The OctopOSS is waiting for new business models itself, but also facilitates new business models for CSPs and their customers
“Over the last decade, developments in miniaturization and low-powered electronics have led to the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which are computational systems with the ability not only to sense their environments, but also to process and communicate the data obtained using a wireless channel. This book focuses on a specific class of WSNs, […]
“Google has a plan. Eventually it wants to get into your brain. “When you think about something and don’t really know much about it, you will automatically get information,” Google CEO Larry Page said in Steven Levy’s book, “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives.” “Eventually you’ll have an implant, where […]
“All content considerations should first be led from the brand. From there, make decisions about goals, initiatives and objectives. To do otherwise will doom a content strategy to being ineffective at best and off-message and harmful to the brand at worst.” Brian Bibler. I must admit that I’m pretty new to the world of digital […]
“They (customers) don’t want quarter-inch bits. They want quarter-inch holes.” Leo McGinneva. As alluded to in McGinneva’s quote above, OSS are only a means to an end. A customer doesn’t want a Performance Management tool. They want to ensure their network is performing efficiently and reliably. If a better approach comes along, there might no […]
“Mobile data, mobile media, mobile sales, mobile marketing, mobile commerce, mobile finance, mobile payments, mobile health, and many more explode.” Daniel Burrus. Mobile, mobile, mobile. Mobile devices are still getting smarter and faster, allowing ever more sophisticated apps to run on them, including ones servicing the sectors listed above. But these apps rely on data, […]
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” Harold S. Geneen. In the world of Telco, there are also two coins. One is technology and one is cash. Telco and OSS engineers often get wrapped up in the righteousness of technology. […]
“Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.” Marc Andreessen. Regular readers / subscribers of this blog have noticed that SDN / NFV (Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualisation) has been a regular topic of conversation because it has the potential to revolutionise not just […]
“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 110 years ago today, the Wright Brothers made the first manned flight, a well known story. Not quite so well known is the story of Samuel Langley, […]
“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” Jackie Mason. Whether you’re with an integrator or are a CSP’s employee, there’s one* basic question to ask yourself when starting on a new OSS: Is your OSS assisting the CSP with their top line (revenues) or bottom line […]
“We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.” Billy Graham. Have you ever stopped to wonder why most CSP’s OSS are so complex? Put simply, they are almost all hoarders. They collect services, device types, management systems, data, interfaces, etc. But how often do they ever discard one? Even when […]
“Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.” Susan George. In recent times, OSS has come under increased attention from the incumbent equipment manufacturers for a variety of reasons, not least being their shifting focus towards services rather than […]
“Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.” Anonymous. Virtualisation of the network (read SDN, NFV, etc) is a game changer for OSS. To follow the anonymous quote above, most current OSS are great at managing […]
“Inditex (the owner of the Zara fashion brand) has weathered the global economic downturn better than rivals like H&M as its “fast fashion” model has allowed it to be more responsive to changing consumer demand, while its focus on the latest trends has made it less vulnerable to the rise of discounters like Primark.” Thomson […]
“Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.” Andrew Heller. Almost every element of your OSS depreciates – your hardware (of course), your software, effort, customisations, etc. The only element of your OSS that potentially doesn’t depreciate is your data. As data ages, its relevance diminishes so it […]
“The centre of gravity of the world economy is the geographic hotspot of income generation based on the distance weighted gross domestic product of 700 locations (Quah, 2011). In 1980 the hotspot was in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the economic powerhouses of Europe and the United States. However, today the hotspot is over Saudi Arabia […]
“If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.” Zig Ziglar. As we all know, OSS is a sticky business. Once an OSS vendor gets into an organisation, it’s often hard to get them out. I’ve seen OSS vendors treat their customers more like competitors than […]
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren. When your larger competitors are out there spruiking, promoting, marketing and advertising, could teaching be your competitive advantage? I have a firm belief that Cisco’s training programs (ie CCNA, etc) are a strategic advantage compared with other networking vendors. Not only do […]
“IT as a service is a game changer. Because you now have components of the IT department existing in the cloud, you free your in-house IT staff to shift from a maintenance mode to an innovation mode. As such, your IT department can focus on achieving business goals, creating innovative solutions, and driving sales rather […]
“So with NFV it was important to avoid building virtual versions of the same thing we already had.. so we needed to get people who weren’t threatened by the transformation that NFV demands.” Tom Nolle, on TelecomTV. In the interview by TelecomTV, Tom Nolle highlights a number of points that have significant ramifications to the […]
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein. The OTT-T (Over The Top Threat) is ringing “destructive innovation” alarm bells in the ears of most global telcos. The OTT (Over The Top) play threatens to take the cream off the top, relegating CSPs to commoditised bandwidth providers whilst remaining capital intensive (it’s […]
