Microsoft is arguably the leader in enterprise cloud computing, given that a big chunk of Amazon’s cloud business comes from startups and social-network players. Now, Microsoft wants to be the leader in carrier cloud too, or so it seems. There’s no question that Microsoft has the credentials for carrier cloud, technology-wise, and they also seem…
Here’s a bold statement for you: “There is no magic that an Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft could enable because the underlying software architecture is absolutely flawed. It needs to evolve.” This, from the CTO of Rakuten Mobile, as quoted in an SDxCentral piece. I agree, of course, and in fact I’ve been trying…
In our search for edge computing justifications, are we pushing the complexity of cloud and Internet hosting too far? Some recent developments suggest that we may be opening a new set of dependencies for applications, creating an availability challenge that cries out for some architectural solution to complex component relationships. A solution we don’t seem…
The Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP) has done some interesting things, and one of the most recent and interesting of the bunch is their release of the Distributed Disaggregated Backbone Router (DDBR) requirements document. TIP has been a significant force in open-model network hardware, and so anything they do is important, and we need to take…
Suppose I want to develop a true cloud-native version of a network service or feature, maybe even an application? I’ve noted in past blogs that the term “cloud-native” is rapidly becoming the greatest “wash” in the industry; vendors, operators, analysts, reporters, and editors all spread it over anything related to the cloud. That’s a bad…
Is there a reason to have proprietary technology in the 5G RAN? Is virtualization and disaggregation a good idea, or are there real costs and risks? Ericsson was quoted in an SDxCentral piece that outlines the case for a balance between open and proprietary. I want to come down on the issue a bit differently….
The recent Fastly problem generated a raft of stories featuring pundits claiming this or that lesson. It was interesting to me that none of the stories addressed what I think is the key point in the whole mess, which is that the Internet isn’t what we think it is. A corollary is that the cloud…
Over half of the total number of people who read my blog in a given month read an email syndication. Up to June 2021, I’ve been using Google’s Feedburner for this purpose, despite the fact that it’s not the most feature-rich option out there. Google announced a couple months ago that they were dropping email…
Cloud computing doesn’t always save money. That’s contrary to the popular view, certainly contrary to the publicized view, and controversial to boot, but readers will recognize that it’s a point I’ve made often. A recent article in VentureBeat makes that point, but has been its own source of controversy, and frankly I’m not in agreement…
We might be justified in calling the next four months the “Summer of 5G Disillusionment”. On the one hand, the 5G providers seem to be facing off in a big win-customers campaign. On the other hand, some recent research says that users are disappointed with the lack of new 5G applications. A good part of…