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US Forces to stay in Mindy
US digs in deeper in the Philippines
By Noel Tarrazona
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - As the Armed Forces of the Philippines expand the scope of their offensive against Muslim insurgent groups on Mindanao, some are wondering if the escalating conflict could lead or already has led to the establishment of a permanent US military presence in the restive region.
Since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York and near Washington, the United States has, as part of a Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the Philippines, poured hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of military aid and technical assistance toward the army's counterinsurgency campaign against Abu Sayyaf, a radical separatist group that Washington contends has links to regional and global terror groups, including Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiya and al-Qaeda.
More recently, the Philippine Army has resumed low-intensity hostilities with two Muslim ceasefire groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Manila has accused the MNLF of harboring members of the 300-member Abu Sayyaf. With US military assistance, though not full-fledged fighting forces, the Philippine Army is believed to have largely hobbled the dwindling Abu Sayyaf by decapitating its top leadership.
With the spiraling fiasco in Iraq and the re-emergence of the Taliban as a fighting force in Afghanistan, the US has no clear-cut victories to show after President George W Bush launched his "war on terrorism" in 2001. Southeast Asia, including combating Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, was identified by Washington as an important theater in the global campaign and by certain measures now represents the only front were the US could conceivably declare any sort of a military victory.
The irony, of course, is that US soldiers have reputedly not done any of the fighting in Mindanao and that the Philippine Army is now threatening to widen the conflict seemingly beyond the United States' original strategic objectives. Some political analysts believe that the recent army operations against the MILF and MNLF have been driven by military leaders keen to keep the United States' financial assistance flowing - despite the new offensive's only tenuous link to Washington's stated counter-terrorism goals. The US has so far remained mum on the Philippine Army's recent allegations that the MNLF, and to a lesser degree the MILF, are in league with Abu Sayyaf.
But a widened conflict and longer stay in the Philippines could serve Washington's broader strategic goals beyond the "war on terror" in the region - counterbalancing China. Since 2002, the US has invested millions of dollars toward the construction not only of military facilities, but also of development and humanitarian projects in and around Zamboanga City, where the US and the Philippine Army have staged a series of ever larger "shoulder to shoulder" joint military exercises, including June's joint Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) naval exercises. More than 600 US troops took part in the original six-month exercises here in 2002, and the US has established a counter-terrorism training camp in the area.
Those joint exercises have now extended into the Muslim-dominated neighboring provinces of Sulu and Basilan, conflict-ridden areas where the fighting between rebel and government forces has been most intense. In Sulu alone, the US has allocated more than US$100 million for infrastructure and social services, an attempt to address the abject poverty that Manila contends has driven the region's unemployed youth into insurgent camps, but also possibly to pave the way for future resource extraction.
Ever since the Philippines' former colonial overlord was ousted in 1991 from its long-held military bases at Subic Bay and Clark, local law has strictly prohibited the re-establishment of foreign military bases in the country. The legislation was put in place specifically to guard against a repeat of the country's experience under the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who for years was financially propped up by Washington and symbolically fortified by the United States' military presence in the country.
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Now some in President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's camp are believed quietly to favor maintaining some sort of US military presence in the country - both to consolidate recent US-supported battlefield gains against Muslim separatist groups and more broadly to counterbalance China's growing military might in the region.
Outwardly Manila's bilateral relations with Beijing are cordial, but the two sides have in recent years skirmished over their competing claims to the reputedly oil-rich Spratly Islands. The recent joint CARAT exercises with the US notably coincided with a Foreign Ministry announcement of a new joint seismic marine undertaking with Beijing to settle their disputed claims in the South China Sea.
For their part, US officials deny harboring any ambitions to establish a permanent military base in Mindanao, or for that matter anywhere else in the Philippines. Joint Special Operation Task Force commander Colonel David Maxwell, who leads the joint exercise with the Philippine Army, says the US presence is strictly consistent with the provisions of the VFA.
Left-leaning groups, such as Focus on the Global South (FGS), a research institute based in Thailand that has closely monitored the US military's presence in the Philippines, contend that the US has, in apparent violation of Philippine laws, already established de facto bases in Mindanao. According to VFA commissioner Edilberto Adan, the technical definition of a US base entails US troops and supplies being located inside a host nation's facilities - as is now the case in the southern Philippines.
FGS noted in a recent statement that the US Overseas Basing Commission (OBC), an official US government body, has recently listed the Philippines as developing "cooperative security locations" - a category of military bases in official US parlance - and that US troops in Mindanao refer to their locations there as "Advanced Operating Base 920".
The research outfit also said that the OBC currently describes the Philippines as a supply base for military operations throughout the region and asked why the US base-construction unit, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, recently allocated a P650 million ($14 million) six-month contract to US firms offering "base operations" services in the Philippines.
It also asked why the US has launched a series of new military-related projects across the region - estimated to be worth at least $14.4 million - at a time the campaign against the emasculated Abu Sayyaf should in theory be winding down.
FGS argues that, consistent with US practice and that of governments in other countries that host US bases where they face domestic opposition, in an attempt to obscure the precise definition of what constitutes a base, Washington and Manila are deliberately keeping the exact nature of the US military presence in Mindanao under wraps.
Although the so-called "Cooperative Security Locations" are technically run and maintained by Manila or private contractors, the Pentagon considers them US military facilities that may be activated for pre-positioning logistics support and as venues for joint operations with host militaries during actual combat operations.
