Why chill and shrink natural gas?

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4) that has been converted to liquid form for ease of storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume of natural gas in the gaseous state. It is odorless,…

Open IMS and TAS

TAS Customer situation More network users are adopting smartphones and the wide range of multimedia apps they support. In a fragmented market with new players, more devices and new ways to communicate, retaining the voice business is coupled with…

Network functions virtualization (NFV)

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is an initiative to virtualize network functions previously carried out by proprietary , dedicated hardware. The concept, which was presented by a group of network service providers at the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in October…

What are SDN Controllers?

An SDN Controller in a software-defined network (SDN) is the “brains” of the network. It is the strategic control point in the SDN network, relaying information to the switches/routers ‘below’ (via southbound APIs) and the applications and business logic ‘above’…

Waterfall vs. SCRUM

(software_development) Topics Plan-Driven Principles Agile Principles Similarity between development and manufacturing Both follow a defined process. Development isn’t manufacturing; development creates the recipe for the product. Process structure Development is phase-based and sequential. Development should beiterative and incremental. Degree of…

A Watch Guy’s Thoughts On The Apple Watch

From my perspective, Apple pay has bigger potential and better business case than Apple Watch. Hard to estimate where this all will Apple take, obviously next version of Apple Watch will be definitely awesome once they figure out which direction…