The survey found that:
1) Mobile video and speed tiers were seen as the most promising monetization opportunities, while toll-free mobile broadband was seen as the least attractive.
2) Video traffic growth was identified as a significant challenge for network planning over the next two to five years, especially by those in corporate management and technical roles.
3) Most respondents expected to deploy a video optimization solution within the next three years to help manage rising mobile video traffic on their networks.
By Gert-Jan Stads. Presented at the ASTI-FARA conference Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa's Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities - Accra, Ghana on December 5-7, 2011. http://www.asti.cgiar.org/2011conf
Sales Webinar | The Global Sales Industry - Where to Spend Your Time in 2013 Altify
Are you looking for a simple way to see how your sales organization compares? Do you want the inside track on how you should best compete in 2013? Preview our global sales effectiveness survey, covering the global trends in sales success, how the world's major sales industries compare, and the best selling opportunities in your region.
The Top Reasons Enterprises Outsource IT to MSPsCA Nimsoft
Half of Executives Say They Foresee Moving Toward 100 Percent MSP Engagement
The survey, conducted in association with Enterprise Management Associates™ (EMA), collected responses, experiences and opinions from executives, mid-level managers and individual IT contributors from mid-sized and large organizations. All participants were currently engaged with an MSP, planning to engage and MSP, or had used MSP services in the past.
Visit www.nimsoft.com for more information.
Slicing Up the Mobile Services Revenue PieSam Gellar
- In terms of mobile revenues, the worldwide mobile market stood at 718.4 billion at end-2006. It is expected to increase at a strong rate and reach 1,094.9 by end-2012.
- Advanced and emerging countries have different arrangements for sharing revenue generated from premium SMS services. In developed countries, content owners and
aggregators get a higher share than their counterparts in developing countries. In most of the emerging markets, the operators share is quite high (sometimes as high as 60 percent), as is the case in India and the Philippines. However, there are a few exceptions. In China, operators get only 20-30 percent of the total revenue through premium SMS services, while aggregators and content owners share the remainder.
- The worldwide mobile handset market is experiencing tremendous growth. It is estimated that
approximately 1,144 million handsets were shipped to customers worldwide in FY-2007, and the market is expected to be worth USD 166.1 billion. In 2006, the number of handsets sold worldwide exceeded 990 million. This number is expected to grow at a CAGR of just over
10.8 percent from 2006 to 2011.
- The revenue sharing arrangement in advanced markets such as the US and the UK is in favour of content providers. However, in emerging markets, such as
India, operators account for a larger share.
Understanding the Role of the Mobile Operator in Mobile Social NetworkingPriya Prakash
Understanding the Role of the Mobile Operator in Mobile Social Networking and the differences between On-Deck and Off-Deck Communities. Presented at the Mobile Web Europe Conference 2008.
Texting and Voice is for free, and no way to change it. Operators must build the mobile digital service platform to provide Communications, eCommerce, Media and other services.
A sharp rise in outbound M&A activities was spurred by a loosening of government regulations regarding outbound transactions. Meanwhile, inbound M&A has seen a healthy and steady rise throughout the year in terms of transaction value.
www.smithstreetsolutions.com
In this month's topic, we will review the foundations needed for your organisation and growth team to generate, evaluate and implement a sustainable growth process.
In light of the global economic situation, we will also be reviewing some do’s and don’ts during a recession.
It is our position here at Frost & Sullivan that with a solid CEO growth team and a growth process in place you can reduce your risk during uncertain economic times and even generate growth opportunities.
So maximieren Sie den Nutzen von SAP: Business Netzwerke als Schlüssel zum Er...SAP Ariba
Das Erfassen aller Ausgaben über Warengruppen, Lieferanten und Ländergrenzen ist
eine große Herausforderung für die meisten eProcurement Systeme. Die Nutzung
eines solchen Systems hängt von vielen Erfolgsfaktoren ab, wie z.b. dem Enablement
der Lieferanten, dem Bereitstellen von Katalogen und schlussendlich der operativen
Nutzung durch die User. Clariant wird Ihnen in diesem spannenden Vortrag erläutern,
wie der führende Hersteller von Spezialchemie das Ariba Netzwerk zusammen mit SAP
nutzt, um Synergieeffekte im Einkauf zu nutzen und Prozesse länderübergreifend zu
standardisieren.
