It seems like 2024 is already the year of busted myths. One of particular interest is the idea that telcos would cede “carrier cloud” hosting applications for their services, including 5G, to public cloud providers. As a Light Reading story recounts, this just doesn’t seem to be happening. Of 38 operators who offered me comment…
In the last week, I’ve had a lot of comments from both operators and vendors regarding the issue of function hosting. It’s pretty clear that networks are evolving to a state where functionality is distributed between custom devices (like routers), dedicated devices (white boxes), and general-purpose hosts (servers). Some have suggested that we’re heading for…
Well, for everything there is a season, they say. If that’s true, then the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has passed its own. The body is merging with the Linux foundation after over two decades of independent live, and the Foundation is taking over three of its projects, Broadband, Aether, and P4. Broadband ideals with access…
There are a lot of factors that impact our ability to address technology in business terms. Some relate to the exploding complexity of technology, some to the slower evolution of business goals that technology might serve, some to external forces like regulations and the financial markets…it’s complicated. Right now, though, enterprises are telling me that…
The recent announcement about HPE acquiring Juniper, and my blogs on it, raised a lot of discussion on LinkedIn about the combined company’s likely telco strategy, and as it happened there was also a discussion on an Omdia paper called “Telcos must take charge of their cloud native vision”. This in turn referenced a CNCF…
What’s hot in telco spending? Probably not much, you’d say, and you’d be substantially correct in that view. But not entirely. There is one area that’s seen growth in spending according to a report cited in an article on TelecomLead, and that’s OSS/BSS. I think what’s even more interesting is what telcos are saying might…
Any big announcement is going to generate a lot of comments. In tech, or almost any other space, M&A is a big announcement, particularly if it involves well-known players. So it was with the rumor that HPE was buying Juniper, and I joined the comment frenzy in my blog yesterday. But later yesterday, HPE made…
Security is really the only network budget area that enterprises tell me is safe from pressure. In fact, of 294 enterprises who commented on their plans in the last quarter of 2023, 288 said that they expected a modest-or-better increase in their security budgets overall. The problem is that while spending is increasing, satisfaction levels…
OK, time to look at some radical news. HPE is said to be acquiring Juniper. If you’ve followed my writings, in my blogs and in articles I’ve done for tech publications, you know that I’ve been talking about the shift in how network budgets are influenced. There was a time, perhaps only a decade ago,…
Digital twinning concepts, I’m happy to say, are getting a lot more positive ink. In December, I saw roughly twice the number of references to the technology in tech media, and the number of enterprises who spontaneously mentioned digital twin technology in their advanced technology planning rose from 78 in November to 146 in December….