VFA commissioner Adan has reacted to the allegations by saying that the said facilities only serve to provide living quarters for the small number of US troops who are providing technical and logistical assistance to the Philippine Army in its operations against Abu Sayyaf.
He said the facilities are "not bases inside our camps; these are lodgings that are under Philippine control", and emphasized that US troops are not engaging in actual combat but rather are sharing intelligence with the Philippine Army and providing humanitarian, engineering, medical, veterinarian and explosive and disposal services.
Other Philippine officials contend that the US-financed construction of the contested facilities will benefit the impoverished region by creating hundreds if not thousands of new jobs. Several local leaders and residents have been openly supportive of the United States' presence in the historically restive region, noting that the Philippine Army failed to come to grips with Abu Sayyaf until US soldiers arrived on the scene. Whether those same local groups would be willing to accept a more outwardly permanent US military presence is altogether unclear.
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What happens if Blackwater operators come in to those alleged bases and participate in combat ops? They are not US troops per se but they are contracted by the US DOD, so what laws could be applied to them?
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I would like them to stay in Mindanao and in the region as well. Not only for combat operations, but for humanitarian projects as well. They have rapid deployment capabilities, and if a calamity or a disaster strikes somewhere in the Philippines, they almost always arrive ahead of our Armed Forces which lack the logistics to mount a rapid deployment operation.
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As long as they spend their valuable dollars here, I'd have no objections to their stay. We'll eventually be given hand-me-down weapons, much better than what we have in our inventory, as what previous US visitors did.
Kaya lang sa mga nightclub. coo-ree-poot daw mga GI.
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I don't mind their coming and staying here, for as long as they conduct themselves properly. And by the looks, they do, so far.
But I expected no less from SpecOps guys.
Once, I was at Shakeys in Ayala Cebu and there were some `kano's next to my table, and they were all talking about aviation, which made me suspect that they were helicopter pilots; at that time there were some US choppers in Mactan for some sort of exercise.
Another time I was about to drive to the office when I heard a turboprop flying overhead, and it was unmistakably a Lockheed P-3 Orion, of which we have none. Somebody told me they are regular visitors to Mactan.
Still another time, we were in a beach south of Dumaguete, when two very fast patrol boats went by headed south; I saw the American flags through my binoculars; pity that my camera then had only 4MP and 3x zoom
but I took a picture anyway. I immediately concluded these were American since our Navy couldn't afford to run a pair of them at the same time, much less at such speed.
They went back in the afternoon, at a slower speed. I looked them up on the `net, with my heavily pixelized photo as reference, and found they were USN Mark V boats, used for inserting SEAL teams. They looked mean.
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Kaya lang sa mga nightclub. coo-ree-poot daw mga GI.
They have strict rules about conduct in public places now. And with the US economy not doing well, they'd be better off keeping their hard-earned cash in their pockets.
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Ethernet is probably the most common physical interface type that can be handled. The kernel provides a set of general purpose Ethernet support routines that such drivers can use.
eth_header() is the standard Ethernet handler for the dev-hard_header routine, and can be used in any Ethernet driver. Combined with eth_rebuild_header() for the rebuild routine it provides all the ARP lookup required to put Ethernet headers on IP packets.
The eth_type_trans() routine expects to be fed a raw Ethernet packet. It analyses the headers and sets skb->pkt_type and skb->mac itself as well as returning the suggested value for skb->protocol. This routine is normally called from the Ethernet driver receive interrupt handler to classify packets.
eth_copy_and_sum(), the final Ethernet support routine is internally quite complex, but offers significant performance improvements for memory mapped cards. It provides the support to copy and checksum data from the card into a sk_buff in a single pass. This single pass through memory almost eliminates the cost of checksum computation when used and improves IP throughput.
Alan Cox has been working on Linux since version 0.95, when he installed it in order to do further work on the AberMUD game. He now manages the Linux Networking, SMP, and Linux/8086 projects and hasn't done any work on AberMUD since November 1993.
What about rmem_max / rmem_default ?
An admirable in-depth article. Just a stupid question (I'm so slow-witted) : I still don't catch the link between the rmem_default/rmem_max sysctl parameters (socket receive buffer default/max length) and the buffer allocated by dev_alloc_skb(). Socket receive buffer vs buffer of skb : are we talking about he same memory area, or are they different things (involving necessarily a copy from the one to the other, sooner or later) ?
Thanks for anyone who would make it clear to me,
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Should be working now.
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thanx for the great article..
at each layer the data and tail pointers change right??
so if i need to acces the L7 data,consider UDP can i take the from pre routing hook can i take data+udphdr->length..??
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Thanx for the article.
Iam Ram.Iam new to device driver development.
some how i manged to write a network driver.
still i need some help.But I want to access the driver functions directly from user program written in c.
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is it possible to do it.
Thanx in adavance,
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Viable Carrier Wi-Fi Starts with ANDSF
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets have made users a little more ornery. They now expect both a high quality of experience and high bandwidth availability to run their mobile devices. Yet, this can be a challenge for operators.
One solution to tackle the bandwidth issue is leveraging carrier Wi-Fi, which eases the cellular load. But Wi-Fi has historically been challenging in terms of user experience, as logins and moving between cellular reception and Wi-Fi have made the experience anything but simple and elegant.
