July 2021
interview with Warren Aw & Ryan de Melo
Indonesia’s Tokopedia, founded in 2009, has grown to become one of world’s
leading e-commerce players. Read about its success, technology direction,
and multi-cloud connectivity adoption.
March 2020
interview with Bruce Chatterley
An IoT netowork pioneer explains how LoRaWAN tech fits in the larger IoT ecosystem.
He gives use case examples, describes deployment restraints/costs, and shows
how partnering, gateway sharing, and flexible deployment options are stimulating
growth.
February 2016
interview with Prayson Pate
NFV is just getting off the ground, but one cloud provider to enterprises making
a stir in virtual technology waters is Masergy. Here are lessons learned
from Masergy’s recent global deployment using a NFV pure play software
approach.
November 2013
interview with Eric Wegner
Telecom big-data in networks is more than customer experience managment: it’s
also about M2M plus network and element management systems. This interview
discusses the explosion in machine-to-machine devices, the virtues and drawbacks
of Hadoop, and the network impact of shrink-wrapped search.
August 2011
interview with Shinya Kukita
In the cloud computing world, it’s a long road from technology success
to telecom busness opportunity. But this story about how NEC and Telefonica
are partnering to offer cloud services to small and medium enterprises shows
the experience of early cloud adoption. Issues discussed in the article
include: customer types, cloud application varieties, geographic region acceptance,
and selling challenges.
November 2010
interview with Jim Dunlap
Most telecoms have long since folded their merchant B/OSS software/services
businesses. But now Cycle30, a subsidiary of Alaskan operator GCI, is
offering a order-to-cash managed service for other operators and utilities.
The article discusses the company’s unique business model and contrasts
it with billing service bureau and licensed software approaches.