Making Sense of Video Streaming Protocols
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…
Making Sense of Video Streaming Formats
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…
Migrating Systems to Amazon Cloud: Tips, Tricks and Techniques
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.…
Cloud Monitoring Tools and Best Practices
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.…
Connectivity Options for the Internet of Things (IoT)
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…
A Case for Cloud Based SaaS Billing for Telecom Operators
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…
Setting In-house Private Cloud with OpenStack
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…
How to Avoid Sony-Like Data Security Breach
Big corporations in the US continue to lose critical and confidential information to unknown hackers at a very alarming rate. First, it was massive and embarrassing data breach at Sony…
Voice Over LTE – What the Fuss is All About
US cellular carriers continued the aggressive deployment of LTE in all major metro areas in the year 2014 to attract more subscribers (and also the right to brag who has…
Managing Data Security in Public, Hybrid and Private Clouds
The cloud provides convenient, on-demand network access to a centralized pool of configurable computing resources such as such as computing servers, storage, networks, services, and applications that can be rapidly…