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)

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)

Unified MPLS for Mobile Transport (UMMT) System Release 1.0 Available NOW

The Cisco Systems Development Unit (SDU) is pleased to announce availability of the first release of the Unified MPLS for Mobile Transport System (UMMT) – bringing industry leading developments in the scale and operational simplicity of MPLS to the highly competitive RAN backhaul market.   The UMMT design utilizes platforms optimized for mobile services, in a system architecture customized to the mobile opportunity. The UMMT system solves the scale challenges inherent in extending MPLS to cell sites, while at the same time simplifying the operational aspects of managing suc... (more)

A Smarthone App Will Save My Thanksgiving Dinner

For a large majority of the world, cooking is simple, fun, even easy some would say. I, sadly, am not part of that large majority - I like to think I represent the less talented cooks that exists out there who are familiar to the smell of burnt food. I am sure as you are reading this far you are thinking, "Why am I reading about a stranger's lack of cooking skills in a Mobility Community space?". To answer that question, it is because a smartphone app will save my Thanksgiving Dinner (and potentially my house). This app, which I have grown to love is called Turkey Timer. Accordin... (more)