With Google, Yahoo and others breathing down their necks, operators need to move beyond being bit carriers in order to stay in the game.
By Keith Willetts, Chairman, TM Forum

All of Google’s investment in processing power, storage and now bandwidth and device resident software has to be going somewhere beyond just creating faster search tools that reach more people. I really think this is all about providing an end-to-end, managed platform on which Google or anyone else can mount applications and seamlessly get to most people in the world through a variety of devices, including PCs, televisions and mobile phones.

Although Google may want to dominate in this area, there are entities already in existence that do exactly all of this for a living today: the communications service providers of the world!

TM Forum’s Catalyst Showcase is your opportunity to see real solutions that improve the management and operation of information and communications services.

At Management World 2008 this May, the Catalyst Showcase will feature 10 projects covering a wide range of subjects, including end user device management, seamless OSS/BSS for IMS services, managed services syndication, fixed-mobile convergence, as well as the 2nd phase of the Content Encounter interactive digital media and communications village.