ForeThought - RCV Innovations

There are active Cloud computing initiatives by several service providers. This is article is an attempt to address the pains of jumpstarting, Ramping up up such initiatives along with providing a long term roadmap for sustainable management of large muti-site cloud computing infrastructures. Most of the Service Provider Environments have a well defined Business Support Systems-BSS(Customer Portal, Service Delivery and Rating/Billing Systems. The Operation Support systems-OSS for Service Resource Management/inventory/CMDB, Customer Account/Profile/Identity management and Equipment Provisioning Systems. These systems are generally optimized to handle Network services and Hosted Services.

The Service Provider Economics have been driven by RADIUS from the early days of Dialup internet services. Over the years, RADIUS gained prominence as vital standard supported almost every networking device for Authentication, Authorization and Audit. There are Many Successful deployments of RAIDUS as enabler of Billing and Reconciliation. Good RADIUS article

I had a chance to meet Senior Telcom Executives. There was a healthy discussion about the first/last mile challenges. The conversation lead to challenges faced by ISP's due to growth Video streaming and download traffic. The Problem statement: - Bandwidth consumption of on Conumer network due to video traffic both due to streaming and download Detailed Description: There was a discussion about how consumer business is negetively impacted due to the popularity of Online Video. Added to this, The Content providers are not willing to colocate the content with the SP. there are consumer who consume gigabytes of bandwidth from residential customers due video download services such as netflix. Technical background: HD Video takes anywhere between 1 to 20 Mbps bandwidth for streaming the video(MP4,MPEG2, SD, HD) . the current experience is jerky with wait times to accomadate for the download capability and congetion. The video rental sites have a different behevior due to the need to down...