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…
Are service meshes perfect for telecom? Some articles have suggested they are, or at least are essential. I’ve also heard from telecom users who stop just short of saying that service meshes are the death of telecom applications. It’s useful to see why there’s such a divergence in viewpoint, and also to see whether there’s…
If it happens at all, edge computing just might become more important than cloud. Not so much because there would be a ton of stuff hosted there, because the majority of application code won’t be. Not because of explosive growth in things like self-driving cars, because they won’t contribute much to the edge for years./…
Is the high price of 5G spectrum hurting telcos? AT&T has been under particular pressure from the financial industry on the point, but claims to be confident in their finances. There are a lot of moving parts involved in deciding whether spectrum costs are a risk, and the answer may be critical to the long-term…