According to Light Reading, 6G is getting messy. Well, 5G is messy too, and I think it’s time to accept a revolutionary point, which is that we’ve passed the point where the traditional international standards processes like the 3GPP work. We need to think differently, totally differently, in considering how to evolve networks and services….
What happens when this is over, when all the noticeable impacts of COVID have gone? It’s surely a heady prospect for most of us personally, but what might it mean tech markets? How many things did COVID promote that will now be “un-promoted”, and how many suppressed things will now expand? A lot of companies…
I’ve done a few recent blogs on telco risks. It’s now time to talk about what they can do about them. I think most people in the industry, including most telcos, would agree that the future for network operators has to be different somehow, but how? And no, I don’t mean that all they need…
How much change in software is required for “digital transformation?” Do you need to redo everything to cloud-native form? There’s a school of thought, now represented by at least one startup, that thinks there’s a better way. According to Venture Beat, Camunda raised a hundred million dollars for cloud-native process automation software, and their approach…
If the telcos are under threat for basic services, from multiple sources, can they hope to gain new revenue at the edge? Telcos are surely potential edge players, but not the only ones, as Light Reading suggests HERE. Will there be competition for edge computing deployment, will telcos end up losing out to other more…
The attack on MPLS VPNs seems to be expanding. SD-WAN, originally conceptualized as an extension strategy for small sites, has been quietly growing more toward MPLS replacement. Now we have a new offering that combines SD-WAN with a backbone network to create an MPLS replacement. In fact, this is the second such offering that I’m…
The biggest future threat to network operators may be a present threat. Microsoft’s decision to offer Azure customers the option to have their entry and exit traffic carried on Microsoft’s own network rather than on the Internet is a signal that cloud providers may be flexing their own muscle in network services, as telcos stick…
Every day, I see and hear about new data points that suggest we’re getting the whole hybrid- and multi-cloud story all wrong. It’s a given that stories about the cloud are all about hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, but they’re sparse on just what the terms mean, and that means they’re not particularly useful in guiding…
Nokia, who seems to have struggled a bit more with 5G than rival Ericsson, may be taking the “open” way out, and it might also turn out to be the “easy” way. As TelecomTV reports HERE, Nokia has established an Open RAN development relationship with all three of the public cloud giants. You’ll recall that…
AT&T has been the arguable champion of transformed infrastructure, a major contributor to open networking projects and an adopter of open technology from cellular edge to core, as well as open operations automation and orchestration. The company has announced it would be virtualizing its network, and has recently said it’s met the majority of those…