The GENBAND A2 Multimedia Messaging offers a huge potential for fixed, mobile and cable operators to monetize their messaging platform, either by streamlining their network resource usage or by enabling the introduction of new premium services such as visual voicemail or voicemail-to-text.
The GENBAND A2 Multimedia Messaging offers a huge potential for fixed, mobile and cable operators to monetize their messaging platform, either by streamlining their network resource usage or by enabling the introduction of new premium services such as visual voicemail or voicemail-to-text.
4th Generation IP for Mobility, Video and CloudEricsson Slides
Presentation by Jan Häglund PhD, VP Product Area IP & Broadband, Ericsson, from the Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012.
For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Carrier Ethernet – Driving True Convergence in Metro Networks
Speaker Andrea Spaccapietra, Head of Sales, IP and Broadband, Ericsson
Presentation from the Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012.
For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Smartphones and Tablets are the key stimulator for innovations in the area of Product Mobility. But how to bridge between the innovation cycles of mobile apps and product development. How can you manage the complexity without losing the users and running into exploding project efforts?Please find linked to my profile a presentation held at Droidcon NL last week with examples that demonstrate the key challenges to cope with when integrating Apps to a Product Development environment.
Multi-network Solutions in the Real World, CABSAT: Adriana Whiteley, FarncombeVerimatrix
Multi-network, multi-screen video services are now becoming “must have” features on the roadmap of competitive video service operators across the MENA region. With a wealth of multi-lingual content, the region is also a potential flagship for regional or global distribution strategies that expand the base of the regions operators.
The technology and business trade-offs in these strategies, and ultimately the implementation decisions made can provide valuable insight for others currently considering or already planning their multi-network roll-outs.
What does it take to put together a truly innovative and comprehensive solution to extend the reach of your traditional pay TV services?
Hear from experts in their field on the evolving marketplace for video delivery and key technical considerations for launching multi-network and multi-screen services.
Technologies in the Networked Society, IP Networks in transitionEricsson Slides
Presentation by Ulf Ewaldsson, Senior Vice President, CTO, Head of Group Technology Ericsson, at Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012.
For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Juniper Networks IR Investor and Analyst Update - Mobile World Congress 2012Juniper Networks
A presentation shared by Stefan Dyckerhoff, Juniper’s EVP of Platform Systems Division, and Bob Muglia, EVP of Software Solutions Division during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
4th Generation IP for Mobility, Video and CloudEricsson Slides
Presentation by Jan Häglund PhD, VP Product Area IP & Broadband, Ericsson, from the Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012.
For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Carrier Ethernet – Driving True Convergence in Metro Networks
Speaker Andrea Spaccapietra, Head of Sales, IP and Broadband, Ericsson
Presentation from the Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012.
For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Smartphones and Tablets are the key stimulator for innovations in the area of Product Mobility. But how to bridge between the innovation cycles of mobile apps and product development. How can you manage the complexity without losing the users and running into exploding project efforts?Please find linked to my profile a presentation held at Droidcon NL last week with examples that demonstrate the key challenges to cope with when integrating Apps to a Product Development environment.
Multi-network Solutions in the Real World, CABSAT: Adriana Whiteley, FarncombeVerimatrix
Multi-network, multi-screen video services are now becoming “must have” features on the roadmap of competitive video service operators across the MENA region. With a wealth of multi-lingual content, the region is also a potential flagship for regional or global distribution strategies that expand the base of the regions operators.
The technology and business trade-offs in these strategies, and ultimately the implementation decisions made can provide valuable insight for others currently considering or already planning their multi-network roll-outs.
What does it take to put together a truly innovative and comprehensive solution to extend the reach of your traditional pay TV services?
Hear from experts in their field on the evolving marketplace for video delivery and key technical considerations for launching multi-network and multi-screen services.
Technologies in the Networked Society, IP Networks in transitionEricsson Slides
Presentation by Ulf Ewaldsson, Senior Vice President, CTO, Head of Group Technology Ericsson, at Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012.
