Author: Tom Nolle

Big Switch has announced its defection from Open Daylight, and the move has been greeted with all the usual “I-told-you-so’s”.  According to the majority who’ve commented so far, this is because Cisco contributed its open-source controller as a deliberate move to crush the business model of Big Switch.  Well, I don’t know about that. First,…

My biggest gripe about cloud coverage in the media is that we’re almost never talking about what’s really going on, but rather simply pushing the most newsworthy claim.  One result of this is that when something happens in the cloud space, even something that’s inherently newsworthy, we have no context of reality into which it…

If you assemble the “little stories” of the last week, looking past the big product/technology announcements, you see the indicators of an industry in transition—or one trying to transition at least.  To understand what’s happening you have to go back to the US Modified Final Judgment back in the ‘80s and look at the carrier…

We tend to think of SDN as being some modern revolution, but in fact there have been some pretty significant SDN antecedents in play for decades.  One, believe it or not, is in the VoIP space, and now this proto-SDN may be joining with the mainstream SDN wave through a vendor partnership. One of the…

Sorry I couldn’t blog the last couple of days; at some points I have to travel/work on a schedule that makes blogging impossible! This week we had HP’s earnings, and generally the Street liked what they got, which was better than they expected.  I’m sorry, Wall Street, but I wasn’t satisfied.  In tech, especially these…

Last week at Interop, Juniper offered a bit more detail on its Contrail stuff.  I didn’t get any press release on this, perhaps because Juniper has done a number of SDN announcements already and considered this a follow-up.  At any rate, the additional detail offers some color on what might distinguish Juniper’s approach from others. …

Cisco reported their numbers, which were much awaited and which the Street viewed as highly favorable.  The stock is up nearly 10% pre-market on the results, with both revenue and EPS beating estimates and guidance seen as generally good.  Given that most tech companies were weak this quarter, the results are impressive and you always…

Ericsson, Huawei, and NSN have entered into a somewhat-historic agreement to break down interoperability barriers for OSS/BSS systems.  OSSii is essentially an agreement to share interface specifications not to cooperate in broader development, or to set new standards for OSS/BSS interoperability (still largely under the TM Forum).  The promise is to facilitate rollouts of new…

It’s “recap Friday” again, and there are a lot of little items that (as usual) add up to some significant industry trends.  Facing important truths about something you depend on is never easy, and it looks like the industry as a whole and some companies in particular are now going to have to do that….

Light Reading made an interesting point yesterday in commenting about this year’s Interop show.  I’ve been to Interop in the past, and it’s always been the bastion of Big Network Iron.  Now it may be about to show its softer side, if you believe the advance comments on keynotes and vendor announcements.  Trade shows drive…