Using OpenSER to take on the Mobile Dinosaurs From the viewpoint of a new age converged mobile operator James Body, Director Research - Truphone 2 More London Riverside, London SE1 2JR +44 79788 00001 james.body@truphone.com UK Truphone and Tru are trademarks of Software Cellular Network Ltd
What is Truphone Truphone brings the free telephony model pioneered by SKYPE to the mobile phone. We use voice over IP (VoIP) technology on mass market phones to allow users to make seamless free peer to peer calls. Using Wi-Fi or 3G access points at home, office or wireless Hotspots together with legacy GSM networks to make calls and thereby building an alternative cellular network.
What is Truphone? 4G Operator vmvno or MINO? Converged GSM/WiFi Solution World-wide deployment Open Source Based
Our Mission To define, engineer and prove a new model for mass market mobile communications based upon just emerging technologies of opportunity in order to offer more cost effective and feature rich services to end users. Disruptive Revolutionary and evolutionary Truly Telepocalyptic Unbelievable but TRU!
The Offering.. TODAY Free and Open SIP Telephony Outbound calls to PSTN Cost free calls 40 countries on European Tariffing Model (2 Billion Phones Worldwide) US and CA for NA Tariffing Model Subject to Acceptable Use Policy! Inbound calls from PSTN to Truphone number With intelligent Call Forward to GSM where required Inbound and Outbound SMS (using SIP/SIMPLE) Feature rich voicemail/media services IN THE PIPELINE Rich presence and IM (inc. interoperability with GTalk, MSN, AIM ICQ and Skype) Location based services (using handset and network) Media, more media and even more media
The Enabling Factors What supports and prevents operator support for Dual Mode 3G/WiFi phones and services? Truphone and Tru are trademarks of Software Cellular Network Ltd
The 3 most important factors. Handsets Handsets Handsets
The Recipe Market conditions (Arbitrage / Rip off tariffs!!) Widespread cheap WiFi distributed broadband SIP capable dual mode phones VoIP infrastructure becoming widespread Mature and exceedingly feature rich Open Source packages PLUS A motivated team of innovators from around the world who REALLY believe in the end product! Stir well, place in darkened room, trickle in beverages and bandwidth, then stand well clear!
Low Cost System Building Blocks OpenSER - Open Source/GNU Public License (http://www.openser.org) Asterisk - Open Source/GNU Public License ( http://www.asterisk.org) FreeSWITCH - Open Source/MPL Kannel - Open Source/GNU Public License( http://www.kannel.org/license.shtml) Free Radius - Open Source/GNU Public License( http://www.freeradius.org/) MySQL - Open Source/GNU Public License (http://www.mysql.org) Apache/PHP NAGIOS/monit Sendmail - Open Source/GNU Public License(http://www.sendmail. com/products/osrc/index.shtml) Linux: http://www.linux.org/ on a standard GNU GPL License Costs of deployment are TINY compared with conventional cellular infrastructure
So what is so great about OpenSER? Predictably boring reliability Fault tolerant configurations System faults are VERY rare Little need for expensive support contracts Efficiency Small footprint Modest hardware requirements Enables LARGE scale deployment Load balancing capability Flexibility Ever growing selection of modules Active developer community Firewall/NAT Traversal
Why has this not been done before? The jigsaw puzzle is large and complex Many of the pieces are very new or do not even exist yet Incumbant operators really do not want to
SIP Based Dual Mode Phones Symbian Series 60 Edition 3 E- Series Business phones E51 Super Slim E60 Candy Bar E61 Blackberry Killer E61i Shiny E61 + camera E65 Business Slider E70 Gull Wing N Series Multimedia phones N80 N91 N93 N95 Mini Media ipod Killer Media Hunter Gatherer Mega Media PLUS MS Smartmobile 5 MS Smartmobile 6 Budget WiFi Only Sony-Ericsson Motorola RIM
A Complete Mobile Service Single mode services are suboptimal Truphone and Tru are trademarks of Software Cellular Network Ltd
Reducing handset functionality Orange and Vodafone cripple Nokia's flagship N95 comes with VoIP disabled Nokia N95 handsets supplied by Orange and Vodafone, in the UK, have had their VoIP capability removed in what looks like a desperate move by the network operators to defend their voice revenue.
Resisting evolution?
Small furry animals
MNO Blocking Tactics T-Mobile was instructed by the judge to stop blocking and begin routing calls to Truphone numbers by Monday 23rd July. V. QuickTimeª and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. T-Mobile was instructed by the judge to stop blocking and begin routing calls to Truphone numbers by Monday 23rd July This ruling is the first time that interim relief has been awarded against a mobile network operator under the Competition Act.
Bad News The Evolution or Disruption for Mobile Operators Old Mobile Operator 80% Voice New Mobile Operator The future of Mobile Access Fee Free/ Cheap Voice 15% Text 5% Fun & Service Free/ Cheap Text Fun & Service Truphone is a new breed of mobile operator SKYPE meets Virgin Mobile
Handset of the Year 2006? Quad band GSM + UMTS + WiFi Full Keyboard / large display Huge battery Push e-mail (Exchange/Blackberry) Nominated by GSMA for Handset of the Year
Nokia E62 Spot the difference? E62 = E61 for US market Mini USB Wi-Fi removed
UMA Based Handsets BT Fusion and Orange Unique Not very appealing to the technically aware early adopter Small take up BT Fusion circa 40,000
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Nokia N800
Nokia N800 - Specification OMAP2420 microprocessor at 330 MHz Downloads packages over WiFi/EDGE OS - modified Debian GNU/Linux OMAP2420 processor (330MHz) 128MB RAM/256MB Flash WiFi/Bluetooth/USB 2.0 800 x 480 display - 4.1 inches 2 x SD slots - up to 8 Gb each Built in webcam Audio Microphone Stereo speakers 3.5mm headset jack Cost - around USD 300 new
The iphone Truphone and Tru are trademarks of Software Cellular Network Ltd
AppTap - Enabling Applications UIKit based installer for the iphone Downloads packages over WiFi/EDGE Supports Application installation Application updating Application uninstalling
OpenMoko - Open Source Phone * 2.8" VGA TFT color display * Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers * 266MHz Samsung System on a Chip (SOC) * USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered) * Integrated AGPS * 2.5G GSM quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS * Bluetooth 2.0 * Micro SD slot * High Quality audio codec NO WiFi! NO UMTS/3G
Commercial Wireless Providers Reliable hassle-free operation Truphone and Tru are trademarks of Software Cellular Network Ltd
Windows Mobile 6 WM6 Includes generic SIP stack WM6 incorporates SIP stack and VoIP application Handsets available from HTC Toshiba HP And many others
Accessing the Truphone Infrastructure Open API for 3rd Party Developers Truphone and Tru are trademarks of Software Cellular Network Ltd
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