For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Juniper Networks IR Investor and Analyst Update - Mobile World Congress 2012Juniper Networks
A presentation shared by Stefan Dyckerhoff, Juniper’s EVP of Platform Systems Division, and Bob Muglia, EVP of Software Solutions Division during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Now that I have trained 1000 people on LinkedIn across different Indian cities, diverse industries, educational institutions and industry bodies, I come across a couple of questions that arise consistently on endorsements:
Endorsements by people who do not know you?
Endorsements for skills you do not have?
Endorsements are qualitatively affected by the quality of your network. The quality of your network in turn affects the quality of your LinkedIn specifically and Social media experience in general.
This slide share is an attempt to share knowledge which can help the reader of this slide share to exercise restraint while deciding to connect or send an invite. More importantly it is to drive the home the point the intelligent choices that are available to the reader to exercise, profit and maximize his investment on LinkedIn and Social Media.
World Information Architecture-Day-NYC-2013-Notes-on-KeynotesRichard D. Herring
Notes taken during the Keynote presentations and Panel Discussion of Dan Klyn, Lou Rosenfeld, Christine Wodtke, and Abby (the IA) Covert. High-level presentations designed to inspire and connect archtiectural ideas to shaping information into "information" and virtual spaces.
A client recently reached out to say he was totally new to the SXSW experience and was looking for "noob pointers" -- this is my top lessons learned from attending SXSW. Enjoy!
Modern Architectures: The Road to App Cloud 2020Dreamforce
Salesforce App Cloud continues to rapidly grow and expand in capabilities, scope and vision. Join Senior Product Leadership to learn more about the Platform's 2020 vision and understand how Salesforce is truly enabling Modern Architectures now, and in the future. Watch the video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCVhstctsgI
Getting away from the tyranny of the bean counters
Learn how to move from the archaic numbers based view of business to the economics of value over cost.
Case study: Advertisement spend
Advertisement should be seen as an investment to maximise rather than a cost to be controlled
Case study : Talent
Understand the value of upskilling staff, rather than cutting costs. Value return over churn.
Lecture on Mobile and Fixed Wireless ICT:
Mobile Technology (Cellular Platform, Mobile Application, Mobile Platform, Mobile pplication, Mobile Device & Mobile Operation Systems)
Mobile Apps for Business Productivity The CircuitThe Circuit
Chief Information Officer, Northern Kentucky University, Presented for The Circuit and discussed the various mobile platforms and the pros and cons of each
Jio, is an Indian telecommunications company and subsidiary of Reliance Industries, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It operates a national LTE network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles. It does not offer 2G or 3G service, and instead uses only voice over LTE to provide voice service on its 4G network.
Value added service (VAS) provider failures: insights from VAS product companiesBrowne & Mohan
Dr TR Madan Mohan, Managing partner addressed Network of ICT Entrepreneurs and Enterprises (NITEE), under the aegis of Foundation for MSME Clusters (www.msmefoundation.org), New Delhi on 27th August 2010 regarding “Value added service (VAS) provider failures: insights from VAS product companies”.
For the full report download of “Future of Mobile Value Added Services (VAS) in India”, Go to
http://www.bdaconnect.com/WebUI/ContactUs.aspx?dl_id=B714C0AFB863A41E3E5377BCF18A3D81
Wi-Fi is rapidly becoming the mainstream method of connection to the Internet also for tablets and smartphones. The main reason for this being that 4G networks and their promised cheap and powerful data connectivity services are not here yet, whilst the existing and expensive 3G networks are increasingly unable to cope with a pent-up demand. For operators and enterprises, rapidly deploying new Wi-Fi public hot spots and access points, as well efficiently managing them with the lowest possible TCO, is thus getting high in their priority list.
In this presentation we will introduce Wi-Fi Cloud, a turnkey, end-to-end cloud solution, specifically tailored for Wi-Fi projects and capable of addressing various application/usage scenarios and market segments leveraging next-generation wireless technologies and products. The solution has been already adopted by a major Italian ISP and the presentation will provide an overview on the architecture, business model and processes as well as share some the lessons learned.