Policy empowered carrier Wi-Fi control looks to change that, however, delivering both bandwidth and a high quality of experience. This empowered Wi-Fi is possible thanks to 3GPP, Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF).
How to Win the Battle of Core Router Cooling
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
As broadband traffic continues to increase, it is increasingly becoming a challenge to scale power management accordingly to keep power consumption down and heat dissipation up enough to not overhead core routers.
"Traffic growth sets off a vicious cycle in the Network Operation Center (NOC): higher power consumption to run the additional equipment, more heat generated by the additional equipment, more cooling needed to stay in optimal operating temperature range, and higher power consumption to run the cooling elements," noted a recent TechZine article, Why Hotter Networks Need a Cooler Core, by Arnold Jansen Senior Product Marketing Manager, Alcatel-Lucent.
Shared Data Plans Mean New Charging Challenges
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
The move to LTE networks, increasing data usage, and the proliferation of multiple devices per user has ushered in the concept of shared data plans.
Shared data plans offer benefits both to consumers and operators. For carriers, shared data plans mean the ability to have a single pool of data minutes that they can use across their multiple devices. For carriers, shared data plans mean increased customer loyalty and additional revenue opportunities.
However, shared data plans also mean challenges for carrier charging systems.
Alcatel-Lucent Motive Customer Experience Solutions Win Two Industry Awards
By Peter Bernstein, TMCnet Senior Editor
For those who follow the mobile industry closely, you know that mobile service providers (MSPs) are constantly on the watch for tools that will enable them to gain a competitive edge. You are also aware from TMCnet's coverage of the space mobile device management (MDM) is increasingly be viewed as an invaluable tool for MSPs to get better visibility into what is going on end-to-end with their customers enabling them to provide an enhanced, simpler and more customized customer experience as well as facilitate the roll out of LTE services.
One such capability that increasingly is gaining traction with MSPs around the world is Alcatel-Lucent's Motive portfolio of Customer Experience Solutions. And, the efforts of the Motive team have not gone unnoticed. In fact, Alcatel-Lucent was recently honored with two industry awards in recognition of the work being done to help service providers forge stronger and more valuable customer relationships:
The Apple Loophole: iOS 7 Upgrade Impacts on Mobile Networks
By Patrick Tan, General Manager, Network Intelligence, Alcatel-Lucent
Note: Originally posted in Alcatel-Lucent Analytics Beat blog
Similar to previous iOS updates, over 50% of Apple device users upgraded their device to iOS 7 within 2-3 days of its release, 30% upgrading within the first day. Apple made improvements to their software release process to ensure mobile networks are protected from these techno-hungry iPhone users. Specifically, the notification announcing availability of the new iOS is staggered over a few days to help spread out the signaling load. They also implemented a "no-greater than 100 MB app size" policy which restricts apps over that size from downloading over mobile networks. And Apple's iOS 7 update came with a mandatory WiFi-based upgrade path.
So, quiet day on mobile networks on September 18th? Not quite – iOS 7 update came with a hidden cost to mobile operators. But, only systems correlating signaling, volume, applications and device data – down to the iOS version – could detect these trends.
In this blog, we report on Apple iOS update trends discovered using the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG on mobile networks worldwide.
Managing Signaling Traffic a Must for LTE Operators
By: Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
The first wave of large-scale LTE rollouts have shown that LTE networks have significantly greater packet core signaling volume. This is partly due to the flatter, all-IP architecture of LTE where macro and micro cells are directly connected to the mobility management entity (MME), the dedicated control plane element in the evolved packet core. This is also because of the increased overall network use that comes with subscribers who have access to a faster network.
An MME can experience a sustained signaling load of more than 500-800 messages per user equipment (UE) during the normal peak busy hours and up to 1500 messages per user per hour under adverse conditions, according to a recent blog by David Nowoswiat and Gordon Milliken of Alcatel-Lucent, Managing LTE Core Network Signaling Traffic.
This is why it is incumbent that operators intelligently manage packet core signaling.
The Wireless Packet Core--How Data Moves Through an LTE Network
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
The move toward 4G LTE is a seismic shift in mobile architecture inasmuch as it finally takes operators to an all-IP architecture. No more packet/TDM mix that adds complexity and slows down the network.
The rise in LTE also has meant a explosion in demand for packet core technology. Packet core revenue grew by 20 percent in the second quarter of this year compared with last year, for instance, according to research firm Dell'Oro.
The evolved packet core (EPC), as the LTE packet core is known, is both the brains and the brawn of LTE. Data goes from handsets across the backhaul network to the EPC, where the data is processed and then forwarded onto the Internet or another public or private network from the mobile provider.
Carriers Can Benefit from Shared Mobile Data Plans
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
Shared minutes have been a wild success for mobile operators, and the family plans have become the norm. But now consumers want shared data plans, too, since according to Alcatel-Lucent one in every four mobile users will have more than one device by 2016. Currently 60 percent of consumers want shared data plans, and that number is likely to grow.
Shared data plans are a boon for operators, so this trend should be embraced.
Users on shared plans typically opt for larger data buckets, for one. More than a quarter of subscribers for one leading carrier choose a data allowance of 10 GB per month or larger, according to a recent TechZine posting by Daisy Su Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Corporate Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent, The Case for Shared Data Plans.