Peter Beyeler, Global eProcurement & Automation Manager – Clariant
2013 Ariba Commerce Summit Frankfurt
By Gert-Jan Stads. Presented at the ASTI-FARA conference Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa's Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities - Accra, Ghana on December 5-7, 2011. http://www.asti.cgiar.org/2011conf
Sales Webinar | The Global Sales Industry - Where to Spend Your Time in 2013 Altify
Are you looking for a simple way to see how your sales organization compares? Do you want the inside track on how you should best compete in 2013? Preview our global sales effectiveness survey, covering the global trends in sales success, how the world's major sales industries compare, and the best selling opportunities in your region.
The Top Reasons Enterprises Outsource IT to MSPsCA Nimsoft
Half of Executives Say They Foresee Moving Toward 100 Percent MSP Engagement
The survey, conducted in association with Enterprise Management Associates™ (EMA), collected responses, experiences and opinions from executives, mid-level managers and individual IT contributors from mid-sized and large organizations. All participants were currently engaged with an MSP, planning to engage and MSP, or had used MSP services in the past.
Visit www.nimsoft.com for more information.
Slicing Up the Mobile Services Revenue PieSam Gellar
- In terms of mobile revenues, the worldwide mobile market stood at 718.4 billion at end-2006. It is expected to increase at a strong rate and reach 1,094.9 by end-2012.
- Advanced and emerging countries have different arrangements for sharing revenue generated from premium SMS services. In developed countries, content owners and
aggregators get a higher share than their counterparts in developing countries. In most of the emerging markets, the operators share is quite high (sometimes as high as 60 percent), as is the case in India and the Philippines. However, there are a few exceptions. In China, operators get only 20-30 percent of the total revenue through premium SMS services, while aggregators and content owners share the remainder.
- The worldwide mobile handset market is experiencing tremendous growth. It is estimated that
approximately 1,144 million handsets were shipped to customers worldwide in FY-2007, and the market is expected to be worth USD 166.1 billion. In 2006, the number of handsets sold worldwide exceeded 990 million. This number is expected to grow at a CAGR of just over
10.8 percent from 2006 to 2011.
- The revenue sharing arrangement in advanced markets such as the US and the UK is in favour of content providers. However, in emerging markets, such as
India, operators account for a larger share.
Understanding the Role of the Mobile Operator in Mobile Social NetworkingPriya Prakash
Understanding the Role of the Mobile Operator in Mobile Social Networking and the differences between On-Deck and Off-Deck Communities. Presented at the Mobile Web Europe Conference 2008.
Texting and Voice is for free, and no way to change it. Operators must build the mobile digital service platform to provide Communications, eCommerce, Media and other services.
A sharp rise in outbound M&A activities was spurred by a loosening of government regulations regarding outbound transactions. Meanwhile, inbound M&A has seen a healthy and steady rise throughout the year in terms of transaction value.
www.smithstreetsolutions.com
In this month's topic, we will review the foundations needed for your organisation and growth team to generate, evaluate and implement a sustainable growth process.
In light of the global economic situation, we will also be reviewing some do’s and don’ts during a recession.
It is our position here at Frost & Sullivan that with a solid CEO growth team and a growth process in place you can reduce your risk during uncertain economic times and even generate growth opportunities.
So maximieren Sie den Nutzen von SAP: Business Netzwerke als Schlüssel zum Er...SAP Ariba
Das Erfassen aller Ausgaben über Warengruppen, Lieferanten und Ländergrenzen ist
eine große Herausforderung für die meisten eProcurement Systeme. Die Nutzung
eines solchen Systems hängt von vielen Erfolgsfaktoren ab, wie z.b. dem Enablement
der Lieferanten, dem Bereitstellen von Katalogen und schlussendlich der operativen
Nutzung durch die User. Clariant wird Ihnen in diesem spannenden Vortrag erläutern,
wie der führende Hersteller von Spezialchemie das Ariba Netzwerk zusammen mit SAP
nutzt, um Synergieeffekte im Einkauf zu nutzen und Prozesse länderübergreifend zu
standardisieren.
