VMware, like most vendors, has regular events designed to showcase their new products and services, and VMware’s VMWorld 2021 event is such a showcase. The stories the company told this year are particularly important given that the separation of VMware and Dell is onrushing, and everyone (including Wall Street and VMware’s customers) are wondering how…
Everyone in telecom is surely aware of the push of public cloud providers into the telco world. Amazon and Microsoft have long offered telcos hosting of elements of 5G and other “telco cloud” applications. Google now wants to get into the game, or rather get into it on a more serious basis. There are a…
What factors limit the adoption of new technologies? This question is critical for things like IoT, 5G, and even AI, but we don’t seem to have much of a track record in answering it. I used to jokingly say that our view was “technology sucks”, meaning that simply making a new technology available sucked money…
Numbers are always interesting, and sometimes there’s more interesting if you look at them in a different context. There’s a really interesting piece in The Next Platform on data center shifts, and I’d like to take that different look at it to raise some points I think are important. The article’s thrust is that the…
One size, we know both from lore and from experience, doesn’t fit all. The same is true for access technologies. We’re reading stories about the rise of fiber, like this one that quotes Consolidated Communications saying “There are some mobile or temporary use cases where FWA is best, he says, but for the majority of…
Private 5G is even more difficult to assess, in value-proposition terms, than 5G overall. My own chats with enterprises suggest that there’s really not all that much going on. Other sources suggest otherwise, and are looking at possible “private 5G models”. TelecomTV has a story on this, and we’ll use that today to look a…
Many broadband providers have traditionally offered both business and consumer services, but cable companies have often been strongly biased toward consumers because of their cable TV roots. Now, cable giant Comcast, having acquired Masergy, is looking for a stronger business position, even for enterprises. It’s a logical move, given that their telco competitors are all…
According to the company, Cloudflare wants to be the “fourth major public cloud”, but at the same time EU cloud providers are losing market share steadily to the current three US giants. OK, bold aspirations make good ink, but there do seem to be some significant barriers rising in the public cloud market. Is that…
I have to admit I was surprised when I read that the ONF was launching a private venture, Ananki, to bring its Aether 5G open-model network implementation to market. As you can see in the release, Ananki will target the “private 5G space” and will use the ONF’s Aether, SD-RAN, SD-Fabric and SD-Core technologies. The…
Recently, I blogged that the transformation of NFV from VNFs (VM-centric) to CNFs (“cloud-native” or “containerized” network functions, depending on your level of cynicism) was unlikely to be successful. One long-time LinkedIn contact and fellow member of standards groups said “If CNF never makes it… then the whole story is doomed and it’s a bad…