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From Walled Garden to Community Garden: Collaborating in a Competitive World: by Wedge Greene & Trevor Hayes; The economic drivers of Edge service providers and those of Core service providers are not the same. The Edge (companies providing devices or over- the-top services) represents the new generation of service providers - innovative, flexible and somewhat impatient, they are accustomed to a business environment with a relatively low…; April 1, 2008 12:01 AM
Edge/Core Collaboration: Navigating the Ocean: by Wedge Greene & Trevor Hayes; It would seem to a disinterested observer that the future of the telecom industry will be decided by the victory of one armed camp or another. There are the Edge service providers offering OTT services who see the Network service providers as mere bit-carriers, and therefore easily replaceable albeit at…; March 14, 2008 01:39 PM
Comptel Plus - Spring 2008 Convention & Expo: Show review by Peter Gilligan; The Comptel Plus Spring Convention traveled to Nashville this year and was held at the impressive Gaylord Opryland Resort. Around 2,500 telecom folk from network providers, service providers, telecom and regulatory consulting firms, BSS/OSS vendors, hardware vendors and interested onlookers converged for the show - Comptel’s best attended show so…; February 29, 2008 07:44 PM
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 2008: Barbara Lancaster and Trevor Hayes; Mobile World Congress continues to grow and diversify. It’s not getting prettier as it matures, but it still serves a purpose. Around 55,000 delegates turned up to the Barcelona conference center, which for four days holds the population of a good-size town, but with not so many bathrooms. 1200 companies…; February 22, 2008 09:37 AM
TeleRenaissance: target Autonomic Communications: Presentation by Wedge Greene of LTC; Wedge Greene recently (Feb 7, 2008) represented LTC International with a talk introducing Autonomic Communications as the future of telcom management at the OnPoint “Transforming OSS” conference in Dallas. This is the PowerPoint presentation.…; February 7, 2008 12:00 AM
Service Delivery Frameworks: The Service Provider’s Mashup: by Wedge Greene & Trevor Hayes; Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) are being built by dozens of vendors. And dozens more are contributing bits and parts to various SDP. Yet every SDP is different and mutually incompatible. Further, some SDPs support and leverage IMS while others do not. Into this mess, the TMF has stepped forward with…; January 2, 2008 12:00 AM
Over the Top Services: By Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster; Today the debate over Over-the-Top services (OTT) rages across media, service provider planning teams, and now the TeleManagement Forum. Partly this debate is about business models, partly about legality and regulation, partly about what technology to allow and to leverage, and lastly it is about consumer and business desire for…; December 1, 2007 12:00 AM
Comptel Plus Conference Dallas 2007: by Barbara Lancaster and Wedge Greene; Barbara Lancaster and Wedge Greene covered the Fall (October 7, 8, 9, 2007) Comptel Plus CLEC show at The Gaylord Texan Convention Center, Dallas, Texas for Pipeline Publications. (from Pipeline, Nov 2007)…; November 2, 2007 12:00 AM
NPI for Life: Collaborate for Better Products: By Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster; What is happening with old style product launch processes? What was good and should be kept? What needs to change? We find there is a time for speed to market, and a time when “speed kills”. New processes must balance the need for speed against the time required to capture…; November 1, 2007 11:19 AM
Architects Anonymous: Rehab for Telecom: By Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster; The world of telecom systems projects is in need of rehab after the excesses of the past. For too many years service providers have accepted that OSS/BSS projects will costs millions of dollars and show little tangible improvement in business performance. We have become dependent on binge projects: bloated projects…; September 7, 2007 05:03 PM
Self-* Networks: Helping Networks Help Themselves: By Wedge Greene and Barbara Lancaster; Continuing our discussion on Autonomic Networks and Autonomic Communications, we dive into designing and building what we call self-* (pronounced self-star) systems. Self-* is a shortcut term for systems which are designed specifically to be self-organizing and self-managing, including properties such as: self-defining, self-configuring, self-awareness, self-optimizing, self-protecting, self-healing (self-monitoring, self-diagnostics,…; September 7, 2007 12:00 AM
Autonomic Networks - Autonomic Communication: By Wedge Greene and Barbara Lancaster; At its core, Autonomic Networks change our whole concept of ‘what is a network’, ‘where are the corporate boundaries’, and ‘what is network and service management’ - radically. Some of these principles are so compelling (such as discovery and self-configuration) that we are implementing them today even as our incomplete…; September 6, 2007 12:00 AM
Tit-for-Tat: Meeting Customer Expectations: By Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster; NOCs, SOCs, & Contact Centers: To make the transition successfully to customer-centric operations, we need to reexamine the processes, behaviors, and scope of responsibility of Operations with an eye fixed firmly on customer, customer, and customer. We examine this problem from two perspectives: first, mechanical: the applications and integration technology…; July 1, 2007 12:00 AM
