Here is my second posting of an AI analysis of network technology press releases. As always, note that this is entirely a work of AI, Google Gemini Pro and NotebookLM specifically. Andover Intel does not have a position on its accuracy, nor have we reviewed or modified it in any way. Email and RSS:
Is There a Real Opportunity for Cloud AI?
Enterprise comments I get do not now, nor they ever have, validated the notion that cloud-hosted AI of the type that’s the foundation of AI today will transform their business. The great majority point out that to accomplish that goal, they’d need AI agents to operate on core business data that is subject to governance…
AI Risks, with Autonomy in the Spotlight
Is AI going to wipe out your job, wipe out humanity? Few enterprises take the latter seriously, and less than 15% of those who comment on these topics to me see much of a threat to their own jobs. That doesn’t mean that AI isn’t perceived as a risk. Light Reading did a nice piece…
Telcos, Subsidies, and Alternatives
It’s time to face telecom reality, people. 5G failed. 6G is going to do the same, for the same reasons. Telcos have moaned about declining revenue per bit for decades, with no resolution to their problem in sight. We hear the same sort of stories about new revenue opportunities, new ways of managing costs, that…
The Week in Networking: A New Feature
This week, we’re launching a new feature on our TMT Advisor website, which is focused on demonstrating the use of AI in generating useful material. Most weeks’ we’ll be posting a PDF report and an audio summary, generated by Google Gemini Pro, to describe the five most significant networking technology announcements of the week. I’ll…
Inference: Can AI Achieve it and Scale it Down?
Nvidia’s CEO is talking about “inference” in AI, about making AI really able to think in a way at least similar to the way people do. Is this just another attempt to sustain the hype wave, or is it a realistic and important shift in the way that the AI giants and pundits are considering…
Has Appmod Come to OSS/BSS via AI?
If you were a passenger on the Titanic, you might have had (for a time) a great interest in stories about lifeboats and rescues at sea. If you’re a telco, you might have had similar interest in stories about “opportunities”. Stories wouldn’t have helped those passengers so long ago, and they won’t likely help telcos…
How Cisco Sees the State of Industrial AI
There’s no shortage of AI survey reports these days, yet they keep coming. You decide whether that’s just eagerness to promote the current hype wave or actual importance. Not to mention, we all need to decide whether the data being offered is actually valid. Cisco just released “Cisco State of Industrial AI Report”, and we’ll…
What Enterprises Say About Traffic in Distributed AI
Enterprises have said all along that AI network traffic that mattered would not come from carrying queries and replies, but from any information flow within the model, or data flow to the model from databases used in analysis or training. They’ve also said, more recently, that the expected any meaningful AI application to be self-hosted,…
Why the Shift in Optical-Network Focus to Hyperscalers is Bad for Telcos
It’s hard to get love these days, if you’re a telco. Wall Street questions your business model. Standards initiatives you’ve traditionally depended on, like those of the 3GPP, seem to be turning to focus on what vendors want, not what you need. Now, Light Reading is saying “The optical industry is reorganizing around hyperscalers, and…