G.fast Promises a Copper Speed Boost with VDSL2 Vectoring 2.0
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
There was a time when fiber-to the-home was seen as the future of broadband. But all that changed with the introduction of VDSL2 vectoring.
"With a single innovation, the market shifted," noted Alcatel-Lucent colleagues Paul Spruyt and Dr. Stefaan Vanhastel in a recent blog post, The Numbers are in: Vectoring 2.0 Makes G.fast Faster. "Copper became a valuable commodity again as operators began using their copper assets to deliver fast broadband speeds faster."
Making that copper even more valuable potentially is the new G.fast standard.
G.fast can increase aggregate bit rates over copper loops shorter than 250 m to fiber speeds of more than 1 Gb/s, the authors explained. It also delivers a cost advantage over deploying fiber directly to the home.
The trouble is that G.fast suffers from crosstalk even more than VDSL2. Tests by Bell Labs on older, unshielded cables in Austria showed that G.fast reached speeds of 500 Mb/s over 100 m when a single line was active, but they fell to a measly 60 MB/s when crosstalk was introduced as a result of a second G.fast line being added.
Playing the Mobile Data Game
If the 'price is right,' operators could win in mobile data.
By Cassidy Shield, Head of Global Solutions Marketing for Content, Cloud, and Communications, Alcatel-Lucent
I am bullish on the mobile broadband opportunity and pro mobile data share plans as an innovative approach to data pricing. With that said, the irony of mobile data sharing plans is that you're not really sharing anything. Sure, multiple devices can pull from the same data pool, but there's no exchange of data, no bartering, and essentially no value associated with each byte.
That's how the market is today, in these early days of data sharing, but "gameification" has the potential to transform how consumers interact with their data plans. Imagine a family of four, in fact I often imagine my family of four all on the same data plan. My wife could negotiate with our daughter, saying, "I will trade you 10 megabytes of data for doing your chores." Maybe my daughter who is quite clever doesn't want to do her chores, so he makes a similar deal with her brother. Each family could set their own rules for chore bartering, but what is interesting is that when data is treated as a currency with real value associated with it, the possibilities open up.
It's not just chore-evading children who would find this model interesting, but also advertisers and third parties. Brands are exploring every possible means to build their mobile presence, but the key lies in figuring out how to connect with mobile users by giving them what they want -- connectivity.
Network Analytics Show the Rise of Mobile Phone Malware
By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
It is a scene out of a Mission Impossible movie, only the threat is real. Two product managers and a VP sit down to discuss the latest product release, one that's been under wraps for months. While the group thinks it is safely beyond the ears of its competition, unknowingly one of those present in the meeting has had malware installed on his Android phone. The malware activates the microphone on the smartphone, and the whole meeting is taped and sent to the competition.
This nightmare scenario is unfortunately not beyond the possible these days.
Kindsight, an Alcatel-Lucent suite of solutions, leverages network-based security analytics such as its 9900 Wireless Network Guardian to reveal the latest trends on security threats to fixed and mobile networks, and its Q2 2013 Kindsight Security Labs Malware Quarterly Report reveals that the number of mobile spyware applications discovered this quarter is on the rise, according to an Alcatel-Lucent blog post, Android phones playing "I spy" at home and at work..
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Capacity-Based Plans
In this seventh installment of the Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe (@rhcrowe) looks at capacity-based mobile data plans. With capacity-based plans, subscribers are encouraged to use the network when it has spare capacity or to pay a little bit more as the network nears its capacity. Mobile operators can use these plans to reduce network congestion, monetize peak-time data traffic, and better manage the investment required to address continually growing demand for data.
Congested networks and wasted capacity
Fast-rising mobile data traffic – driven by increasing consumption of real-time entertainment on the go – is putting a strain on mobile networks (see Figure 1 as an example). Mobile network operators are working hard to increase capacity so they can meet peak demand and keep subscribers satisfied. Adding capacity can help ensure that users don't encounter a slow or unresponsive network during mobile data traffic peaks. But it's an expensive solution that means even more capacity goes unused at off-peak times. Capacity-based plans are an excellent way to slow network growth requirements while monetizing available capacity.
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Loyalty-Based Plans
In this sixth installment of the Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe (@rhcrowe) examines loyalty-based mobile data plans. With loyalty-based plans, subscribers get rewards for keeping up active relationships with mobile network operators. Operators can use these plans as the basis for retaining subscribers, encouraging increased spending and data usage, or forming mutually profitable partnerships with retailers.
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Airlines offer them. So do hotels, credit card companies and, yes, mobile network operators. "They" are loyalty programs that reward customers for making frequent purchases. Airlines, hotels and credit cards tend to stick to the script, offering free flights, nights and merchandise. Mobile network operators have no such script. Today, operators reward loyal customers with voice minutes, text messages, accessories, ringtones, discounted device upgrades or even dining, shopping, travel and spa services. As mobile network operators' business models grow more data-centric, the creative use of mobile data will become essential to ensuring that their loyalty-based plans remain relevant.
How the Cloud is Making Datacenters Dynamic
By: Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks
The future of datacenters is virtual, automatic, cloud-based, instantaneous, and boundary-less. These might not be the words associated with datacenters today -- you're more likely to hear slow, cumbersome, and related words in the same breath -- but software is driving this revolution in networking.
