“…if you are a mobile network operator today, shouldn’t you focus your energy on what is the largest and fastest growing service on your network, which happens to not be profitable?
85% of the video traffic is OTT and you get little revenue from that. You are struggling to deliver an acceptable video quality for a service that is growing and uses already the majority of your resources and you have no plan to improve it.
Why aren’t we looking as an industry at creating a better wireless video network?”
Patrick Lopez on Core Analysis.
This is a really interesting perspective from Patrick Lopez. His extended blog (link above) is well worth a read too.
Just as Patrick hopes that, “Cloud, SDN, NFV, OpenStack, network virtualization, opendaylight, orchestration…” will hopefully focus on making the wireless and video combo a target area for standards development, how can OSS / BSS similarly contribute more value for their CSPs on this pain point?
Assuming video traffic continues to grow, as does wireless access to video, network build costs will continue to escalate, but if OTT is taking most of the revenue share, are these network build-outs viable?
Where can an OSS play a part? Cost-side (eg efficiency improvements)? Revenue-side (eg content supply, differential price of service quality)?
Have you ever had an OSS or BSS project that’s impacted by poor data quality? The problem of data integrity gets raised on almost every
“One of my favorite things about designing software is designing the defaults. The defaults define the experience for everyone out of the box. And, therefore,
Have you ever been tasked with mapping out the processes for the telco you work for? Either as a way of documenting current state, or
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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.
