There should be no question that I am a big fan of edge computing, and so I’m happy that Equinix is pushing storage to the edge (according to one story yesterday) or that Vapor IO supports micro-data-centers at the wireless edge. I just wish we had more demand focus to explain our interest in the…
When you have an architecture that set the standard for NFV, what do you to for an encore? AT&T’s answer to that question is “Network 3.0 Indigo” or in short terms, just “Indigo”. It’s another of those huge concepts that’s difficult to describe or to understand, and its sheer scope is certain to create healthy…
In a blog last week, I mentioned the notion of an NFV infrastructure concept that I called a “modular infrastructure model”. It was a response to operators’ comments that they were most concerned about the possibility that the largest dollar investment in their future—carrier cloud—would end up creating a silo. They know how to avoid…
We had a couple of NFV announcements this week that mention onboarding or integration. Ericsson won a deal with Verizon that includes their providing services to integrate VNFs, and HPE announced an “onboarding factory” service that has the same basic goal. The announcements raise two questions. First, does this move the ball significantly with respect…
Operators have been fascinated by the public cloud opportunity, and new initiatives like that of Orange Business Services seem to promise that this fascination could be gaining some traction in the real world. But Verizon at the same time is clearly pulling back from its public cloud computing commitments. What’s really going on with operator…
Think network hardware is going great? Look at Cisco’s results, and at Juniper’s decision to push even harder in security (which by the way is also a hot spot for Cisco’s quarter). Look at the M&A in the vendor space. Most of all, look at everyone’s loss of market share to Huawei. USTelecom Daily Lead’s…
It would be fair for you to wonder whether the notion of intent-based service modeling for transformed telco infrastructure is anything more than a debate on software architecture. In fact, that might be a very critical question because we’re really not addressing, so far, the execution of the control software associated with virtualization in carrier…
Yesterday the “New ONF” formed by the union of the old ONF and ON.Labs announced its new mission and its roadmap to achieving it. I’m a guy who has worked in standards for well over two decades, and the experience has made me perhaps more cynical about standards than I am about most things (which,…
One of the joke statements of the virtual age is “You can’t send a real tech to fix a virtual problem!” Underneath the joke is a serious question, which is just what happens to test and measurement in a virtual world? Virtualization opens two issues—how do you test the virtual processes and flows, and how…
I can vividly recall one of my early telco transformation meetings. It was just after NFV had launched, but before any real work had been done. At the meeting, two of the telco experts sitting next to each other expressed their views on OSS/BSS. One wanted to transform it, retaining as much as possible of…