It has been undergoing a massive shift to the cloud for years now, driven by enterprise motivations to consolidate, as well as to use computer resources more optimally and efficiently. While computing virtualization has driven this transformation, the network has fallen woefully behind. Imagine having 20 virtual machines (VMs) in a server: Tomorrow that number grows to 100, to 200 the day after, and so on.
As you realize the implications of this growth in the datacenter, it becomes clear that the traditional networking approach of connecting those VMs is mindboggling because it doesn't deliver the true promise of the cloud -- instant access to apps anytime, anywhere and with no disruptions.
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Third Party Pays
In this fifth installment of the Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe examines third party pays mobile data plans. With third party pays plans, application and content providers pay mobile network operators for the data that subscribers use in consuming their content.
Data on the house!
Have you ever enjoyed a great meal at a restaurant and then been told that it's on the house? It's a wonderful feeling! Third party pays mobile data plans bring that same feeling to the mobile experience. You consume mobile content and someone else — the content provider or another business — pays your mobile network operator for the data you used. It doesn't count toward your monthly allocation.
Today's business model favors application and content providers. They provide the content and consumers cover the mobile data bill through their data plans. So why would a content provider pay for mobile data? The reason is simple: If the provider's content consumes a lot of data, mobile consumers may access it sparingly or not at all to save precious megabytes. This behavior may be even more pronounced toward the end of the month, as consumers approach data plan limits.
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Third Party Pays
In this fifth installment of the Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe examines third party pays mobile data plans. With third party pays plans, application and content providers pay mobile network operators for the data that subscribers use in consuming their content.
Data on the house!
Have you ever enjoyed a great meal at a restaurant and then been told that it's on the house? It's a wonderful feeling! Third party pays mobile data plans bring that same feeling to the mobile experience. You consume mobile content and someone else — the content provider or another business — pays your mobile network operator for the data you used. It doesn't count toward your monthly allocation.
Today's business model favors application and content providers. They provide the content and consumers cover the mobile data bill through their data plans. So why would a content provider pay for mobile data? The reason is simple: If the provider's content consumes a lot of data, mobile consumers may access it sparingly or not at all to save precious megabytes. This behavior may be even more pronounced toward the end of the month, as consumers approach data plan limits.
WebRTC Event Highlights the New Era of Communications
By: Ed Elkin, Marketing Director, Advanced Communication Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
Sure enough, upon arriving at the WebRTC Conference and Expo, it's clear this is the same stretch of Cobb Parkway where I came every few weeks to the AT&T SDN Control Center – for 1993's version of SDN. Then as now, better enterprise communications were needed. In 1993, the substance of the WebRTC's conference was a dream, which now becomes 2013's reality because of two decades' investment in terrific devices, convenient broadband access and dynamic network cores.
This was a hot conference, full of diverse views and ideas. At our live demo table, variation was the norm. Visitors spanned from numerous service providers (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cox, Orange, NTT, etc.), to a variety of startups such as Dvisor Hypermedia who are applying gaming's threaded media to communications, to industry notables such as Intel checking out WebRTC for consumer media units. Not many enterprises were visibly present, which is a concern because WebRTC will boost their business process efficiency (internal and external) and they need to prepare for how it affects their competitiveness.
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Application-Based Plans
In this fourth installment of the Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe examines application-based data plans. These plans let mobile subscribers use specific applications without consuming their data allowance.
Removing the worry from mobile application use
How would you like to use your favorite mobile applications without having to worry about going over your data limit and paying overage fees? That's the idea behind application-based data plans. You pay a monthly fee to use one or more specific applications as much as you want. The data consumed by these applications doesn't count against your data plan. In some cases, your mobile network operator may decide to make selected applications available without impacting your data plan in exchange for a very nominal fee.
Two categories of applications are particularly well suited to application-based pricing. The first are data-hungry applications, like video and multimedia. Today, some consumers use these applications sparingly because they fear going over data limits and incurring overage charges. The second includes core applications that don't consume much data, such as text-only e-mail or social networking. These applications may be used to introduce subscribers to the world of mobile data.
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Shared Data Plans
Mobile data: It's nice to share
From an early age, we're taught that it's nice to share. With time, we learn the value of sharing things like cookies, good books and the wisdom that comes from experience. But what about sharing mobile data? Do consumers want to share their mobile data? What would this look like?
Keeping Up With the Modern-Day Nomads
By Philip Carden, Head of Alcatel-Lucent Consulting Services
Meet the digital nomads, a growing group of heavy mobile data users that's redefining how service providers think about connectivity.
There is a small, but growing, new class of data users amongst us. You've likely spotted one – that man hunched over a laptop at your neighborhood coffee shop, the woman swiping through a tablet in the park, or even that teen on the train whose eyes are glued to a video on his larger-than-average smartphone.
They are the digital nomads. Unlike the hunters and gatherers of the past, these nomads are always connected, regardless of where they are, and their expectations for connectivity have never been higher.
Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation: Service Level-based Plans
In this second installment of the Six Degrees of Mobile Data Plan Innovation blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe takes a closer look at service level-based data plans. These plans can be used to give subscribers opportunities to enhance their mobile data services in exchange for a monthly or per-use fee.
What do consumers think about service level-based plans?
