We never get much tech news on a Friday, but we do sometimes get business news about tech and today’s no exception. We have Intel’s earnings report, IBM’s new cloud investment, and also a comment by Juniper’s new CEO on the company’s directions. Let’s take a look at each and see what (if anything) we…
Enterprise Networking and its Consumer-Like Future
There seem to be a lot of forces battering the enterprise networking space this year, and we’re only halfway through January. What makes things difficult is that many of these forces are kind of under the radar, at least in terms of the extent to which their impacts are obvious. They’re also embryonic; there are…
And in the “More News” Category…
We have some additional news on a couple of topics I’ve been blogging on, one of which could have a significant impact on the state of the networking market and the other which could be a signpost of progress in network technology evolution. A Court of Appeals has overturned the FCC’s neutrality order, and Juniper…
Looking for Optimization in All the Wrong Places
We’re all familiar with the notion of “layered networks” but one of the things that’s sometimes overlooked when considering these age-old concepts is that multiple layers often begat multiple connection topologies, service policies, and so forth. In today’s world we’re not thinking of layers as much in terms of protocol layers as in terms of service…
Looking for Optimization in All the Wrong Places
We’re all familiar with the notion of “layered networks” but one of the things that’s sometimes overlooked when considering these age-old concepts is that multiple layers often begat multiple connection topologies, service policies, and so forth. In today’s world we’re not thinking of layers as much in terms of protocol layers as in terms of service…
Might This Be the Start of Something Big for SDN?
If you review all of the industry news of the last week looking for “secret trends”, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that a lot of the longer-term trends that everyone has ignored for almost a decade are now coming home to roost. As a result, we may in fact be in for some changes…
Can We Modernize OSS/BSS?
There have been a number of articles recently about the evolution of OSS/BSS, and certainly there’s pressure to drive evolution, based on a number of outside forces. Caroline Chappell, Heavy Reading analyst, has been a particularly good source of insightful questions and comments on the topic, and I think it’s time to go a bit…
Clouds, Brown Paper Bags, and Networking’s Future
I’ve blogged a lot about declining revenue per bit and commoditization of hardware in networking. The same thing is happening in IT, driven by the same mass-market and consumerization forces. You can’t sell a lot of something that’s expensive; Ford made the automobile real by making it cheap. So arguably networking and IT are getting…
Clouds, Brown Paper Bags, and Networking’s Future
I’ve blogged a lot about declining revenue per bit and commoditization of hardware in networking. The same thing is happening in IT, driven by the same mass-market and consumerization forces. You can’t sell a lot of something that’s expensive; Ford made the automobile real by making it cheap. So arguably networking and IT are getting…
Two Good Tech Stories Gone Bad
There are a couple of recent news items that involve a big player, and while the focus of the news is different I think there is a common theme to be found. One is a little impromptu talk reported on Beet.tv from Cisco’s John Chambers at CES, and the other is Oracle’s acquisition of SDN…