Most experts I talk with, either on the enterprise side or among their vendors/operators, have been telling me for almost a decade that they truly believe that edge computing will be driven by some flavor of “augmented” or “virtual” reality. The “metaverse” concept we’re hearing so much about today is (IMHO) simply a variation on…
Let’s say that you wanted to justify building a bridge between Lubec, Maine and Canada’s Westport, Nova Scotia, crossing the Bay of Fundy. It would be fair to say that such a bridge would be enabling for those who wanted to drive between the points quickly. Our new bridge would be about 50 miles long….
Software, so they say, is taking over the world. I actually agree with this, and with a related premise that “hardware” and “network” companies have to not only think like software companies, but actually become one. These points raise the obvious question of how well everyone is doing, and fortunately there’s some Street research that…
The more operators are confined to being access players, the more they have to worry about the cost of supporting connections. We all have to worry about that, in fact, because the division of the Internet ecosystem into plumbing and gold-plated toilet seats (so to speak) means that there’s a risk that the value we…
Our culture is replete with references to the importance of the path that money and value follow in commercial exchanges. “Follow the money” and “Show me the money” are two examples. As I pointed out last week in a blog, there are really two payment models in the world of Internet and tech today—the direct…
If you need evidence that operators’ reluctance to deploy carrier cloud has far-reaching consequences, you only need to look at Amazon’s Sidewalk evolution for a proof point. Sidewalk, in its original form, was a strategy for sharing WiFi between homeowners and businesses to allow for better connection and control of IoT elements. Now, Amazon is…
New Year’s Resolutions are popular, perhaps in part because we know that we don’t usually keep them. Still, we feel better making them, so every year I look for some inspiration for my own. This year, I got it from, of all places, our legal system. Everyone will likely have their own take on the…
My notion of a metaverse of things (MoT) is grounded in the assumption that all applications of this type are a form of digital twinning. There’s a real-world framework that is, at least in part, reflected into the virtual world. For applications like industrial IoT, there’s a structure that’s being mirrored, and that structure has…
Well, Happy New Year everyone. There are obviously positive and negative omens in play for the world, economic and otherwise. Still, I’m a network/cloud strategist and not a doctor or economist. I’m not going to attempt to address broader issues and events, other than to point out what a negative versus positive shift could mean…
The Internet and the trends in over-the-top (OTT) services is the last of the three areas whose 2022 fortunes I’m going to blog about. Far from the least important, but perhaps the most difficult to predict. In fact, to predict pure OTT factors is as difficult as predicting taste in music, so I’m not going…