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EemValley is a new technology company addressing
the emerging market of the next generation of Telecommunications Networks. In
this market fixed and mobile and telephony and Internet finally converge into a
Unified Network. Today’s technology market place is complicated,
Open Source software makes it hard to compete by developing proprietary
software, cheap production on the far east makes selling equipment a challenge,
the Internet makes service deployment a risky affair as end-users may easily
switch to a free service abroad.
EemValley provides
knowledge and technology that enables service providers to localize their offering thus
binding end-users. EemValley believes that for a
market to appear in this area the following aspects needs to be addressed:
- Availability,
is the service usable when expected/needed?
- Ease of
use, is the service easy to use or does using it require technical know-how and
time to set up and maintain?
- Security,
am I vulnerable to viruses, worms and hacking?
- Privacy,
will my personal data and communication be private?
For Service Providers
planning to operate services in this emerging marketplace relevant aspects are:
- Reliability,
will the service continue to run without constant intervention?
- Manageability,
can I easily deploy new versions of the service or completely services?
- Billability,
can I bill my users so they become customers?
- Profitability,
can I deploy the services cheaply enough and sell dear enough to make
sufficient profit?
These aspects are
currently underdeveloped. End-users need to buy and manage PCs and configure
software extensively before basic services will be available. Viruses and worms
seem inescapable and the service seems unavailable when needed (example traffic
sites during bad weather). Service providers on the other hand face an
ever-increasing complex set of service to operate and maintain yet have trouble
charging users.Watch this space for EemValley-developed solutions to these problems!
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