Digital life event

Last Friday, I visited the digital life expo. Crazy crowd with games, was really trying to figure out where the future is heading. Took me years back, when I was playing for hours with these car simulators or the sport games, basketball, Olympic games etc. When I was a kid, was so crazy with my first Atari and my friend's Amiga 5000, old days! Impressed from some TV screens, a very cool light camera and had a chance to look closer at some cell phones, especially Nokia that they had an amazing resolution to watch TV or movies and not only. Besides that, I didnt get any innovation vibe and even the high technology didnt inspire me at all.
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My expectations were more to check out digital devices, smart devices for the next generation residence that definitely is not all about games. A robot from iRobot with a camera that could run several tasks as a household 'servant' was my highlight, but still an old technology and it was in a box, not even demo. Lastly a guy was remotely controlling a huge techie bee with some noisy wings that was flying and suddenly ended up to somebody's head, really funny!

-E

Telecom Webinars

Today, I attended a Webinar with title Ethernet-Based Consumer Services: Delivering Quality IPTV, VOD & More. Lightreading is a really cool website, organizing these webinars, where an industry's expert is making comments on really nice slides and the whole event lasts 1 hour. It is an amazing source of knowledge, combining audio and picture and then the discussant is answering to couple of questions that you IM to the event's host. Cool stuff!

The future in next generation networks (NGN)goes with Ethernet, but there is no single winning networking design. That is the magic in that case,there is a plural of different architectures that each operator is deploying. The new services will make things more complicated for the operators, as there is a need for more intelligent services such as bringing video servers closer to the user to save bandwidth in the backhaul and struggle with the cost's increase. We might see multiple set-top boxes at home in the future serving different needs. Smart Metro networks solution with multi-service edge routers were discussed with dynamic broadcasting that will increase the number of HD TV channels to the end-user. The IPTV operators are the leaders in packet intelligence transportation with an ultimate need to control the per subscriber QoS. The future is in the intelligent high QoS services' integration no matter the access technology, FTTH, cable or wireless.

Global Earth Day for the Internet

It was about time and Susan did that few years ago as founder of the OneWebday.org. September 22 is the official date to celebrate the Internet, an amazing tool that changed our life into an online life. We have to show appreciation and respect. But looking all over the planet, we will see that some countries are really suffering, either from infrastructure and access technologies limitations i.e. China is a huge country, difficult to cover or the government is banning access to certain Websites limiting the access to the Internet - example of Turkey and YouTube.
An interesting article is posted from Susan discussing the Internet status, especially in the USA, where the President George W. Bush promised ubiquitous high speed Internet access for 2007. Instead speeds are slow, prices are high, and competition is nominal.

interesting upcoming events

There are two upcoming events/expos I am going to attend in Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. The first one is "Digital life" Sep 27-30 2007, which is the #1 annual event in Consumer electronics exhibiting cutting edge technology. Definitely a high of interest event and very entertaining.

The other one is on Business IT solutions in the same center, "Interop New York 2007" Oct 22-24 2007. This event is more for IT savvys and professionals.

Both are excellent events, have invited also friends to go together; its really amazing how futuristic is the technology and what we actually use today. Barriers? Sometimes, price, or technology unawareness or we even needs unawareness and where the technology could fit and make our life easier. The more we expose ourselves to similar events, the better we understand the role of high-tech solutions in our personal and business life.

-E

The Human Unlimited Bandwidth

Unlimited, the most catchy ad keyword with millions of different interpretations. As we are discussing at the CITI about the unlimited bandwidth networks based on the consumers rising needs, I realized that exactly the same pattern could be identified in the human networks. We have unlimited bandwidth/capacity to satisfy our personal and the others' also needs. Where are your limits - hard to know - and when do you say no, refusing to do something? Hardly never, you download everything to your brain, trying to entertain your life in one way or the other forcing yourself to do it for money, for glory etc. Ever thought how much bandwidth you use for your real needs? Usually limited, what a waste, since most of the time you are the victim, sacrifying it to pay for the societal needs. But everybody likes the unlimited. Most of the time an unlimited service is a waste, cause it makes no sense, unlimited phone calls, so what? Old news!

Are you unlimited? Define yourself. Does unlimited love exist? Extremely rare phenomenon, described only in books as an altruistic illusion of the last decade.

Attributes of the leaders? I can do everything, working 24/7 proving your unlimited style. Thats the one and impatience is the other. Quick decisions are for the experts and still they might have a high-risk factor included, proving them wrong! Day by day we realize that this unlimited bandwidth curve is like an S-curve that reaches its saturation level and then drops. Everybody wants your bandwidth, as they dont have theirs! After that flat point, you refuse, you have more time for yourself and your hobbies and sometimes you reinvent life or you regret! Where do the fortune-hunters belong? Definitely not in the free dictionary. To be continued..

-E