increasingly the ‘way-to-go’. The convenience of mobile telephony is slowly eating away at the fixed-voice market and creating its own unique blend of services and opportunities for Service Providers and Network Operators.
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Asia-Pacific II 2010 (15)
Theme: The cost of connectivity
Technology has its costs - and they are not all easily measurable. A new technology might do more, and do it more cheaply, but the cost of capital, of transition and the social costs might well break fragile businesses, disrupt the business models of large and small companies alike and burden society by widening the social and economic gap between those that can access the new technologies and those that cannot. The growth of ICT has also, for example, increased power usage to the point that energy costs can, over time, dominate the total cost of ownership. This alarmingly high-energy usage contributes to global warming and makes the use of power saving - green - technologies increasingly important. This issue will take a hard look at the real, often hidden, costs of connectivity - including social, economic, political, educational and other ‘soft’ costs of connectivity - and their inevitability or avoidability.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2010 (13)
Theme: Networks and world greening
Companies are increasingly recognising their social obligation to reduce their environmental impact. Environmental responsibility, once considered a burden, often proves to have a variety of unforeseen benefits - often measureable on the bottom line. Meeting social obligations often requires improving operational efficiency, developing new processes and products and results in the discovery of ways to cut costs - especially those for energy. The drive to be green is also creating unsuspected new markets and services. The theme for this issue of Connect-World will be Networks and world greening.
View items...Asia-Pacific III 2009 (16)
Theme: Shrinking equipment, a shrinking world
The advance of information and communication technology is largely due to doing more with less, to shrinking the unshrinkable just a little bit more. Shrinking brings lower prices, greater reliability, lower power usage and more functionality in less space. More importantly, the shrinking process is putting the world in the pockets of more and more people each day. Not everyone can afford a PC or a laptop. Many people have limited access to reliable sources of power and fewer have access to the Internet. Nevertheless, shrinking, ever lower-cost devices with easy to feed power requirements promise to bring the world, education and social services to the pockets of most of the world’s inhabitants within the coming decade; the process is already well underway. This issue of Connect-World Asia Pacific will look into the revolutionary shrinking of devices and the equally revolutionary explosion of hope and possibilities this will bring for the region’s businesses and inhabitants.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2009 (16)
Theme: Information and Communication Business Technology
Information and communications technologies, ICTs, have always had a significant impact upon businesses. Today, they can be the business. Virtual businesses abound and even their services or products can be virtual; only the money is real. The savings and earnings that advanced ICTs bring to businesses, both real and virtual, are transforming business models, creating new markets and providing new opportunities for millions of workers. The Asia Pacific region has long been among the earliest adopters and most effective users of technology. This issue of Connect-World Asia Pacific will explore the use and promise of ICTs for business in the region.
This issue of Connect-World Asia-Pacific 2009 will examine the implications of these far-reaching converged systems and the impact they have not only upon users, but upon the complex ecosystem that will make these innovative communications systems possible - the networks, communications equipment, user devices, software and business applications.<br><br>
The theme of this issue of Connect-Word Asia-Pacific will be - Information and Communication Business Technology. Considering your unique experience, an article dealing with the theme of this issue, would be of real interest to our readers.
Asia-Pacific I 2009 (15)
Theme: Convergence, communications and business innovation
Communications with customers, suppliers, service providers, financial institutions and the like are the lifeline of any business.
Today’s converged networks, converged devices and applications that take advantage of the possibilities a converged environment brings are revolutionizing the office - or lack thereof in the case of tele-workers/ telecommuters - to deliver a seamless work environment to workers wherever they may be.
The converged environment has stimulated a wide variety of innovative applications for large and small businesses alike, many of which are not just new ways of doing the same things, but are real changes in the way we do business or are new businesses in their own right. Interaction is facilitated, costs are eliminated or drastically cut, and collaboration with colleagues, clients and suppliers anywhere at any time is enhanced.
By minimizing the need to travel, applications such as video-presence are also starting to reduce business travel - and the user’s carbon footprint.
This sort of convergence is a powerful tool to simplify business processes, but its implications are far reaching and complex. Cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) special applications, Swiss knife communications and computing devices, innovative applications and a host of storage, communications and network equipment will be needed to make this work efficiently and cost effectively.
This issue of Connect-World Asia-Pacific 2009 will examine the implications of these far-reaching converged systems and the impact they have not only upon users, but upon the complex ecosystem that will make these innovative communications systems possible - the networks, communications equipment, user devices, software and business applications.
