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Altobridge - Local Connectivity and Split-BSC Architecture Solutions
Leading wireless application solution provider, Altobridge, will be delivering an important message at this year’s AmericasCom event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (Rio Intercontinental Hotel, 9-10 September), with major cost-cutting implications for any mobile carrier attempting to deliver voice and data services to small enterprise and domestic communities in remote regions .
The company’s Local Connectivity solution combined with its Split-BSC Architecture is one of the strongest value propositions for operators throughout the region. By keeping local calls local, the Local Connectivity element removes unnecessary transmission costs incurred when local calls are backhauled. Simultaneously, the Split-BSC Architecture frees up vital capacity by restricting the use of expensive satellite bandwidth, only using it ‘On-Demand’ instead of ‘Always-On’.
Altobridge’s Monte Egeland, VP Americas, will be presenting an important paper at the event on the morning of 10 September, entitled: “Viable Remote Community Communications for Latin America”, which illustrates how these two technological breakthroughs in Local Connectivity and on-demand use of satellite bandwidth combine to deliver the world’s most cost-effective solution for remote communities.
The paper will look at the challenges facing operators in remote regions throughout Latin America, including the high cost of transmission to small, isolated communities.
It outlines the comparative savings that can be expected by carriers when using a standard 1 TRX IP GSM over VSAT installation versus those using the optimized Altobridge solution. With annual savings per site potentially running into tens of thousands of dollars, carriers are now able to provide profitable services to even the smallest, isolated populations.
“Keeping local traffic local using our Local Connectivity solution,” said Altobridge’s Egeland, “removes the cost of traffic being backhauled unnecessarily across the network. Our Split-BSC Architecture then creates a unique ‘on-demand’ solution - the most operationally efficient on the market today. When combined, these two breakthrough technologies offer MNOs throughout Latin America the chance to benefit from the most operationally efficient communications solution for small - between 50 and 500 subscribers - remote communities currently available.”
Altobridge is currently working with operators in other parts of the world (Maxis in Malaysia, and MobiCom in Mongolia), to deliver cost-effective rural communications to small, isolated public and enterprise populations.
Egeland will also be broadcasting live with the show’s official broadcaster, TeleSemana, on Tuesday, 9 September at 12.30pm, on the subject of delivering viable remote communications across Latin America.
Altobridge’s award-winning technology is already at the heart of the world’s first cost-effective mobile phone system for commercial aircraft, launched earlier this year by AeroMobile and flying initially with Emirates and Qantas. The company’s solution to provide standard, cost-effective mobile communications to the world’s merchant maritime industry is also available today from Blue Ocean Wireless. Both use versions of the Split-BSC architecture in these successful, high-profile, proven applications.
Headquartered at Kerry Technology Park, Ireland and with regional offices in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, USA and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Altobridge is a leading provider of telecommunications solutions that cut the cost of communications to/from and between wireless devices. The company’s patented Split-BSC Architecture (Access Management Gateway Platform) and Local Connectivity Platform cut backhaul costs to/from base station sites as well as providing local call switching at the base station site. These solutions have been successfully tested and deployed in wireless telecommunications networks as well as the following vertical markets: Remote Community/Enterprise, Aeronautical, Maritime, Secure and Emergency/First Responder wireless communication.
Altobridge licenses its software to leading vendors and operators and can also provide fully managed services to mobile operators. Wireless operator clients include: Maxis (Remote Community), Mobicom (Remote Community), AeroMobile (Aeronautical GSM), Blue Ocean Wireless (Maritime GSM). Vendor clients include: Ericsson (Local Connectivity).
Telenity, a leading provider of next generation converged services platforms and applications for communications networks, announced today that its Canvas® SMSC, Short Message Service Center, has been selected by its channel partner for deployment in a leading mobile operator in Latin America. Canvas SMSC was successfully deployed in the customer’s wireless network in a short time frame compared to typical industry deployments.
The deployment of Telenity’s next generation SMS solution will enable the Latin American mobile operator to meet its subscribers’ demands for person-to-person and application-to-person messaging services more efficiently. With Canvas SMSC, the mobile operator will be able to offer innovative SMS services that increase data ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) at significantly lower costs.
“We have won this new account, by showing a deep understanding of our customer’s technical and business requirements and the increasing needs of its subscriber base,” said Dilip Singh, CEO at Telenity. “With our solution, our customer will be able to move towards a converged messaging environment while reducing churn and controlling costs with a more scalable and reliable system than what they had deployed before.”
