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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:55:38 -0400

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What is an entrepreneur ? Well, appart from living day to...

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:26:00 -0400

What is an entrepreneur ?

Well, appart from living day to day on packet noodles or operating a business un extreme uncertainty - I think this pretty much sums it up.

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Network as a Service

NaaS - The Possibility of Programmable Networks

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:06:00 -0500

Point to Point for a lot less but what is really cool about today is that trends such as cloud, video, BYOD, and big data are set to help you increase productivity and take better care of your customers. And once again, the network is playing a central role. Without a network that listens, responds and adapts to your work habits, life becomes pretty tough, slow, and expensive.

mobsource has built a global network that allows us to give you back control of your network and in the new digital world, you need your network and your applications to work together, and that’s exactly what Network as a Service can do for you. Imagine allowing your virtualized workloads to directly control how much international bandwidth they need without losing the capabilities you have come to expect from your physical network. That’s a step toward Software defined networking, true agility and much lower costs.

Network as a Service (NaaS) is a “pay as you go” point to point data connection between international markets that comes with extremely high availability.

We allow you to hop on and hop off because there are NO long term contracts, and NO minimum usage requirements.

As a business you can now connect instantly to London, USA, Singapore or Sydney, scale “on demand” and pay up to 80% less than what you are paying today

SWITCH and SAVE

This is how we connect you point to point from Sydney to the USA

www.mobsource.com

cheaper, faster and more convenient

......free slurpees @ 711 !

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:11:00 -0500

……and an unexpected pleasant surprise turned up in commsday today - Thanks Petroc.

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5 things to watch out for this week - 0ct 24th

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:00 -0400

1. DDos attacks - High flying and low flying breaches are getting more and more frequent - last week alone, ANZ Bank and HSBC Bank websites and ATM’s were took out… and one Telco that had a DDoS attack from their own customer !…

2. Random Drug Tests…..Given the nature of security and sensitivities around secure data centre facilities, The AFP, ASIO and other law enforcement agencies are contemplating random drug tests

3. Telstra International may very well lose a head this week or next - Rumour has it one HK based exec is about to leave .. some pretty hard ground and high targets were set by his predecessor . Like Duncan Ballantyne from the BBC show Dragons Den says so frequently, “For that reason, I’m oooot”

4. SPAM - Did you know that 97% of email traffic on one of the top two telco’s network is SPAM? apparently a true fact, the average email spam on a Telco’s network is 75-80% but this one is seen as an ISP by spammers offshore and not seen as a telco. Hence the high amount.

5. “The Rise of Monitoring: Achieving 100% Realtime Trade Flow Visibility” If you are in FX, Equities, an exchange, broker, trader, buy side, sell side, you need to be on this call.. it could change your life as you know it ! …..keep an eye out for a 1st November WEBCAST. Invitations should go out this week.

If you don’t get one, and are interested in attending this panel discussion, contact me via www.mobsource.com website and ill send you the details.

5 Things to watch out for this week

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:57:00 -0400

1. NTT……On top of Frontline, Di Data and Harbour MSP, will NTT buy Leighton’s in Australia as well…? - if you cant be good at building your own…buy one.. don’t forget, Leighton’s own a cloud company called Infoplex which do a lot of business with CWW

2. Will Vodafone GAZUMP them and buy Leighton’s AND AAPT ? After buying Cable&Wireless Worldwide, and Telstra Clear in NZ, V are on the hunt for ways to carry their ever growing mobile data traffic..

3. WTF !..WTR ! What’s the reason…..reason for outage on the Macquarie corporate cloud meltdown - it left almost 100 customers off line for almost 2 days.. if it was a SAN issue why? in less than 1 quarter, 3 data centres have have outages and security issues, the only thing they all have in common, is the lack of detail coming out ..maybe they need to purchase some root cause and network history tools..! - this is 2012… where we all have ZERO TOLERANCE FOR DIGITAL FAILURE..

4. ABC iView streaming on iOS mobile devices – iPads, iPhones and iPods – will overtake streaming via the web this week. Streaming on iOS represented 45.2% of total iView plans, versus 45.1% via the iView website.

5. Look out for some updates on the ASIC tender for market monitoring - do they really know what is going on ?

Big week with mobsource NaaS connecting into New York, Singapore and London - Network as a Service

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5 Things to watch out for this week

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:43:51 -0400

Notice this week, how much value or difference, being one of the 1 billion facebook users will add to your life… chances are, about as much as watching a Romney Obama debate.

