What the heck is going on with fiber to the home? There seem to be a lot of announcements about new fiber deployments. Isn’t there a problem with fiber deployment costs in many areas? Are we headed to universal fiber broadband after all? The answers to these questions relate to the collision between demand and…
OK, if telecom innovation is dead, as both the Financial Times and my recent blog agreed it was, what would “innovation” have to look like to restore things? Can public cloud providers play a role in helping telcos innovate, or would the reliance on them just create another form of “disintermediation”? Let’s look at these…
Why has a Financial Times article suggested that “Telecoms innovation talk may be nothing but hot air?” It’s probably more important to wonder if it’s true, of course. Many pundits (myself included) have talked about this issue before, and even some telecom executives have offered their own views. I recently recovered a hoard of my…
The SD-WAN space has been percolating for years, and there are some recent signs that it may finally be sticking its head out beyond the old extend-the-VPN-to-small-sites mission. One thing that seems to stand out in two announcements is a managed services connection. As always, though, there’s no shortage of competitive intrigue in the mix,…
In the two earlier blogs in this series on as-a-service and runtime modeling, I looked at how the lifecycle modeling of services could facilitate the handling of service events and support lifecycle automation. I then looked at expanding the modeling to include the orchestration of event-driven applications, and at how the two models could be…
We tend to think of transformation as a proactive process, meaning that some technology shift has the effect of transforming things. It’s a nice picture for the industry, and it’s easy to understand, but the biggest transformation in networking may be happening a different way, and we may be missing it. From its earliest days,…
In the first part of this series, we looked at the possibility of modeling “as-a-service” offerings using a data model, with the goal of deciding whether a common approach to modeling all manner of services could be created. That could facilitate the development of a generalized way of handling edge computing applications, both in terms…
Abstraction in any form requires a form of modeling, a way of representing the not-real that allows it to be mapped to some resource reality and used as though it was. We have two very different but important abstraction goals in play today, one to support the automation of service and application lifecycles and the…
While the bipartisan infrastructure bill isn’t law (or even finished) at this point, we do have some reports on its content. Light Reading offered their take, for example. I downloaded and reviewed the bill, so let’s take a look at it, what it seems to get right, and what it may have missed. The goal…
One of my recent blogs on 5G generated enough LinkedIn buzz to demonstrate that the question of 5G and hype is important, and that there are different interpretations to what constitutes 5G success. To me, that means I’ve not explained my position as well as I could have, which means I need to take a…