There aren’t all that many enduring questions in networking, but one I recall coming up almost thirty years ago came up again last week. It was “Is it getting cheaper to provide more capacity than to try to optimize it?” There’s a new flavor to this question, though: “Should we be using more optical paths…
We’re different. Remember that. We’re insightful, and remember that too, and remember that a big reason why we’re insightful is that we’re different. Andover Intel is based on a simple principle, which is that to understand tech, you have to understand what tech buyers are doing, expecting, justifying. We’ve established a user contact program that…
We’ve started to see more stories about companies not “moving everything to the cloud” but instead moving everything off the cloud. The most publicized and analyzed examples of this is collaborative service provider Basecamp a who dropped cloud services costing $3.2 million in favor of in-house servers. This is a very radical example of a…
MWC is almost over, and it’s been a mixture of the “Old Telco” and the “New Cloud.” The combination could have possibilities, but I think the show was almost two shows because the combination was either absent or at least trivialized. I blogged yesterday about the GSMA API initiative, and that’s only one example of…
What “interfaces” are to hardware, APIs are to software. Thus, any transformation in network services that’s based on adding features to connectivity is very likely to rely on APIs. But this new mission for APIs is hardly the first mission. Operators have long exposed connection services through APIs, and APIs are the basis for application…
Nokia has launched a new strategy, including a new logo, and the latter has gotten more attention than the former. That’s too bad because Nokia’s numbers have been good, as opposed to those of some of its major competitors. Why would they want a “refreshed company strategy to deliver sustained long-term growth” at this point?…
Nokia has launched a new strategy, including a new logo, and the latter has gotten more attention than the former. That’s too bad because Nokia’s numbers have been good, as opposed to those of some of its major competitors. Why would they want a “refreshed company strategy to deliver sustained long-term growth” at this point?…
Mobile services rule, that’s a fact of life for the operators. For decades, they’ve been more profitable than wireline services, and increasingly they’re being used to make customer relationships sticky, pulling through wireline broadband in a competitive market. Comcast, for example, has long had an MVNO relationship with Verizon and uses its mobile offerings to…
Like most analysts, I don’t often cite or praise the work of other analysts, but today I want to give a shout-out to Omdia for a figure they posted on LinkedIn, titled “Global telecoms capex flow, 2021”. It makes, in convenient graphics form, some of the points I’ve been raising in the evolution of telecommunications…
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” This text, part of Section 230 of 47 US Code, is often called “the 26 words that created the the Internet”. It’s this specific section that the US Supreme…