What’s our window on our tech-centric world? We know what it is today; the smartphone. Will that be true in three, five, ten years? Elon Musk, for what it’s worth, says that smartphones will be gone in 5 or 6 years, replaced (he thinks) by direct AI links to the brain or advanced wearables. Enterprises…
What will drive the security space in 2026? That’s a question really important to network vendors, but what will replace it may be a question even more important. Security, after all, has been a revenue and profit bright spot for vendors for over a decade, and that seems to be coming to an end. The…
The most important pieces of network infrastructure are access and metro. There are three major access questions in that space that 2026 may answer. First is how far fiber can go. Second is the impact of FWA, and finally there’s the impact of satellite. In the metro area, there’s really only one question, but all…
We’re entering a new year, and for telecom that raises the question of whether “open” initiatives might finally take hold. As we ended 2025, it was clear to most that Open RAN was not going to succeed, so it’s fair to ask whether the problems that it faced would confound other initiatives as well. Would…
As we move into 2026, one of the biggest questions in AI isn’t about language models, but about robotics. How much of the value of AI, particularly the notion of generalized intelligence, depends on being able to link our AI entity to a generalized automated entity, a robot? I’ve blogged on things related to this…
AI, like all too many tech terms, is a tent that’s admitted way too many into its shelter. Could this be why IBM’s CEO, Arvind Krishna, recently said that while there is no AI bubble, he also says that “It’s my view that there’s no way you’re going to get a return on that because…
When it comes to new telecom services, we may have been missing the most important question to ask, one that could be phrased in a number of ways. Do we want evolution, or revolution? Improvement or transformation? Comfort or results? They all raise another question, of course. What’s the answer, or at least how might…
Let’s forget, for a moment, whether telcos have any reasonable path forward with their traditional service offerings. Let’s forget the questions of whether such a position is even rational, or why it’s held by telcos in the first place. Let’s focus on the raw question of what telcos think they need to do with regard…
Nokia does a lot of interesting reports, and their 2025 traffic report and forecast is surely no exception. It documents the way that network traffic, and thus perhaps even network access bandwidth, has shifted from business-dominated to consumer content delivery. It has similar insights about future traffic, of course, and so we’ll look at the…
We’re hearing a bit more about a new AI concept, no surprise given the nature of tech hype, which always tries to trump itself to avoid being stale and losing people’s interest. This one might actually be important, though, and it’s also a flavor of a concept that’s been important all along, and that I’ve…