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Education is one industry which has not been deterred even in this slowdown and it is not going to be. While working with Educopm Solutions Ltd. I wrote this small plan
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
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- https://x.com/viglovikov
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This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
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Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
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Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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Ce WiT Represented at The Mobile VAS SUMMIT 2009 by Vitue Insight
1. CEWiT
INDIA
Indic SMS Support in 3GPP Standard
Dr. Nadeem Akhtar
Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology
Workshop on Indian Language SMS
September 23, 2009
2. CEWiT
INDIA
CEWiT – An Introduction
Government of India (DIT) initiative - started in 2004
A Public-Private Partnership - Academia/Industry/Government
Vision:
Enable India to become a true leader in wireless technology and make it an engine of
its economic growth
Mission:
To develop indigenous next generation wireless technologies and products
Actively participate in global wireless research and standardization
Strong emphasis on contributing to 4G standards and developing IPR
The Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI) was launched in 2007 to
provide a national forum for broadband wireless
CEWiT is co-ordinating BWCI activities
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3. CEWiT
INDIA
SMS Usage in India
SMS continues to be most popular non-voice service but usage levels
are still low compared to other countries
SMS Usage (2008)
800
Messages sent per user per month
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
India China Philippines
Sources:
1. Philippines & China: Mobile Messaging Futures 2009-2013, Portio Research
2. India: The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators October– December 2008, TRAI
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4. CEWiT
INDIA
Explaining the Gap
One of the contributing factors towards high SMS usage in Philippines
and China is pricing
In Philippines, SMS started as a free service!
Voice calls are cheaper in India but SMS pricing levels are relatively higher
Another important factor is the use of standards-based solutions for
local language SMS
Both countries have lower English-literacy levels compared to India which
means that local language SMS is used heavily
In Philippines, local languages use Roman script, so 7-bit default GSM
alphabet can be used
The inherent efficiency of Chinese language mitigates the inefficiency of 2-
byte UCS-2 encoding
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5. CEWiT
INDIA
Reach of Indian Languages
In urban India, only 37% of the literate population knows English; the
number drops to 17% in rural areas
10 out of top 30 most-widely used languages worldwide are Indian
8 out of top 50 best-selling newspapers in the world are published in an
Indian language
Compared to only 3 English language papers from India in the list
Despite these impressive statistics, not a single Indian language makes
to the list to most-widely used languages in the mobile/Internet world
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
6. CEWiT
INDIA
Indic SMS: Key Elements
Text Entry Encoding Decoding Display
Transmission
Sender Receiver
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
7. CEWiT
INDIA
SMS in Indian Languages
Current Scenario
SMS in several Indic languages is currently supported by operators
Based on proprietary picture-messaging based solutions since UCS-2 is inefficient
and/or not supported
Picture-enabled handsets needed to display SMS
Handsets with Indian language keypads are available
Variation in keypad layouts across vendors/devices
Lack of memory-efficient display solutions
CEWiT has worked extensively on the encoding issue over the last 18
months
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
8. CEWiT
INDIA
Encoding Schemes
GSM Alphabet – Supports languages that use Latin character set
UCS-2 – Supports all major languages of the world
User-defined – Any arbitrary character set can be defined
GSM Alphabet (7 bits) 160 characters
User-defined (8 bits) 140 characters
UCS-2 (16 bits) 70 characters
Message Size
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
9. CEWiT
INDIA
Encoding Indian Languages in UCS-2
Users who want to send an SMS in an Indian language are faced with
two disadvantages from the encoding point of view
Complexity of Indic scripts results in relatively high number of characters
per word on the average
With UCS-2 encoding, only 70 characters are allowed per message
The net result is that only a a few words can go in a single SMS
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10. CEWiT
INDIA
Encoding Requirements
Basic requirement
Standards-based solution with the same level of encoding efficiency
as the 7-bit GSM alphabet
Additional requirements
All 22 official languages must be supported
Support for bi-lingual messaging (Indic + English)
Optional requirement
Enable easy transliteration between Indian languages
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
11. CEWiT
INDIA
3GPP Standards
3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) is the premier body when it
comes to global mobile telephony standards
Maintains the GSM standards
Defined the 3G-WCDMA standard (now evolved to HSPA)
Currently finalising the specification of Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard;
work has already started on LTE-Advanced
Technical specification of various services such as SMS, CBS, USSD etc is
also done by 3GPP
3GPP amended the SMS standards in 2008 to accommodate a request
from Turkey to support the full Turkish alphabet
Introduced 7-bit ‘National Language’ tables
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
12. CEWiT
INDIA
Support for National Languages
Two methods have been specified for including National Language
characters in a short message
Single shift mechanism
‘Escape’ character is used to signal that the next character is encoded using a
National Language Shift Table
Locking shift mechanism
All the characters are encoded using a National Language Locking Shift Table
In both cases, the language being used is indicated by an identifier added in
the message payload
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
13. CEWiT
INDIA
CEWiT Proposal
Indian language tables developed
Based on the 3GPP templates for 7-bit locking and single shift tables
Using the character sets for Indic languages defined by Unicode Consortium
Tables for 10 languages/scripts have been defined
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu,
and Urdu
As the same script is sometimes used by more than one language, the 10
tables can support all the 22 official languages of India
In addition to Indic characters, each table also includes the English alphabet
and the numbers 0-9 plus special characters (punctuation marks etc)
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14. CEWiT
INDIA
Key Benefits of New Encoding Scheme
An SMS written in any of the 22 official Indian languages can have up
to 154 characters
Nearly as many as in an English SMS!
