Deborah Strickland

I was a first time attendee at CES earlier this month, as part of a Cisco contingent attending to meet with many Service Provider customers. For sure, the main attraction for our customers – beyond the lights and magic of Las Vegas – was seeing and learning about the Cisco Videoscape architecture which enables Operators to create unified consumer Digital TV and IP video experiences across a variety of screens. At CES, we introduced a series of new cloud-enabled Videoscape innovations. We showed customers, analysts and the industry how we are leading the evolution to an IP-enabled TV everywhere environment. We underscored that with announcements of several new customers. It was also an opportunity to showcase some of our SP Mobility solutions which were  of great interest to our Service Provider customers, especially those who won’t attend Mobile ... (more)

Nora Goodman: New Guest VODCaster and Contributor

1.      How long have you been in Telecom? What excites you the most about mobility? What disappoints you the most about mobility?   I have been in telecom production since 2005.  What excites me the most is the creativity and connection that comes from this screen. I view the platform as its own venue with its own production needs and its own audience.  It is the fourth screen; the first is the film screen, the second is the television, the third is the computer, and the fourth is the mobile – tablet or phone. The mobile has its own needs for telling a story and engagin... (more)

Top 12 Blog Posts of 2011

Time has flown quickly and 2011 has proven to be a busy year for the Mobility World. Before the year comes to a complete close and the corner turns to 2012, I would like to highlight the Top 12 Blog Posts of 2011. Before going directly to the list, here is a quick snapshot of what was discussed this year. Events wise, Mobile World Congress (MWC 2011) was the first topic to be covered in January leading onto the last event covered which was key takeaways from LTE North America in November. Two blog series were released this year: one was by Cisco's Brian Walsh covering Monetizati... (more)

Open Mobile Wrap-Up

Not sure if any of you had the opportunity to make it out to Open Mobile Summit last week in San Francisco, but the show, per usual, was a great representation of the fragmented business models developing in the mobile industry as both content producers and traditional mobile carriers seek to fill some of the profitability gaps caused by the decline in their traditional businesses. The rise of broadband mobile data networks and highly-advanced smartphones is an industry-wide problem and requires industry-wide attention.  There is clearly a focus on this across-the-board, in many... (more)

The Mobile Minute: CES 2012

What an exciting week!  The CES is here, now and live, and there is more to it than just Elvis clocks for the consumer to drink-in!  See what innovations are happening and which previous ideas have advocated uptake! Always an exciting time; filled with expectations and new products and services.   Mobile as a distribution venue is legitimized at this year’s CES. The streams and discussions of  entertainment and engagement as forward motion pertaining to the position video entertainment, video marketing, and video connectivity via the mobile device, as it pertains to every... (more)