Peter Beyeler, Global eProcurement & Automation Manager – Clariant
2013 Ariba Commerce Summit Frankfurt
Avnet, Inc. 2010 Analyst Day & 50th Anniversary Celebration: Dec 15, 2010
Presenters included: Roy Vallee, chairman and chief executive officer; Rick Hamada, president and chief operating officer; Ray Sadowski, senior vice president and chief financial officer; Harley Feldberg, president, Electronics Marketing; and Phil Gallagher, president, Technology Solutions.
Following the analyst day event, Avnet commemorated its 50th anniversary on the New York Stock Exchange by ringing the closing bell.
Optimum ventures - Bevo Agro - Take Private ProposalBen Cappellacci
This is a preliminary round presentation deck for the UBC Finance Club Pacific Venture Capital Competition. It was created by Ben Cappellacci, Chris Fenn, Raena Kai and Scott Redwood.
Mobile / Mobile Apps - Presentation by Ragnar Kruse, Founder & CEO of Smaato at the NOAH 2012 Conference in San Francisco, Four Seasons Hotel on the 26th of June. www.noah-conference.com
What is the anatomy of an entrepreneur? Our CEO, Fermín Ezquer, summarizes the characteristics of these individuals structured in three blocks:
- The three musts
- Drawing a business plan
- Funding
Proven Strategies for Transparent Collaborative Government CustomerRightNow Technologies
Presentation given in August 2009 by Ben Madgett, Senior Analyst, Datamonitor and Daniel Schaub, Sr. Web Manager & Acting Director for Digital Communications with the U.S. Department of State discussing some of the proven strategies agencies are using to see measurable, cost-effective results from implementing a secure, cloud based CRM solution.
In today’s Smarter Consumer and their use of technology (internet, mobile, and social) all industries are struggling to better serve and be more relevant to their customers and potential customers. When done well, businesses can 1) Improve loyalty and grow ‘share of wallet’, 2), True differentiation and competitive advantage as consumer’s ‘trusted advisor', 3) Margin improvement through optimized marketing spend, inventory, labor, etc., 4) Real intelligence vs. ‘paid for search positioning’ like Google
Cisco will be at OFC, the world’s premier optical event again showcasing our industry leading Packet Optical Convergence innovations and solutions. We encourage you to be part of the experience by visiting our Exposition booth (#3109) where you can interact with Cisco demonstrations, technical experts and Cisco Service Provider executives.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile-Connected Devices p...Cisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI, and visit: http://cs.co/vnilpss.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile Users GrowthCisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI, and visit: http://cs.co/vnilpss.
Operating costs decrease and agility increases, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/simplifying-operations/index.html?KeyCode=000947566
Service creation is simpler and delivery is faster, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/entering-new-markets/index.html?KeyCode=000947734
What if the orchestrator could also automate the deployment and configuration of an accompanying service assurance solution, tailored to the specific services being delivered? This is now becoming a reality using a concept called Orchestrated Assurance.
Operator Drives Bandwidth Efficiency and Optimizes Satellite Link PerformanceCisco Service Provider
Providing network connectivity and services, such as data, voice, live TV, high- definition (HD) on-demand video, and mobile services, EMC caters to customers with operations in some of the most remote corners of the planet. Managing satellite bandwidth requires sophisticated monitoring tools to ensure consistent performance of voice, video and data during events, such as rain, that can affect the quality. This telecommunications leader prides itself on delivering carrier-class services through its global mobility platform, using its hybrid satellite and terrestrial broadband network.
The EMC network features fully meshed, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) enabled and interconnected teleports in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. With EMC’s proprietary tools, it can manage and optimize every megabyte delivered. Its customer-facing tools further maximize every bit delivered over each customer’s WAN and LAN.
Application Engineered Routing Segment Routing and the Cisco WAN Automation ...Cisco Service Provider
The Cisco® Application Engineered Routing solution provides end-to-end control over how the network infrastructure transports applications. In the past, dedicated clusters of servers would deliver specific applications, but the number and diversity of applications continue to increase as the infrastructure becomes more converged.
Traffic patterns are dynamically changing and new applications come with specific transport requirements. Combining Segment Routing (SR) with the Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) provides the necessary intelligence to optimize network resources and make informed decisions dynamically, helping to ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience.
This white paper describes SR and the Cisco WAE and highlights how they work together to deliver an intelligent, dynamic, highly optimized network.
