Broadband World Forum 2012 Highlights - By Alan Quayle

Connected Lighting of the future

This is an advertisement from Philips about their personal wireless lighting system called Hue. This is also the reason why we say that in future everything would be connected and with its own IP address (though this is not the case in Hue).


With Internet of Things (IoT) becoming more mainstream, it would be interesting to see these things becoming more popular and we will hopefully see more interesting apps.

This article makes an interesting reading too.

Speaker Quotes from #MMAF2012

From the Mobile Marketing Association event held in Istanbul 14th -15th November 2012.

Highlights from day 1 of MMA Forum Istanbul 2012 from Paul Berney

MMA Istanbul Day 2 from Paul Berney

Mobile Broadband Speeds: How is 4G different from 3G?

I wrote this answer on Quora and as of yesterday there were 20+ upvotes. So here is an embed for the same:

Read Quote of Zahid Ghadialy's answer to Mobile Broadband: How is 4G different from 3G? on Quora

Quick Introduction to LTE-Advanced

An article written by me for the Mobile Europe magazine where I try and explain LTE-A without going in technical details. This also includes the state of market on who is doing what.

LTE, LTE-A and 4G from eXplanoTech

Evolution of 'Internet of Things' to 'Internet of Everything' #IoE

Will the 'Internet of Humans' and the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) evolve into 'Internet of Everything' (IoE). This is certainly what Dave Evans, the Cisco Futurist thinks. This is from his blog:


From the Internet of Things (IoT), where we are today, we are just beginning to enter a new realm: the Internet of Everything (IoE), where things will gain context awareness, increased processing power, and greater sensing abilities. Add people and information into the mix and you get a network of networks where billions or even trillions of connections create unprecedented opportunities and give things that were silent a voice.

As more things, people, and data become connected, the power of the Internet (essentially a network of networks) grows exponentially. This thinking (“Metcalfe’s law”) comes from Robert Metcalfe, well-known technologist and founder of 3Com, who stated that the value of a network increases proportionately to the square of the number of users. In essence, the power of the network is greater than the sum of its parts, making the Internet of Everything, incredibly powerful.


You can read more here.

See Also:

• Tech Laws

Small Cells: Comparison and Deployment Scenarios

From a presentation by NSN in the Small Cells Global congress.

Opportunities for reshaping the future of your industry?

Another one from FWIC

Opportunities for reshaping the future of your industry? from Zahid Ghadialy

You can also view the webcast here.

Nice Picture summarising 'Wireless Backhaul' Options

Related Links:

• Small Cell Backhaul Solution Types
• Backhauling the Telefonica O2 London LTE Trial
• Femtocell Backhaul Options

Virgin Media's offering on SCaaS

I have blogged about FaaS in the past that is now undergoing trials. I also blogged about SCaaS from our last Cambridge Wireless event that shows the seperation between the operator and the services provided by Small Cell service provider. In the recent Small Cells Global congress, Kevin Baughan from Virgin Media gave an interesting talk on their recent trials. This is the architecture they are proposing.  

They would do site acquisition and maintenance, provide the backhaul and power, any mobile network operator (MNO) can come and put their small cell on the furniture to provide the coverage. I am not sure if multiple operators would pitch for the same sites but I wouldnt think of this as a problem as I am sure there would be multiple sites available in the same location.

A real killer from Virgin media could have been that it does something similar to Free, the French mobile operator that has apparently got Femtocells inbuilt in the set top boxes.

We will have to wait and see how many operators are willing to have third party host their small cells and how many.