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SingTel calls for open-access ‘superstructure’ by John C. Tanner

SingTel’s chief called on the in-dustry and regulator to take the NBN to the next level by creat-ing a “superstructure” that would facilitate common standards for network intelligence, security and a level playing field for apps and content developers.

“For Singapore to have a thriv-ing digital economy, we have to go beyond just high-speed inter-net,” said SingTel CEO Allen Lew during the opening session of the Next Generation Broadband track of the CommunicAsia2011 Sum-mit Tuesday.

Lew proposed the creation of a “smart superstructure” on top

of Singapore’s current NBN in-frastructure with four distinct ele-ments, starting with a standardized intelligence layer.

“This would allow service providers to know where the cus-tomers are, know their profiles and permissions,” he said. “This intel-ligence layer should make it easy for application providers to create

more targeted services.”Lew also said the superstruc-

ture should include policies and behavior, and high security stand-ards so that users “feel safe” when using digital services.

Lew also called on the Info-comm Development Authority of

by Melissa Chua

Singapore will switch off analog TV signals in the island between 2015 and 2020 in a bid to free up spectrum and boost signal quality.

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Communications and the Arts Dr Yaacob Ibrahim announced at the imbX opening ceremony on Tues-day that the push to end analog TV will be accompanied by push to-ward the DVB-T2 standard. This newer digital broadcast standard purports higher signal quality and

by Melissa Chua

Nokia’s first smartphone based on the Windows Phone 7 OS will be launched “later this year” and ship in early 2012, president and CEO Stephen Elop revealed at Commu-nicAsia 2011.

“We have the device in hand now, and it is an absolute beauty with a very fast interface that will have tremendous impact on the market,” said Elop of the device. But industry watchers hoping for further details on the Nokia-Mi-

more efficient spectrum use than its predecessor DVB-T, which ASEAN adopted in 2007.

The country’s pro-digital push will involve a nationwide trial run-ning at least one year to determine Nokia’s upcoming N9 sports an

8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and large lens aperture

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Nokia Siemens Networks launched an upgraded Liquid Ra-dio module and customer experi-ence management (CEM) suite at CommunicAsia2011, and an-nounced an investment in a US chipmaker.

The company debuted a high-power radio module for its Flexi Multi-radio base station family, that promises a 40% performance improvement at the edge of cells.

NSN is touting the improved efficiency as a way to reduce the size of hardware required per base station. Frequency variants of the radio module, including on the 900-MHz, 1.8-GHz and 2.1-GHz bands, will be rolled out at the be-ginning of next year.

NSN is also using the event to introduce an expanded customer experience management suite, CEM 2.0. The system, already in

use by an Asian regional operator, is a collection of pre-integrated software to interpret network, customer, service and device data.

NSN, meanwhile, announced it had bought into US-based semi-conductor developer ClariPhy for an undisclosed sum. The vendor said it had made the investment to support ClariPhy’s development of single-chip complementary metal oxide semiconductor inte-grated circuits for optical network digital signal processing.

“Together with our R&D, ClariPhy will enable us to be at the forefront of [development of] next-generation optical platforms capable of 400G and beyond,” NSN’s optical chief Vesa Tykky-läinen said. QCRM 2.0 is being demonstrated at the Hibiscus rooms 3612 / 3611 / 3610 / 3710.

...OVErNIGhT. WIrE...China second for IPTV crownby Melissa Chua

China looks set to snatch top place in the IPTV charts from leader France in the coming months.

According to research com-missioned by the Broadband Forum, China’s IPTV user base grew 55% year-on-year to reach 9.83 million in Q1. This figure is just one million away from France’s 10.6 million.

Although Europe remains the largest region for IPTV with over 21 million subscribers, Asia is fast gaining ground with 18 mil-lion users. Taiwan made the Top 10 chart for the first time with 850,000 users, while South Korea and Japan, which stood at third and fourth place, had 3.98 million and 2.87 million users respec-tively.

The global figure for IPTV now stands at 48.2 million. The technology enjoyed 34% year-on-year growth globally, and 1.4

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million of the 2.9 million new subscribers added in Q1 hailed from Asia.

Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh said Asia’s positive showing for IPTV was coupled with healthy broadband growth for the region. Asia remains the fastest growing broadband re-gion, with a 16.21% increase over last year. Subscribers in Asia now comprise 42% of the global total, up from 40% last year.

The first three months of the year saw 42% of global net ad-ditions come from China, Hong Kong and Macau.

“Asia is doing a bang up job for broadband growth,” Mersh told reporters at CommunicA-sia2011. “India’s broadband us-age grew 6.4% in Q1 alone to reach 10.7 million users, which is remarkable.”

Other fast growing countries in Asia were Thailand and Indo-nesia, which registered yearly growth rates of 66.53% and 39.4% respectively.

Although DSL continues to be the most widely used broadband

technology with 64% of the glob-al total, the Broadband Forum observed impressive growth for fiber usage, which included vari-ous hybrid DSL cum fiber roll-outs. The subscriber base for fiber grew nearly 20% in the past year to hit 76.2 million.

Mersh said fiber subscribers could potentially overtake cable subscribers in the coming year. The number of cable subscribers stood at 108.9 million at the end of Q1. QThe Broadband Forum can be found at Booth BH6-07

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Pacnet bids $500m for C&WW’s non-UK businessPacnet has made an informal $500 million offer for Cable & Wireless Worldwide’s business outside of the UK, according to reports. A sale of its global enterprise and carrier business would allow C&WW to retreat to the UK, where it earns around 75% of its revenue, but some analysts say the offer undervalues the company’s international assets.

China smartphone sales grow 4.8% in Q1Smartphone shipments grew just 4.8% sequentially in China during the first quarter, with the devices representing around 30% of mobile phone sales volumes. Excluding copycat and smuggled phones, around 19.9 million smartphones shipped in Q1, Analysys International estimates. iPhone transaction volumes increased by 6.4%, but growth slowed compared to the previous quarter. Android phone sales have been growing slowly but steadily, with inventory up 0.4%. rIM made more headway into the market, witnessing a sequential growth rate of 9.2%.

