Jim O’Leary

Mobile Video Consumption Is Going Crazy – A New Approach for Mobile Video Services

Mobile has fast become the consumer’s first device, they wake up in the morning and check their mobile smartphone for the time, email, daily schedule, news, messages, and so it comes as no surprise that mobile video is growing quickly as another service on their devices. Today however consumers pay…

How Does a Mobile Operator Manage Video Traffic and Make Money at It?

Mobile has fast become the consumer’s first device. We wake up in the morning and turn off our alarm clock app on it. We then check our emails, our Facebook accounts, then news on our mobile device, all before we get out of bed. So it comes as no surprise that mobile video is quickly growing as yet…

Cisco Continues to Invest & Grow Mobile Packet Core

So according to a recent report by the ITU, at the end of 2015 there were more than 7 billion mobile cellular subscriptions globally, or the equivalent of 98% penetration of the world’s 7.14 billion population. With the average length of a mobile phone as 4.5, if laid end to end that would equal mor…

How Does XL Axiata Spell LTE Expansion – NFV

Rapid advances in digital technology and the demand for high quality customer experiences, has spurred XL Axiata to develop a network solution capable of supporting their business strategy effectively and efficiently. One of the new innovative technologies solution adopted by XL is Network Functions…

February 17, 2016

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Hey Mobile Operators: “It’s Time to Network Like the Big Guys, Innovate Like a Startup”

Here we go, Mobile World Congress is fast approaching with about 100,000 attendees descending on Barcelona next week. The big focus this year is said to be around 5G, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and virtualization. So on those themes Cisco recently hosted a Cisco Knowledge Network Session with Heavy R…

September 29, 2015

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ACG Research says “Cisco Packet Core is Accelerating”

Growing Market Share Leadership in Mobility – #1 in Packet Core, EPC, MME, SGW, & PGW for Q2 2015, driven by demand for LTE, Wi-Fi, VoWi-Fi, VoLTE, Policy Suite. Wasn’t that a great lunar event Sunday Night? We had a great view of the full moon, lunar eclipse, blood moon last night that won’t oc…

September 23, 2015

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Cisco Continues Mobile Core Momentum: Leads in Packet Core Market Share according to IHS Infonetics Research Data.

Well I told you that we would be back real soon with another update and here you go. As you remember we recently blogged that ACG Research again confirmed that Cisco continues to be the leading provider of Mobile Packet Core and Mobile IP Infrastructure over the past several quarters. Now another an…

Cisco Helps Spark New Zealand Serve Up The Voice Of The Future

  Remember when voice was the original mobile network use-case? It was a much simpler time, with more network control, greater profit, and fewer competitors. Fast forward to today and like the rest of the Service Provider industry, mobile voice communications are changing, and changing very rap…

November 11, 2014

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Making Room in Internet of Things (IoT) for the Mobile Operator:

So over the past year, there has been lots of press about the Internet of Things (IoT) and there has been information on the Connected Car and Telematics, Connected Transportation, Connected City, Connected Everything… But just how do we connect all of these devices? Magic? Why do we care? Well acc…