
Global express connectivity
Alastair Bovim, managing director, and Rash Jhanjee, director of enterprise, Global Xpress Program, for Inmarsat Solutions, talk to telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2012 in Cape Town.
Rafael Laguna, CEO and co-founder of Open-Xchange (OX), talks to telecoms.com at the Telco Cloud World Forum in London about the evolution of cloud services to replace commodity offerings.

Alcino Lavrador, CEO of Open Idea, talks to telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2012 about the significant investment being made in the region. He anticipates mobile penetration to rise 20 per cent from 54 per cent in the next three years, indicating the significant opportunities in the region.

Robert J Richardson, VP sales – Global Submarine Solutions, Xtera Communications, talks to telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2012, about the provision of long haul telecoms equipment.

Alastair Bovim, managing director, and Rash Jhanjee, director of enterprise, Global Xpress Program, for Inmarsat Solutions, talk to telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2012 in Cape Town.

Jose Valles, Head of Bluevia at Telefónica talks to telecoms.com about how telcos are uniquely placed to take advantage of opportunities through their relationship with users to facilitate OTT services.

Ian Livingstone OBE, Life President, Eidos, talks to telecoms.com about his desire for service providers to focus on increasing speed and reducing latency, to cater for more graphical intensity in games. Livingstone eventually sees cloud gaming taking over from optical drives but only when the required speed boost has been realised.

Jane Chen, Senior Vice President, ZTE Corporation, talks to telecoms.com about cloud, connected home and wireless broadband. FTTX investment is high on the agenda, as is optical networking, but at the other end of the connection is consumer premise equipment which ZTE also claims a strong role in.

Karl Thedéen, Chief Executive Officer, Transmode, spoke to telecoms.com at Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam. He sees mobile backhaul as one of the hottest areas in the market at present and said his company is having many conversations around developments in ethernet and synochronisation capabilities for mobile backhaul as well as SDH migration.

Alfeo Pareschi, Pre-Sales Director, Axiros, talks to telecoms.com at Broadband World Forum about using device management tools to make operator services more agile.

David Dunphy, Senior Director – Product Marketing, Actelis talks to telecoms.com at Broadband World Forum about copper being an operator’s greatest asset even today and one that should not be underestimated, especially as it’s already paid for.

Jeff Spagnola, Vice President – Worldwide Managed-Cloud Services, at Cisco Systems, talks to telecoms.com at Broadband World Forum 2012 about how the company is using its partners as a route to market for the cloud services that end users want to consume.

Dirk Wolter, Managing Director – Mobile Service Provider Architectures – APAC, at CISCO, talks to telecoms.com about the critical business issues facing service providers in Asia. LTE perfectly addresses the demand being put upon networks by explosive growth in data demand, Wolter says.

Saverio Orlando, VP Network Operations Governance at Telecom Italia, talks to telecoms.com about monitoring and planning the network and how requirements have changed with the introduction of new services.

Jon Newbery, CEO of Clarity, talks to telecoms.com at the Telemanagement World Forum 2012, about the deployment of the comany’s unified OSS solution for the broadband access network of Telkom Indonesia.

Ying Weimin, President of GSM & UMTS & LTE Networks for Huawei Wireless Network Business Unit, spoke to telecoms.com at the LTE World Summit after the company won the award for most significant development for LTE commercialisation.
Ying also speaks about the commercialisation of LTE in general and the first 72 networks to be launched worldwide.

Xu Weizhong, President of Packet Core Network for Huawei Wireless Network Business Unit, talks to telecoms.com at the LTE World Summit about the key benefits of LTE. Xu talks about future business models and management of the customer experience.