RIM, NOKIA NORTEL, WANG,…….is HP next? looks like they are having their KODAK moment..320,000 employees and going with a hardware business model.. …HMMMM…. I think APPLE have that market covered… are HP in trouble?

The AISA National Conference 2012 will be held on Tuesday 16 October at the Sydney Convention Centre. This year’s exciting new theme is “Show Me the Money”.. discussions on the serious amount of money in stolen assets and costs of recovery - over $4.6 billion in Australia alone… WOW! - as well as the damaging impact of cybercrime on e-commerce. Failing that, you can join the FIX protocol group of capital markets bods on the same day (16th) and learn about the red headed stepchild of the markets - THE END of High Frequency Traders as we know it?

Keep an eye on DATA Centres in Sydney - Not how many people get stuck in the security gates trying to get in, but cost… how many more telco/resellers can you find selling racks in DC’s cheaper .. wait for it…. than the third party reseller ….. .who bought it wholesale ……from the owners !! - erm…thats 3rd hand and still cheaper… how do they do that? ..ZERO MARGIN……!! Just as well one DC in Sydney is about to add another 8000 racks to the market..

News on a new mobsource client using (NaaS) Network as a Service between Sydney and New York - Now that is worth watching.. Disruptive, clever and totally game changing.

carl

mobsource.com - solving problems the others ignore

5 things to watch out for this week

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:44:32 -0400

5 things to watch out for this week

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:12:00 -0400

Reaction from the telco world after Tagare cable meeting disappointment in the middle east. Can a Telco really walk past millions of dollars in savings in this climate?

How many more times do we need to hear “Hack” before we change our ways? - As more Australian data centres, universities and critical infrastructure businesses get hacked when will “response and root cause ” begins to mean more than prevention and detection… ?

Who will buy Nextgen? iinet TPG or metronode or…..mobsource.com?.. will that Asia cable to Singapore ever get built?

Will Telstra make its numbers to the ASX after sooooooooo much capex was frozen this week?

STOP»>Don’t open it…!!! “UPS-Delivery-Confirmation-Alert_Octobr-2012.zip” or anything else that looks remotely Phishy …….its bad !

mobsource.com - solving problems the others ignore

ps. on a personal note - i missed an R.I.P anniversary to my little boy who died late July 2010… Poor bosh, we miss you.

mobsource money markets inforaphic

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:56:00 -0400

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For Technology in Capital Markets, Opportunity Is Knocking :: TabbFORUM - Where Capital Markets Speak

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:11:57 -0400

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Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:04:38 -0400

Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing shows that when cloud-based platforms are aligned with well-defined strategic initiatives and line-of-business objectives, they deliver valuable contributions to an enterprise.

mobsource.com Network as a Service (NaaS) is often up to 80% cheaper than traditional telco’s via our “no commit” on demand methodology which is delivering exceptional value to our customers.

However, what is really interesting is that NaaS fits firmly in between SaaS and virtualisation on the Gartner slope of enlightenment.

Further proof that “The Golden Age” period as discussed below, is firmly upon us.

mobsource.com is the future of automated international data network service provisioning and network on demand.

[carl gough] founder and CEO +61 425 266 764

mobsource.com defined by benefits not by technology

Infrastructure Trends and Opportunities for the financial markets – The time has come

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:30:51 -0400

Infrastructure Trends and Opportunities for the financial markets – The time has come

As far as trends and opportunities go in technology, there is no bigger opportunity than right now.

If we plot the course of all the revolutions since 1771 they will all follow the same path.

Irruption of a new revolution (Technology 1971) followed by a frenzy of activity (bubble time and crash in 2001) then synergy, which is where we are now generating growth of new and exciting products and technology and lastly a maturity of the market. This is where nothing is new anymore and what we use is totally mainstream

There are some that say we are seeing another bubble in the IT industry, VC’s are funding more and more start ups and there has been some pretty significant “news making” tech IPO’s of recent times

Others say we have only just reached the halfway point for the Information Technology revolution and I tend to agree with the latter. We are at a turning point. As with any revolution, they tend to follow a similar pattern to the consumer technology hype cycle that Gartner produced (fig2)

As with most new things especially technology, we place a huge expectation hoping it will change our lives but the only problem being that the technology is too new and too young to make a difference. The IT bubble bursting in 2001 was an example of that happening. Remember pets.com and toys.com that were going to revolutionise our worlds? The good thing is that technology did not stop being created once the bubble burst. As we saw, It carried on to where we are now in 2012 - “Synergy” – or the “Golden age”. This is where technology will bring more value at a lower cost
– What is interesting is that with every revolution, the golden age happens 10 to 15 years after the initial bubble. That is right where we are.

