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…
Can the 5G vendor space get any worse? Apparently it can, according to a Light Reading story that quotes a number of analyst firms. Consider this quote: “Research from Omdia, a Light Reading sister company, reads like a horror novel for anyone in the radio access network (RAN) products business.” Well, I agree, obviously. I…
I’ve blogged several times in the past about the decline in new-project spending by enterprises, and how that portends for the industry. This is a good time to look at another impact of that new-project starvation, which is the magnification of the benefits of incumbency. Could current network spending patterns be reinforcing the “stay the…
What’s the biggest tech challenge, according to enterprises? Multiplicity. We have too many tech things, too many tech administration tasks, too many product types, too many layers of functionality. Who’s at fault? Enterprises admit that they are largely responsible. Is anything being done about it? Sort of. Management, in particular, feels that it’s buried in…
What’s going on in the cloud? That’s been a question for over a decade, not so much because we’ve not been able to answer it, as because the answer seems to be constantly changing. There is a lot of change in the cloud, as enterprises and even cloud providers tell me, but there’s also a…