Service mobility to take telcos to next level

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL: As more and more mobile devices cross various stages of convergence and with users becoming more powerful by means of tools like YouTube, Orkut and Facebook, mobility of services is where the future of networked society lies.

As per the views of Daniel Kofman, chief technology officer, RAD Data Communications, today’s terminal mobility will soon be transformed into tomorrow’s services mobility and this is likely to take the telecom operators or services providers to the next level of expansion, growth and profitability as well.

“We certainly believe in network & services ubiquity, location and context awareness. Users always want to be best connected, so in this type of scenario, services will follow you, no matter what device you are using,” he explained.

At a time when service providers are looking towards increasing their profitability as well as average revenue per user (ARPU), this could be the shot in the arm for them. And cutting edge technologies on Ethernet, wireless broadband access and IP networking are likely to be some of the prominent tools that would help the telecom ecosystem unlock the potential of service mobility on the long run.

Elaborating on the future of networked society, Kofman further said that tomorrow’s network devices would have software programs to perform different functionality in a single device.

“Concepts like network virtualization and programmability will define a whole new era of possibilities for the industry. Imagine a situation where a user sends a bad quality picture, as an MMS to someone and the network is able to recognize the defect in a picture, corrects it accordingly and sends it across. This type of routing will tell the network what the user is sending and what is the meaning of what a user is sending as well,” he explains.

With a user getting all the more powerful and capable, moving forward, the users themselves would design more and more Internet services. “It has happened in the past in the form of chat and peer-to-peer etc. In today’s context, if the network solution based on new technologies are made available, new services and usages will emerge, delivering flexibility to the overall evolution of the Internet,” he added.