English words can be included in the message without extra overhead
Transliteration from one language to another is very simple
Compatibility with Unicode character sets for Indian languages
Possibility to augment the character sets using free spaces available in
the single shift tables
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
15. CEWiT
INDIA
Standardisation Process
CEWiT submitted a Change Request (CR) to 3GPP Core Networks and
Terminals Working Group 1 (CT1) in Feb 2009
Due to concerns regarding impact on legacy devices, no decision was taken
to allow further discussion
The matter was referred to the Systems and Architecture Working
Group 1 (SA1) and was discussed during its meeting in May 2009
SA1 concurred with our view that the proposal does not violate guidelines
regarding National Language tables
The CR was discussed again at a CT1 meeting in June 09 and the
proposal was accepted
The final approval was given by the CT plenary last week
Indian language tables will be included in the next revision of TS 23.038
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
16. CEWiT
INDIA
Example
Scenario: A handset that supports the new encoding scheme sends an
Indic language SMS to a legacy device
Handset that supports
new encoding
Outcome: The output on legacy handset is mostly gibberish except for
English words in the original message
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
17. CEWiT
INDIA
Support for Legacy Devices
Existing handsets will not be able to decode messages encoded using
the new 7-bit tables
Solution(s) for ensuring backward compatibility are needed
Message encoded in 7-bit at the sending side can either be converted to
UCS-2 encoding or transformed into a picture
Terminal-based solution
User application
SIM application
Network-based solution
Conversion in network based either on prior knowledge of terminal
capabilities or in response to a trigger from the receiving device/user
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
18. CEWiT
INDIA
Keypad Layout
Having an efficient encoding scheme for is not enough
The user interface is also of critical importance
Unlike the English keypad which has been standardised by ITU/ETSI, no similar
effort has been done for Indian keypad layouts
Each handset vendor has designed its own layouts
Current Indian language keypads show variation in
Number of characters on each key
Choice of characters placed on different keys
Position of characters on a specific key
Height and width of characters displayed on the keypad
Some form of harmonisation of keypad layouts is needed
24 September, 2009 Mobile VAS Summit 2009
19. CEWiT
INDIA
Regulatory Aspects
The standard only defines a method for representing Indian language
characters in short messages using 7-bit codes
Handset vendors may or may not choose to implement it
A vendor may decide to support only a subset of the Indian languages for
which 7-bit tables have been defined
Regulatory intervention is required to mandate the support for 7-bit
Encoding and other necessary features required for Indic SMS
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20. CEWiT
INDIA
Next Steps
Build a national consensus on how to leverage this opportunity and
maximise its impact for the benefit of all stakeholders
Mechanisms to handle legacy devices
Harmonisation of keypad layouts and other user interface features
Case for regulatory intervention
Roadmap for implementation and roll-out
Special Interest Group is being formed to address these issues
Active participation of all the stakeholders is crucial
If you are interested in this SIG, drop me a line at nadeem@cewit.org.in
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