Thought you might like this graphic from AnalysisMason.
The opportunities in OSS / BSS have their own list of corresponding opportunities. You can find a few thoughts here.
Telcos have tolerated lengthy OSS/BSS rollouts as a necessary evil for years, but what if those same systems are the chains holding the telco world
You’ve already got your dragon slayers. Your team is filled with seasoned OSS professionals who’ve faced complex, high-stakes problems and lived to tell the tale.
Many OSS veterans, the people who built the OSS of today, are no longer being offered full-time roles. Clients often assume they have become obsolete
This article provides a summary of our Buyer-Seller Chasm series of articles, where we start with the guiding principle that: The buyers (carriers) desperately need
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
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Ryan please find in the following link info from Keymile an a Telco equipment vendor that wants to share dslam resources through a blockchain. See https://blog.slock.it/five-objects-where-you-ll-soon-find-blockchain-484dd7e753ef#.mzzd1av6e
I am curious whether other companies have similar ideas. I could think of trading Wi-Fi Internet access through crypto currency like bitcoin. Residential users could share their Internet bandwidth and hence become micro service provider ?
Hi Nico,
Thanks for the link! Looks intriguing.
I like your idea for WiFi microSP a lot! It’s similar to a concept I had back in the early 90’s (albeit without being able to figure out the billing/sharing mechanism that blockchain now potentially represents).