Research Highlight: Independent Validation of Cisco Service Provider Virtuali...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers want to know how they can build and run programmable, intelligent, responsive, efficient, flexible, and highly secure yet open networks with a high degree of automation. They want to be able to configure and activate new services quickly, utilize emerging cloud capabilities, and meet customer needs. Nimble, smart innovators in the global communications and networking industry are working on the answers and coming up with solutions every day. But providers need to know if these next-generation technologies can already meet their requirements today
In the world of service providers and networks, the demand for new and better services continue to grow, while the networks must expand and quickly adapt to these demands. One way that operators are evolving their network is to adopt some of the latest technologies like NFV (network functions virtualization). Infonetics recently found that 35 percent of the worldwide telecom carriers they surveyed are planning to deploy NFV in 2015. They are doing this because they believe that NFV and its SDN (software-defined networking) architecture will deliver benefits in service agility and new revenue, operational efficiencies and capex savings. Finding new ways to build revenue paths out of the network is critical for operators today as they innovate to find new sources of revenues.
Operators have been looking to Policy to help them find new ways to find value in their network. Specifically, they need a policy platform which can help them quickly adapt to build new services and even new networks for other operators or enterprises. We are now announcing the availability of Cisco Policy Suite version 7.5 for download. With it, operators will benefit from NFV-based policy enforcement and new access selection technologies. These new capabilities are enabling service providers to not only use policy software to open new services and markets, but they are also providing policy to the handset to ensure the best access method for the end user.
Deploy New Technologies Quickly with Cisco Managed Services for Service Provi...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers’ businesses and operations are undergoing major changes. New initiatives, like IP convergence, cloud, software-defined networks and network virtualization, are driving new business models. These initiatives are also creating opportunities for new revenue streams and greater efficiencies. Speed, agility and flexibility are required for fast access to IT and new applications. Now is the time to invest effort and resources in figuring out how to make this opportunity work for you. You have a chance to disrupt rather than being disrupted.
Segment routing is a network technology focused on addressing the pain points of existing IP and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks in terms of simplicity, scale, and ease of operation. It’s a foundation for application engineered routing because it prepares the networks for new business models where applications can direct network behavior.
Segment routing seeks the right balance between distributed intelligence and centralized optimization and programming. It was built for the software-defined networking (SDN) era.
Segment routing enables enhanced packet forwarding behavior. It enables a network to transport unicast packets through a specific forwarding path, other than the normal shortest path that a packet usually takes. This capability benefits many use cases, and you can build those specific paths based on application requirements.
Segment routing uses the source routing paradigm. A node, usually a router but it can also be a switch, a trusted server, or a virtual forwarder running on a hypervisor, steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions, called segments. A segment can represent any instruction, topological or service-based. A segment can have a local semantic to a segment-routing node or global within a segment-routing network. Segment routing allows you to enforce a flow through any topological path and service chain while maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node to the segment-routing network. To be aligned with modern IP networks, segment routing supports equal-cost multipath (ECMP) by design, and the forwarding within a segment-routing network uses all possible paths, when desired.
Cisco Virtual Managed Services: Transform Your Business with Cloud-based Inn...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers face big challenges along with tremendous opportunities. Maturing technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), cloud, and open-source software are enabling exciting business innovations and market disruptions. To keep up with the pace of change today, you need to rethink how to engage with your customers to meet their business needs. At Cisco, we have the right approach to harness the transformative power of the cloud, SDN, and NFV. The Cisco® Virtual Managed Services Solution portfolio provides a rich set of secure cloud-based network services with prepackaged software capabilities over any access technology. The Cisco Virtual Managed Services solution makes it easy for you to deploy, manage, and sell new premium cloud managed services while reducing current operating expenditures (OpEx) and accelerating time to revenue.
Imagine if you could deploy highly secure new services at web speed on demand to customers and partners - complete with personalized capabilities. With this environment you’re creating innovative new services in minutes, not months, accelerating your time-to-revenue while reducing operational costs on an open platform. You have pre-packaged software service solutions that help you transform your business and the businesses of your customers. And you’re letting your customers use their existing customer premises equipment (CPE), to connect to virtual services from the cloud, reducing capital costs and business risk associated with rolling out new services.
It’s all possible with the Cisco Virtual Managed Services Solution based on the combination of the complementary Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP). This open infrastructure and software combined with industry leading service orchestration, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies automate the delivery of business services tailored to your customers from the cloud.
