Author Archives: blogger

Reducing Communication Costsuseful Tips

Posted on by

This is when the technology gifted the world with video teleconferencing. Some of the major advantages of video teleconferencing include the effective audio visual communication with clients personally, drastic reduction in cost due to travel & stay, saving precious time and energy, and many more.

Most of the businesses have been using audio teleconferencing for a quite long time. The current innovation in the information technology has given a boost to the telecommunication. Now the vogue in telecommunication is attributed to video-teleconferencing through web conferencing, which uses audio visual equipment systems. Although live video conferencing is a very complicated technology, service providers are able to offer their services at very cheap rates because of advancements in technology. With the help of video conferencing equipment, you can greatly increase the efficiency of your business communications as well as reduce the expenses by cutting down on travel-related expenses.

To use live video teleconferencing facility, you will need systems, software for streaming video, speakers to hear the audio, integrator, etc. The process looks as if very simple, audio-visual data are captured using electronic devices and converted into codes and sent through the internet. The video conferencing equipments at the other end receive the codes and decode it with the help of a decoder and integrator and reproduce the audio-visual data exactly as transmitted. However, the process is a highly complicated one which can only be managed by professionals in case of large requirements such as business communications. Indeed its a boon to small business as well; they can now afford to hire professional teleconferencing for effective personal communications.

Now outsourcing being the popular cost reduction strategy, teleconferencing technology has become a must for most of the multi-national companies. It is easy to find affordable products and services through the internet. However, you should be vigilant enough to verify the credentials of the websites in the internet because of the raising fraudulent web-based companies. The most popular video teleconferencing service providers Polycom and TANDBERG provide excellent web based scheduling and project management through their resellers.

Video teleconferencing is the cheapest and most effective means of business communications of today. Whether you are involved in outsourcing or have international clients, it is a good idea to utilize the comforts that technology has provided us with. While companies even prefer telecommuting of their employees in an effort to reduce cost. It is the moral responsibility of companies to cut cost especially at these times of recession, and video teleconferencing is one of the most effective steps that companies can opt for.

Boost YouTube Views Versatile Outsourcing Strategies

Posted on by

YouTube is among one of many popular sites of internet. Information of many kinds and entertainment is available on you tube to attract the visitors. It is used for the purpose of increasing the business of websites and blogs.

YouTube Promotion of products could be done via different tactics. Tutorials and advertisements could be published by the people on the YouTube. If you want to increase your business having relation with search engine optimization, it is recommended to enlarge video views.

To boost YouTube views some definite techniques must be applied. You must do the advertisement of your videos to get YouTube views of your video. There are number of means which have high traffic and in this regard you must publish the linkage of the video on forums and community sites.

There are number of videos on YouTube which have similar content, and also prepared on the similar subject. For the uniqueness and popularity of the video you must put special items in your video. As in newspapers the readers are attracted by good-looking headlines, similarly it is necessary that you must give good-looking title of the video. You must put your all efforts to make the title of your video good-looking.

Make a good search to select the good-looking title of your video. First you must get knowledge about the key words by visiting those sites, which are specially made to educate the search engine optimization. Keywords are looked up more often and have more chances to appear in the search engine results.

The video description is the most important aspect of the video after the title. Those video which are not able to guide the viewer properly dont get good views. Views tend to search the video relating to their headings and the content narration.

The hiring of a YouTube services for the purpose of increasing views of the videos is an excellent idea. There are many incentives of this. The organization providing such kind of professional help are professional and have the expertise in this field. They provide their best suggestions and help for the outsourcing of the business of the help seeking individuals.

Russian Telecommunications Market To Be Worth More Than 30bn In 2012

Posted on by

Current situation

According to the latest report The telecommunications market in Russia 2011. Development forecasts for 2011-2015 published by PMR, a market research company, the value of the telecommunications services market in Russia increased by 17.3% year on year to 27.3bn in 2010, from approximately 23.2bn in 2009. The growth rate measured in local currency was lower and amounted to 10%. It should be noted that PMR last year forecasts concerning the telecoms market value in 2010, excluding exchange rate fluctuations, assumed the growth rate of 4 p.p. lower than the actual result.
Overall economic recovery in the country continue to be one of the main market growth drivers in 2010. The demand for telecommunications services in Russia went up after the crisis which hit the Russian economy end of 2008. In 2010, after a sharp decline in 2009, operators also increased the investments in the construction of new networks and the improvement of service quality.