LTC Mini-survey on SOA and IMS - UPDATE June 2007: This article updates our earlier report to include responses from a sample of delegates at TMW, in Nice France, in May 2007.…; June 30, 2007 05:54 PM
Who's Your Daddy? The Characteristics and Drivers of FMC.: By Wedge Greene and Barbara Lancaster; What are the characteristics and drivers for Fixed Mobile Convergence [FMC] and how will these shape the structure of service providers? Are these drivers sufficiently strong, and the technical and operational hurdles sufficiently low, to allow FMC to succeed? Given the new ecosystem players and advanced service features that FMC…; May 30, 2007 12:00 AM
Observations from TeleManagement World 2007: By Barbara Lancaster; The Times They Are A-changin’ Observations from TeleManagement World, Nice, France, May 2007, by Barbara Lancaster. It’s all about change. From the first words of the first key note speaker, one could sense that this TeleManagement World was different: it was about change. (A version of this article also appears…; May 25, 2007 09:10 AM
LTC Opinion Survey - IMS and SOA
LTC Mini-Survey on SOA and IMS MARCH 2007
Wireless IP Access: A Case Study
NGOSS is the New Mainstream: - Commentary by Wedge Greene
Carrier-Grade: Five Nines, the Myth and the Reality: - by Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster
Buying Telecom Futures: - by Wedge Greene
Avoiding Future Schlock - The Real Life Application of Game Theory: - by Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster
Insider’s TeleManagement World - TMW Americas 2006
Unintended Consequences: - by Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster
Customer Service in the Enhanced Contact Center: - by Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster
I Got Them Last Mile Blues: - by Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster
Complexity in the Business and Management of IPTV: - by Wedge Greene & Barbara Lancaster
Autonomic QoS & Collaboration Systems: Published as Helping Systems Help Themselves, in Pipeline, July 2006
The New Telecom Ecosystem: #1 - Preparing for the New Ecosystem: - a blog series by Wedge Greene
The New Telecom Ecosystem: # 2 - Complex Systems & Autonomic Networks: - a blog series by Wedge Greene
Complex Systems & Autonomic Networks, Part 1: Genesis of NewWave: A blog series from 2006 by Wedge Greene - now available as a single paper.
The New Telecom Ecosystem, Part 1: Series Introduction: A blog series from 2006 by Wedge Greene - now available as a single paper.
IMS Call Session Control and Quality of Service: Published in Pipeline, May 2006.
Autonomic QoS & Collaboration Systems
The Cost of Complexity
There’s the Rub: Service Provider Pain Points: Published in Pipeline
The Yellow Brick Road: Choosing a successful OSS evolution path.: Published in Pipeline - May 2004
The Attack of the Killer Assumptions: Why some projects go so badly wrong
Competition in Telecoms: If competition is a good thing, let’s move to IP.
More OSS Projects in the Pipeline?: Service providers must find real value for money this time.
Convergence - Miles to Go.: Why so slow when everyone agrees it’s a good idea?
Growing Pains in a Maturing Market.: Some thoughts from Billing World 2002.
Investor confidence and economic growth.: Some speculative thoughts from Supercomm 2002.
Working with Consultants.: Suggestions for getting value for money.
ENUM.: A Protocol with Big-time Ambition.
Carriers on the Move.: Slower, but steadier - and not dead.
The Public Gigabit Ethernet Race.: Some of the hares are in financial trouble.
Service Provider Call Centers.: Cutting costs, satisfying customers with technology - and people.
In search of Differentiation: Ultimately, it’s price and performance that count.
Carrier Cost Containment.: No room for false savings.
Meeting challenges, avoiding pain.: The need for super-efficient operations for service providers.
Creating Early Adopters for New Network Technology: After solutions, real solutions?
Telecom Legislation: Tauzin and Dingell define the future?
The Future of Fiber: Does glass still have class?
OSS World 2002: In search of silver linings.
Leading the charge to New Generation OSS: Where is the gorilla?
US Wireless Industry Regulation 2002: Who wins, Who loses?
Who is going to buy the technology?: Why this lopsided funding?
Is a Service Bureau the Magic Answer?: Can outsourcing your IT department solve business problems?
Public Broadband Wireless Access: Can a new technology really provide an instant business opportunity?
Buy it, Bite it, Spit it Out: Network hardware vendors exit the OSS application arena.
Stop Whining - Get a Coach: Are CLEC complaints about ILEC non-cooperation valid?
NGOSS - the future or missed opportunity?: Synopsis of presentation to MTBC Richardson, Texas.
Billing System Selection: Some practical hints for Service Providers on evaluating and selecting a billing system.
Swimming with Sharks: Can small-fish operators survive and grow?
Impact of Call Center Technology: How new call center technologies impact people and processes.
Team Effort: Sharing the blame for failures in competitive telecommunications.
Speed kills: How speed may be killing telecom service providers.
Procure in Haste: Buying network and OSS technology means living with your decisions for a long time. How to increase your chances of success.
How to succeed by really trying.: Six essential hints for start-up Service Providers.

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