Hi,

Thanks for a great article!

What you say is very well aligned with where we are heading and we will launch in soon.

I believe that a future of IoE will need a new core infrastructure for the telcos, IP will to be not be enough!
They will need to have XMPP enable back-end, where all the "things" will communicate with a unified XMPP address.

The best model to do this will be to run the XMPP Servers on the core infrastructure products, which then are federated into a cluster of XMPP. A ThingBook, Broker, etc. will then be incorporated into the cluster to enable management of all the "Things".

Whats good with this model is that we then can tie-in a lot of functions, such as CPE provision, Semantic Web platform, Web API platforms, Application platform etc. in a very secure way where the finally decision is made by the ThingBook about who has the right to talk with the "things"and this is for both the telco themselves as well as for consumer and service providers.

I believe very much that the future for Telcos will be about brokering Internet Of Everything!

Best,
Rikard