The Russian telecommunications market has been steadily increasing, starting in 2000 with the development of mobile telephony and internet access. In the last two years, the market was affected by the migration of voice traffic from fixed to mobile networks and also to the internet and, as a result, the segment of fixed-line telephony began to stagnate. The growth of mobile voice services also declined with the increasing maturity of this market. The most dynamic during recent years was the segment of internet access, including both fixed and mobile technologies. This market was an area of business growth for the operators in 2009-2010, and it will continue to play a role of the development driver for the entire telecommunications market in Russia, considering its relatively low maturity.
Mobile telephony is by far the largest segment of the Russian telecommunications market. Based on the revenue reports provided by operators, total sales of mobile voice and non-voice services in Russia in 2010 amounted to RUB 710bn (17.7bn), which is 10.6% more than in the previous year measured in roubles, or 17.9% measured in euros. The mobile telephony market accounted for the largest part of the telecommunications spending in Russia last year. Even if to exclude mobile VAS and to consider only the mobile voice segment, the mobile telephony share would reach the level of almost 50% in 2010, while the total number of registered SIM cards already exceeded 150% of the total population of Russia.
Provision of access to the internet remains the most dynamic and fast growing segment of the telecommunications market in Russia, which increased by 30% year on year in 2010. This growth of the market was driven by quickly increasing penetration of fixed-line broadband but also enhanced by the fast expansion of 3G networks and the operators active promotion of mobile internet.

3G and LTE uptake

With the commercial launch of UMTS networks in 2008, an increasing contribution to the growth of the mobile telephony market in Russia is already coming from non-voice value-added services provided in mobile networks, especially from broadband internet. Development of 3G networks is also changing the landscape of the Russian mobile telephony market. Operators from the Big Three group got a new source of revenue from the development of mobile broadband internet, which became the main 3G application.
Meanwhile, two concepts of the future LTE networks development in Russia have been recently presented. In December 2010, the Russian government proposed to create LTE Consortium which was expected to come up with proposals related to the development of 4G networks in the country. The consortium was created by the leading national telecommunications operators, including Rostelecom, MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon. Smaller regional operators were not invited to join. Mid of 2011, LTE Consortium presented a report which states that the available radio spectrum is feasible to be shared between four operators and each of the operators will need to invest RUB 85.7bn (2.1bn) to install approximately 20,810 base stations covering over 10,400 of locations in the country with more than 1,000 of inhabitants, i.e. to build a federal LTE network. The condition is that the operators will use simultaneously a 690-880 MHz and 2,500-2,700 MHz radio bandwidth having 30 MHz spectrum each. In March 2011, there was also an agreement between MTS, MegaFon, VimpelCom, Rostelecom and Skartel, which had already had available a bandwidth for LTE, that Skartel would build LTE networks in 180 cities and towns in Russia and would give each of the operator 20% capacity in this network. Skartel expects to invest approximately RUB 60bn (1.5bn) in the project.
It is not certain yet what kind of strategy for LTE development will be applied in Russia. Either the government will announce a tender for four federal licences or Skartel will build the network. A real barrier for the development of the LTE network in the country is the fact that radio bandwidth is already used by military communication systems and the investments in conversion are considered to be very high. All in all, the most probable scenario now could be the launch of the first LTE networks in Russia not earlier than in 2014 comments Pawel Olszynka, a PMR analyst and one of the report authors.

Short-term forecasts

Macroeconomic development forecasts for Russia for 2011-2012 are positive. GDP is expected to reach 4.5% annually. This remains a good background for the business development and investments in telecommunications services and networks. The growth in the consumers confidence boosts the demand for IT and telecommunications services and facilitates the spending on personal computers, mobile phones and the internet.
The Russian telecommunications market will continue its upward trend over the next two years or so, triggered by the growing internet services market, both in fixed and mobile networks. One strategic advantage of the Russian ISP market over other Central and Eastern European countries is its big size, poor development and territorial coverage, therefore, almost all providers and all wire and wireless technologies will have a chance to get their niche. In a broader perspective, the services connected with the telecommunications market, e.g. digital pay TV, will also play a more important role. The mobile market in Russia will not be driven by simple emission of millions of SIM cards, but rather by attracting customers to actively use new services. Non-voice and more advanced value-added services will continue to gain in significance and an increasing proportion of mobile carrier revenues will come from this source.

