There have been a number of commitments by network operators to new technologies like the cloud, SDN, and NFV. Last week, Metaswitch earned its carrier stripes with a win in Europe, one of the first (of many, I’m sure) non-traditional IMS deployments. Their stuff has been used in at least one NFV PoC. Verizon and…
Well, it’s Friday and a good time to piece together some news items for the week, things that by themselves may not be a revolution but that could be combined to signal something important. An opening point is that Oracle’s Industry Connect event, which proves that Oracle does in fact see the communications industry as…
Everyone knows that operators and enterprises want more service automation. Some classes of business users say that fixing mistakes accounts for half their total network and IT TCO, in fact. Nobody doubts that you need something to do the automating, meaning that software tools are going to have to take control of lifecycle management. A…
We’re obviously not going to get to the network of the future by having some pretty genie wiggle her nose to create an instant transformation. No matter how radical things like the cloud, SDN, and NFV might be in the end-game, they’re going to get to that point one small step at a time. Most…
Cisco did their expected cloud announcement yesterday, but it wasn’t exactly a complete picture of Cisco’s cloud intentions. It was at least a better picture of what Cisco is doing than the media has been able to muster, though. For example, it’s pretty obvious that their investment of a billion dollars in “the cloud” isn’t…
I promised last week I’d have more to say about Oracle’s quarter, but as you’ll see this blog isn’t as much about Oracle’s quarter as what’s behind it. Oracle could well be the poster child for the new age of tech, the company who can teach us what the future of both IT and networking…
I guess it wasn’t hard to figure out what my blog today would be about. Netflix’s CEO has blogged and made some strong comments about the need for a very broad interpretation of “net neutrality”. Netflix in fact wants something even more “neutral” than the FCC order that was overturned on appeal would have provided. …
This week, the ONF and the NFV ISG announced they would be entering a “strategic partnership” to define how NFV could use SDN to address the connectivity requirements of its use cases, and the ONF published a preliminary document to describe an example. That SDN and NFV have to cohabit has been clear from the…
In a previous blog, I talked about two models of “SDN federation”, one that was at the service level and one that was at the “SDN” or controller level. One obvious difference between the two is that the former requires some specific service, whose interworking features then drive the federation process. If you wanted to…
We didn’t have a major cloud show in the last month, so I’ve not been blogging much about the cloud compared to other technology revolutions like SDN or NFV. However, I did get some interesting cloud data from the fall survey, and if you combine the data with a bit of modeling and analysis, you…