So here we are today, at a halfway point where technology that is “good enough” to get the job done, why pay for international video conferencing when Skype is free. Right now, lots of technology available for business use, is cheaper, more reliable, more agile and will win hands down against trying to build it perfectly using your IT team. – The Golden age has arrived.

To add weight to this argument, we are already seeing financial markets companies farming off non-critical and critical business services to hosted IT environment providers –everything as a service, be it email, or market data, FX platforms, storage, virtual Servers and now the emergence of entire end-to-end network infrastructure.

One of the reasons for this is that business has begun to recognise that technology can no longer be used as an enabler, it has past that stage of “Build it to be different” and has now become a “game-changer”.

Not only is technology changing at a faster rate of knots than ever before, meaning as soon as we have built it, something better has come along, we, as consumers no longer tolerate technology failure. We expect it to work “all of the time” and we expect it to be cheaper than ever before, and of course it had better make our lives more convenient.

The “Golden Age” is where business will start to get a real business advantage by using technology in smart economical ways.

We are seeing some great examples of financial companies today that are changing the face of the trading markets by shifting their entire operations to web based service providers – five or 7 years ago the internet would never be used for this sort of business because it was too un reliable, and more importantly – too un predictable - Today, that has changed. Most people know the internet is reliable enough – global FX and brokerage businesses can now safely run on web based pay as you go services – this is a leap and a bound from having to build expensive, fast, scalable, and redundant “private” networks

Interestingly as technology evolves, the emergence of utility pricing has become a buzzword around the corporate markets. Business is finally starting to realize that it is entirely possible to switch fixed costs for variable costs for just about any service available today. An “on demand” Pay as you go trading network becomes commercially and economically attractive - Why should I pay for network bandwidth when I am not using it?

An FX, futures or equities business in Sydney, London, Singapore, Tokyo, New York or Chicago previously had to build a private network to trade between these markets – traditionally this was expensive point to point technology and often so much so that business cases get refused – It was simply cost prohibitive to pay US$10k per month for a small link between the ASX in Sydney and New York – The good news is that golden age technology available today means these very same point to point international networks exist on a pay for what you use basis – They are often more reliable and up to 80% lower cost. The technology works, its good enough to get the job done, is more reliable and infinitely cheaper. That in my mind, means we are firmly in the grips of a coherent growth market. The slope of enlightenment as Gartner would have it.

It is clear now these new models for IT and network infrastructures that support the financial markets are ready for the main stream. Their time has come.

Every business large and small are now looking to turn a traditional technology fixed costs into variable cost models and whether it is Software as a Service (SaaS) or Network as a Service (NaaS) what is important is that we know it works, is available for 99.9999% of the time, is absolutely good enough to get the job done and better than what most have today from their traditional telecom service providers.

These new models fundamentally change the game.

Good enough beats perfect.

carl@mobsource.com

Founder & CEO mobsource.com

Connectivity Specials for July

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:49:00 -0400

What was that?

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:54:00 -0400

This is a public service announcement

STOP PAYING FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF USING CARRIERS NETWORKS

AND

START PAYING FOR USAGE!

mobsource is a 99.9999% reliable platform for carrying data between Sydney and the USA using Southern Cross protected cable capacity - Yes, that’s the very same cable system that most of the major carriers buy and charge you an arm and a leg for …not to mention lock you in to a contract for a minimum of 12 months.

Wait for it, that’s roughly between AUD$50,000 and AUD$100,000 per year for a 10mb link, depending on who’s doing the “Ripping off” - scandalous..!

Here’s how mobsource works

1. Connect to the mobsource network and use on demand.

2. That is it!

Here’s what it will cost you

And for the purpose of clarity, I’m assuming most companies will want to use at least 1 month worth, yes, it is obviously less if you don’t use 5mb.

5mb point to point - port fee plus $300 !

10mb point to point port fee plus $600 !

But what if you don’t use bandwidth?

We are terribly sorry, but there’s no charge for that !

0 mb usage = port fee only

Now you have a very cheap backup link.

