Most everyone in the networking industry has heard about the efforts by some European operators to get the EU to approve a plan that would require big tech to contribute to the cost of Internet infrastructure. I blogged about this earlier this week, in fact. Fewer know about another EU question, which is consolidation in…
The biggest question for service provider networking in 2023 may never have been asked. That question is “What role will metro play, and what architecture will support that role?” The answer will not only determine what happens to the revenues of network operators, but also how each network equipment vendor will fare, and whether upstart…
Should big tech, meaning the companies whose business is to deliver content over the Internet, pay for part of the cost of capacity upgrades? That’s not an academic question, because that’s what EU operators have proposed and what the EU seems to be seriously considering. The issue is tangled with broader questions of “net neutrality”,…
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The biggest question the month of October raised, for most of us at least, is what’s happening to tech. The answer, of course, is that a lot is happening, and most of that is what’s been predictable from the first. All hype waves hit the beach, and in October we’ve seen a lot of beaching….
We’d love to think that advances in the tech sector come about because of successes, but what might be the most consequential advance these days is a result of failures. Integration services are hot already and getting hotter, and according to enterprises the reasons lie mostly in faults in the way we create and explain…
I blogged last week about the value of, or perhaps the necessity of, separating the control and user planes in 5G. The main point I was addressing was that servers and cloud software aren’t really optimal for pushing packets at high speeds and high volumes. If the control plane were broken out, the user plane…
There’s no question that AI is important. There shouldn’t be a question that robots is also important, but Amazon’s long interest in robotics, it’s Astro proto-robot, its desire to acquire iRobot, and the rumors I’ve heard that Google, Microsoft, and Meta are all looking at robots should be proof enough. Amazon’s Astro and the rumors…
I’ve blogged often on the importance of 5G function hosting to the deployment of edge computing. If operators were to create a “carrier cloud” to host virtual functions for 5G and other service missions, the resource pool created could then be available to host generalized edge applications. That could advance edge computing significantly. It may…
Networks are obviously anchored in connectivity services offered by network operators, carriers, service providers, ISPs, or whatever you’d like to call them. But all these terms are going to fall away except for one, which is ISP. The only “network” anyone will subscribe to in the future will be the Internet, and the Internet and…