The notion of the digital twin as a model of real-world systems is gaining visibility. What about the inverse? Could a digital twin become a blueprint that then establishes the system in the real world? We already have examples of models driving deployments, but taking that to the real world, to systems with physical elements,…
It seems to me that we regularly go through a phase where everyone is talking about telco API opportunity. We’re regularly disappointed. Since stories on the notion seem to be on the upswing again, let’s look at the topic and try to work out what’s really happening, and why that which has already happened has…
I blogged last week about WFH trends, including “socialization” and “interaction” effectiveness that seem to impact both enterprise policy on WFH and worker interest in the concept. It’s hard to say how much these factors suppress WFH, but my chats with enterprises suggest they do. What could make WFH more broadly acceptable? How about the…
One of the most divisive questions raised so far this decade is whether people need to be “at work” in order to do their jobs. In the process of interacting with over 400 companies in the last year, I’ve had chats with over 650 people, and I think this has given me some insight into…
I firmly believe that digital twin concepts are the most important single tech driver in today’s market, yet they rarely get even a close look. I was struck by a nice article in XR, an online site that’s largely dedicated to extended reality (hence the name), which presents a good picture of the scope of…
In all the years, all the decades, I’ve worked with telcos, nothing has been as durable as the debate over the importance of OSS/BSS systems. I recounted in a past blog, an experience I had twelve years ago, a meeting where the planner on my left wanted to modernize OSS/BSS and the one on my…
Platform concepts are hot in tech these days, and it’s not surprising that there’s an interest in a unified platform for network operations management, both among enterprises and network operators. There are a lot of drivers to the movement, and enterprises and operators both see issues as well. We actually used to have a fairly…
Cloud repatriation, like everything else in tech, is surely exaggerated, as this article says. Few companies I’ve chatted with move any significant number of application elements from the cloud back to the data center. What isn’t exaggerated is what even a small number of repatriations means in terms of how enterprises assess their use of…
Given that AI is listed by enterprises as the hottest current technology development, and that I believe the same is true on the consumer side, it’s fair to ask whether the network operators are as committed to it. Do they see themselves as users of AI, providers of AI, or both, and if the last…
Yesterday, I talked about the problems of 5G and their possible solution. Today, I want to talk about a piece of 5G evolution, Open RAN. Open technology generally does well, but Open RAN seems to be bucking the trend, to the point where some are even attributing the overall spending slump for 5G to Open…