MWC is a good time to take stock of M2M/IoT market development. Abe Nejad, anchor for our network partner, TIA, rounds up three experts in Barcelona to assess progress. Their verdict: connection is no longer a challenge, tools are getting better, there is broad awareness now of the M2M/IoT solution type, and every exhibitor has some sort of iOT or M2M story to tell. Now, agrees the panel, the "thing-makers" need a standard connectivity model. Featuring:

Fred Yentz President and CEO of ILS Technology

Stuart Bennington, Director, Global Portfolio Strategy, Tellabs

Narayon Menon VP Innovation Labs, InterDigital

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Carriers face significant challenges around network convergence and integration, says Jeff Edlund, CTO Communications and Media Solutions at HP. For instance, how do you cost-optimise the business and ease the delivery of new services to customers, while at the same time moving from proprietary to standard hardware and infrastructure?
 

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TIA’s Market Review and Forecast for 2013 is ready to launch as glaring statistics in the technology sector permeate the document. Here to tell us more about what we can all expect in 2013 and over the next 4 years in the tech sector is Arthur Gruen of Wilkofsky Gruen Associates, Glen Hunt of Current Analysis and Ken Figueredo of Beecham Research.

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2012 has been a busy year on many fronts in the ICT sector and TIA NOW always tries to catch the brightest luminaries in the industry to recap the year and what’s ahead.

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The world is littered with connected TV sets but very little in the way of apps or services which make use of the facility. Darren Vogel, Marketing Director of the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) says his organisation's end-to-end specification is going to change all that with a standard browser designed to work across all connected TVs and all regions. 

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World Standards Day raises awareness among regulators, industry and consumers of standardization to the global economy. Join TIA NOW for a roundtable discussion with key figures at World Standards Day, including Steve Swanson, Manager of Standards Engineering at Corning.

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