“This short message service center win is a strategic achievement for Telenity expanding our footprint in the next generation messaging market,” said Nitin Patel, VP Strategic Marketing at Telenity. “We see more and more operators of all sizes approaching us for their messaging needs - a scalable and reliable messaging solution ready for next generation IP networks.”
“The success of SMS service is due to its very fast means of peer-to-peer communication and addition of new subscribers,” said David Kerr, Vice President at Strategy Analytics. “The ongoing growth of SMS requires wireless operators to replace their legacy messaging network infrastructure and build out and upgrade to a more modular network environment”.
Telenity’s Canvas SMSC, Short Message Service Center, provides the necessary advanced technology for person-to-person and application-to-person services. It ensures a smooth evolution to deliver multimodal messaging services and an enhanced user experience with an exciting new generation of services that are informative, fun and entertaining. It supports Mobile Originated (MO) and Mobile Terminated (MT) messaging in GSM/GPRS, CDMA/1xRTT, iDEN and 3G networks and provides an SMS over IP solution that efficiently offloads SMS traffic to an IP based network running in parallel to the SS7 network. Canvas SMSC is a high performance system processing thousands of messages per second today. It is the ideal choice for operators that want to maximize the return from their investment and increase the market leadership in premium services. Canvas SMSC is designed with unlimited performance and scalability in mind and can be bundled with ready-to-deploy push-pull services such as ring tones and logo downloads.
Telenity is a leading provider of next generation converged services platforms and applications for communications networks. Telenity's IMS ready converged services solutions include: reusable service delivery and content components enabling rapid service creation, deployment and execution functionalities across multiple services and applications; location gateways; integrated messaging solutions; and value added services. Telenity's worldwide customer base includes network operators, service providers and application providers serving over 100 million customers. Telenity partners with global and regional network equipment providers, system integrators and computing platform manufacturers.
Meet Telenity Executives at: CTIA Wireless 2008, April 1-3, las Vegas, Nevada • Oracle SDP ISV Event Day for Operators, April 15, Mexico City, Mexico • Oracle SDP ISV Event Day for Operators, April 17, Sao Paulo, Brazil • Mobile VAS Forum, SDP Workshop, April 21-23, Panama • Evolving Service Delivery Platforms, June 2-5, Barcelona, Spain
Source: Telenity (25-3-08)
Digital TV Market - Cable Operators
Imagine Communications, the leading innovator in advanced digital video processing and edge multiplexing solutions, announced its first available product, the ICETM Broadcast System. Based on the powerful ICE˙ Video Platform, the ICE Broadcast System gives cable operators the ability to carry up to 50 percent more high definition (HDTV) and standard definition (SDTV) digital broadcast signals within their digital broadcast spectrum, without sacrificing video quality.
Leveraging its breakthrough video processing and multiplexing technology, Imagine's ICE Video Platform delivers the highest video quality at any given bit rate, solving the fundamental and elusive paradox of how to cost-effectively increase bandwidth efficiency without sacrificing video quality. The ICE Video Platform comprises a suite of solutions and products for digital broadcast, Switched Digital Video (SDV) and VOD. In each case, Imagine's core technologies of Interchangeable Compressed Elements (ICE) and video quality measurement (ICE-Q˙) address the video quality and bandwidth efficiency needs of cable operators.
The ICE Broadcast System, available now, is the solution cable operators have been seeking to expand their HD and SD services while maintaining the highest video quality. It is now ready for widespread deployment, having undergone extensive refinement, enhancement and stabilization with major cable operators over the last several months.
Imagine's VP Product Strategy & Management, Lorenzo Bombelli, stated "With competitors announcing plans for over 100 HD channels, and video quality expectations simultaneously rising, due primarily to the mass consumer adoption of large screen HDTV displays and the growing popularity of Blu-ray and HD-DVD, all service providers are now racing to create additional bandwidth to carry dozens of new HDTV services at excellent video quality. It became an urgent cable industry issue to quickly adapt our technology for the digital broadcast market, for both HD and SD applications."
Ron Gutman, Imagine's CTO and co-founder, added, "Our core breakthrough technology has broad applicability to any digital video application. While we've mostly associated ourselves to date with SDV and VOD VBR/StatMux (Variable Bit Rate/Statistical Multiplexing), for enabling the best video quality at any given bit rate, the same benefits apply to digital broadcast, and we're excited to be offering a product that solves such a critical and timely issue for cable operators."
Superior Video Quality - With Imagine's ICE-Q˙ video quality engine, operators are able to provide the best 3:1 HD (and 15:1 SD) broadcast quality relative to MPEG-2 re-encoders and traditional statmux devices.
