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Author: Tom Nolle
Finding the Golden Link
This week’s activity seems to me to be pointing to the future course of network equipment. On the one hand, we have Huawei reporting $32 billion in sales, good growth year over year, and demonstrating that networking from their perspective is a value market. On the other hand, we have Cisco making moves (including its…
OpenFlow: To the Cloud?
If demand-side issues are driving changes in the industry, then it’s fair to ask where the industry is going. We talked yesterday about the major drivers, and today I want to talk about the major technology shifts a bit more. In particular, I want to make the connection between the changes in opportunity and the…
Cut Cords, Cost-Based Clouds? Not.
Friday’s usually a bit of a slow news day, and so it’s often a good day to recap some things that were pushed to the rear of the interest queue by other events. There are a couple that fit this category that I’d like to explore a bit today, and the first two come from…
Did Oracle’s Quarter Have Clouds or Need Them?
Oracle is one of the more interesting tech companies, if you’re looking for an indicator of where markets might be heading overall. They have a broad exposure across hardware and software and also a nice combination of “offensive” and “defensive” products, meaning those that do well when confidence is high and those that are more…
An Example of an App-to-Cloud-to-Flow Ecosystem
I mentioned in a blog last week that there was some important progress being made in the fusion of cloud development and deployment—what the industry calls “DevOps”. There are also important developments in the area of cloud networking, another topic I’ve blogged about recently. One indication of a unified approach to these critical problems was…
TV: Everywhere, Network-Where, or Nowhere?
Amazon has cut a deal with Discovery to stream its programming, and the announcement has spawned a serious question about the future of TV in general, and of TV Everywhere in particular. Like just about everything else in video, this is complicated. Let’s start off with some data. The largest segment of viewing that flees…
DT and Pew: The What and Why of the “Cloud Network”
DT has become what’s possibly the first major carrier to show us what the network of the future is going to look like, though the description is still a bit cryptic and not always being picked up correctly in stories. All of the factors I’ve been blogging about for the last week, both the demand-side…
New Network Tech Issues Emerge
The pressure to create new profit sources for network operators is starting to generate some momentum in the network technology and architecture space, but it’s too early to call a trend in part because there are still a lot of profit options being pursued. Not only that, even those who might see the same profit…
Reading the “New iPad” Tea Leaves
Well, Apple has finally quashed (most of) the rumors and announced its “new iPad”. It has the quad-core A5X processor, Retina display with photorealistic resolution, and is much faster on cellular wireless—21Mbps HSPA+, DC-HSDPA at 42Mbps, and LTE at 73Mbps. However, the notion of a fully software-define radio capable of supporting anyone’s service isn’t in…