Nobody doubts that the telecom ecosystem is in need of more innovation. That’s why it’s a good sign that there’s a group of people working to promote just that. They’ve published a paper (available HERE) and they’re inviting comments, so I’m offering mine in this blog. Obviously, I invite the authors and anyone else to…
The heart of a cloud is the data center, obviously. The heart of a cloud network is therefore a data center network, and as network equipment vendors struggle for profit growth, data center networking looks very promising. Given that, it’s not very surprising that Nokia is taking a position in the space. The question is…
Just how good an idea is multi-cloud? If you follow the topic in online tech sites, you’d think that everyone was totally committed to multi-cloud, and that it was therefore the preferred approach. My own data, as I’ve noted in a prior blog, doesn’t agree with popular reports, and my own experience in hybrid and…
Autonomous behavior is often cited as a 5G, low-latency, or edge computing application. That’s a vast oversimplification, in my view, and to understand why, we have to look at the way human reactions take place. That should be the model for autonomous behavior, and it will demonstrate just that could and should be done with…
I post my blogs on LinkedIn to provide a forum for discussion, and on my blog on ONAP and its issues, Paul-André Raymond posted an interesting insight: “There is something more easily understandable about Monolithic architecture. It takes an effort to for most people to appreciate a distributed solution.” I agree, and that made me…
Things change in networking and the cloud, and a big part of the reason is that new concepts that were being tried by a few experts are now becoming part of the mass market. The mass market is different. Early adopters are typically firms that have deep technical resource pools, a situation that the typical…
The announcement of ONAP’s Frankfurt Release last month raised a lot of questions from my contacts and clients. There is no question that the release improves ONAP overall, but it still doesn’t change the underlying architecture of the platform. I’ve described ONAP as a “monolithic” model of zero-touch operations automation, and said that model is…
Could we frame out a true cloud native 5G Core? What would happen if we set aside as many of the implementation presumptions as we could, and focused on trying to come up with the best technology approach? It’s an interesting question, and it might turn out to be a highly relevant one now that…
The best place for open networking is where it was never closed. Any network initiative that requires a write-down of existing technology, retraining of staff, and acceptance of new risks, faces considerable executive skepticism. That’s why we may be seeing the dawn of real open networking in two different developments, one relating to O-RAN and…
Do you believe that within a year, a quarter of enterprises will have moved entirely to the cloud? Do you believe that almost one in five are already there? I don’t, not for a minute, and because I’m going to dispute these numbers, I’m not going to cite the source. I think it’s important to…