CAT, TOT close to deal over 3G roamingThailand’s two state-owned operators, CAT and TOT, are finalizing agreements to merge their 3G networks via a roaming deal. Executives from the companies told local media that a contract should be signed soon, although one sticking point is the fate of TOT’s planned 3G sharing deal with private operator AIS.

KDDI hands Samsung lTE contractKDDI has awarded Samsung an lTE contract, as it gears up to launch services next year. For Samsung this is an important win, marking its first foray into the Japanese lTE market. The vendor has been supplying KDDI with CDMA equipment since 2002 and has also provided mobile Wimax equipment to KDDI affiliate UQ Communications.

Sprint files arguments against AT&T/T-Mobile dealIn its latest attempt to stand in the way of the $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T, Sprint Nextel has submitted a technical paper to regulator FCC arguing against the necessity of the deal. While AT&T has claimed that the acquisition is necessary for it to increase its spectrum holding, and therefore network capacity, Sprint has stated that AT&T’s capacity could be improved by 600% by 2015 if it more efficiently utilizes its resources.

GTl Infrastructure calm after stock slumpIndian tower management company GTl Infrastructure has moved to reassure the market after a recent sharp decline in its stock price. Chairman Manoj Tirodkar told Bloomberg UTV the slump was down to speculative activity, and said the company’s institutional investors have not voiced any concern over its performance or business model.

Japan firm launches cookpot chargerJapan’s TES NewEnergy has launched a new electric cookpot that can charge mobile phones and USB devices using thermoelectric energy. The device has been designed to be deployed in disaster zones and regions with insufficient electricity infrastructure, with the company citing news reports of the Japanese earthquake as an inspiration.

Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum CEO

In it for ‘the lulz’The English language is a fluid thing interpreted differently by speakers from different lands. Its beauty is its flexibil-ity: bad or broken English can be just as effective a communication tool as fluent English.

The language is flexible enough that slang and loanwords can be incorpo-rated (dictionaries are usually updated annually). But no traditional dictionary can incorporate “Internet/SMS-speak,” where numbers of characters substitute for letters, and words are misspelled on purpose. If u dun no what “l33t speak” is, ask a 15-year old.

One term may make into Oxford and Webster’s though: “lulz.” Its etymol-ogy is simple: “LOL” is an acronym for “laughing out loud” many of us have used in digital communication. Change the vowels and plural spelling and you have “the lulz” (laughs). It means doing something purely for amusement: being “in it for the lulz.”

As kids, we all did things for “the lulz” – it might have been some-thing like a practical joke, kidding our friends, and as we grew into teenagers, maybe something more serious like shave our own or someone else’s head (with or without their consent). It might have gotten us into trouble, but no one got hurt.

When net-hacks first started, it was “script-kiddies” in it for fun. But the game changed to organized criminal-gangs like the “Russian Business Net-work” deploying DDoS attacks to extort money from shady websites (gambling and porn), getting moderate payments and moving on. Now we’ve got a new

breed of cybermonster to deal with.I’m talking about Lulz Security, aka

LulzSec, who seem to be a generation of short-attention-span hackers who enjoy making life hell for people. Although it may be painful, crude, and nasty, I en-courage everyone involved in computer security to read their “manifesto” at: http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f

No excerpts to justice, but I’ll try: “[This is] what appeals to our internet generation... we want our shot of enter-tainment or we just go and browse some-thing else, like an unimpressed zombie... we release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it... this is the internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction.”

For years, people have talked about the “dark alleys” of the internet. With this document, LulzSec turns a spot-light down those alleys so we can see the ugliness. Why? LulzSec writes: “We’ll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we’re brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don’t give a living f**k at this point - you’ll forget about us in three months’ time when there’s a new scandal to gawk at, or a new shiny thing to click on via your 2D light-filled rectangle.”

Perhaps we’ve reached a new inflec-tion point of nihilism: something the old-school nihilists (Nietzsche, Schopen-hauer, Kant) would never understand. A generation of youngsters who grew up with 24-hour TV coverage of terrorist-bombings, now compounded by global economic distress. They watch grisly

crime shows and romantic dramas about cute vampires. Yes, these arguments have been made before, but we have never seen anyone TAKE DOWN the Sony PlayStation Network AND hack into secure military sites before. And why do they do it? For “the lulz.”

Regrettably, despite their high-profile, amorphous organizations like

LulzSec may be harder to take down than might be expected. As they brag in their manifesto: “People who can make things work better within this [2D light-filled] rectangle have power over others; the whitehats who charge $10,000 for something we could teach you how to do over the course of a weekend, providing you aren’t mentally disabled.” Q

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Hitting the sweet spot in the middle

Show Daily: With the smartphone mar-ket in overdrive and moving toward the mass market, how are designs and key features evolving as prices drop?

Zhao Xinxin: Statistics on Android mobile phones in early 2010 found that the Android phone market was clearly divided. At one end of the spectrum were phones with high-end processors and high-resolution screens, and at the other end were phones with low-end proces-sors and low-resolution screens. ZTE’s research found that in most situations, the processors in high-end products aren’t fully utilized while low-end de-vices don’t have a 3D acceleration chip,

so they can’t meet the increasing needs of gaming on an Android phone.

ZTE’s Blade is a mid-range model, equipped with a 3.5-inch screen and vari-ous smartphones features at a competitive price.

What features make the ZTE Blade stand out from competing smartphone mod-els?

The challenge was how to create a blade-like profile that was no more than 12 mm thick. We decided on a parallel layout for the core components. The motherboard, battery and keyboard are on the top, and the larger components share space with the an-tenna underneath to make full use of every millimeter of space. The wall thickness of the structure components is the thinnest possible, and the minimum safety gap is maintained. In the end, the thickness was 11.9 mm.

