Nvidia, whose RISC goals have been stymied by regulatory pushback against their purchase of ARM, is now saying that their initiatives in RISC and other non-traditional CPU models may only be getting started. The reason that’s the case is tied to what’s going on in computing overall. The reason it’s important it that it could…
I’ve long been of the view that the best way to manage a network service through its entire lifecycle is to model the service and base software on state/event behaviors defined within the model. I’ve also dabbled with the use of models in defining social/metaverse and IoT applications. Through all of this, I’ve been increasingly…
Cisco is always a barometer of the network status quo, and they turned in a solid quarter last week, but one that may offer a view of how the future of networking could impact the future of network vendors. Cisco’s way of dividing its product segments makes it hard to decode their details, but we’ll…
We are about to step into a new age in networking, and so it’s not surprising that we have a story about a revolutionary vendor posted by SDxCentral: “DriveNets CEO Claims 65% Win Rate Against Cisco, Juniper, Nokia.” Like a lot of stories, the headline here is a bit click-baity. The actual claim says that…
I’ve talked in past blogs about new network models, about operators’ attempts to control costs. I’ve also noted little progress in accepting anything useful. OK, what do the network operators, the telcos in particular, do now? They’ve struggled for decades to reverse the negative slide in profit per bit, they’ve refused to (or been unable…
A LinkedIn post from James Crenshaw of Omdia reminded me that we were at the 10th anniversary of NFV, which is sort-of-true. Ten years ago this fall, the original 13 operators behind the concept issued a paper titled “Network Functions Virtualization: An Introduction, Benefits, Enablers, Challenges & Call For Action” (I filed a response to…
It’s time to think about separating the hype from the reality again. Web3, the metaverse, and even cloud computing are being hyped to the point where our irrational focus is hurting the technology we hope to promote. There’s nothing as discrediting to a technology like a good, disastrous, market crash. We could set up such…
A Light Reading piece asks an interesting question, which is what went wrong with Citrix. That’s surely interesting to people who use Citrix, or invested in it, but it might be even more interesting for the market. Not because Citrix is the cornerstone of anything in particular, but because the some of the answers the…
OK, I’ve said that while the telcos could have remade themselves by deploying “carrier cloud”, I also said that I no longer believed they would do that. What then do they do instead? Their answer is “Partner with cloud providers.” That begs the question “Which?” Is the biggest partner the best? Most of the partnership…
Facebook/Meta booted its quarter, missing estimates by a mile and saying some things that troubled investors. It’s a rare disappointment for the company, and why it happened and what Meta will do could create a major shift in the industry. Not surprisingly, the “what Meta will do” is likely to focus on the metaverse, and…