Introduction: We compare and contrast two keynote speeches from opening day (Aug 26th) of the 2014 IEEE Hot Interconnects conference, held at Google’s campus in Mt View, CA.  The focus is on disruptive innovation giving rise to radically new hardware..or not? Abstract:  The God Box is Dead, by J.R. Rivers of Cumulus Networks The maturing landscape in… Read more →

Infonetics Research released vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its 2nd quarter 2014 (2Q14) Service Provider Routers and Switches report. (Full report available by Aug. 29.).  Also see companion report highlights below. 2Q14 CARRIER ROUTER AND SWITCH MARKET HIGHLIGHTS:. Worldwide service provider router and switch revenue, including IP edge and core routers and carrier… Read more →

On Monday, August 4th, I attended the Peer 2.0 Internet engineering conference, put on by the Peer 2.0 Foundation.  The sessions I attended were excellent tutorials that would be of great value to network engineers, Internet architects and business leaders.  Due to an auto accident and damage to my car, I had to leave at… Read more →

Infonetics Research released vendor market share and analysis from its 1st  quarter 2014 (1Q14) Service Provider Routers and Switches report. CARRIER ROUTER AND SWITCH MARKET HIGHLIGHTS: .    The global carrier router and switch market, including IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches (CES), totaled $3.2 billion in 1Q14, down 13% from 4Q13, and up… Read more →

Introduction: Cloud-based services have already evolved to support the Internet of Everything1 (IoE).  But what about use cases in which no roundtrip to a server in the Cloud is called for?  What about the “Internet of Things near or close to me”? Rob Chandhok, SVP of Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and President of Qualcomm Interactive Platforms, discussed… Read more →

Introduction:  In this second article on TiECon 2014, we examine the key issues, technologies, standards and technical challenges for the Industrial Internet and related Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) as discussed in the Infrastructure for IoT panel session.  Note that the IoT is referred to as IoE by Cisco and also by Qualcomm. Infrastructure for… Read more →

Introduction: This is the first in a multi-part article series on TiECon 2014 – the two day annual conference of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).  We summarize the Qualcomm keynote in this blog post and touch on the Internet of Things (IoT) track.   With 4,200 attendees, this year’s TiECON was the largest of all time.  That’s… Read more →

As rumored for several months, AT&T Inc.agreed to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV for $48.5 billion, or $95 per share. Both companies described the deal as transformational as they seek to take on cable companies and online video providers, delivering content to multiple screens —on living room TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile phones.  The takeover… Read more →

On April 22nd, AT&T reported that its first-quarter earnings were unchanged from the first three months of last year, but revenue grew as the wireless business added 1,062,000 wireless subscribers in the quarter. That includes 625,000 smartphones and tablets in “post-paid” plans. Wireless service revenue grew 2 percent to $15.4 billion. Total wireless revenue, including phones… Read more →

Introduction: “Security will never be the same again.  It’s a losing battle,” said Martin Casado, PhD during his Cloud Innovation Summit keynote on March 27th.   Currently, security spend is outpacing IT spend, and the only thing outpacing security spend is security losses.  Clearly this isn’t an issue of investment, innovation, or priorities as huge… Read more →