The Blade is designed for those look-ing for style, individuality and high-end technology. Smooth lines are used to create a sense of speed. Metallic materi-als are used, and surfaces are curved to fit the hand. The physical design has a minimalist feel.

Design is not only about modeling but also about the user experience, psychol-ogy and emotional exchange. The overall feel of the keyboard and phone in the hand are tested again and again, and continuous tweaking is done. By communicating with users, an extraordinary product can be cre-ated.

We decided on a magnesium alloy frame in the core as well as for the front and back shell because it is light and rigid, so the device can pass strict drop tests.

This phone prepares ZTE for the de-velopment of mid-range to high-end smart-phones.

Which market segments are the ZTE Blade aimed at? Is there a market that has been overlooked by other handset vendors?

The Blade is an Android phone aimed at end-users who are fashionable, fond of new technology and price sensitive. In many countries telcos launch iPhone and the Blade together to meet different cus-tomers’ need.

Can you tell us about your “Light your smart world” campaign?

“Light you smart world” points to the global trend of more and more peo-ple moving to smart terminals and the continued development of the mobile internet.

ZTE is dedicated to developing per-sonal, family and office information platforms to provide end-to-end solu-tions for customers. With strength in design, UI experience and service inno-vation, ZTE aims to provide more value for buyers with customized products and make the mobile internet accessible for more people.

ZTE recently kicked off its smart ter-minal development strategy in Malaysia, launched seven new smart devices: four smartphones (the Blade, Racer, Mini Racer and Skate) and three tablet PCs (Light V9+, Light V9C and Light V8).

What can consumers expect from ZTE’s product roadmap for the coming year?

Our roadmap will cover different levels, from entry-level (2.8-inch touch-screens) to high-end (4.3-inch, 1G CPU) smartphones, with easy-to-use interfaces at competitive prices. QZTE booth: 1M3-01

Zhao Xinxin, a senior designer at ZTE Corp, outlines the company’s approach to smartphones and explains what makes its Blade device stand out

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By Mark Koh, Frost & Sullivan

Mobile traffic data has been growing ex-ponentially and is not expected to slow down over the next five years. This growth is fuelled by the proliferation of smart-phones, M2m data traffic and changing user behavior. The availability of more sophisticated smartphone is helping drive much of the data consumption with a sig-nificant amount of this data traffic being contributed by mobile video traffic.

According to Cisco’s Visual Net-working Index (VNI) report, video traf-fic contributed almost half of all mobile data traffic, and data traffic is predicted to grow by 26-fold between 2010 to 2015 to 6.4 exabyte per month.

Based on these projections, service providers would have to make changes

Meeting the demands of mobile data

to their networks if they expect to sup-port the expected traffic load. There are various strategies that would help allevi-ate mobile traffic data bottlenecks, but this report will concentrate on the radio access network. Service providers are facing the unique challenge of declining ARPU (with voice revenue falling and data revenue remaining flat or declining) and hence are looking for cost effective solutions to their data woes. This has led to many service providers exploring vari-ous strategies to keep up with demand in a cost-effective manner. This would in-clude Wi-Fi offload, femtocell offload and frequency refarming.

Migration to LTE is also on the road-map for many service providers, with its all-IP architecture and embedded network capabilities, which would also allow ser-

vice providers to monetize their networks. However, judging from the rate of

growth of mobile data traffic (VNI’s fore-cast of 26 times), the migration to LTE alone might not be able to keep up with the demand. Based on current spectrum availability and LTE capacity, there is still a large gap to be filled. Assuming a hy-pothetical service provider with a 2G and 3G network as the baseline, this service provider, having refarmed its 2G spec-trum and acquired LTE spectrum, would still have a gap of 20 times to close to meet with data demand by 2015.

Heterogeneous networks would have an important role to play in meeting traf-fic demand. Heterogeneous networks would comprise a variety of macro and pico nodes, coupled with various radio access technologies and network archi-

tectures. Solutions like Wi-Fi, femtocells and other flexible radio access technolo-gies would help extend the capacity of the network. Alcatel-Lucent’s LightRadio would have a place to fill in this strategy. Its small and modular radio form factor would allow for deployment as a macro node, by “stacking” their radios, or pico node for hotspot filling, providing flex-ibility in network design in conjunction with other various radio access technolo-gies. Q

LTE alone will not be able to keep up with data demand. Telcos need to look at heterogeneous networks

Mark Koh is a senior in-dustry analyst for Frost & Sullivan’s ICT practice, Asia Pacific. For more info contact: djeremiah@frost.com or Jessie.loh@frost.com

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Wireless charging market grows sevenfoldConsumers’ adoption of wire-less charging devices will help revenue from such shipments to jump by 616% in 2011, accord-ing to IHS iSuppli.

The wireless charging mar-ket is set to soar this year to $885.8 million, up more than seven times from $123.9 mil-lion in 2010. This upsurge will dwarf the market’s 60% expan-sion attained in 2010, the first year of meaningful growth for the space. It will also tower above next year’s sizable 276% increase.

In 2012, growth will begin to taper off, slowing to a still-robust 48% in 2015 when rev-enue hits $23.7 billion.

“Wireless charging offers consumers a viable alternative to recharge consumer elec-tronic devices without the need for dedicated power adapters,” said senior analyst Tina Teng. “With the appeal of such solu-tions, companies are lining up to offer wireless charging de-spite various technological and standardization issues that slow mass-market adoption.”

“Given the projected growth for the space, wireless charging devices will continue to make their way into an array of prod-ucts, including mobile phones, portable media players, digital still cameras and mobile PCs, although penetration at the mo-ment remains miniscule for all sectors,” Teng said.

Of the four current wireless charging technologies in place today, inductive coupling is the most widely adopted. The other three technologies are conduc-tive, near-field magnetic re-sistance and far-field magnetic resonance.