Unprecedented Bandwidth Efficiency - Empowers cable operators with the most efficient multiplexing of HDTV and SDTV broadcast channels, allowing them to compete more effectively against DBS and TelcoTV service providers.
Video Layer Quality of Service ("Video Layer QoS") - Starts laying the foundation for the industry's first end-to-end Video Layer QoS solution, allowing content providers and cable operators to pre-calibrate and establish video quality levels which are sustained, at the video layer, from content origination all the way to the set-top box.
Cost Effectiveness - Relative to other bandwidth expansion options, such as node splits, Switched Digital Video (SDV), or MPEG-4 upgrades, Imagine's solution is by far the most cost effective and least disruptive solution.
High Reliability - Imagine's solution has standard IP/GbE inputs and outputs, enabling seamless interoperability with cable's evolving IP infrastructure. Moreover, the ICE Video Platform (including the ICE Broadcast System), leverages standards-based hardware and highly reliable software components, as well as robust redundancy schemes.
The ICE Broadcast System consists of ICE Broadcast Processors, which accept and re-process compressed MPEG-2 digital signals using Imagine's ICE-Q video quality algorithms. Then, using the ICE Multiplexer, these signals are statistically multiplexed for Multiple Program Transport Stream (MPTS) digital broadcast over cable. In this fashion, for the first time, cable operators are able to broadcast three digital HDTV or 15 digital SDTV signals in a 256 QAM channel while maintaining excellent video quality.
Imagine Communications has launched the industry's most powerful and scalable digital video platform, enabling system operators to cost-effectively increase bandwidth efficiency and video quality of HDTV, Switched Digital, VOD, and other advanced digital video services. The Imagine ICE˙ Video Platform delivers the best video quality at any given bit rate, and also provides Video Layer Quality of Service, offering system operators unprecedented control over video quality.
14-1-08
July 2008 - Satellite communications market
Globecomm Systems Inc. announced that the Company has been awarded a mobile infrastructure contract from First Networks Operations Inc. (FIRST), a Canadian mobile telecommunications operator.
Globecomm will provide FIRST with a combination of services and systems extending a GSM wireless network to unserved and underserved businesses and consumers across northern Canada, based on Globecomm's award-winning SatCell technology. Initial launch will be in the central Canadian province of Manitoba, in the area of the city of Thompson.
The market, identified by FIRST, is characterized by sparsely populated First Nations communities that generally have telephone service but no mobile voice or data services. This part of Canada is, however, currently attracting significant investment in and development of hydroelectric power generation for export to the US as well as nickel, copper, uranium, base metals and diamond extraction. FIRST is partnering with the Canadian First Nations and provincial hydro companies to deploy a mobile network backhauled by a combination of satellite and fiber.
"We work with northern and aboriginal communities," said FIRST Networks president Dennis Jones, "and our business model is not the typical cellular play. We give the First Nations the opportunity to participate and share in the revenue generated from their communities. We think this works for both the investors and the community."
Globecomm's SatCell service provides FIRST with hosted switching capacity at the company's Mobile Switching Center in Hauppauge, New York, USA. In addition to service provisioning and call termination, Globecomm provides connection to third-party clearinghouses for voice and data, fraud prevention, prepaid and postpaid billing, voicemail, SMS, least-cost long-distance routing and e-911 service.
Globecomm is also designing the mobile network and installing mobile base stations in the First Nation communities. Mobile backhaul is provided by FIRST Networks for facilities located near the fiber networks of its hydro company partners. Globecomm services more remote locations via satellite. SatCell technology optimizes mobile signaling and backhaul traffic for transmission as IP, using a hybrid architecture customized to a network's traffic volumes and patterns. The result is a significant reduction in the bandwidth required to connect base stations and a major cost reduction for the satellite links as well as high efficiency across the network. Globecomm technicians monitor the network from the company's Network Operations Center and adjust traffic prioritization, bandwidth-sharing and modulation schemes to keep the network running at peak efficiency.
"Globecomm's level of industry knowledge and expertise in planning, building and operating wireless networks is most impressive," said FIRST Networks' Dennis Jones. "That expertise and their SatCell hosted switching capability have allowed us to much more rapidly launch and grow our business. From day one, Globecomm has done everything possible to help us move the business model from concept to reality."
FIRST, working with Globecomm, expects to grow its network across northern Canada as quickly as is technically, financially and administratively possible. As users of GSM technology customers will have the capability to roam onto Rogers Wireless across Canada, T-Mobile or AT&T in the US, and more than 750 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 territories and countries throughout the world. FIRST expects to be operating commercially by the end of the summer of 2008.
