Archive for June, 2010

Timing is Everything

By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista Imagine if Apple rested on its iPod success and brought us a brand new 4GB iPhone in 2010—with no App store.  Would they still be overflowing with so many preorders? Timing is everything—and the principal also applies to service providers. Today service providers are launching new [...]

How can the Telecom Industry Start Growing Again? Part II

By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista In Part 1 of this series, I began a discussion of the thought-provoking ideas shared by Emily Nagle Green and Camille Mendler of Yankee Group during a recent briefing in London. Here’s some more of what I heard at the briefing. Loving and leveraging the network Benoît [...]

How can the Telecom Industry Start Growing Again? Part I

By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista On the tenth of June, I attended a briefing by our contracted analyst Yankee Group, in London. There were approximately 93 attendees ranging from large and medium service providers, to equipment and software vendors, to consultants and written press. The president and CEO of Yankee Group – [...]

Realizing the Benefits of Offering Mobile Data Services

By Ranga Thittai, Senior Product Manager, InfoVista Providing data services can be a bit of a double-edged sword for mobile service providers. On the one hand, data services represent the fastest growing revenue stream for service providers, accounting for up to 50 percent of growth compared with the fairly flat growth from voice services. But [...]

Have We Learned from the iPhone? Part III

Achieving a Holistic Approach to Mobile Service Assurance By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista In my last blog, I talked about maintaining application quality in the face of rising data traffic and customer expectations (i.e. the rapid adoption of the iPhone). I also started to discuss how mobile quality of service is dependent [...]

Have We Learned from the iPhone? Part II

Maintaining Application Quality in the Face of Rising Data Traffic and Customer Expectations By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista If we’ve learned anything from the rapid adoption of the iPhone, it’s this—capacity and bandwidth are quickly becoming both an expectation and a commodity. Service providers no longer face the choice of, “Do I [...]