Cisco cBR-8 Evolved CCAP: Deliver Scalable Network and Service Growth at a Lo...Cisco Service Provider
An explosion of new over-the-top (OTT) video services and consumer devices is placing huge demand on cable access networks. To compete for new customers and retain the loyalty of existing ones, multiple system operators (MSOs) will need to expand capacity substantially, rolling out new services and gigabit tiers.
As they strive to meet insatiable market demand and stay competitive, MSOs are looking at significant access network capital expenditures (CapEx) increases over the next 5 years - and steadily rising operating expenses (OpEx) due to higher power costs and a larger network footprint. But current integrated Cisco® Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) solutions are limited to supporting only 24 to 32 channels per service group, and they are not designed to support DOCSIS® 3.1 at scale. Using these platforms, MSOs would need to significantly increase CapEx spend in order to compete with gigabit billboard rates and keep pace with growth.
Alternatively, MSOs can use the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router, a full-spectrum CCAP-compliant platform that is designed to support DOCSIS 3.1. The Cisco cBR-8 enables cable operators to offer multigigabit broadband and Internet of Everything (IoE) services, and provide a path to virtualization. It empowers MSOs to scale economically to deliver more capacity and best-in-class services with much lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
This white paper examines the consumer trends affecting cable access networks and the projections for how the network and services will evolve in the coming years. It provides a long-term economic analysis of an evolved access network using the Cisco cBR-8, compared with competitive Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platforms. And it demonstrates how MSOs will be able to meet capacity and service demands over the next several years at a 40-percent savings in hardware, space, and power costs.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and Sales
Heavy Reading - Mobile Operator Perspectives: Monetization Optimization and Video
1. A Heavy Reading
Custom Research Study
Mobile Operator Perspectives:
Monetization,
Optimization & Video
Prepared for Cisco by
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst
February 2011
2. Study Background
• Custom survey for Cisco generating exclusive results
• 50 service provider professionals surveyed
• Reponses from broad geography and job roles
• Three areas of primary investigation
• Monetization Use Cases
• Network Technologies & Optimization
• Mobile Video
• Series of 20 in-depth interviews w/ senior technology
and product management executives
2
3. Survey Demographics
What is your primary job function? (n=55) Approximate annual revenues? (n=55)
Engineering & Network planning 35 Less than $50 million 9
R&D & technical strategy 16
$50 million to $200 million 11
Corporate management 15
$200 million to $500 million 15
Sales & marketing 15
$500 million to $1 billion 16
Product & Service Management 13
$1 billion to $5 billion 24
Other 4
Customer support 2 More than $5 billion 25
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
% %
Type of service provider you work for? (n=55) Where is your organization headquartered? (n=55)
Africa U.S.
Other 20%
7% Middle East 5%
11%
Mobile
operator pure-
play Canada
18% 7%
Asia Pac
20%
Incumbent Central/South
Mobile with mobile America/
division of an assets Caribbean
incumbent 60%
Central/ 5%
operator
15% Eastern Western
Europe Europe
19% 13% 3
5. Importance of Monetization Use Cases
How important will the following mobile data services be in generating revenues
for your company over the next two to three years? (n=54)
Ranked "4—Important" & "5—critically important"
Speed Tiers (downlink) 32 44
Family or Group Data Plan 42 24
Hour/Day Pass 39 24
Mobile Video / TV 28 23
Parental & Cultural Controls 22 20
Turbo Boost 31 18
Mobile Advertising 37 15
Freemium Service Models 24 13
Toll-Free Mobile Broadband 27 6
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
%
4 5 (Very Important)
• Speed Tier s & Group Data Plan are most promising use-cases
• Toll Free Mobile Broadband is least attractive; less well known, complex
5
6. Use Case Penetration Expectations
What proportion of your subscriber base will pay for, or generate indirect revenue from,
the following operator-provided services over the next two to three years? (n=54)
Family or Group Data Plan 15 26
Speed Tiers (downlink) 28 18
Turbo Boost 15 9
Hour/Day Pass 26 6
Mobile Advertising 26 6
Mobile Video / TV 28 5
Freemium Service Models 12 4
Parental & Cultural Controls 9 4
Toll-Free Mobile Broadband 8 1
0 10 20 30 40 50
%
20-30% More than 30%
• ~40 percent of respondents think they can monetize more than
