When I blogged about the Google federated layers model I had a request from a LinkedIn contact to blog about applying the approach to NFV. I said I’d blog more on the topic next week, but it’s important enough to slot in for today. It is indeed possible to view NFV’s coordinated orchestration or decomposition…
I have already blogged on aspects of Google Andromeda and a network-centric vision of the cloud. SDxCentral did an article on Google’s overall vision, based on a presentation Google gave at SDN World Congress, and I think the vision merits some additional review. One of the key points in the Google approach is that it…
The truth will out they say, and that includes truth about the cloud. According to a report in Business Insider, both Google and Amazon are now looking at their own premises cloud strategies, an acknowledgement that Microsoft and IBM may be onto something in just how far public cloud services can go. And, perhaps most…
Transformation of a trillion-dollar infrastructure base isn’t going to be easy, and that’s what network operators are facing. Some don’t think it’s even possible, and a Light Reading story outlines Telecom Italia’s thinking on the matter. We seem to be hearing other viewpoints from other operators, so what’s really going on here? There’s always been…
I am just as excited about the potential of 5G as anyone, but I’m also a little worried that we might fall prey to some of the same issues that have hurt SDN, NFV, and IoT. We have a lot of time to get this done right, but we do have to be sure to…
The state of technologies like SDN and NFV is important, but it seems we can get to it only in little snippets or sound bites. A couple of recent ones spoken at conferences come to mind. First, AT&T commented that they wanted VNFs to be like “Legos” and not “snowflakes”, and then we had a…
Everyone by now knows that Ericsson has issued a profit warning, and that many analysts and reporters are wondering whether Ericsson can survive in the long term. I think it’s premature to call Ericsson a member of the walking dead, or even seriously wounded, but I also think that it might be helpful to look…
Google has now followed Amazon and Microsoft (Azure) in deploying cloud tools for IoT. In many ways, the Google announcement is a disappointment to me, because it doubles down on the fundamental mistake of thinking “IoT” is just about getting “things” on the “Internet.” But if you look at the trend in what I call…
The network operator technology planning cycle that typically happens annually between mid-September and mid-November is just getting underway, and I want to share some of the “talking points” operators have told me about. None of these positions are firm this early, but in past years a decent number of the early positions were solidified into…
For the decades where IP dominance was a given, we have lived in an age where service features were network features. When Nicira came along, driven by the need to scale cloud tenancy more than physical devices tended to support, we learned about another model. Overlay networks, networks built from nodes that are connected by…