Despite the growth trend, IHS believes that it will take sev-eral years for manufacturers to fully implement the technology in their devices. Manufacturers will need to consider how to in-tegrate wireless charging into the design of printed circuit boards, and significant adoption of wire-less charging technology will be needed to drive down costs.

One way to spur mass mar-ket adoption is for the wireless charging industry to adopt a

common standard that would ensure interoperability among the solutions being developed.

At present, all commercial so-lutions are based on proprietary technology. The skin made by

one company, for example, will not work with the charger pad of another firm. Q

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The number of cellular mobile broadband subscribers jumped almost 60% in 2010 to 558 mil-lion worldwide – far outnum-bering fixed broadband con-nections – and should top two billion by 2015.

An Infonetics Research re-port said the number of mobile phone subscribers is expected to grow to 6.4 billion in 2015,

with the Asia Pacific account-ing for nearly half of all mobile subscribers.

Meanwhile, access lines (residential, business, and wholesale PSTN, POTS, and ISDN connections) are forecast to continue declining, falling to 759 million worldwide by 2015.

As access lines disappear, new forms of wireline broadband

continue to thrive; the number of wireline broadband subscrib-ers (DSL, cable, PON, Ethernet FTTH, FTTB+LAN) hit 500 mil-lion worldwide in 2010.

Wimax, in high demand in many regions with inadequate wired infrastructure, remains modest in scale but not growth. Despite the global recession, the number of Wimax subscrib-

ers grew 75% in 2010, and with more strong growth ahead are expected to reach 126 million in 2015.

The number of VoIP sub-scribers (including VoIP over access lines and over other broadband lines, such as cable) is forecast to grow from 157 million in 2010 to 264 million in 2015.

While growth in the num-ber of video subscribers is be-ing challenged by over-the-top (OTT) and free-to-air services, telco IPTV subscribers are forecast to triple between 2010 and 2015, and digital and satel-lite cable subscribers will see healthy annual growth as analog cable video subscribers contin-ue their inevitable decline. Q

The number of global mobile application downloads is ex-pected to reach nearly 48 billion in 2015 due to strong growth over the next several years.

In-Stat said this growth will be driven mainly by increased smartphone penetration, as well as growth in consumer mobile application libraries.

The report also said touch-screens will account for nearly 90% of smartphones shipped in 2011, and will increase to nearly 100% in the next several years.

Smartphones are expected to increase from 23% of total phone shipments in 2010 to 45% in 2015.

The report also said Apple

and Android users are signifi-cantly more likely than Black-Berry users to have downloaded mobile applications.

Smartphone applications are not only about 3G and almost half of survey respondents re-port downloading applications over Wi-Fi. Q

Video-on-demand (VOD) services are gaining sig-nificant traction in markets such as North America and Europe, where large pay-TV operators have formed content portfolios consisting of thousands of movies and TV shows, according to a study.

IMS Research estimates that in 2010, the North American VOD market generated US$1.98 billion in revenues, and the European VOD market totaled US$1.11 billion. The two regions combined com-prise 46.1 million pay-TV subscriber homes that are using VOD services.

The study forecasts that in 2016, North Amer-ica will continue to lead the market with a 33.1% share of world VOD revenues, followed by West-ern Europe with a 30.5% share and Asia Pacific

with a 25.7% share. The five largest country mar-kets, in terms of VOD revenues in 2016, consist of the US, Japan, Canada, the UK and South Korea, with the US accounting for over a quarter of the market.

The three regions combined, but excluding Japan and South Korea, are forecast to generate US$2.4 billion in VOD revenues in 2016.

IMS Research forecasts that Latin America will have the strongest growth in VOD revenues from 2010 to 2016 when compared to the other major regions covered in the study. Its share of the global market is forecast to grow from 0.6% in 2010 to 4.8% share in 2016. Q

Mobile broadband surpasses fixed broadband

Demand for IT outsourcing surging in Asia

Mobile app downloads to approach 48b in 2015

VOD in emerging markets lags but ready to grow

Asia-Pacific excluding JapanIT services market forecast

Mobile subs expected to hit 6.4b worldwide by 2015

The overall IT services market in the Asia-Pacific excluding Ja-pan region (APEJ) is expected to grow 13.4% year-on-year, after a strong performance last year of 18%.

An IDC report said data-center build-out for cloud ser-vices as well as innovative out-sourcing models are fueling the market growth.

The report said the outsourc-ing trend has moved toward flexible sourcing, with different selected vendors offering best-of-breed services. Competitive offerings with higher flexibility and pricing options are avail-able.

The report added that glo-balization and mobility trends are driving demand for network

and communications services. Next-generation datacenter de-sign needs to enable automa-tion and dynamic provisioning across the entire infrastructure, connectivity across multiple lo-cations and access to virtualized resources by any mobile device.

Business transformation, along with compliance, gov-ernance, risk management and business analytics, were key drivers for organizations to streamline their operations and optimize IT investments to de-liver greater value.

The increasing use of social media platforms and mobile ap-plications has created immense opportunities to conduct digital marketing activities over the in-ternet or mobile network. Q

Source: IDC

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Fourteen top service providers from around the world – including AT&T, BT Confer-encing, Telefόnica, Telstra and Verizon – recently announced their membership in the Open Visual Communications Con-sortium (OVCC). The consortium, spear-headed by video conferencing equipment vendor Polycom, aims to apply Metcal-fe’s Law to video conferencing by allow-ing carriers to enable multivendor, mul-ticarrier B2B video conferencing across private wide area networks (WANs).

“In some ways, it’s like we’re build-ing the PSTN,” said Jeff Cayer, group marketing manager for visual communi-cations at Verizon Business. “And if peo-ple really believe video is the next voice, that interconnection needs to happen.”

Today, enterprise customers have three ways to conduct video conferenc-ing sessions over separate private WANs,

Telcos plan inter-carrier global video conferencing network exchange

Cayer said. One option is using the in-ternet to meet on a public bridge or ex-change; the other two options require par-ticipants to open up a port to each other.

