Tagged: IoT

  • “It’s not easy running a telecom business”: Isn’t the point of the digital transformation making a telco business easier? 0

    “It’s not easy running a telecom business”: Isn’t the point of the digital transformation making a telco business easier?

    This blog post from Accedian is commenting on another one from Deloitte on MVNOs business models and how those companies have also the need to evolve as the market is changing for everyone, not just MVNOs. At some point, the article seems to argue that being a mobile operator, virtual or not, is not an easy thing to do, and, thus, somehow, operators are safe from certain market intruders, such as non-telecom operators trying to enter the IoT market. However, it is important to note that being a telco is a difficult proposition when there is a lot of legacy infrastructure, but would a cloud-based operator that only rents capacity have such complexities? The answer should be “no” as that’s where MNOs are heading. The idea of NFV and SDN is precisely to eliminate what makes being an operator complex and cumbersome. Thus, in the not so distant future, being a cloud-based almost automated MVNO should be a piece of cake. The wild animal, however, is still finding the right business model to monetize access. It turns out that the intruders have the business models for IoT, but lack the connectivity, which is the easy part. On the other hand, operators are still defining their business models and their role in the IoT value chain beyond access. Whose more protected from who?

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    Seven steps to develop Industrial IoT common sense 0

    Seven steps to develop Industrial IoT common sense

    We have no idea what industries needs are, which makes us useless to provide any sort of meaningful advice as to how to implement an Industrial IoT (IIoT) strategy. But Cisco has identified seven reasons why IIoT implementations fail, and thinks they are a good guide to develop some common sense, as well.

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  • Because security will never be enough, operators need to be able to handle “fraudstration” 0

    Because security will never be enough, operators need to be able to handle “fraudstration”

    The good thing about reviewing corporate blogs is that you can clearly see who does what by reading their blogs. That does not mean they are not useful, but they become even more interesting if you are able to read them all somehow —and that is the purpose of our existence. We have been covering security in the incoming IoT era as obviously this is a very hot an unquestionable important topic. Most of the time, we get feedback from companies who are working on security measures. We have always taken the liberty to state that nothing will ever be completely secure —we know, we are geniuses. Anyhow, we do also highlight the fact that hackers will always be able to bridge security measures and, thus, operators need to implement a second layer of security: “fraudstration” management.

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    A frightening, and finally realistic, story on botnets, IoT, DDoS attacks and how insecure the Internet will always be 0

    A frightening, and finally realistic, story on botnets, IoT, DDoS attacks and how insecure the Internet will always be

    The blog post not only provides a good set of examples as to why the Internet is about to become less secure, but instead of ending with a positive message we have seen in past blog post about security, this one clearly concludes with the following: “What’s certain is that the problem isn’t going away”, referring to security. Again, this is an issue the industry has seen coming, but until recently it was cheaper to react to attacks than to prevent them. Now, when reacting might not be the cheapest option, we find that preventing the attacks seems almost impossible.

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  • Mobile operators need to learn how to play the Pokémon game 0

    Mobile operators need to learn how to play the Pokémon game

    Some very fancy services and possibilities are coming our way, among then virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). The latter is the main theme of this new blog post. Once again we are given an idea that AR offers a lot of potential for service monetization, but we end up hearing just one: advertising. And again, when it comes to new services, the telecom industry needs to wonder who is going to benefit the most out of these new services that at the end of the day are going to need a lot of bandwidth and infrastructure upgrades —such as Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). And once again, the main telecom infrastructure investors, the mobile operators, are not near the monetization spots.

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    Predicting the predictable: 5G is all about IoT, MEC, Fog Computing and network slicing 0

    Predicting the predictable: 5G is all about IoT, MEC, Fog Computing and network slicing

    All of us try to play with headlines and, in this case, the headline is quite misleading because the author says he is going to predict what claims to be unpredictable. In fact, the blog post is quite interesting in its predictions, how 5G will progress in 2017 and what areas are the key focus to many companies, especially Ericsson and Qualcomm, as stated by the post. What is important about this blog post is that most of the author’s claims are backed with sources and links to other articles; this provides more credibility to his arguments: 5G is all about connected cars, IoT, MEC, Fog Computing, and network slicing.

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  • Get out of the box: telecom operators are, by no means, leading the IoT revolution 0

    Get out of the box: telecom operators are, by no means, leading the IoT revolution

    Perhaps we have misunderstood this blog post, but it seems to imply telecom operators are having a major impact and playing a major role in the IoT ecosystem development. We could not downgrade its value because we disagree with the author’s arguments. This is indeed a good blog post to read. However, our take goes in an opposite direction. IoT is growing in all directions and it is touching all sorts of companies, many of which are developing their own business models, which are, in our view, way ahead of what operators are doing. If you have seen what’s cooking outside the telecom space when it comes to IoT, you will soon realize operators need to catch up and pronto.

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    A successful IoT implementation needs to consider its impact on humans 0

    A successful IoT implementation needs to consider its impact on humans

    Although IoT is thought to be made of sensors and devices talking to each other, when it comes to the industrial IoT a successful IoT implementation needs to be aware that behind those sensors and machines there are humans, and if you are not taking into account how IoT will impact them, you are doomed to failure. Read this blog post to reinforce the notion that IoT is not about technology or devices, but about how those two will impact your business processes, most of which involve dealing with human beings.

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  • IoT Micro Clouds does not sound like a new concept, it sounds like Fog Computing 0

    IoT Micro Clouds does not sound like a new concept, it sounds like Fog Computing

    The author of the post claims that they have come up with a new term called “IoT Micro Clouds”. They, rightfully so, believe that the IoT ecosystem cannot rely only on centralized clouds as some applications will need low latency, more security and would need to use resources locally. And the term “IoT Micro Clouds” sounds somewhat original, depending on your definition of creativity, but in fact, we think the author means Fog Computing, a concept, which is fairly new when it comes to IoT and the cloud. So, if you have never encountered the term Fog Computing, then we suggest you to read this post and when you read the term “IoT Micro Clouds” remember, it might be referring to Fog Computing.

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