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“If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes – even then, I could not estimate Your Value.” Sri Guru Granth Sahib You ask all the difficult questions don’t you? Actually, “how much will this cost” […]
“The Navy has both a tradition and a future–and we look with pride and confidence in both directions.” Admiral George Anderson In days gone by, CSPs enjoyed command of the sea. Their boats were big, powerful and mobile enough to move around world. However, due to their size it requires significant planning and effort for a […]
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” T.S. Eliot Happy new year! 2013 is the year that PassionateAboutOSS.com is officially launched. This blog-roll will continue to pose another voice, making a beginning towards a better OctopOSS
“Operators are currently at a beginner’s level of capability exposure for developers. They need to step up their game, look at how enterprises have solved this problem. Deliver a rich, secure, reliable, well managed API framework that makes applications both cool and reliable over their networks, else developers will simply choose OTT providers” Sean O’Sullivan […]
“Over 60 years ago, broadcast television introduced channels 1-10 in the U.S., and, furthering this momentum, channelization provided channels 11-1,000 via cable and satellite in the 1980s. As this decade is earmarked by seismic technology and media changes, the next few years will be laser-focused on creating the next 100,000 channels – delivered across a […]
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost In recent years there has been a proliferation of professional mentoring in many fields of business. I just did a Google search and didn’t find a single OSS mentor. A keyword search showed that nobody was looking for one either. It seems there is no […]
“For Porter, the ultimate profit potential of an industry is a finite fixed amount: the only question is who is going to get which share of it.Sound business is however unlike warfare or sports in that one company’s success does not require its rivals to fail. Unlike competition in sports, every company can choose to […]
“Even if you’re Apple, it’s not about you” Sonia Simone In a healthy personal relationship, each partner is approximately equal. In a healthy business relationship, there is a vast difference in balance. As a business, if you: Listen to the customer far more than you talk Give more time and attention to your customer base […]
“When you think you can’t, revisit a previous triumph.”. Jack Canfield Just as naming conventions are important within the OctopOSS at an application level, so are numbering plans at a network level. The OctopOSS often introduces as significant increase in IP addresses allocated to network management (eg on the management VLAN). For the purpose of […]
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead Christmas Day would seem like an appropriate day to discuss a guiding coalition. A new OctopOSS project will need a large stakeholder body to be highly organised and excited about the […]
“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” John Wooden Change, innovation and product improvement comes from the collision of ideas from a diversity of thoughts. Art, industrial design, logistics, mathematics, computing, storage, automation – all these industries have improvements to offer to OSS. Surrounding yourself with visionaries and […]
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” Henry Ford Henry Ford is widely acknowledged for creating the production line that revolutionised the automobile industry, bringing cars within financial reach of the common man. However, Ford’s autobiography states that he borrowed the idea from the “disassembly” lines used by Armour for processing […]
“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” Dilbert In times when it is difficult to find money for new OctopOSS projects, revenue protection / fraud detection / leakage analysis could potentially bring quick payback. I was once indirectly involved in an OSS project worth several million […]
“Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.” Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Are we already starting to see the merging of BSS (customer facing systems) and OSS (network facing systems)? Since carriers are going to be asked by customers to be increasingly transparent, they will need to deliver combined information across the B/OSS. […]
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.” Plato Training is only useful if it is context-sensitive and interactive. If you want the best results from training, you have to build customised training for the specific customer environment (ie equipment types, service types, naming conventions, etc). If a load from production […]
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.” Richard Dawkins Evaluating OSS vendors is never an easy task. There are virtually no apples-for-apples comparisons, even within domains (eg alarm/fault management). Each product set has different features, support, etc. Despite this, I have used an approach similar […]
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” Edsger Dijkstra This is the last in this “So, what is it going to be?” series. Do you need your OctopOSS to be highly available (HA), with mullti-site failover, redundancy mechanisms, constant data sych, etc? Or is your OctopOSS non mission critical and doesn’t require a DR (Disaster Recovery) site, doesn’t […]
“Products are evaluated, services are experienced” Ken Rutsky So, what’s it going to be? Will you have your OctopOSS in your own cage (ie on your site) – the SaaP (Software as a Product) model. Or will you rent your OctopOSS from someone else – the SaaS (Software as a Service) model? What are the […]
“Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.” Sir Laurence Olivier So, what is it going to be? Is your OctopOSS going to be built using the “best of breed” approach (ie the best available product) for each […]
“Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps.” Ralph Ransom So, what is it going to be? Is your OctopOSS going to be introduced in phases or is it going to be […]
