Some of you may know I’m a fan of the folk music of the ‘60s, and one of my favorites is “The Times They Are a’Changin” (Dylan and also Peter, Paul, and Mary). We’ve got some proof of that with news today. Most people in tech today don’t remember a time when the personal computer…
RAD isn’t exactly a household word in SDN, but their CTO did a blog on SDN that raises some interesting points, particularly given that another vendor (Juniper) is scheduled to do an SDN announcement tomorrow. The first point in the RAD blog is that “SDN returns to centralized control as compared to a distributed control…
Read the tech-financials these days and you see two maybe-recovery stories. Nokia has been a company in decline for several years, but perhaps no longer. With sales of Lumia handsets much stronger than expected and NSN turning in a profit, Nokia may have the bad times behind them…perhaps. Alcatel-Lucent has seen some bad times too,…
According to an FT article, EU telcos are mulling over the idea of sharing infrastructure rather than deploying multiple, interconnected, often competitively-overbuilt, national networks. The move is partially a response to regulatory issues in Europe, where operators believe they are being asked to improve services and lower costs while their own costs are rising. Some…
According to an FT article, EU telcos are mulling over the idea of sharing infrastructure rather than deploying multiple, interconnected, often competitively-overbuilt, national networks. The move is partially a response to regulatory issues in Europe, where operators believe they are being asked to improve services and lower costs while their own costs are rising. Some…
Cisco’s Videoscape has been literally everything, both in a positioning sense and in its mission and component count. Operators griped about the fuzziness of the concept at the first announcement, but there are some signs that Cisco is starting to pull things together, and that could be significant for Cisco, as well as for a…
The buzz with the Consumer Electronics Show is that everything gets to be connected, and that may or may not be a good thing. It’s not surprising that we’d see a drive to connect; Cisco for example has been pushing it on the theory that anything that creates more traffic sells more routers. The question…
All the talk about “cloud networking” and “virtual networks” and “software defined networks” seems to be diverging as often as converging, and I’ve talked about the “network model” issues that might be behind a good part of that. There’s another factor worthy of mention, too, and that’s the perspective issue. If you’re the cloud looking…
Yesterday, I asked the question “Why is it…?” regarding a number of news items. Today, I’d like to ask another question, again framing it in the context of recent events. The question is “Why don’t we…?” Let’s get it started with an obvious one. Network operators have been promoting the notion of “network functions virtualization”…
Some of the news bits I saw this week raised an interesting point (to me, at least), which is that they reflected an underlying point that was being overlooked. So I want to look at them today, and ask “Why is it…..?” The top item is that big Netflix outage over the holidays. Everyone knows…