One of the big issues in zero-touch automation is event generation. Since management of services and infrastructure is all about responding to events, it’s pretty logical that getting events to respond to is critical, fundamental. It’s not so much that we don’t know how to generate events, as that we don’t necessarily know how to…
If software defines everything, is everything converging? Obviously not, but some software-defined things probably are converging, and there’s no better example than that offered by SDN and SD-WAN. The big questions raised by that convergence are what emerges in the way of a combined model, and what group of vendors/supporters wins in the mash-up. Will…
Remember the AT&T open-source white box switch software? Their announcement of the dNOS white-box operating system was made just three months ago, and open-sourced a month later. Now they have a competing venture, from the ONF, called “Stratum”. What are the two approaches doing, and what impact might they have on the SDN market? Are…
In a couple past blogs on lifecycle management, I mentioned my “older” ExperiaSphere project. The project was one of the earliest tests of zero-touch automation, launched with operator support. There is still some documentation on the ExperiaSphere website, but some of you have asked me to explain the original project, hopefully relating it to the…
If we want to apply cluster techniques to carrier cloud services, we need to first catalog just what kind of services we’re talking about. Otherwise we can’t assess what the feature-hosting mission of carrier cloud technology would be, and without that, we can’t assign infrastructure requirements. You’d think that all this would have been done…
In my last blog, I talked about applying cluster technology to carrier cloud. Today I want to use an example of cluster-based infrastructure to illustrate just what might be done, and to explain the general application case better. My selected example is Univa, who has two products that combine to create the essential cluster-carrier-cloud framework. …
All that glitters is not MWC, to paraphrase a popular saying, but MWC probably glitters more than most technology shows. The question that you have to ask after an MWC event, or any other trade show for that matter, is whether there’s anything behind the bling. I thought it might be interesting to look at…
Real virtualization is based on clusters. Virtualization assigns tasks to resources, and it doesn’t make sense to go through the assignment process to provide a resource pool the consists of one host. Virtualization really implies a remapping of hosting across a pool of available servers not a 1:1 assignment. In cloud and container computing, a…
The idea of combining content delivery networks and edge computing is logical on the face, given that CDNs function at the edge. Now, a demonstration of CDN and machine learning hosted on Ericsson’s Unified Delivery Network (UDN) suggests the company might be approaching fulfillment of both that combination of features and an implicit promise that…
If 5G is a vast and confusing set of technologies, it’s just as vast and confusing at the competitive level. If you do a bit of Internet research on 5G you’ll find that a few key vendors seem to be offering all the collateral. Ericsson tops the list, with Huawei and Nokia behind. Below them,…