The network operators, particularly the telcos, are in a battle with themselves, attempting a “transformation” from their sale-of-bits model of the past to something different and yet not precisely defined. One likely offshoot of this, Verizon’s decision to acquire AOL, has generated a lot of comment and I think it may also offer some insights…
There are reasons to do things and there are justifications and any CFO knows the difference. In the last four blogs, I’ve talked about the value propositions for SDN and NFV, how they’re impacted by limited perceptions of the things SDN or NFV have to do, and the kind of holistic model that could define…
The question of how the network of the future could work, how SDN in particular could be introduced and managed, needs to be answered. What’s really interesting is that it might have been answered already, and that not only are we not running to explore the solution, we might be running away. One of the…
In my blog on Friday of last week, I talked about the pitfalls of not examining the details of current network services when considering how SDN or NFV might be used to implement or replace them. Some of you have noticed that the blog opens a door to considering network services of all sorts as…
I doubt anyone would disagree if I said that we had a strong tendency to oversimplify the impacts of changes or new concepts in networking. It’s a combination of the desire by network users to focus on what they want not how to get it, and the desire of the media to turn every development…
I doubt anyone would disagree if I said that we had a strong tendency to oversimplify the impacts of changes or new concepts in networking. It’s a combination of the desire by network users to focus on what they want not how to get it, and the desire of the media to turn every development…
John Chambers said a while ago that the “white box” players were dead and that Cisco had at least helped to kill them. This is the sort of Chamberesque statement that always gets ink, but we always have to dig into those sorts of statements. “News” means “novelty” not “truth”. The whole white-box thing was…
HP ranks among, if not on top of, my selection of bona fide NFV providers. Their OpenNFV architecture is comprehensive in its support for operations integration and legacy device control, both of which are critical to making an early NFV business case. Now they’re taking on another issue, one that’s been raised in a number…
I remember a Cisco before John Chambers but I suspect most in the industry today do not. For those people it might seem a frightening prospect. For some who have been disappointed by Cisco’s seemingly lackluster support of new initiatives like SDN and NFV, it may seem like an opportunity. Obviously we have to see…
It’s nice to have a sounding-board news trigger to launch a discussion from, and Oracle has obligingly provided me that with its Evolved Communications Application Server. This is a product that I believe is driven by the same industry trends that Alcatel-Lucent’s Rapport is, and potentially could deliver services that could compete with Google’s Fi. …