Introduction: Speaking at Thursday’s April 21, 2016 NFV World Congress in San Jose, CA, Geng Lin, Head of global engineering in emerging markets at Google Access (part of Google parent company Alphabet), described his division’s strategy in improving Internet access and affordability in developing countries.  He then cited India RailTel WiFi as a real world “case… Read more →

Introduction: Brad Booth, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Cloud Networking,  presented an enlightening and informative keynote talk on Thursday, April 14th at the Open Server Summit in Santa Clara, CA.  The discussion highlighted the tremendous growth in cloud computing/storage, which is driving the need for hyper network expansion within mega data centers (e.g. Microsoft Azure, Amazon,… Read more →

Details of the new FCC plan hadn’t yet been made public as of Thursday evening. The agency said it would vote on the plan at its April 28th meeting.  Yet even before the proposal emerged, industry groups began battling each other over how far it should go and which sectors should be swept up. Smaller… Read more →

Introduction & Backgrounder: Over the past decade, Verizon (VZ) had acquired GTE and MCI Worldcom’s wireline networks and also built out its own fiber to residential customer premises for triple play services (FiOS for true broadband Internet, pay TV and voice).  In February 2014, VZ bought out Vodafone to be the 100% owner of Verizon… Read more →

Backgrounder: Fiber optics transmission – both short haul within a Data Center (DC) and long haul for WAN transport- have made great progress in recent years.  While it took 12 to 14 years (from 2000 to 2012-2014) to go from 1G to 10G Ethernet in the DC, it’s taken only a couple of years to… Read more →

Article written by R. Krause of Investors Business Daily (investors.com) & edited by Alan J Weissberger. Followed by a blog post from IEEE’s Alan Gatherer f Huawei and then a reference to a superb 5G presentation from IEEE’s Jonathan Wells of AJIC consulting IBD Article: Bottom Line:  Could high frequencies let AT&T or Verizon out do… Read more →

The 11th annual IDC Directions conference was held in San Jose, CA last week. The saga of the 3rd platform (Cloud, Mobile, Social, Big/Data Analytics) continues unabated. One of many IT predictions was that artifical intelligence (AI) and deep learning/machine learning are a big part of the new application development. IDC predicts 50% of developer… Read more →

One of the more interesting trends from MWC-2016 in Barcelona last month is content delivery networks (CDNs) for mobile operators.  [A CDN is an interconnected system of cache servers that deliver web content based on geographical proximity. The CDN concept originated in the wire-line Internet world for traditional video services over “best effort” Internet transport.]  A Mobile CDN is a network… Read more →

IHS-Infonetics released excerpts from its NFV Orchestration Software Vendor Leadership Analysis, which profiles and analyzes 10 leading network functions virtualization (NFV) orchestration software vendors: Brocade, Ciena Blue Planet, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Juniper, NEC/Netcracker and Nokia.  The report examines vendors’ approaches to and overall activities in the NFV orchestration software market to understand how suppliers are approaching this… Read more →

IHS-Infonetics recently released excerpts from its Data Center and Enterprise SDN Vendor Leadership Analysis report, which profiles and analyzes 10 leading data center and enterprise software-defined networking (SDN) vendors: Broadcom, Brocade, Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei, Juniper, NEC, Nuage Networks from Nokia and VMware.   The report looks at vendors from a number of segments, including Ethernet switch, Ethernet… Read more →