In February 2013, Alcatel-Lucent asked mobile broadband consumers in six countries about the concept of service level-based data plans. Globally, two-thirds of respondents said they would be interested in a premium service that could provide an enhanced quality of service (QoS).[1]
Bringing customers closer: Six degrees of mobile data plan innovation
By Rich Crowe, Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent IP Platforms
We've all heard about the dramatic rise of mobile data traffic, spurred on by expanding 3G and LTE networks, smart device use, compelling apps and mobile video consumption. We know that mobile network operators face shrinking voice and messaging revenues and growing competition from over-the-top (OTT) providers. Operators know the pressure is on. Can they transform network investment and data traffic demand into data revenue growth? Where will this growth come from?
In this eight-part blog series, Alcatel-Lucent's Rich Crowe answers these questions by presenting six degrees of mobile data plan innovation that can help operators build closer relationships with customers and grow data revenues.
Mobile Gets Straight to the Point (of Sale)
By Cassidy Shield, Head of Global Solutions Marketing for Content, Cloud, and Communications, Alcatel-Lucent
When consumers start buying data where they use it, the possibilities for consumption multiply.
Mobile is the growth engine of the communications industry, yet the way consumers purchase, discover, and engage with their data plan is in a store, on a website, or, even more archaically, via calling a call center. This is fundamentally backward, but it's also a clear wireless operator opportunity.
The opportunity lies in moving the point of sale (POS) to the smartphone or tablet itself, and it starts with a mobile application. With mobile data growing by leaps and bounds, operators have been grappling with how to manage and monetize the influx. Their conversations so far have centered on real-time charging, policy control, and personalization to transform how they bill, but there's been very little action on how to make these complex processes simple for consumers.
The Big Deal about Big Data Analytics
By Greg Owens, Senior Director Customer Experience Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
The rise of big data is causing service providers to ask some big questions: How should we store our data? How long should we keep it? What parts of it are relevant to our business? Most importantly, how do we get value from it? To turn big data into a big deal, service providers need to extract insights that can help them make smart business decisions and improve the customer experience.
The value of big data is all in what useful and actionable information it can provide. I find it exciting to see how service providers use big data analytics to gain new insights and solve complex problems. With this post, I'll look at some new research by industry analysts and three key opportunities that big data analytics presents to service providers.
WebRTC: Where Telecom Meets the Web
By Ed Elkin, Marketing Director, Advanced Communication Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
WebRTC is giving apps a voice and operators new revenue opportunities.
I communicate all day long, but it's always bifurcated between voice and the web. Last December's Consumer Electronics Show, however, showed me these two worlds will soon be merging thanks to a new technology called Web Real Time Communications (WebRTC).
Technically, WebRTC equips a browser with a standardized structure for communications clients, consisting of native functions for audio, video, and data exchange -- and that's cool for the side of me that enjoys technology. Appealing to my business side, WebRTC is a catalyst for innovation because it reduces the heavy work of interworking clients between devices and browsers, and because it avoids the tedious download and installation of thick, heavy clients. That combination of technical and business niceties explains why fast movers in the industry are excited by WebRTC.


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Pegasuslegend says
Don't have a clue what kind of background you have in photography but not only is my mouth watering.. you just made me want to eat meat after two years of eating strickly fish and veggies.. who what a shot!
Roz says
I'm a total and complete amateur! No, don't get started on beef. I'd rather be like you and stick with fish and veggies!
Anne @ Domesblissity says
Oh Roz! I can smell that from here. How gorgeous!
Anne xx
Roz says
Oooh, these must have a pretty strong aroma to reach you! Thanks for stopping by and have a great 'time-off'.
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This is fantastic, Roz. I am in love with this creamy Gorgonzola burger!
Roz says
I would have LOVED to have tried these burgers with your garlic-chive bread! WOW!
vittoria says
I love blue cheese! It 's a typical cheese in my area product at "zero km", fantastic sandwich!
Meraviglioso un'esplosione di sapori!
Buona settimana
Roz says
I thought that you would like Italian gorgonzola Vittoria! Good stuff!
Buona settimana e tu!
Mary says
What a glorious burger. This sounds fabulous. I love all the veined cheeses but gorgonzola is perfect for this burger. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings…Mary
Roz says
Hi Mary, it's not our normal burger topping (gorgonzola), but it will certainly be used more often now!
Ilaria says
It's a long time I want to try the homemade burger. I don't like to eat it outside…
Your burgers are wonderful, with the hot cheese.
Roz says
Questo taglietelle suona wonderfu con i funghi porcini. Porcini sono molto costosi qui, quindi questa ricetta sarebbe un piacere delizioso per noi!
Ciao Illaria,
Roz says
The above comment is in reference to Illaria's wonderful taglietelle with porcini mushrooms that she posted on Sept. 24th! Check it out! YUM!
rita cooks italian says
I love your burger! I am not a burgers fan, but I changed my mind when I visited USA! Quality American burgers taste delicious and your burger combined with Italian cheese and oregano/garlic is just what I want. Ciao
Roz says
A good burger in the States is a must, Rita. I think it is one of the 'national' sandwiches. Very traditional and the men love burgers here!
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We just had steaks with a Maytag blue cheese sauce last night…love this flavor combination. And I'm so jealous of your gorgeous, red tomatoes…our homegrown tomatoes are long gone. Such wonderful burgers!
