I admit that in past blogs I have vented about the state of insight being demonstrated on IoT. It would be far easier to provide a list of dumb things said and offered in the space than a list of smart things. In fact, up to late last week I couldn’t put anything on the…
There are a lot of ways to get to the network of the future, but I think they all share one common concept. Services are in the eye of the beholder, meaning buyer, and so all services should be viewed as abstractions that define the connectivity and SLA they offer but are realized based on…
Cisco’s numbers for the quarter just ended were decent, but their guidance for the current quarter was a disappointment to many. Yeah, Cisco did the usual dance about macro-economics and currency fluctuations, but you can see the Street is concerned that either technology shifts or operator pressure on costs (or both) was impacting Cisco. The…
IoT could well go down in tech history as the most transformational concept of all time. It will certainly go down as the most hyped concept. The question for IoT, in fact, is whether its potential will be destroyed by the overwhelming flood of misinformation and illogic that it’s generated. SDN and NFV have been…
Responding to a LinkedIn comment on one of my recent blogs, I noted that SDN and NFV had to focus now on not falling prey to the ATM problems of the past. It’s worth starting this week by looking objectively at what happened with ATM and how SDN and NFV could avoid that (terrible) fate. …
I was talking yesterday with an old friend from the network operator space, a long-standing member of the NFV elite, and one of our topics was just what could pull through SDN and NFV. Two specific notions came up, one the Internet-of-Things opportunity I mentioned a number of times in my blogs (yesterday, for example)…
If you go to the website of a big vendor who sells a lot to the network operators, or read their press releases, you see something interesting. The issues that these vendors promote seem very pedestrian. We hear about things like “customer experience”, “unified services”, “personalizing usage”, “traffic growth”, “outages”, and even “handset strategies”. Where’s…
I’ve pointed out in a number of my past blogs that of all the things needed from an SDN or NFV implementation to make the business case, none tops an effective service management automation approach. I’ve also noted that the NFV ISG initially put end-to-end management out of scope, and that they also ignored the…
The news that Cisco and Ericsson are forming a marketing partnership isn’t a big surprise, given the Nokia deal for Alcatel-Lucent earlier. It’s still big news in the industry, though, and perhaps bigger if one casts it into position alongside another news item, which is that Verizon is looking to sell off its cloud business. …
I got a laugh at a conference back in the past when I commented that to the media, any new technology had to be either the single-handed savior of western culture, or the last bastion of international communism. Anything in between wasn’t going to generate clicks on the pieces, and it was too complicated to…