Probably the only election topic most agree on is polling. For two presidential elections in a row, we’ve had major failures of polls to predict outcomes, so it’s no surprise that people are disenchanted with the process. What’s more surprising is that many people don’t realize that all surveys are as inherently flawed as polling…
If ever there was a clear picture of open 5G challenge, THIS Light Reading piece may provide it. The chart the article offers shows the things that Dish had to integrate in order to build an open-model 5G network. It doesn’t look like a lot of fun, and there’s been a fair amount of industry…
What can we learn from 3Q20 earnings? Company reports on revenue and earnings often provide us with important information about the real market trends, not the hype trends we so often read about. There were high hopes for this quarter from many companies, but did they pan out? What can we read from the results…
Why do automation projects, meaning lifecycle automation projects, fail? A long-time LinkedIn contact of mine, Stefan Walraven did a nice video on the topic, something worth discussing not only in the context of lifecycle automation, a big interest of mine, but also in the context of any “transformational” projects, including virtualization, disaggregation, white boxes, and…
I want to consider, in this blog, a question that arises naturally from the debate on how operators respond to declining profit per bit. Raise revenues or lower costs; those are the choices. Operators seem to be focusing on cost reduction, which would lower cost per bit to improve profit per bit. That would mean…
I’ve blogged a lot about “transformation” of network operator business models, and also about transforming infrastructure. That’s an important issue to be sure, but there’s more to the cloud, network, and computing market than network operators. We know operators are responding to falling profit per bit. What’s driving the enterprises? Operators invest in IT and…
If you want to make money selling carrier cloud infrastructure, you’re running out of time. There are three Light Reading stories to buttress this view. First, Verizon and AT&T are both working through plans to build private wireless networks for enterprises. Second, IBM has joined other public cloud providers in going after network operator carrier…
Ericsson says it will embrace Open RAN, via its “Cloud RAN” initiative. That’s big news because Ericsson is a bit behind others in embracing the new open model. But Nokia is planning a restructuring that’s not getting raves from analysts, despite having taken a positive Open RAN stance well before rival Ericsson. Just how disruptive…
What do operators think makes transformation difficult? That’s a key question not only for operators, but for any who want to drive changes to fundamental network infrastructure principles and architectures. There are technical elements that operators see as barriers, but the biggest ones are far more financial than technical. I’ve gathered this information from 84…
Over the years, we’ve had many different protocols, but the interesting truth is that within each of them, there’s a common element—the data. Whether we’re transporting information in IP or SNA or DECnet or X.25, we’re still transporting information. The protocol isn’t the information, it’s just a contextual wrapper that defines the rules for exchanging…