Many of you who read my blog know that Andover Intel has a users-only email link and we encourage consumers of technology to comment, ask questions, debate, or whatever with complete confidentiality. My blogs on standards in general and 6G in particular generated emails from 51 of 88 operators who have commented, as users, and…
OK, let’s face facts. The whole of telecom standards is broken, and something radical is needed to fix it. You only have to read the story of 5G, and reflect on past initiatives like frame relay and ATM, or the IPsphere concept, or Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to see how badly the industry is served…
There are clearly a lot of things going on in the telecom space. For well over a decade, operators have been experiencing erosion in revenue per bit. Some, particularly in areas like the EU where competition is fierce, have sought subsidies from big-tech firms to compensate for the traffic they add, traffic users themselves are…
Enterprises, asked what the relevant 6G features could be, will say “low latency” almost 3:1 over all other options combined. But why is latency relevant? The answer, interestingly, of almost half those who cite it reduces to “I don’t really know”. The rest say that it would be relevant to promote the availability of hosted…
There has, for years, been a potential for the cloud providers’ networks to create competition for enterprise networks based on MPLS VPNs. I noted in an earlier blog that enterprises were seriously looking at reducing their WAN costs by using SD-WAN and/or SASE. This obviously generated an opportunity for cloud providers to offer WAN services,…
In my blog yesterday about the future of operator network services and infrastructure, I mentioned the possibility (well, maybe “hope” would be more accurate) that the 6G initiatives might address some issues in a useful way. Since we’re at least five years from a solid idea of what 6G is going to do (we might…
I went back over some of my own writing a decade or two ago, and it made me wonder how much we could hope to uncover about the future of network infrastructure for service providers a decade or more from now. Everyone loves transformations; they generate interest for us and clicks for publications and advertisers….
What network models are enterprises looking at for the future? How might the network of 2028 differ from that of 2025? I got some information from 294 enterprises that offer some answers to these questions, but they also point out that there are many different drivers operating on networks over the next three years, and…
One of the biggest, and yet least-recognized, challenges enterprises face in software deployment these days is addressing non-transactional models of application workflow. We’ve spent decades understanding and populizing online transaction processing (OLTP), in large part because for decades that’s the only kind of application you found at the core of businesses. That’s changing today, in…
Enterprises have always managed their networks, but just how that’s done has always had its own twists and turns. The common thinking is expressed by the FCAPS acronym, meaning fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security, and this is what we could call the “prescriptive” thinking. But enterprises themselves seem to recognize some higher-level issues, mostly…