Asia-Pacific III 2008 (18)
Theme: Internet usage and services
The Internet has changed our world and the global economy. We are now entering a new stage in its growth. Web 2.0, collaboration, virtual worlds and mashups are all part of it. Also parts of the new Web are the evolutionary moves towards the semantic/ intelligent web, IPv6, the growth in enterprise services that are not a mere extension of existing services and financial services such as mobile cash and credit. The Web is also revolutionising education, healthcare, government and social services in general. The impact of this upon the world’s ICT infrastructure is hard to calculate, but you see and feel the effects wherever you are in the region - or the world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2008 (13)
Theme: Access evolution– from wired to wireless to where?
Access was once synonymous with copper. Wireless access now outpaces wired and mobile phones outnumber fixed. Fibre brings TV, broadband and inexpensive voice, and even power lines are used by utilities, offices, factory floors and homes for broadband access. Much of the change, the revolution in telecom is the result of better access technologies. Technologies already in the pipeline, and others on the way, promise to change the way we communicate, work and play to an even greater degree than anything we have seen.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2008 (17)
Theme: Broadband - network strategy for core and access
Broadband is the game, the future of telecommunications – wired and wireless alike. What are the today’s best growth strategies? How do you pay for the buildout? How do you fill the pipes later? How do equipment manufacturers, the software developers, content providers, regulators and, yes, the users, fit into the new environment?
View items...Asia-Pacific III 2007 (16)
Theme: Internet usage and services
The Internet has changed our world and the global economy. We are now entering a new stage in its growth. Web 2.0, collaboration, virtual worlds and mashups are all part of it. Also part of the new Web are the evolutionary moves towards the semantic/ intelligent web, the growth in enterprise services that are not a mere extension of existing services and financial services such as mobile cash and credit. The Web is also revolutionising education, healthcare, government and social services in general.
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Asia-Pacific II 2007 (13)
Theme: Next generation strategies - a look at the new environment - Part II
The changes brought by today's information and communication technologies have unsettled the sectors involved and raised a series of profound questions that policy makers and regulators throughout the world are struggling to deal with. Business users are finding that buying technology and learning to use it is just the first step; to really take advantage of the new technologies and tackle the competition they often have to re-invent their processes, systems and products - even the corporate culture and the company itself. Governments and institutions, like businesses, have to re-think their systems and services in terms of what the new technologies can do, but the payoff in better services, greater efficiency and reduced costs can quickly re-pay the effort. The new technology is infiltrating itself into the daily lives of people in the world's great cities and in its remotest reaches, bringing basic communications, entertainment and new life-changing educational, medical and business services.
In the sector itself, the changes are profound. Manufacturers, systems developers, content providers, distributors, operators, carriers; each and everyone in the sector is feeling the change. New business models, new partners, new marketing and new competition are the rule.
The theme of Connect-World: Asia-Pacific II (2007), our coming edition will be Next generation strategies - a look at the new environment - Part II
Connect-World Asia-Pacific is an official media sponsor of PTC (14-17 January 2007, Hawaii), Carriers World (13-15 March 2007, Hong Kong), and PTC/User World event 2007 Americas (3-6 June 2007, Tampa, Florida).
Asia-Pacific I 2007 (19)
Theme: Next Generation Strategies - a look at the new environment
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2006 (19)
Theme: Global Reach - Personal Edge
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2006 (13)
Theme: Asia - telecom trendsetter!
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2005 (16)
Theme: IP - Intelligent Positioning for Growth
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2005 (16)
Theme: Emerging Technology, Emerging Hope
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific 2004 (15)
Asia-Pacific 2004
Theme: Pervasive Connectivity As A Tool For Development
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2003 (14)
Theme: Network Convergence
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2003 (12)
Theme: Access Through Broadband
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2002 (12)
Theme: The Telecomm Transformation
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2002 (16)
Theme: Telecommunications - Getting Back on Track
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific IV 2001 (11)
Theme: Convergence and the Digital Revolution
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific III 2001 (16)
Theme: The E-Business Bost to Local Economy
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 2001 (15)
Theme: The Wiring and Unwiring of Asia-Pacific
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 2001 (14)
Theme: The Internet and Telecoms: Helping to Turn the Tide in Asia
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific II 1999 (11)
Theme: The Definitive forum for the discussion of telecommunications development in Asia II
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Asia-Pacific I 1999 (10)
Theme: The Definitive forum for the discussion of telecommunications development in Asia
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
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