Roz says
Maytag blue cheese is the BEST blue on the planet. I always, always bring back a nice sized piece every time we return to Iowa. You're so lucky to have such great foods in Iowa and I miss having them readily available!
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Yum! They look amazing and have many of my favorite toppings.
My family will be thrilled when I make these for dinner
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Jo, if your family likes blue cheese, this would be a winning combo burger for all of you! Thanks for stopping by!
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Great looking burger Roz and topped with things I love.
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It's definitely a 'man-burger', Larry!


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In case anyone is interested, there will be a rededication of Disneyland tomorrow (July 17, 2007) in Town Square at 4:45pm. No big names or anything, but should be fun all the same.
Official word is they're not expecting a tremendous crowd in the park based on current attendance and the fact that it's on a Tuesday.
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Thread: KingElvis' Sketchbook 2013
November 2nd, 2008 #1
KingElvis' Sketchbook 2013
Hey guys,
I been checking conceptart for over a year now and got my constant share of inspiration from so many great artists in here. I decided to get off my lazy ass and start showing my stuff to other people so that I can learn more by other peoples critique.
Ill post as often as I can
okay, this is a first bunch o stuff from the last days. There was a lot that wasnt worth showing anywhere, believe me. My actual goal or route that Im aiming for is drawing from my imagination mostly and i figured that in order to achieve that i have to copy things as well as draw em from memory or imagination. And i have to work on my discipline to really finish sketches to "drawings". This has been a real problem for me over the last year- all crappy sketches, no drawings...
anyway, these are done from paintings and books i like and from imagination. tell me what ya think, and, talk to you guys later!
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberNovember 7th, 2008 #2
smth i posted in the pose and gesture thread as well. even tho im not quite satisfied with em. but that drives me to try and draw some more of those...
November 9th, 2008 #3
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November 9th, 2008 #4
so, this is todays outcome. im drawing after the schedule described in the Kimon NiKolaides book. Im not going to post teh contour drawings, because theyre all about the practise and the things you learn while drawing and dont look like anything anyway^^
thise stuff here is done with the help of my little wooden stickfigure. I try to push the pose here and there so, when i try to draw the gesture its kindof a mixture of the Walt Stanchfield and Kimon Nicolaides approach.
See ya later!
November 9th, 2008 #5
Great start, I especially like your animal sketches. Nice work on the poses. Maybe it could help if you try doing a curve that defines the overall pose, first, and then build on that, because I think that some of them are a bit unbalanced.
Also, I don´t think you should put down lines that don´t really add anything, it makes some of them look messy.
Keep it up!
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November 11th, 2008 #6
Mumph: Thanks alot. about those messy lines: yeah, i know. im working on tat. but the thing is that those lines are my way to feel what im drawing and to..like trial and error, trying various lines until i see the "right" line...
but I read about that the other day, that this is actually smth that should be done in my head, not on the paper and that other artists use ink markers and such in order to avoid those scribbly lines. Ill do that as well, so thanks for your post
here are a few more that i did yesterday. tried smth else with gestures here...
and this is todays stuff. tried to use less lines here.
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November 12th, 2008 #7
Woo, the guy whos trying to get this sack off the ground was ..intense. this was the most fun cause most of what i drew flew around in my head and i tried to capture that...I will try and come up with of that.
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November 16th, 2008 #11
Man, that´s a lot of gesture studies don´t forget to practise everything else. I think you are doing a nice job.
Yeah I totally get that it´s your way of drawing and I don´t see anything wrong with doing it like that but sometimes the lines still feels like they are just there for the "style". Hope you get what i´m saying.
Yeah you could try doing gestures with as few lines as well but don´t abandon they way you are doing them right now, I don´t think there is any "right way", just the way that works for you and helps you learn and communicate what you are drawing.
I think it´s good to try drawing in differant ways and try differant things so that you don´t get locked in just one way of doing things, I guess everything has it advantages and disadvantages. I think you are progressing, you have a nice feel for it.
Those hand studies are nice but as you do with the poses, also build up the hands using construction lines, will help a lot and make you draw more confident lines.
Keep it up man!
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November 16th, 2008 #12
Volchiha: thanks. What, there are SPARs in south africa?! lol do you know what "spar" means anyway? the german word?
Mumph: Thanks man. Yeah, theres gonna be other stuff as well in the future
this is todays chunk o stuff
and yes, the yellow stains is coffee ^^
November 16th, 2008 #13
I find your gesture studies amazing and very expressive; I know this comment isn't very helpful, but I couldn't stop to notice that
November 17th, 2008 #14
silverrspells: thanks. Well, I actually like hearing about other peoples opinions about the stuff I produce...this keeps the own views in check i think
heres todays outcome. nothing fancy for today, the animal stuff was just for relaxation and it really was fun. Gesture work is sometimes exhausting. And i like variety even tho i havent shown much of that lately
November 23rd, 2008 #15
on with the show
the first one was done inspired by the "concept art 101" thread which i think is just great!
Been toying around with some digital painting lately- well, i wouldnt call it painting yet- and i will definitely get smth done in ps too so, be prepared
see ya!
btw, sorry for those biguns- been using this upload manager thingy for the first time and..yea,..never mind.
November 24th, 2008 #16
so, this is me, going digital using photoshop. My very first steps, so be kind
Im kinda stumped at how to actually proceed without ruining the pic even more...:/ any suggestions or critique is, as alwas, very welcome.