"SatCell provides carriers with the optimum mobile network for serving low-density markets, geographically isolated areas and sudden demand," said Globecomm vice president Stephen Yablonski. "It's the ideal way to jumpstart growth in an untapped market. But it can also be deployed as an overlay to an existing network to cost-effectively enable new services."
Globecomm Systems Inc. provides end-to-end value-added satellite-based communication products, services and solutions by leveraging its core satellite ground segment systems and network capabilities, with its satellite communication services capabilities. The products and services Globecomm offers include pre-engineered systems, systems design and integration services, managed network services and life cycle support services. Globecomm's customers include communications service providers, commercial enterprises, broadcast and other media and content providers and government and government-related entities.
15-7-08
International roaming specialist, Comfone, announced that with the signing of its latest customer its Key2roam service community has now reached 100 members.
Comfone‚s Key2roam hub model enables any operator to establish multiple roaming relationships with networks around the world through a single, standard bilateral roaming agreement with Comfone.
Fully compliant with GSM Association standards, all elements of roaming including interconnection, testing, account transfer procedures, roaming management, error handling and fraud processes are handled for the operator under the agreement with Comfone Key2roam. As a result, the customer’s resources are freed from the costly tasks involved in setting up roaming relations, allowing the operator to focus instead on its core business.
Since its launch in 2004, Key2roam has continually evolved to ensure its position as the industry‚s most trusted and truly neutral roaming hub. Comfone’s experience in the roaming market and its provision of a complete portfolio of roaming services, including: signalling, clearing, data, hubbing and convergence services, has enabled the company to offer the leading hub service that it does today - a hub service that is well ahead of other market players, boasting the largest worldwide footprint of any hub roaming solution available to the global mobile operator community.
“Key2roam owes much of its success to its first customers,” said Oscar Derrer, CEO of Comfone. “As early adopters they set a trend for establishing Comfone‚s roaming hub service as the world leader. Comfone‚s vision of outsourced roaming services has now been fully endorsed by the industry and the GSMA, with current market activities focusing heavily on hubbing solutions. We look forward to the continued growth of our Key2roam operator community.”
The Key2roam community currently includes some of the leading mobile operator groups as well as operators of all sizes from countries around the world.
Based on an ambitious programme of innovations, Comfone has planned the roll-out of exciting new features to its hub service. The first of such features is the integration of an SMS Interworking hub for Key2roam members.
Comfone, provider of roaming services to more than 300 operators in over 125 countries worldwide, is known throughout the telecoms industry as an international mobile roaming specialist. Comfone's industry know-how owes itself to years of experience and customer-orientated in-house expertise.
Through its unique portfolio and additional value added services, Comfone fully optimises the setting up of each operator's roaming processes, thus reducing the total cost of roaming. The company‚s portfolio ranges from the complete outsourcing of roaming, to individual elements, such as signalling, hubbing, data, convergence and clearing services.
The launch of Comfone's pioneering hub service, Comfone Key2roam, has provided mobile operators with worldwide coverage, interconnection and clearing through only one agreement with Comfone and one connection to the company‚s central platform, for the past four years.
Comfone's active participation in GSMA standardisation groups ensures that its innovative solutions are market-driven and meet the requirements of its substantial worldwide customer base.
Comfone employs nearly 100 multicultural staff that speaks a total of 16 languages at its headquarters in Bern. From its regional offices covering Europe, Latin America, North America, Central Asia and Asia Pacific, Comfone is well placed to support its customers throughout the world.
Source: Comfone (31-1-08)
Cantabria infinita
Cueva de El Soplao • Año Santo Lebaniego • Turismo y gastronomía
Propuestas en Brasil
Cabo Frío: paraíso a 200 km de Río • Niterói: playas, arquitectura y agenda cultural • El camino de Niemeyer: recorrido arquitectónico
Propuestas en Argentina
Ruta Nacional 40: Recorrido de la parte Norte • Recorrido del Centro (Cuyo) • Recorrido de la parte Sur (Patagonia)
Propuestas de turismo
en la Comunidad Valenciana
Ibi, Onil, Foia de Castalla • Belén de Tirisiti - Patrimonio cultural en Alcoi • Los Baños del Almirante (Valencia del s.XIV) • Mundo Naval en el museo Príncipe Felipe • Arte rupestre valenciano (Museo de la Valltorta)
Transporte aéreo
Air Nostrum • Ryanair • Spanair • Vueling
