lteasia signaling focus day opening remarks with some game of thrones "quotes"

LTE subscribers will grow from 200M in 2013 to 1B in 2o18

Diameter Signaling market predicted to grow from $200M in 2013 to $1-2B

in 2o18

In 2014 Asia will be the largest market by revenue, overtaking North America, while Europe continues its slow climb

Diameter was designed as a protocol for point-to-point element connections

Volume of diameter signaling traffic being generated in LTE networks has exposed a

serious weakness

And of course no one was held responsible

Diameter signaling is dark and full of terrors. The Lord of Light must consume all standards engineers.

Oracle: Aicent, BICS, MetroPCS, Syniverse, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, TMO, Verizon Huawei: AVEA, China Mobile, Telefonica, Telenor Ericsson: Swisscom, Telstra F5: M1

“Policy and QoS are inherent to LTE, you can’t monetize premium services without them.”

Come-on, QoS over LTE is like a one legged man in an arse kicking contest, because its not

end-to-end its near useless.

BUT

Zero-rating of data for telcos’ / partners’ services (does it always need to be done at the network level?)

Enterprises run their business on Telcos’ networks.

QoS can have a role, but it needs an end-to-end solution and application level awareness.

Efficient network operations, but its getting wrapped

up in the NFV/SDN BS.

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”