@ mobsource we offer Australian and US companies an Australia to USA or vice versa, un contended, point to point data connections on a pay as you go usage model, that means, pay as you go, literally, so, if you don’t use it, you wont pay for it.

We don’t mind really, you can keep paying the old way if you like, it’s your company money, but your network sits idle for 50% of the time because, well, you are sleeping, so why on earth, are you paying for it?

Some will find it difficult to stop parting with valuable company money but for some, the move away from paying for 12 month terms for commodity network stuff ! is absolutely an “economic must do”.

Again, NO minimum commitments over and above the port fees, AND NO minimum usage

3 ways in and 3 ways out

There is only 3 ways in and out of this country and mobsource runs on “A” grade Tier 1, carrier infrastructure, yes, that’s right, the very same stuff you are paying 10x as much for.

mobsource, is a point to point service, it is not contended, it has an SLA of 99.9999% - that means, its likely to be out of service less than 3 seconds per month - can your carrier give you that assurance?

Once connected to our Network as a Service platform, companies can scale up bandwidth usage instantly, on demand, and scale right back down when they have finished.

This is true network agility delivering both operational and cost benefits for any company that needs a “point to point” connection

www.mobsource.com

Bandwidth Trading Platform LIVE

Sat, 12 May 2012 03:02:00 -0400

Mobsource is now live with its “Bandwidth Trading Platform”

If you have spare capacity that you wish to sell as a carrier or cable operator and you wish to list it on our platform for us to find you a buyer, please register here as a general enquiry http://www.mobsource.com/contact-us/

mobsource is a transaction enabler, both technically and commercially, to connect bandwidth buyers and bandwidth sellers.

Mobsource sells bandwidth in all shapes, technologies, sizes and quantities on various cable systems.

Particular carriers are of no importance other than the fact that they are our suppliers selling or reselling their assets through the mobsource platform.

Mobsource aggregates supply and sells on demand.

This is the new world of “carriage” and leverages excess bandwidth in the marketplace.

This is disruptive change and a different approach to traditional carriage primarily through the no commit, on demand methodology behind the services and an ability to get a return on investment for our sellers whilst maintaining excellent value for buyers.

see you at ITW

[carl gough] founder and CEO +61 425 266 764 www.mobsource.com

mobsource Network as a Service (NaaS) defined by benefits not by technology – NOW LIVE!

What are the market issues impacting the development of bandwidth trading markets?.

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:58:30 -0400

A very broad definition for bandwidth trading needs an agreement between buyers and sellers.

The network topologies in which trading bandwidth would make sense both from a business and technical perspective are clearly available today.

Contrary to popular opinion, there is no gap between what the current routing protocols allow carriers to do and what carriers would like to do in order to implement more complex business relationships to trade bandwidth. Its not rocket science.!

The previous two major problems that may of hampered the implementation of a dynamic and fluid spot markets for bandwidth trading were essentially

1. Too much time disseminating new routing information generated by an agreement. However, this does not exist today. Its real time. Just in time, call it what you will.

2. Difficulties in performing traffic engineering to balance load across links once carriers become multi-connected - With dynamic allocation and distribution, mobsource.com overcomes this.

Without sounding too much like a politician, @mobsource, we think that from a public policy point of view, bandwidth trading markets are a very important part of the telecoms landscape because they have the very potential to impact the sustainability of competition in the telecommunications sector. Why is this important? Well, we need competition, more competition via the existence and sustainability of market competitors in this sector is a fundamental tenet of telecommunications policy - if the competition is not there, policy is being breached !

“Competitive markets are meant to offer consumers and business, services that are better and cheaper, or as close to their real costs a possible.

Without it, we are back to the monopoly, duopoly days.

There is a price volatility in today’s bandwidth market, you can see that from the amount of capacity that is stranded, distressed or unable to be sold, this has a significant flow on effect and stunts growth of all industries, so to make the bandwidth assets monetized, means to create a more competitive market and growth for all industries.

mobsource, was created to generate the critical mass needed for the bandwidth trading markets to take off.

There is a lot of work to do to educate telecom suppliers and wholesale consumers to become adept at the use of it, but its not hard.

[carl gough] founder and CEO +61 425 266 764 www.mobsource.com

mobsource Network as a Service (NaaS) defined by benefits not by technology – NOW LIVE!

The future of Bandwidth Trading has arrived !

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:45:42 -0400

As we prepare for launch at International Telecoms Week in Chicago next week - here is a sneak peek at the future of buying and selling capacity.

