What is Network Cloud?

Sequels are sometimes considered redundant. Merely a ~two-hour yawn that adds little value if any to the original piece. An...

I had the privilege of boarding the disaggregation train when it first left the station about a decade ago. You...

Recently I had the opportunity to meet astronaut Don Thomas, who from 1994 to 1997, served on four space shuttle...

The idea of open networking and disaggregation has been the goal of buyers of networking hardware and software for a...

5G, metaverse, cloud, people and more It’s been three years! Three long and strange years since I was last in Barcelona...

Hands-on experience never ends.  And even though some people may have negative reactions to it, truth is that it brings...

During the past couple of years, a lot has happened in the telecom market. Covid-19 helped accelerate the market’s awareness...

“Looking ahead” became the new norm for today’s society, as we adapt and adjust to the ever-evolving reality around us....

During the past couple of years, a lot has happened in the telecom market. Covid-19 helped accelerate the market’s awareness...

You know those situations when it’s just clear that, a moment later, the scene will change? For me, it is...

DriveNets was established six years ago with the ambition of making networks as good as hyperscale cloud infrastructures. ...

Networking Field Day (NFD) is an event organized by Gestalt IT that brings together technologists and practitioners as delegates to...

As we reach the end of the year and get deeper into the holiday spirit, we’ve given our spin on...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been close to two years since the world went upside down thanks to COVID-19....

Networks are changing, because what we want from them is changing.  In the past, they were all about connections, and...

In some of my previous posts, I focused on the advantages and benefits of applying disaggregation to high-scale networks. Now,...

Control and user plane separation (CUPS) has been around for a while. In any type of network, current networking and...

Networks are back on the world’s technology map. But the brains, arms and legs behind them, the service providers’ network...

“Network cloud” has become a buzz phrase lately. This is happening as operators and cloud providers realize that the way...

I’ve dealt with various aspects of “product” throughout my career. I’ve tested it, developed it, managed it, marketed it, strategized...

The benefits of the network cloud are well understood by communication service providers (CSPs) and hyperscale’s/cloud-providers. The first benefit is...

Is a shared resource really shared if only one thing can use it?  Would cloud computing be real if you...

Evaluating a technological solution always involves two sides: the technical and the commercial. The technical side is usually a straightforward...

“CSPs should consider disaggregating their IP networks to achieve more open, cloud like network architecture,” concluded Gorkem Yigit in a...

Recently at Networking Field Day 24 I led some fascinating sessions. ...

Networking Field Day is an event that brings together technologists and practitioners as delegates to discuss industry innovations and advancements....

Disaggregation has enabled the move toward agile networks, offering much greater agility in addressing evolving requirements. Hyperscalers were the first...

Don’t you hate complexity? By its nature, when you require agility, complexity gets in the way of change. Complexity is...