For this third and final blog in my “contextual services” series, I’ll look at the actual higher-level software requirements for the concept. Remember that my goal in the series is to frame a set of facilitating services or features that would be exposed via APIs and provide operators with a means of wholesaling capabilities to…
If, as I speculated yesterday, the optimum new-service strategy for network operators would be a set of facilitating services that exploited contextualization and personalization of mobile behavior, what would the technology requirements look like? Operators need to balance feature specificity to raise the value of their services to the OTTs who would frame them in…
What are the network operators, the service providers or ISPs, going to do? As the Things Past and Things to Come podcast said today, there’s a lot of bad signs coming in a space that’s had little else for over a decade. Operators have faced a consistent drop in revenue per bit, and it’s proved…
Google has always been a technology byword, the source of things like Kubernetes. One of its ideas, a project called “Loon” was supposed to provide Internet services through a network of balloons, a notion that sure sounds outlandish and didn’t get far. Now, some of the Loon concepts are reappearing in a Google spinout, Aalyria….
The idea of stepping around or beyond the cloud seems almost heretical these days, but the fact is that if we consider “the cloud” to mean cloud platforms and infrastructure, we already step around/beyond it every day. The question is the best way to do that for network services. The technology that deploys, redeploys, scales,…
For decades, it’s been clear to many that the way we use addresses on the Internet and in other IP networks may be less than ideal. An address represents a network service access point, but we tend to use it (or want to) as a reference to an application, user, or database. In the real…
There is probably no issue more important to the future of networking than the union of networks and hosting. It may seem that’s a simple one; we have the Internet and the stuff that’s on it (including the cloud) and the stuff that’s in it are working globally at significant scale. In fact, though, that’s…
We live in a polarized world, as a half-hour spent watching any news channel will show. It goes beyond politics, though. Even in technology, we tend to see things in an either/or way. Take the cloud and the data center. Many believe that the data center is the past and the cloud the future. Even…
There may be no more difficult space for people to understand than the “crypto” space. Blockchain technology is well beyond most people; even technology types I deal with are uncomfortable with the details. Cryptocurrency has been hailed as the savior of modern finance and at the same time the biggest bubble of all time. Now,…
Last week, I mentioned that my input from enterprises suggested that 26% of enterprises had shifted their view of how to optimize network purchases from “new technology” to “hammer for discounts”. Monday, Nigel, Maven, and did a podcast about Juniper versus Cisco and about Arista and Palo Alto, and I commented that you can’t go…