Service providers have inked private agreements with each other to peer video conferencing networks. When Cisco Sys-tems launched Cisco Telepresence, it ran its own B2B exchange for Cisco Telepres-ence customers by handling call control in its data centers, Cayer said. But Cisco wanted to get out of the service provider business and instead forged relationships with carriers, as Polycom is doing now, he said.

Increasing demand for inter-carrier B2B video services has required service providers to rethink their own strategies as well, according to Alan Benway, exec-utive director of product marketing man-agement at AT&T Business Solutions.

“The goal is to enable video not just to thousands of endpoints but to millions

of endpoints” across multiple private net-works, Benway said. “Clearly, that’s what customers want. They want to use video more and more, and the more endpoints that can talk to each other, the more value there is in it for the customer as well as the service providers. So, we think it’s in our best interest to work with the industry to mold and shape [its] direction.”

Although the OVCC is still a work in progress, it is not just a gentleman’s agreement among carriers to work togeth-er. Polycom has already demonstrated a multivendor telepresence call between 12 different service providers’ networks, said Polycom CEO Andy Miller during a press conference announcing the consortium. Carriers are expected to bring cloud-based B2B video conferencing services to market as early as the fourth quarter of this year, he said.

Many of the details must still be final-ized—especially around billing, direc-

tories, reservations and policy manage-ment—but the service will be offered in two phases, according to John Poole, sen-ior director of business development for Polycom’s service provider business unit.

The first phase will be a cloud-based “meet-me bridge,” much like audio con-ferencing bridging services today, which will serve room-based systems, Poole said. The second phase will introduce direct dialing among customers who use different video conferencing network providers. The exchange members will bridge this direct dialing in the back-ground, relieving enterprises from having to expose their own WANs to outside par-ticipants. The second phase will also ex-tend services to other endpoints, includ-ing desktops, tablets and smartphones. QJessica Scarpati is news writer at SearchTelecom.comThis article is excerpted from a SearchTelecom.com article

A new consortium of operators will make inter-carrier B2B video as simple as phone calls through a private exchange

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Orckit-Corrigent expands into access marketPacket transport network (PTN) vendor Orckit-Corrigent has entered into the access market with the introduction of its CM-401x PTN access product line.

The product portfolio – announced yesterday at CommunicAsia2011, includes the CM-4011, CM-4012 and CM-4013. All three feature 16G of non-blocking, non-redundant switching capacity, packet in 1RU, as well as a fixed configuration that includes a mixture of Ethernet, PDH and SDH interfaces.

Sharon Mantin, VP of marketing at Orckit-Corrigent, said the new product line has strengthened the company’s end-to-end PTN offering across the entire network and allows Orckit-Corrigent to continue meeting the requirements of its telecom service providers, customers and business partners. QOrckit-Corrigent is exhibiting the CM-401x PTN product line at booth 1H5-01.

Transition launches 10G media converterTransition Networks has announced the Asian launch of its new 10-gigabit Ethernet fiber-to-fiber media converter.

The converter, which is already being trialed by a number of service providers, is designed to meet the growing data demands that are driving operators and enterprises to explore newer 10-gigabit technologies. It has been field-proven to work with the Cisco 7600.

The new line of 10-gigabit media converters aim to help enterprises and service providers extend the reach of specific applications, while also supporting bandwidth-intensive applications such as video. QFor more information, visit Transition Networks at booth BL4-01.

Envivo delivers TV without boundaries demoEnvivio is conducting a demonstration of video head-end solutions for visitors at CommunicAsia2011.

The company, a provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, is showcasing new techniques that aim to help service provid-ers minimize complexity as they build smart video head-ends.

For the first time in Asia, Envivio will demonstrate several new products in-cluding the Envivio Halo Network Media Processor (NMP), 4Caster C4 Gen III multi-screen encoder, and the Envivio Genesis universal, mezzanine output format that together create a video delivery environment designed and optimized for multi-screen delivery.

The systems being demonstrated integrate content encoding, packaging, encryp-tion and distribution to meet the requirements of multi-screen TV services. QTo see the demonstration, visit Envivio at booth BK2-01 in the French Pavilion.

Price-cutting for SLA-enabled EPL/EVPL Ethernet servicesRAD Data Communications is exhibiting its Carrier Ethernet NTU for MEF-certi-fied SLA-enabled Ethernet services.

RAD said the ETX-203A is based on the company’s own EtherAccess Carrier Ethernet ASIC, allowing the price to be set at $400 for high-volume orders.

The ETX-203A is available through a licensing based, pay-as-you-grow model. RAD Data said it aims to lower the capex barrier to mass deployment of differenti-ated MEF-certified EPL and EVPL services. QFor more information, visit RAD Data Communications at booth 1J2-07.

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by Fiona Chau

Conax, a security provider for digital multi-channel content, aims to expand its footprint in Asia by ful-filling demand for digital content protection systems.

The company used its debut appearance at Com-municAsia to announce the Asian launch of Conax Contego Lite, its entry-level security solution for content distribution.

Are Mathisen, Conax’s vice president of sales for Asia Pacific, said the new platform provides broad-casters and satellite operators with an option to take smaller content operations on board.

Mathisen said there is increasing demand for such a service in Asia as broadcasters and pay-TV operators in many Asian markets are migrating to digital technology. This makes protection of content against illicit distribution more and more important.

He said he expects Asian sales to grow by 40% this year, taking the region’s contribution to overall revenue up to 20%. QConax is exhibiting Conax Contego Lite at booth 1G2-14.

