Navin Vohra provides an overview of Commscope’s infrastructure solutions and the company’s activities in Asia.  The company sees continued growth of 4G and LTE, in both advanced and developing markets.  Commscope’s key focus areas are Technology, Intelligence and Energy and their showcase of solutions at CommunicAsia 2012.

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Alcatel-Lucent APAC President Rajeev Singh-Molares attended the Boao Forum Asia 2012. He talks about the benefits of the cloud phenomenon and how it allows businesses large and small to redefine how they go to market and create more value at a lower cost.

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It might still be seen in some quarters as a business tool, says Greg Wade, Regional Managing Director for Research in Motion, but social networking and messaging is pulling the Asian consumer market onto the Blackberry in droves.

He tells Martyn Warwick that Asia's powerful emerging middle class is not just moving from feature phone to smartphone, but looks set to leapfrog to the next phase..  tablets. RIM plans to be on hand to capitalise on this still nascent category.

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Telstra International is seeing an increased demand for managed hosted services, rather than pure cloud services, but these services are likely to migrate into the cloud in the future as SMEs put more of their applications into the cloud. The telco has just announced a deal with global relocation company Crown Worldwide for a global managed service network, part of its strategy to focus on key verticals. In addition, Clean Pipes is a new service whereby a customer’s security is managed from within Telstra’s network to prevent DOS attacks.

Featuring

Mottram, Executive Director, Telstra International

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MasterCard describes how the planets have finally aligned to allow near-field communications on mobile phones to become a commercial reality.

Participant: David Chan, Head of Customer Delivery, South East and South Asia, MasterCard Worldwide

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Cable & Wireless Worldwide's plays in Africa are starting to pay dividends as the British carrier's global arm finds its booming Asian customers now want connections into the west coast of Africa and the Middle East. Global markets managing director Nick Lambert says his business is very capital intensive and competitive but has a strong outlook.

Participant:
Nick Lambert, Managing Director, Global Markets, Cable & Wireless Worldwide

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Major ICT vendors across APAC have banded together to try and clear the fog surrounding regulation of the cloud.

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Smartphone sales are beginning to go mainstream in emerging Asian markets as buyers opt for devices like the BlackBerry, based on price, in vastly increasing numbers. GFK says one in 10 mobile sales in East and South-East Asia is now a smartphone. This is driving a surge in use of the social media platform Twitter in Indonesia where consumers while away the hours spent in traffic using mobiles to connect to social networks.

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What's the most important 3 things the buyers of cloud services need to know/to get right when looking to adopt cloud services?

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For service providers to intercept the cloud opportunity they must be able and willing to offer and work in a hybrid technology environment consisting of private infrastructure, private cloud and public cloud.  To do this they, along with other stakeholders, need to educate the regulators internationally to agree common governance over these different platforms.

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