Background The telecom industry has been a resilient force in adapting to technological changes over the years. From the transition from landline to mobile carriers and voice calls to messaging and data-centric networks, telecom operators have consistently transformed to meet evolving consumer needs. However, the telecom industry has been facing unprecedented changes lately as the
If you are a US start up in the technology sector, you need to be Beware of Patent Troll – Leigh Rothschild. Through his numerous shell companies ( with virtual addresses and no employees), in the opinion of many, he is the biggest and serial abuser of patent laws, and a particularly egregious patent troll
Introduction to Domain Name Server I have seen many experienced developers and system administrators that have not dealt with network settings are confused about Domain Name Server (DNS) settings. This is especially true if you are trying to set up your mail server or web server and configure your DNS settings to correctly direct the
In my previous article – “Making Sense of Video Streaming Formats”, I discussed various video streaming formats and their differences. Before you plan for broadcasting videos, or preparing video streams for streaming, it is important that you understand various video container formats. As a matter of fact, half the mystique in video streaming is knowing
Watching streaming video is perhaps the most dominant activity on Internet in terms of bandwidth usage and popularity with average Internet users. Both live streaming and the streaming of the stored video contents require understanding of video formats, streaming servers, content distribution networks (CDNs) and streaming protocols. This is a very confusing area even for
1. Background For the last several months, I was involved in designing, planning and setting up a few large cloud based infrastructure for transactions processing and real time content delivery. All these setups had a quite complex software architecture involving several dozen of inter-connected server instances, numerous commercial and private AMIs in each case. Now
Cloud computing has seen significant growth in the last few years. There is a clear boom in companies moving away from the dedicated data centers to public or cloud services. This trend is likely to grow even stronger in the coming months as more organizations find value in moving a part (or all) of their
First, it was M2M – Machine to Machine communication a technology that was suppose to revolutionize our world, but never really took off in a big way due to the cost of embedding cellular connectivity in the end devices. Now M2M has been replaced with IoT – Internet of Things, a better sounding term and
Managing telecom operations is a complex endeavor as it involves managing many layers of complex systems designed to deal with business issues, technology equipment, and customer management. Besides, a telecom operator has to deal with retail customers, wholesale customers, resellers, partners, employees, contractors, installers and a myriad of equipment and service suppliers. Despite all this
It appears that traditional data center architecture built around the clusters of dedicated servers is now obsolete. In the last few years, increasing number of companies virtualized their data centers to support various in-house applications. However, virtualization which was the buzzword until recently is now simply being looked upon as a stepping stone to create