Conax expands Asian presence with Contego Lite launch

MuLTI-TOuCH, MuLTI-usEs: 3M Asia Pacific’s business development manager Dennis Hoon demos the company’s newly launched multi-touch capacitive display. The product is tailored for situations requiring interactions involving more than one user. Think education, retail and the regular corporate boardroom

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A quarter of host PCs are IPv6 readyAt least a quarter of the world’s host computers are IPv6 ready, and only lack an IPv6 route to the global internet. Client-side tests conducted by domain name registrar APNIC have determined that the only barriers to IPv6 connectivity for many of these machines are either older routers that don’t support the standard, or native IPv6 support not being provided by their ISPs. APNIC said testing also showed that even in the worst cases, less than three in 10,000 clients would experience problems accessing dual-stack websites.

ErM spending to grow 14.7% this yearThe rising cost of staying competitive is pushing Asia-Pacific organizations to invest heavily in enterprise resource management (ErM) applications and services. IDC predicts that the APEJ ErM market will grow by 14.7% this year to hit $2.83 billion. China alone will account for the lion’s share of 32.8% of ErM spending in the region, with the next biggest markets pegged to be Australia and India. The research firm projects that spending will grow at a five-year CAGr of 9.8% through to 2015. Businesses will also start looking beyond the traditional ErM functionalities to areas including human capital management and enterprise asset management.

Boards turn to IT for growth in tough timesCompany directors expect IT to play a vital role in helping their companies stay above water in 2012, according to a survey. Two-thirds of business leaders surveyed in this year’s Gartner Forbes US Board of Directors survey expect IT to make a high to extremely high contribution to their business next year. This is up from just 32% in 2010, and reflects concern that tough times lie ahead. Around 73% of respondents expect the economic situation to remain tough in the foreseeable future.

XConnect launches video calling exchangeInterconnection company XConnect has launched a global video calling exchange. The company claims its new Video Interconnection Exchange is the first neutral exchange for video calls across networks, operators, service providers, B2B exchanges and vendor platforms. The exchange has launched with an initial five operators from the US and EMEA, as well as telepresence and other video service providers. The exchange will use XConnect’s ENUM registry technology. The company believes the presence of an exchange will facilitate mass-market adoption of video calling and conferencing.

Splunk opens Asia-Pacific regional hQOperational intelligence software developer Splunk has opened a new Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in hong Kong. Splunk said the new office has been opened to support growing demand from the region, after the company won deals in China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Australia during the quarter ending in April.

EditShare deploys storage for Malaysian companyVideo editing and shared storage solution provider EditShare has executed a contract to deploy 200Tb of storage systems for Malaysia’s Media Prima. The media investment group is currently upgrading to hD production and content delivery at its TV stations - TV3, 8TV, ntv7, and TV9 - and has installed the extra storage as part of the transition.

The burgeoning smartphone market – predicted to grow by as much as 50% this year – is getting CIOs scrambling to include mobile device management in their organizational agenda, as the bring-your-own-device era slowly eases in.

Gartner Inc. predicts that 90% of companies will support corporate applications on personal mobile devices by 2014. By that date, 80% of companies will have a mobile workforce armed with tablets, with the iPad expected to dominate the market through 2015, according to the Stamford, Conn.-based consultancy.

CIOs simply can’t afford to repeat the mistake they made with the iPhone – namely, dismissing these new tablets as toys for the elite, experts warn. These little business and personal computers are here to stay.

“The so-called consumerization comes from bringing your own device (BYOD), but also from the pressure employees put on the or-ganization to supply or issue those new consumer devices,” said Dmi-tri Volkmann, vice president of products and management at Good Technology.

According to these same experts and our interviews with CIOs in the past six months, however, many enterprises still lack mobile device management (MDM) strategies and formal mobile use policies that take into account the proliferation of consumer mobile devices in the workplace. That goes for both corporate-owned and employee-owned devices. “Most companies do not have a formal mobility policy. They have lots of [policies] because, fortunately or unfortunately, mobile is not a centralized provisioning at most companies,” said Brownlee Thomas, analyst at Forrester Research Inc.

CIOs disagree on BYODPlus, despite the drumbeat of steadily climbing sales – and a steady

parade of CIOs on the lecture circuit touting their new smartphone or iPad deployment (see sidebar) – CIOs seem uncertain about the degree to which personal mobile devices will become part of their enterprise’s computing infrastructure. More significantly, perhaps, their views on the question diverge widely.

The lack of consensus about personal mobile devices showed up recently in an unpublished Gartner survey of 81 US CIOs who attend-ed a March workshop on managing mobility and surviving consumeri-zation at the firm’s CIO Leadership Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz.

For example, when asked about what percentage of their work-force they expect by 2013 to own the mobile devices (laptops, tablets and cellphones) they use at work, the CIOs’ responses averaged 38%. Another one-third of the CIOs, however, pegged their BYOD popula-tion at less than 20%, and almost 20% of the CIOs expect 80% or more of their employees to own the devices they use at work. That’s quite a range of possibilities.

Nevertheless, when asked what percentage of their staff in five years would not be eligible to use employee-owned devices or lap-tops because the data they access is deemed too sensitive, the CIOs’ responses averaged just 25%. That suggests that the BYOD model is poised to grow.

In a BYOD era, however, mobile device management and the poli-cies that have served IT well in a predominantly BlackBerry and Win-dows world are insufficient – or even moot – in the brave new business environment where the user controls the endpoint, said Paul DeBeasi, research vice president at Gartner. Q

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crosoft partnership were left disappointed, as Nokia centered the event around its upcoming N9 Meego-based smartphone and its strategy for emerging markets.

Three new low-cost handsets with dual-SIM options likely targeted at emerging markets were an-nounced – the C2-02, C2-03 and C2-06, all priced under EUR 80 ($114.5) and based on the S40 platform.

“There are 1.2 billion people in the world who only have SMS without any data plan, while 1.5 bil-lion people don’t use the web. This gap creates opportunities for us to connect the next billion people to the internet,” said Nokia’s head of smart devices for the Southeast Asia and Pacific region Andrej Sonkin.