Now carriers have a place to connect, contract and manage inventory as well as monetize their spare or idle capacity.

Our system allows carriers to sell any route, anywhere in the world, as well as provides a Network as a Service to business and enterprise customers.

[carl gough] founder and CEO +61 425 266 764

mobsource Pty Ltd defined by benefits not by technology ABN 91 156 070 58

Trends and opportunities in the finance world

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:44:00 -0400

1) What trends and opportunities does mobsource see in Asia?

The likes of 8 Securities, http://www.8securities.com/ that run on Amazon are changing the face of trading as we know it – there is a definite shift where “Good Enough” technology beats perfect every time, because good enough is better faster and cheaper.
Mobsource on demand trading network acts in the same way – we are defined by benefits and not by technology and this is what keeps 90% of traders and brokers happy.

2) What are the challenges and barriers in delivering your products and services in Asia ?
The adoption of cloud is happening very quickly, market data and FX platforms are today, delivered on cloud so I see no reason why exchange to exchange or venue to venue connectivity cannot be delivered in much the same way. The challenge is being in all places but that is a great problem to have as demand increases.

3) Tell us about the Chicago Sydney and singapore service and is mobsource planning to offer a similar service to other Asia Exchanges?

We are getting a lot of enquiries from Chicago looking for lower cost ways to tap into the futures markets down in Sydney. Their options today are limited to 12 month contracts and often cost prohibitive so we decided to build a service that Links with Sydney (Equinix) for a fixed fee of $1500 per month and any usage on top of this on a pay as you go basis - this means when the markets are closed, you are not being charged for bandwidth - we are turning a traditional fixed cost into a variable cost whilst at same time, making the Network as a Service (NaaS) available for 99.9999% of the time, this equates to around 3 seconds per year worth of outage - this in itself is fundamentally game changing as no carrier will offer you this on their networks. We can do this because of the diversity in our supply. We have had enquiries from India and China energy market participants also so it is encouraging and we may explore these options.

4) There has been a lot of negative press about HFT lately. What is your view on HFT and does your service have a place for them in Asia?

I think it does, although demand is still pretty low in Sydney from HFT guys. Even the fragmented market has not really taken off. At last count I heard the alternative venue had 20 or so participants but 80% of the volume was made up by 2 prop shops /market makers.

For note - Some of the global cable operators have spent hundreds of millions of dollars building super fast networks with low latency in mind only to find that the demand from HFT players is pretty low - They would need to sell a very large amount of contracts to fill up their pipes, this isn’t going to happen any time soon - The justification from the big end of town institutional players is there but they demand services at below cost price - and buy once a year or so – this is a finite market and operators margins are seriously put to the test. In the end, they discover that this model is completely unsustainable. There is and will always be a massive amount of their bandwidth that is idle, stranded or just not lit – mobsource provides a way for the providers to sell via the bandwidth dark pool and start to get a return on their capital investment

What benefits does mobsource deliver the market?

Apart from a much lower cost for customers we provide A place for carriers and ethernet providers to slow down their margin erosion. Bandwidth suppliers can anonymously sell their excess capacity to those that need it. Protecting their brand and margins

In the finance world – A “dark pool” of liquidity is trading volume liquidity that is not openly available to the public and where the bulk of these represent large trades by financial institutions that are offered away from exchanges. One of the main advantages for institutional investors in using dark pools is for buying or selling large blocks of securities without showing their hand to others and thus avoiding market impact.

For the buyers, brokers and traders, mobsource acts in the same way by connecting them allowing an exchange of bandwidth to take place on demand – without affecting market price and of course, at a much lower cost.

www.mobsource.com

+61 425 266 764

Swapping fixed costs to variable.

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:50:00 -0400

Here is an example of what can be achieved by swapping your fixed cost international data network to a variable cost model.

Comparing what it would cost for a standard POP to POP 10MB Layer 2 or 3 service between Australia and the USA, business’ can save a lot of time and effort, not to mention valuable $$.

From the indicative analysis below, you will see that mobsource, is up to 80%. cheaper.!

Once connected to our platform, clients can use as much or as little bandwidth and pay for it as they use it as opposed to being locked into a 12, 24 or 36 month contract.

Being flexible

Scaling up bandwidth usage is important, but scaling down, even more so

Our platform allows companies to scale up for a project and wind the usage back as that project comes to an end.

get in touch to connect or register @ www.mobsource.com

+61 425 266 764
carl@mobsource.com