The whole issue of telco profits is complicated, but one potential path to addressing the issue is to separate infrastructure from services—what’s often described as a netco/servco split. The notion is discussed in a Tata white paper, but I want to develop, justify, and offer my own views here. This turns out to be a…
One of the most beneficial tech advances is virtualization. As the term is commonly used in both computing and networking, virtualization is a means of partitioning a resource in such a way that users of the resource see themselves as the only tenant. The result is lower costs with minimal (hopefully) QoE impact. Every enterprise…
OK, you know that I believe AI is over-hyped. You may have seen some recent stories in even non-tech media that show others hold the same view. Lets get to things we need to know…like whether the AI hype problem is with AI overall or just generative AI, and whether AI might actually be better…
Cisco, like pretty much all network equipment vendors, is facing profit pressure. That might account for what sure seems like a hiring decision aimed at boosting its hardware creds, as Network World suggests. There are a lot of reasons Cisco might be doing this, and most of the reasons I’ll cite have likely contributed to…
One thing that should be clear to everyone at this point is that one access technology doesn’t fit all, at least with respect to broadband in general and broadband Internet in particular. Thus, the question isn’t when we’ll converge on one (fiber is the one most mentioned) but what indicates the best, or even a…
We hear a lot about the edge and edge computing, but we hear a lot about many things that don’t all turn out as we expect. How important will edge computing be? What do we even mean by “edge computing”? You get all sorts of answers to these questions. Gartner says that by 2025, 75%…
Remember the “turbo button” idea? An Internet user could push it and get a burst of additional speed. Don’t sprain your fingers pushing at it, because it’s D..E..A..D. Remember the notion of a gaming-themed Internet service with ultra-low latency? It just received what’s likely a mortal blow, according to a Light Reading story. There are…
There’s no end to the bad news for telecom spending, apparently. A recent SDxCentral article illustrates the problem and perhaps exposes one of the underlying causes, but I think it’s also important to draw a connection back to one of my blogs last week. Yes, in an indirect way, net neutrality policies are responsible for…
When you ask questions you sometimes get solid answers. Sometimes, you get answers that are less than solid. Are network equipment vendors jumping more into the enterprise market? Yes, unquestionably they are. Is that the right move? Yes, but…. That makes the question we need to look at simple; how solid is that “yes, but”,…
Yes, we apparently need to look at an old topic again. One of the persistent challenges we’ve faced with networking in the age of the Internet is that of “neutrality”. Interestingly, it’s an issue that really arose before the Internet was much of a factor, coming out of the “privatization” of the previous monopolies on…