Nokia reaffirmed its commitment to the Symbian platform, Sonkin said 10 new Symbian-based hand-sets will hit the market in the coming year. Software updates and services for Symbian phone owners will be provided through to 2016, Sonkin added.

The N9 sports a 3.9-inch scratch-resistant AMOLED screen, an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and HD video capture. Other features include built-in NFC for pairing between NFC-enabled devices such as Nokia’s Play 360° wireless music speakers. Q

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FOLLOW THE WINE: Neil Temperley [left], leader of Future Logistics Living Lab, and Rob Fitzpatrick [right], director of infrastructure, transport and logistics at NICTA (BM2-07), demonstrate cutting-edge logistics solutions technology as applied to a wine-supply scenario

THAT AND NFC WILL GET YOu A CuP OF COFFEE: NTT DoCoMo (BN3-07) booth assistant Esther Leong demonstrates how people can use NFC in coffee shops. (Important note: Coffee and croissant are not real)

A sHOCKING DIsPLAY:Booth assistant Yasim Abrdns loves his job of demonstrating lightning protection solutions at the Lightning Eliminators & Consultants Asia stand (BD5-06) because he gets to blast tiny buildings with actual lightning. Good work if you can get it

ANGRY BIRDs ARE ANGRY: Be warned: Angry Birds are patrolling the Nokia stand (BR4-01). And they are angry

PANDAMONIuM: IP network equipment and application solutions vendor Maipu Communication Technology (BS2-07) may or may not know kungfu. But they know a panda who does

AND THIs Is WHERE THE FIBER GOEs: Sumitomo Electric (1B3-01) booth assistant Mak Hui Xian explains the company’s FTTx optical network solution

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Singapore (IDA) to create a new, advanced regulatory regime to facilitate all this, particularly in terms of leveling the field for ap-plication and content providers.

“New regulations need to ensure that application providers and content providers have open

access to everyone’s networks, and that all service providers have open access to the application providers and content providers,” he said.

“It’s all about ensuring open and universal access,” Lew add-ed. “We need to look at these

kinds of access bottlenecks so customers can get access to any content regardless of which ser-vice provider has it.”

“Singapore will only become a true digital powerhouse if we put these key elements in place,” Lew said. Q

Singapore’s StarHub has de-ployed a customer experience management (CEM) system from Arantech to give it an edge in the highly competitive Singa-pore mobile market.

StarHub, the island state’s second largest wireless opera-tor, has implemented Arantech Touchpoint and open-platform ProAction suite.

Mobile penetration has reached 150%, and more than 60% of StarHub’s postpaid mo-bile subscriber base have smart-

phones, he said. Chan Kin Hung, StarHub’s

head of products and solutions, said the upgrade allows the operator to share customer ex-perience data across “multiple departments within the organi-zation, from the network engi-neers to the customer service teams.” QIreland-headquartered Aran-tech has a local office in Singa-pore. The company is showcas-ing its wares at CommunicAsia 2011, at stand BN4-01.

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NOW TAKING REQuEsTs: Booth assistant Pingkan Antonia plays the gambang (a traditional Indonesian musical instrument) on the stand of Telin (BN3-01), a member of the Telkom Group that oversees and manages Telkom Indonesia’s overseas business

by John C Tanner

Axell Wireless announced Tuesday that it helped Wataniya Telecom Maldives improve mo-bile coverage and get around tower restrictions by deploy-ing digital repeaters linked to a base-station hotel.

Wataniya’s 2G/3G network covers the entire island, but the capital city of Male sports an ur-ban topology of narrow streets

and dense buildings, making street-level coverage problem-atic, explains Sameer Kaul, VP of business development for Asia Pacific at Axell.

“Normally operators will deploy additional base stations to fill coverage gaps, but city regulations regarding cell sites in Male are very restrictive,” Kaul said. “So they needed a solution that allowed them to improve coverage at street-level

without deploying more cell towers.”

The solution: 12 multi-band repeaters mounted on rooftops or lampposts connected by fiber to a central site equipped with multiple base stations receiv-ing and transmitting via a single cell tower.

The repeaters have been distributed around the island to create dedicated coverage where required. The repeaters

can hand off to each other and to the macro network. Addition-al base stations and repeaters can be added as more capacity is required.

The solution is unusual in that it uses repeaters designed for indoor coverage to enhance outdoor coverage, said Kaul.

“It’s a good solution for us be-cause it was quick to deploy and helped us get around the problem of zoning permits for cell sites,”

said Shabeen Ali, senior opera-tions manager for Wataniya.

“It’s also a good green solu-tion, because the repeaters use less power and don’t require shelters like you’d need with a base station,” he told Show Daily.

Wataniya has more than 70,000 customers. QAxell is showcasing its Digi-Mini repeaters at CommunicA-sia at Booth 1A3-03

by Joseph Waring

It’s a fair question: when can businesses expect the risks of cloud services to give way to reliable enterprise-class offerings where more critical parts of IT can be deployed in the cloud?

Companies can acquire network services with different classes of service. But until the same can be applied to many cloud services, the risks have to be assessed and borne by the customer, Per Dahl-berg, CEO of the Asia Cloud Computing Associa-tion, said yesterday in his presentation on Carrier-Grade Cloud at the CommunicAsia2011 Summit.

Dahlberg said that for wider adoption of cloud computing there must be agreement on expected levels of performance, reliability and security.

“Only through such agreement can providers give customers the confidence to adopt services

across a spectrum of needs. At each class of service there must be transparency into what a customer can expect to be delivered with clear service levels and associated service level agreements,” he said.

He explained that establishing agreed-upon standards will give rise to tiers of service as is now expected with any service-based offering.

He says the Asian Cloud Computing Asso-ciation believes traditional service providers are well positioned to use their experience in driving this given their experience in delivering a range of service levels with differing tiers of quality of service.