a fifth of subscribers with speed tiers and group data plans
6
7. Revenue Generation Potential
How much additional revenue (in $US) would you expect of the following operator-provided
services to generate per user, per month over the next two to three years? (n=54)
Highest Revenue Per User
Speed Tiers (downlink) 19 15
Family or Group Data Plan 23 13
Mobile Video / TV 21 6
Turbo Boost 13 4
Hour/Day Pass 16 4
Mobile Advertising 8 4
Freemium Service Models 6 2
Parental & Cultural Controls 9
Toll-Free Mobile Broadband 4
0 5 10 15 20 % 25 30 35 40
$5-$10 More than $10
• Mobile Video / TV has good per user revenue potential
• Parental & cultural controls looks difficult to monetize
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8. Revenue Generation Potential
How much additional revenue (in $US) would you expect of the following operator-provided
services to generate per user, per month over the next two to three years? (n=54)
Lowest Revenue Per User
Speed Tiers (downlink) 8 8
Family or Group Data Plan 8 8
Mobile Video / TV 13 10
Turbo Boost 12 19
Hour/Day Pass 14 22
Mobile Advertising 17 17
Freemium Service Models 18 20
Parental & Cultural Controls 19 28
Toll-Free Mobile Broadband 27 27
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
%
Zero (or trivial) Less than $1
• Toll Free Mobile Broadband has lowest monetization potential
• Parental Controls perhaps more viable as a loyalty mechanism
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10. Network Capabilities to Support Third Parties
How important are the following mobile data network capabilities to generating revenues
from partnerships with 3rd party application and content providers? (n=50)
Ranked "5 (Critical)"
Bandwidth Management (real-time control of network
55
resources, rate limit bandwidth, etc.)
Traffic Optimization (Improve downlink throughput) 52
Priority Handling (Deliver QoS for specific applications) 49
Cloud services (applications are hosted in your data
18
center)
Zero Rating (data usage not counted against user
10
quota)
Reverse charge back (application provider pays for
4
connectivity)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
%
• Surprise to see “zero-rating” and “reverse charge back” score so lowly
• Possibility the question was understood to be about general network
capabilities, not 3rd party specific
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11. Third Party Network APIs
Which telecom network capabilities do you envisage making available to third party
application developers for service innovation through open APIs? (n=50)
• Messaging & Billing APIs
already widely supported
• Call control least likely to be
exposed; arguably already
supported via PSTN
• Is their a role for Policy-related
APIs long-term?
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13. Optimization Technologies (I)
How likely are you to use the following “Internet Offload” & optimization techniques in the
next two to three years? (n=50)
EVALUATING; WILL
DEPLOY DEPLOY IN THE
NO PLANS AT ALREADY IN- WITHIN 12 NEXT THREE
DON’T KNOW PRESENT SERVICE MONTHS YEARS
Managed WiFi Offload 24% 22% 30% 14% 10%
3G Femtocells &
14 12 25% 35% 14%
Picocells
DPI (Throttling of high b/
8% 6% 37% 35% 14%
w applications or users)
Core network offload
using an “Offload 36% 24% 12% 18% 10%
Gateway”
Internet Breakout using
distributed GGSNs or P- 22% 20% 24% 20% 14%
GWs
Optimized routing of
Applications over specific 16% 10% 32% 16% 26%
transport routes
• Confirms DPI as a ‘core’ technology (70 percent deployed in 12 months)
• Internet breakout and core network offload score weakly; Perhaps partly
explained by unfamiliarity with this new technology concept
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14. Optimization Technologies (II)
How likely are you to use the following “Internet Offload” & optimization techniques in the
next two to three years? (n=50)
• Femtocells edging into
main stream deployment
• Managed WiFi Offload
faces headwinds
• Internet offload gateways
don’t have much appeal
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16. Severity of Video Traffic Growth
How much of a challenge will video traffic growth be to your network planning &
performance? (n=51)
2 YEARS 5 YEARS
N=50
FROM NOW FROM NOW
Extremely
35 31
challenging
A significant
27 24
challenge
Moderately
24 29
challenging
Slightly
6 7
challenging
Not a challenge
6 10
at all
• Identifies video traffic as a significant challenge
• 30 percent identify a severe problem over two- and five-years
• Should we worry about “confirmation bias”? (see over)
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17. Video Traffic by Job Role
How much of a challenge will video traffic growth be to your network planning &
performance? (n=17)
2 YEARS 5 YEARS
N=17*
FROM NOW FROM NOW
Extremely
13 40
challenging
