NAKINA SYSTEMS BLOG
More Guesses on Cisco’s Version of FTTU
March 8th, 2010
SiliconAngle thinks they have a scoop on the impending “this will change the structure of life, death, the universe, and everything” announcement Cisco has planned for March 9 (hey, that’s tomorrow!).
According to the blog, it’s a combination of an Apple TV – syled set top box, a carrier partnership for high speed consumer broadband, 100 GB ethernet on their routers, and a grand whizbang vision to tie it all together.
Other than the grand whizbang vision part, which is always entertaining, we’ll be most interested to see if they announce anything that makes this stuff any easier to manage and administer in a real world environment. We’d be impressed, for instance, if the set-top box had plans for OSGI support. It’s one thing to offer cool new technology, it’s another to make it possible to operate, administer, and provision.
I want my exabytes
March 4th, 2010
The Economist has a good feature on the superabundance of data in their latest issue. It’s worth a read, especially the section on data visualization.
This (data superabundance) is a subject that has a lot of relevance for Nakina, and is something we’ve been focusing on lately in the area of network operations. Yesterday, in a meeting with an engineering director responsible for a national IMS rollout, I heard “I’m getting nostalgic for the days of circuit switching.” That’s because back in the circuit-switched era the management information needed to operate a network existed on a human scale. For instance, in a wireless market serving a few hundred thousand subscribers, the primary intelligence would reside in four or five MSCs, and a total of a few thousand parameters would need to be kept in line for the network to operate reliably. In the LTE and IMS era, the same number of customers are being served by a network in which several million parameters need to be maintained to a predefined standard. Operations processes and tools — in fact, the whole operations paradigm — from the circuit-switched era don’t scale to this level.
Until service providers adopt a new paradigm — embracing automated and realtime capture of all network information, and ongoing enforcement of gold standard configurations — the rollout of new broadband (and especially wireless) infrastructure will necessarily be accompanied by greater network instability and repeated delays in adding capacity to keep pace with consumer appetite.
Surrender Dorothy
March 2nd, 2010
The town of Topeka, Kansas has just voted to change their name to Google for the month of March in order to heighten its chances to be picked as the testbed location for the Goonet.
Google hasn’t spent a nickel on actual fiber deployment, and they get all this PR? We should be so lucky.
Maybe we should put out a press release offering a testbed implementation of our Network Integrity solution available to any service provider or equipment manufacturer on the planet…
Cisco Entering the Fray?
March 2nd, 2010
Cisco has pre-announced that on March 9 they will make a “significant announcement that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments.” Gee, [...] Continue Reading…
There’s an App for That
February 25th, 2010
Matt Klassen over at the TheTelecomBlog.com has an interesting post considering the recent alliance of twenty-four carriers to provide an alternative to the AppStore. With a membership as [...] Continue Reading…
Google Fiber Beta Hoax Site?
February 19th, 2010
I was checking this morning to see if there were any new news items about the Google fiber optic plan, and came across a hoax that looks like it’s [...] Continue Reading…
Verizon can hear Skype Now
February 17th, 2010
The flood gates have opened, and paid minutes of use for voice are drowning. Verizon Wireless announced this morning that they will start allowing Skype calling over the [...] Continue Reading…
More Noise in Googleverse
February 12th, 2010
Eve Griliches over at ACG research thinks that the Google FTTU (to the Universe) plan is an ideal trojan horse for Huawei to penetrate the US marketplace, and creates [...] Continue Reading…
Google “Thinks Big with a Gig” (or “Schmidt says: stick that in your U-verse and smoke it”)
February 10th, 2010
Google announced in the company blog this morning an ‘experimental’ network to test out consumer and developer reactions to availability of ‘gig to the home.’
These are the [...] Continue Reading…
Requiem Supercomm?
February 8th, 2010
This just in from Light Reading: Supercomm’s organizers have “shelved” the show for 2010. I think that’s marketingese for “deep-sixed.”
And here I was getting all [...] Continue Reading…