Clearly there is still a lack of transparency and governance on cloud services right now. “We are seeking to establish some clear guidelines to give customers the necessary assurance so they can properly evaluate and assess the risks.” Q

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The next stage of Singapore’s NBN project will include the development of an open-access video delivery platform that could cement the end of exclusive con-tent deals in the city-state.

Philip Heah, senior director for next-generation infrastructure at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), said the regulator wants to further bolster interactive multimedia services on the NBN via an open video delivery platform accessi-ble by a standardized set-top box platform.

“We hope to have a com-mon set-top box platform that would allow consumers to watch and purchase video content from multiple RSPs [retail service pro-viders],” Heah said at the Next Generation Broadband track of the CommunicAsia2011 Summit Tuesday.

An open-access video deliv-

IDA wants open-access video delivery ery platform could conceivably deal another blow to the practice of exclusive-rights deals for pay-TV content in Singapore. The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) plans to im-plement cross-carriage rules later this month that would allow con-sumers to access exclusive pay-TV content via another RSP’s in-frastructure. The regulations have been vigorously opposed by pay-TV industry group CASBAA.

SingTel CEO Allen Lew said during a panel discussion that an open-access STB for the NBN wouldn’t cause additional con-cerns for cross-carriage oppo-nents. “This is only for the fiber network, and it only allows us-ers to access the RSP they want, not the content directly,” he said. “That should remove any conster-nation CASBAA has for cross-carriage.”

Moya Dodd, Partner at Gil-bert + Tobin Lawyers, said open-access would make “an interest-

ing case study” on the impact of exclusive content deals and cross-carriage.

“When you see the prolifera-tion of platforms and devices and how people access content in so many different ways, the appeal of exclusivity fades away because it’s harder to justify,” she said. “Content providers want more distribution.”

Meanwhile, Heah of the IDA also said it plans to focus on home networking in the next stage of the NBN project, noting that the IDA has been receiving many queries from consumers asking how to network devices in their homes.

The regulator plans to start a home networking initiative that will look at things like the number of internet ports in residences, he said. “We’re looking at requiring buildings to have one internet port in the living room, but we think that may not be enough,” said Heah. Q

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highlights for Day Two: Wednesday, June 22

Visionary Address9.00am – 9.45am • Marina Bay Sands, Level 3, Heliconia 3411/3412/3413Vision For the Mobile IndustryNokia’s EVP, Sales, Colin Giles

CEO Perspectives 9.45am – 10.45am • Heliconia 3411/3412/3413What are the Top Priorities on the Telco CEO agenda for 2012?Moderator: Jonathan Dharmapalan, Global Telecommunications leader, Ernst & Young Panelists: Joseph O’Konek, Chief Executive Officer, CSl ltd Tore Johnsen, Chief Executive Officer, Grameenphone ltd Colin Giles, EVP, Sales, Nokia Phil Mottram, Executive Director, Telstra International Gregory Wade, regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific (Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia), research In Motion

The Business of Cloud ComputingMarina Bay Sands, Level 3, Heliconia 3512/351311.20 Keynote Presentation Navigating the Journey of Cloud Transformation robert Parcell, Managing Director, Optus Business 11.50 In Cloud We Trust: Service Provider Best Practices in Managing risk in

Cloud Offerings Chad Gibbons, Vice President, Alcatel-lucent Services 14.10 Mining the Silver lining in Cloud Chai Wai Kong, lead Architect, Communications and Media Solutions,

hewlett Packard15.10 leveraging on Cloud Opportunities Susan Bryant, Director, South Pacific, CIO Office, huawei Technologies 15.50 role of Telcos in Ensuring Enterprise Success with Cloud Computing roger Carvosso, head of Strategy & IP, Global Product Management,

Telstra International

Mobile VAS Strategy – Mobile Marketing & Advertising Marina Bay Sands, Level 3, Heliconia 351111.30 Keynote Presentation Engaging new age users through mobile and social media David Ko, Senior Vice President, Zynga 12.10 The Future of Mobile: Five Trends That Matter Most Christian Cadeo, head of Mobile, SEA, Google16.50 how Mobile Internet is Changing Consumer Behaviour Frans Janssen, Managing Director, GfK Group

Next Generation Mobile BroadbandMarina Bay Sands, Level 3, Heliconia 351111:20 Mobile Broadband Network Deployments Worldwide Alan hadden, President, GSA14:05 Strategies for handling Data Transmission Demand rajiv Mehrotra, Chairman & CEO, VNl 14:35 Mobile Broadband heterogeneous Network Management Stephen lee, Director, Samsung Electronics16.05 how to Meet Massive Demand for Mobile Data Jaikishan rajaraman, Senior Director, Asia-Pacific, GSM Association

Next Generation Broadband InfrastructureMarina Bay Sands, Level 3, Heliconia 3412/341311:20 Keynote Presentation Ubiquitous Broadband – A Big Idea Whose Time has Come hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General, ITU 11:40 Keeping Asia Ahead in Broadband Bill Barney, CEO, Pacnet14:00 Broadband Trends in Asia Oliver Johnson, CEO, Point Topic15:20 Technology Options for Broadband Access robin Mersh, CEO, Broadband Forum

For complete programme, visit www.communicasia.com

Overcoming the ‘cloud risk’

suitable DVB-T2 parameters. Media Broadcast GmbH, StarHub and Mediacorp have been named trial partners.

Singapore will be among the first in the region to adopt DVB-T2, which has already been deployed in various Euro-pean countries. The pro-digital push could potentially free up

spectrum for other wireless technologies. Ibrahim said the government was working to al-locate suitable spectrum for 4G deployments, such as M1’s re-cent LTE launch in the central business district.

Ibrahim went on to highlight the country’s push toward mo-bile, in particular a $15 million

fund to spur mobile application development in the retail, food & beverage and hotel sectors. Poten-tial solutions include a common wireless payment platform for merchants and the integration of mobile menus into point-of-sales systems for restaurants. Propos-als can be submitted from now through August 23.Q

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