November 24th, 2008 #17
for your painting inphotoshop, I would suggest, trying to clean up the background first its definitely easier to paint if you have clean lines to start, also the painting is all mid range, the next step would be to figure out your darks and then add some highlights, your drawings are looking really good, and i suggest if you do more painting to do some reference paintings. keep it up, I hope to see more.
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November 25th, 2008 #18
localfatheaded: Thanks mate. Yeah, Ill definitely do more paintings. Ive successfully neglected any painting over the years :/ and damn, it shows! I got this book on digital painting coming and Ive read some tutorials on CA, so, Ill post my next steps at painting later this week.
heres some pencil work I did at work today. Got some time to hang around and even tho i didnt have any ref material at hand I really wanted to try some guys with clothes and things attached to the clothes and stuff. Never really focused on that before and I tried to come up with some things ive seen here and there.
November 26th, 2008 #19
Well, here we go with the newest outcome. Started some modelling exercises these days. So, this is actually not about light and shade but about from: what is near should be drawn withoput pressure, the stuff thats farther away should be darker. Its about getting a feeling for the form while drawing. I dont know if it shows, but it feels great. Ive been following the schedule of this Nikolaides book and its a whole lotta fun and smth changes inside of me... well, we'll see
catch ya later!
December 2nd, 2008 #20
The thing I love the most in your thread are your in-sequence motion-studies. How are you doing those, may I ask? out of your head? with video or real life reference? from photos?
I'm curious because I'd love to do some of that for practice on my own.
Also you have a lot of nice studies in this thread. Your animal drawing is looking like you're really starting to 'get' it. On that note I need more animal drawing myself.
My only point of criticism is that you're WAY TOO CONSERVATIVE. Though I should note that you have a loose gestural feel I love to your motion studies and various other things - to clarify I mean that I would like to see you do THOSE studies AND mix it up with you taking risks and going nuts with pulling and twisting and exaggerating poses, as well as faces. Check out Mike Matessi's two "Force" books to learn some more about that. Also you might want to buy Walter Stanchfield's books when they come out pretty soon.
PS - If you're in southern california I'd love to draw with ya sometime.
My sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho....php?p=2004966
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December 4th, 2008 #21
animationidiot: thanks for the nice words. I tried to get some more expression into my drawings but its harder than it looks, i can tell you that. I think this is the next step i was talking about in your SB. Expression. exaggeration. which makes for style, even tho i dont wanna think about style too much. Im in ca next year, ill let ya know
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December 4th, 2008 #22
Still working hard on the gestures
The proportions are a bit off in the portrait in post #12, the eye line should be roughly in the middle of the head. The eyes also looks a bit tiny.
Very dynamic poses. As i´ve said before I really like the animal studies, I should do these myself. I agree with localfatheaded on the digital piece and don´t be afraid to exagurate and experiment, put in some really dark and light values.
The military man is great, nice work on the clothes although his right arm seems to be a bit too long and his legs also seem to be of different lenghts, that may be due to the foreshortening.
I like the modeling exercises, very loose.
I think those first two poses in post #21 are excellent.
Your lines seems to become more confident, great progress!
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December 23rd, 2008 #23
done during school. yes im still alive. even tho i think it hurts my brain that the sun hasnt schown up for some days. I really need to see the blue sky from time to time to survive...:/
January 4th, 2009 #24
Thanks. that was what i felt when i was drawing it. feels good to read that its showing here and there.
wasnt too productive the last weeks. I HATE to say it but i fell victim to believing that computer games were necessary. Well, i played, i felt good, i anjoyed the holidays and Im happy that drawing crept back into my consciousness (what a diffifult word! lol) without any need of force. Thats the good news.
okay, on with the show:
hmm theres really smth wrong with most of the walks i draw. and theyre soo difficult! every time i start one its like a million possibilities and pictures popping into my head and its hard to decide which to use....
January 18th, 2009 #25
The first comic style lions and the deer is from "the art of lion king". one of the best disney art books i have. The animal art in there is amazing. And so are the storyboards by people like thom enriquez and others. Really great book.
Most of the figure gestures are drawings done with only one look at the model. I then try to feel the pose. Some times after i finished it i looked at the model again and decided to immediately draw it again trying to insert smth that i failed at the first time. Like the twist of the torso, the way the shoulders fall etc.
The model is actually just a little wooden puppet. The guy with the weird arm is inspired by a drawing of tarzan that I saw on the web.
January 20th, 2009 #26
and another one. work keeps me busy but Im having fun doing my little studies in the evening
January 21st, 2009 #27
You've got a lot of gestures with a lot of flow to them. Very animated, which is good because I love animation. I also enjoy the animals, which have a lot of detail. The only thing I'm disappointed with is the lack of more detailed human studies, but I see you're starting to work on that. Keep it up, have clear goals, and I think you'll do well.
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January 27th, 2009 #28
Asatira: Thanks. Okay, Ill try
More recent stuff.
January 27th, 2009 #29
Awsome start for your sketchbook.
your sketches remind me of frazettas sketches.
keep it up learned alot looking through your gestures.
January 31st, 2009 #30
Great charachters and progress! I like how you capture their expression. Keep up the anatomy studies because proportion are off in some of the poses.
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