Jim O’Leary

Cisco Accelerates Cloud Native vDRA and Scoops up Two North America Wins

People today use their mobile devices anytime, any place, and anywhere and According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today there are still more than 800 mobile operators investing in LTE. There are also close to 600 additional LTE networks that have been commercially launched and an…

Wait For It, Wait For It, 5G. It’s Here!!!

5G in the 3.5 GHz Band is Here We have been talking about 5G for what seems forever, but it has only been a few years and happy to say we are finally moving forward. We have been procrastinating about 5G and our next generation networks because of our dream of its potential to be a greater step forw…

Voiceworks Changes the Communications Landscape in the Netherlands & Germany with Cisco

Voiceworks delivers telephony solutions from the cloud Voiceworks BV, an Almere based company in The Netherlands, is one of the largest and fastest growing VoIP & web technology specialists. They are achieving great success in the Dutch and German telecom world with its corporate Unified Communi…

Prognosticating a Cloud Native Mobile Service Provider

Written by Vy Kuchibhatla, Senior Manager, MBG Operations and Strategy At MWC 2017, two key themes received a bulk of the focus from a network equipment provider perspective: 5G and NFV/Automation (Verizon/Cisco, Telus/Cisco, NTT/Cisco, Reliance Jio/Cisco). This article focuses on the genesis of NFV…

Voiceworks Changes the Communications Landscape in The Netherlands & Germany with Cisco

Voiceworks delivers telephony solutions from the cloud. Voiceworks BV, an Almere based company in The Netherlands, is one of the largest and fastest growing VoIP & web technology specialists. They are achieving great success in the Dutch and German telecom world with its corporate Unified Commun…

December 12, 2016

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Cisco Ultra Packet Core, the Transition Begins

So yesterday we had our first snowfall up here in New England, holidays are coming fast, and so are events like the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress. Well while it was snowing yesterday, I realized that I had not updated our industry veterans on our Packet Core Transition. So ther…

Mobile Video – The Next Big Thing is Here

Are you ready for the new mobile gold rush? Of course you’re not. Though truth be told, the pending growth in mobile video may be more like a video tornado and only a handful of mobile operators are prepared. Mobile operators across the world face the same twin challenges of slowing growth and ongoi…

Inside Verizon go90

So we continue with our series on Mobile Video, today we are taking a look at Verizon’s go90 service. go90, is the Verizon all-in-one mobile entertainment app that brings together live music, live sports, original shows and TV favorites giving users access to more than 21,000 titles and more than 50…

Video Consumption Is Going Mobile – T-Mobile Binge On

Imagine that about 24 months ago that T-Mobile US was rumored to be up for sale. Since that time T-Mobile has become one of the most disruptive forces in mobile video delivery industry. Not stopping there, the “Un-carrier” just announced last week that they are expanding the Binge On service for the…