A significant
44 27
challenge
Moderately
25 27
challenging
Slightly
0 7
challenging
Not a challenge
19 0
at all
*Corporate management, Technical strategy or Engineering & network planning roles
• View of data by job role provides better insight
• Video is viewed as less of a challenge over a two-year view
• Concern increases markedly over five years
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18. Opportunities to Monetize Mobile Video
What opportunities to do you see to better monetize mobile video? (n=53)
We don’t expect video services to generate significant
11
direct revenues
We will generate some revenue directly from video
services, but it won’t be a lot for the next two to three 34
years
Most revenue we do generate from video will come
21
through partnerships with content providers
Video services will be an important contributor to our
value-added services revenue over the next two to 15
three years
Being able to view video on mobile devices is a major
15
reason why customers subscribe to mobile data plans
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
%
• 70 percent see video as a revenue-generating application in some form
• Uncertainties about direct monetization or partnership models
• General view is that video is an incremental opportunity at best
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19. Usage of Video Content
What proportion of your company’s consumer subscriber-base would you expect to
regularly (at least once a month) use the following types of video services two to three
years from now? (n=51)
Over-the-top video (e.g. You Tube or user-generated
27% 35% 11% 19% 8%
content)
Professionally produced over-the-top content (e.g.
48% 36% 10% 4% 2%
Hulu, iPlayer)
Operator provided mobile TV or subscription video
52% 23% 11% 10%4%
services
Video conferencing (e.g. Apple Facetime, Skype
47% 23% 16% 6% 8%
Video)
Shared video clips (e.g. birthday videogram) 48% 29% 10% 11% 2%
Mobile video as part of a 3-screen package 43% 35% 12% 8% 2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Less than 20% 20-40% 40-60% 60-80% 80-100%
• OTT video is the service operators think most likely to go mass-market
• 27 percent think more than half the subscriber base would use it once a month
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20. Perception of Vendors’ Mobile Video Capabilities
Please rate the following suppliers in terms of their overall capability to support your
mobile video strategy? (n=36-42)
Ranked “very competitive; among the market leaders”
Cisco 37
Ericsson 28
Alcatel-Lucent 22
Nokia Siemens Networks 17
Huawei 13
Openwave 9
ByteMobile 8
Juniper 8
Mobixel 6
Flash Networks 3
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
%
• A big result for Cisco in the mobile market
• Opportunities for market share gain in data era
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21. Managing Video Traffic
Please rate the importance to your company of the following technologies for
managing mobile video traffic (5 being “critically important” and 1 being “not
important at all”) (n=50)
Ranked "4—Important" & "5—critically important"
Policy Control (throttling, and priority handling) 36 55
Adaptive bit rate streaming 50 20
Control plane optimization (e.g. TCP
49 20
optimization)
Video transcoding / optimization (i.e. transform
40 18
video codec to optimize for device)
Internet Offload (e.g. WiFi) 38 13
Edge caching solutions (i.e., Ingest and Store
21 12
transcoded content to prevent re-transcoding)
Transrating ( reduce video bandwidth in real-time
46 10
by removing frames)
0 20 40 60 80 100
%
4 5 (critically important)
• Unambiguous result for policy control at 55 percent “critical”
• Loose definition of policy helps vs. specific alternatives
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22. Video Optimization
When do you expect to deploy a video optimization solution in your network? (n=52)
Already deployed commercially 12
Will deploy within the year 17
Will deploy in 1-3 years 42
Will deploy in 3-5 years 13
Will deploy in 5+ years 4
No plans to deploy 12
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
%
• Emphatic result with strong endorsement for this technology
• In-depth interviews paint a more cautious picture, however
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23. Efficiency Gains from Video Optimization
When do you expect to deploy a video optimization solution in your network? (n=52)
Less than 10% 12
Between 10 and 25% 46
Between 25 and 50% 19
More than 50% 2
Don’t know 19
Not interested in video optimization 2
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
%
• Clear result inline with other Heavy Reading surveys
• 15 percent video efficiency gain is typically achieved today
• HD content provides more opportunity for efficiency gain
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