I just had a chance to read the Light Reading story on NFV (“Down But Not Out”) and it’s a nice summary of the NFV situation. It also documents my own frustration with the issues, because while everything the article says is true, every issue that the article presents was well-known in 2013. I know…
What will our next-generation network devices really look like? I know we’ve heard a lot of stories about the future, but are they all true? Are any of them, in fact? I had some interesting operator discussions on this point, and they yielded some surprising information. The best way to review it is to list…
GDPR has just gone into effect, and the national media is obsessed with issues of privacy and the impact of advertising. There’s also the matter of the spread of biased information on social media; what’s called “fake news”. Maybe it’s time to address a touchy topic, which is the impact of advertising and fake news…
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There is always a risk in using buzzwords or catch-phrases. They tend to propagate through the market, losing contact with reality along the way. We hear, for example, that operators are “bullish” on transformation but don’t follow through. Is that a fair comment or is there something deeper going on. Four global operators have recently…
If there is a profit-per-bit problem, how much of it could SD-WAN solve? How much could SDN or NFV solve? What are the fundamental attributes of a strategy to address profit-per-bit, and where can we expect to see features to fulfill the potential? These are all critical questions at a time when operators are struggling…
IoT isn’t about 5G, it’s about events and edge computing. A recent story on Rigado’s “edge-as-a-service” is a more realistic take on what IoT means, but is it a full-on example of a winning IoT approach? I have to confess that another “as-a-service” positioning raises my hackles, but we’ll have to look at it, and…
Cisco is always a bellwether for the router market, so when their earnings call gives the Street angst, it’s not just about Cisco. Cisco said that every sector in its product space grew in the last quarter, except the most important one, which was service provider routing. Softness there obviously impacts Cisco’s forecast, whose weakness…
Can we get some definitions here? I’m as interested in software-directed operations processes as the next person (maybe more than most), but I confess that I’m getting buried in terms and concepts that clearly relate to the software-directed operations goal at the high level, but don’t seem to relate well, or consistently, with each other. …
What’s the difference between a use case and a business case? The answer might involve some subtle thinking, but it might also be a key to understanding what’s going on in the 5G space here in the US, and even in global markets. It’s a question that’s plagued our industry for three decades now, at…