This press release is based on information contained in the latest PMR report entitled Telecommunications market in Russia 2011. Development forecasts for 2011-2015

For more information on the report please contact:
Marketing Department:
tel. /48/ 12 618 90 00
e-mail:

Sfp Transceivers For Telecommunications

Posted on by

The SFP may be the smaller sized optical transceiver utilized in optical communications. It interfaces a network equipment mother board to some fiber-optic or unshielded twisted pair networking cable.
This is probably the most diffused transceiver format available with a number of different transmiter and receiver types, allowing users to select the appropriate transceiver for each connect to supply the required optical reach within the available optical fiber (e.g., multi-mode fiber or single-mode fiber).
A drawing of SFP module is presented below, where the particular connector for the input and output fibers that, with different dimensions, exists in all the transceivers is evidenced. The way in which the SFP transceivers are hosted on the motherboard utilizing a suitable cage allowing a hot plug is show in the figure below, where both empty cages around the front of a system card and also the cages with plugged SFPs are provided.

Optical SFP modules are commonly obtainable in a choice of models: 850 nm (SX), 1310 nm (LX), 1550 nm (ZX), and WDM, both DWDM and CWDM. SFP transceivers are also available with a copper cable interface. The copper SFP allows a host device designed primarily for optical fiber communications to also communicate over unshiedled twisted pair networking cable.
Commercially available transceivers have a capability as much as 2.5 Gbps for transmission applications; moreover, a version of the standard having a bit rate of 10 Gbps exists, however it can be used only to connect nearby equipment, and it is very helpful to spare space and power consumption as interface within the client cards of line equipments.
Modern optical SFP transceivers support digital monitoring functions based on the industry standard SFF-8472 MSA. This selection gives the consumer the opportunity to monitor real-time parameters from the SFP, for example optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiversupply voltage.
SFP transceivers are designed to support SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and other communications standards.
The standard is expanding to SFP (SFP plus), which will be capable of supporting data rates as much as 10.0 Gbps (that will range from the data rates for 8G Fibre Channel, and 10 GbE). Possible performances of various realistic SFP transceivers are reported in the figure below.

Contract negotiations

Posted on by

Strategies for Contract Negotiations & 6 Mistakes to Avoid
Planning for contract negotiations is the first step to success. Often the outcome is decided before any face-to-face negotiations occur.Negotiation is one, but important, step in the contractual process.

Start planning early at Request for Proposal (RFP) stage.
This is the point at which you need a strategy to achieve your preferred outcome.Ideally the contract terms and conditions should be drafted and attached to the RFP or tender and the prospective supplier should be requested to comment. The issues, which you now know about, can then be discussed in negotiations.

Research the other party in advance.
Knowing what the other party expects to achieve will assist with your strategy. Negotiate from strength because knowledge is power in contract negotiations. Is their aim to get the best deal on price, is it to gain market share, expand into new markets or defeat their opposition? Find out if they have a walk-away position and what it is.

Structure your negotiating team
It sounds obvious that the interests of all the team members should be

aligned but often they are not so. Finance want to get the best price,lawyers was to make the contract watertight, procurement want to see the cost savings secured, others may want to close the deal quickly and go home. Contract negotiations can fail if each persons loyalties,preferences and priorities are not voiced.

Before and at the table
Preparation is vital – conclude your own internal team negotiations before you engage with the suppliers. Undisciplined behavior and emotional outbursts can undermine even the best thought-out strategy.Simulate the negotiation with rehearsals including role plays using a lead negotiator and allocate individual roles to eliminate surprises.Overall, negotiating as a team has been more successful than using a sole
negotiator despite the inter-personal challenges.

Negotiation mistakes
Sometimes contract negotiations are undermined by one of your own team.Here are six common blunders, according to HBS professor James K.

Sebenius*:

1. Neglecting the other side’s problem.
2. Letting price bulldoze other interests.
3. Letting positions drive out interests.
4. Searching too hard for common ground.
5. Neglecting BATNAs (“best alternative to negotiated agreement”).
6. Failing to correct for skewed vision.
An aspect often overlooked is the disbanding process and the necessity for a debriefing. Its important to schedule a “lessons learnt” session and it is a good idea to make this outcome available to other teams in the Company.