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The Eurescom Study Programme
One of the strengths of the Eurescom community is its commitment to engage in short and focused collaborative studies. The Eurescom study programme is the framework that enables an efficient setup of such studies and is financed through upfront payments of its members subscribing to the programme. The Eurescom study programme continues to demonstrate its flexibility in bringing together leading experts from its members to address topics of common interest. Eurescom studies develop conclusions on specific topics and pave the way for larger collaborative initiatives. The fundamental working principle within the Eurescom study programme is collaboration. Any network operator or service provider may become a subscriber of the study programme and participate in it, if he shares the interest of having the substantial issues facing the telecoms industry addressed in a collaborative way. The results of the studies are exclusively available to the members of the programme, so that the study subscriber organisations benefit from a direct competitive advantage from collaborative work. Following the second call for proposals in 2006, the Study management group recommended four additional studies in 2006. The issues addressed concern specific genres of mobile services, the acknowledgement that IMS standardisation has ignored the client side to date, as well as a forward looking study on the view of the network operator industry with respect to the future of the Internet. The study on “Mobile Advertisement – Spam, threat or new opportunity?” will analyse the risks and opportunities of using the mobile phone as an interactive channel for advertisement. A main objective is to document how the challenges might be overcome by actively introducing context and personalisation data, to address the risk of customer trust erosion caused by privacy intrusion. The study on “Mobile online gaming - from Tetris towards ubiquity?” will contribute to the understanding of the future trends of various flavours of online gaming involving large number of users interacting in virtual and mixed reality gaming worlds. Clearly the online gaming market is growing very fast and is rapidly moving into mobility and thus ubiquity, representing a significant business opportunity for network operators. The study will develop recommendations for network operators in terms of technological considerations, viable business models, and possible alliances. The purpose of the study on “Definition of an open and extendible IMS Client Framework” is to identify and define an agreed set of network operator requirements to an extendible, maintainable and hardware platform independent IMS client framework, acknowledging the fact that ETSI TISPAN / 3GPP IMS standardization has focused, to date, mainly on the platform and backend specific protocols and components. The study on “Future Internet – the operators’ vision” is aiming at consolidating the various opinions about how the future Internet should be, and forming a network operators’ common vision. It does so by recognising the fact that the Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the society worldwide. For more information on the study programme, of if you are interested to subscribe to the study programme, please visit the Eurescom website at http://www.eurescom.de Please send us your comments on this article. |
