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Dish Telecom
Middle East Multi Media International Services
(First Middle East Multi-Media Hub)
www.memmis.com
Introduction
The telecommunications industry is undergoing a fundamental technology shift as service providers continue to build global networks based on packet technologies. Driven by lower capital expenditures, reduced operational costs and new service revenue opportunities, carriers are upgrading their monolithic circuit voice networks to open, distributed and highly-scalable packet telephony networks.
The use of the internet today to provide voice, data and video to the mass public combined, has created a new medium that can provide these multimedia services at lower price, since these services ( voice, data and video) has become unified as data packets on the internet. The erosion in the price of circuit based multimedia service has accelerated carrier migration to packet telephony. As the per-minute price of voice declines, carriers have seen tremendous pressure on profit margins. This price erosion will likely continue, especially with emerging trends such as flat-rate long distance and cheaper pre-paid calling card options.
The move to packet technology is undeniable, although the rate of adoption varies by carrier. Today, many 'early adopters' have already deployed large, commercial packet telephony networks that generate millions of service revenue dollars each month. For carriers who have not yet deployed packet, the question appears to be when not if, as most carriers have publicly stated that they will not buy another circuit switch if it is avoidable.
The business justification globally, is simply too great for carriers not to move toward packet telephony. Next-generation solutions already support legacy applications including long distance, tandem switching, business access, residential and business Centrex, pre-paid calling and Internet offload, just to name a few. Packet solutions can also support applications unavailable on circuit switches such as IP voice termination. Packet architectures are designed to expedite the development of enhanced services, which can incorporate key differentiators including click-to-talk, unified communications, WAP-enabled phones and WEB-enabled personal feature management. Packet telephony solutions support these applications with an underlying infrastructure that greatly reduces footprint, complexity and cost while simplifying system management.
The Middle East Market Opportunity
Growth in Packet Telephony Minutes
The benefits of packet telephony have paved the way for wide spread carrier adoption, as the industry is experiencing tremendous growth in commercial packet telephony minutes. Packet telephony minutes driven over carrier networks are expected to grow globally from 10 billion minutes in 2000 to 1.25 trillion minutes in 2006, representing a CAGR of 128%.
With the ongoing and existing development of the wired infrastructure in the Middle East region and specifically in UAE, Dubai is a prime location, for the formation of a real rooted regional carrier that would be the first true multimedia carrier in the region.
This Middle East Carrier (MEMMIS) would utilize the latest technology and know how in the latest in packet switching to carry true multi media and act as a direct bridge for the regional middle east countries and to the outside world.
As the world Carriers are benefiting from the tremendous growth in service revenues on their packet telephony networks. Service revenue derived from Just in the (VOIP) packet telephony on carrier networks is expected to grow from $3.8 billion in 2001 to $37.1 billion in 2006, representing a CAGR of 59%.
As the new push in the Middle East to free up the telecom sector in the many of the new legislations, and with new telecom companies coming up in the region, the demand for new and inexpensive connectivity service to outside world will be humongous. One of the main drive to the argument of the need of regional company like MEMMIS, is that this new technology has not yet been adopted by many of the Middle East & Gulf regional telecom operators which are still using old conventional expensive connectivity methods (DCME), but as these new companies come to life in the region , this will force the major operators to adopt the new change in utilizing voice over internet to be able to in the market, and to stay up to date with the new changes in global telecom market.
MEMMIS will act as the technology service provider to all of the existing and new telecom operators in the region, as it will help aid these operators to utilize the latest in technology with in a fraction of the cost. With very little time, MEMMIS can help these operators to migrate over to. MEMMIS will hold an entire local managed network rooted locally in Dubai that will connect to the three main and top packet switching hubs of the world, NY, LA and London.
These are the main key features and benefits to the creation of MEMMIS:
- Utilize many of the connectivity points that exist between the countries in the Middle East and from these countries to the outside world, which today is 50% and more sitting idle today.
- This means that many of these connections can be utilized at fraction of the cost since it is empty capacity.
- Many of the counties in the region are bounded by bilateral agreements among each other and to countries outside world, makes it difficult on these operators to go directly to cheap routes in each of these countries and would prefer to utilize intermediate companies like MEMMIS to connect to the outside world at cheaper cost.
- Offer to the local operators and regional companies in the region a multi service such as world minutes termination to the outside world. This solution is ideal to the region since the need exists today among all of these countries and since each of the companies would have to duplicate the same process to connect to the outside world, MEMMIS service save everyone from taking high risks in doing it on their own and form having to re-invent the wheel over and over. Based and rooted in Dubai, many of the companies in the region can link to with very little time and with little initial investment to everyone.
- MEMMIS will offer very low rates for world prices, based on a wholesale model that would be extended to everybody and can be scaled based on volume
- The same circuits that are utilized between MEMMIS and the regional courtiers can be used to offer opposite multi services back to each of the countries. As this (termination) service can be sold to many operators and companies at the outside the world
- As MEMMIS traffic in and out of the Middle East grows, MEMMIS will be recognized as the world carrier in the Middle East, and can then move to establish local networks in the countries that represent the top 50 in demand connectivity points in the region. Based on the statistic that will be constantly monitored by MEMMIS, the company will continuously find ways to reduce the cost and to eliminate the middle man out by establishing direct presence to the countries of interest.
- As a hosted model, MEMMIS can offer many added telecom services such prepaid calling cards and unified massaging services, to many of the companies in the region under a co-branded models, which yields more revenue to the companies since again this requires little initial investments compare to having to do it on their own.
- Offer pre-paid multi cash services which allows local partners in the region to connect to partner banks and introduce to their local markets, a new payment and money remittances services which is also can be a prepaid calling cards combined in one service, added with it the visa, master card services , that can allow consumers to use it globally.
- As MEMMIS will deploy its on Network Operational (NOC) available 24hrs / 7 days a week, will become an ideal hosting company as a real regional Hotel Switch, Co-Locations hub for hosting servers for many of the regional companies that would prefer to host their servers closer to home than in NY, LA and UK, all that if they are able to get good pricing and also get the adequate connectivity and the technical support.
Loea Corporation has pioneered the development of technology that is designed to function as an ultra broadband wireless system, operating within a large block of spectrum at 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz (E-Band). The transmission beams are very narrow in space, allowing a high number of communication links operating at multi-gigabit speeds with limited potential for interference.
This millimeterwave technology was originally developed by Trex Enterprises Corporation (San Diego, CA) ,www.trexenterprises.com , http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/1365371 under contract to the US Government in the 1990s. After the technology was demonstrated to be viable for high-speed wireless communications applications, Loea was spun out from Trex Enterprises to commercialize the technology. Loea was also responsible for the regulatory effort with the FCC to allocate the E-band frequencies for commercial point-to-point use.
- Loea established itself as the leader in this space through a series of firsts:
- First to build and test a 1 Gbps E-band radio in 2001
- First to commercially deploy an E-band radio system in 2002
- First to receive an NTIA license for US Government E-band deployments in 2003
- First to receive FCC certification for E-band equipment in 2005
- First to deploy an FCC certified radio system at E-band in 2005
- To our knowledge, we are the only vendor today with an NTIA or FCC certified radio operating in the 70/80 GHz bands. Loea has NTIA J-12 equipment approval #8138 / SPS# 13918 and FCC Nationwide License Call Sign #WQAK476 FRN #0011120409.
- http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/1365371
To look up the FCC approval for the equipment please go here
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm
the best way to search for certification is enter 71000 and 76000 in the frequency range section
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