--------------------------------------------------------- A9 guy Search is hard. Why? --------------------------------------------------------- Guy from AT&T / Hossein Eslambolchi, PhD "One Person's Edge is Another's Core" Does the intelligence lie at the edge or does it reside in the network? Smart devices need a smart network. Three main topics - Customer Business Drivers (Business customers) / AT&T's network Direction / Technology and Service Enablers Customer Business Drivers: The rise of the Collaboration Networks (CNoIP) - customers want security (worried about viruses, worms, spam, terrorism, cyberattack, DDoS, Prevention) - customers want real-time / right-time collaboration - broadband, presence IM, metro ethernet, IP VoIP, Grid, New Access technologies - the rate of take-up is increasing - mobility / remote worker - 26 million workers are telecommuniting - expected to grow enormously. people don't work at the office, they work on the network. remote working environment becomes crucial. - telecommunitng / virtual office, wifi, wimax, RFID, sensors - flexibility / Pay per Use - on demand, virtualisation, real-time enterprise, software as a service. - business process / integration - autonomic, adaptive, predictive, orchestration, eai, web services - compliance challenges Creating the need for emerging collaboration networks - call center solutions, sip and mobility blah blah... e-collaboration will ultimately dominate the workplace fixed capacity to on demand utility everywhere BLOGCAST is everywhere artificial intelligence + radio spectrum joined together?! --------------------------------------------------------- Panel: Only Connect Greg Staple / Bill Schlough / Peter Sisson / Stuart Henshall Bill Schlough - why have wifi at the SF Giants? How does wifi make money for them? Don't know quite what the opportunity is going to be but the corporate marketing partners like it - palm, intel etc. Have to go to the ballpark to get access to the digital dugout. Nice unpretentious guys. Peter Sission from teleo - vonage / skype and teleo - the 'third' VoiP company - mobile voip applications. Old thinking - telecom is equipment / new thinking - telecom is software. Old thinking - voice is a separate service / new thinking - voice is just a feature. Stuart Henshall - two questions - 'what's your skype strategy?' / 'what's your presence strategy?' Skype as a move from telephony to a kind of intercom - instead of closing a line, temporarily muting it. Questions articulated about regulation - should VOIP be regulated or is it a web thing / network thing. Rolling out these services to the rest of the people. "The social net reflects a revoltuion in the way we use the new tools. There's alawyas been a tension to use a communications technology to get things done and those folks who use communications to connect, to create a community, to stay in touch." --------------------------------------------------------- Genographic project - very interesting stuff about getting gene samples from all over the world. ---------------------------------------------------------