One of the tech topics that seems hardest to track is “network-as-a-service” or NaaS. Like a lot of technologies, NaaS is subject to what we could kindly call “opportunistic redefinition”, meaning NaaS-washing. When that happens, definitions tend to get fuzzy because vendors broaden the definitions to ride the media wave. I wondered whether we might…
Let’s start by looking what we’d like to learn from the Cisco earnings call held Wednesday. Yes, it’s nice to know how Cisco did, particularly relative to competitors like Juniper. Yes, it’s nice to know how they characterize their quarter and what guidance they offer. What’s nicer is relating the Cisco information to the conditions…
Is “Open RAN” in 5G something we should welcome, or be afraid of? Is it all a part of the 5G hype, is it its own hype category, or is it not hype at all? What’s its relevance to telecom infrastructure overall? All of these are important questions, so let’s try to answer them. “Open…
I’ve blogged multiple times on AI and ChatGPT, so you may be bored with the topic. Bear with me, because this time I’m going to look at what the real, long-term, threat of the technology could be. It may not be as simply scary as it’s popularly portrayed, but in the long term it could…
That’s the promise of Andover Intel, and we really mean it. There’s too much hype out there, and we all waste too much time with it. What we’re going to do here is simple. We’re going to talk about the important developments in networking, information technology, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. We’re going to look…
Over the last two years, I’ve been pretty clear regarding the importance of virtual networking. It’s not only that the use of the cloud, and the expanded use of virtualization and containers in the data center, demands it. SD-WAN is a form of virtual networking that’s exploding as a means of connecting thin sites and…
It’s already getting hard to find positive things being said about 5G, and candidly most of the negativity is well-deserved. Hype doesn’t conquer all; although it does produce more interesting stories, reality eventually impinges. At any rate, Light Reading offered another round in the 5G downside fight, with the story on how the shine is…
Enterprises are obviously getting concerned about cloud costs, and according to those I’ve talked with, the concerns are greatest because of usage pricing. While it’s possible to get an IaaS instance on a fixed price, things like scalability and even traffic can introduce at least a usage-price component to the picture. It’s this added dimension…
What could be better, after talking about the pitfalls of cloud-native development, to talk about how cloud-native and 5G are locked in a deadly hype embrace? There are a couple of stories to reference; one that says the 5G emperor has no clothes, and a second that asks whether 5G can really offer an alternative…
I’ve already blogged about my own experience with the wildly popular ChatGPT, but that analysis opens a question that was also raised recently online, which is whether ChatGPT could be a threat to search in general and Google/Alphabet’s revenue model in particular. So could it? The answer is related to some of the points I…