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There’s something I’ve noticed about OSS products – they are either designed to be abstract / flexible or they are designed to cater for specific technologies / topologies. When designed from the abstract perspective, the tools are built around generic core data models. For example, whether a virtual / logical device, a physical device, a […]
“Even aside from the OSS impact, it illustrates the contrast between “bottom-up” planning of networks (new card X is cheaper/has more ports) and “top down” (what do we need to change to reduce our costs/increase capacity).” Robert Curran. Robert’s quote above is in response to a post called “Trickle-down impact planning.” Robert makes a really […]
The video below has been doing the rounds on LinkedIn lately. What is your key takeaway from the video? Most would say the perfection, but for me, the perfection was a result of the hand-offs, which were almost immediate and precise, putting team-mates into better position. The final shot didn’t need the brilliance of a […]
Etisalat Selects NEC and Netcracker as Prime Integrator for its NFV Infrastructure Platform to Advance its Telecom Cloud Program. NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced that Etisalat has selected NEC/Netcracker as the prime solution provider for its multivendor telecom cloud program. NEC/Netcracker will provide systems integration services, operational tools, NFV orchestration and full automation in […]
When we’re preparing a design (or capturing requirements) for a new or updated OSS, I suspect most of us design with functional requirements (FRs) in mind. That is, our first line of thinking is on the shiny new features or system behaviours we have to implement. But what if we were to flip this completely? […]
Just a quick word of warning. This blog starts off away from OSS, but please persevere. It ends up back with a couple of key OSS learnings. Long ago in the technology consulting game, I came to an important realisation. When arriving on a fresh new client site, chances are that many of the “easy […]
“I will never understand why Advertising is an investment and customer service is a cost. Let’s spend millions trying to reach people, but if they try to reach us, make our contact details impossible to find, incentivise call center workers to hang up as fast as possible or ideally outsource it to a bot. It’s […]
When your ideas get stolen. A few meditations from Seth Godin: “Good for you. Isn’t it better that your ideas are worth stealing? What would happen if you worked all that time, created that book or that movie or that concept and no one wanted to riff on it, expand it or run with it? […]
Nokia selected by China Mobile to build advanced public/private cloud services infrastructure using Nuage Networks VSP. Nokia’s Nuage Networks has been chosen by China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technical Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Mobile, as the SDN platform for China Mobile’s public and private enterprise cloud services offering. The platform is based on the […]
“Brand, marketing, pricing and sales were seen as sexy. Networks and IT were the geeks no one seemed to speak to or care about. … This isolation and excommunication of our technical team had created an environment of disillusion. If you wanted something done the answer was mostly ‘No – we have no budget and […]
The Linux Foundation Hosts ‘DANOS’ Project, a Unified Network Operating System. The Linux Foundation announced the Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS) project to enable community collaboration across network hardware, forwarding and operating system layers. DANOS is initially based on AT&T’s “dNOS” software framework of an open, cost-effective and flexible alternative to traditional networking operating systems. As […]
Amdocs collaborates with Microsoft to enable ONAP on Microsoft Azure. Amdocs announced its implementation of Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This new development enables operators to deliver virtual network services running on Azure, orchestrated and managed using ONAP. Amdocs and Microsoft will show how operators can gain the time-to-market […]
Hands up if you’re old enough to remember ATM here? And I don’t mean the type of ATM that sits on the side of a building dispensing cash – no I mean Asynchronous Transfer Mode. For those who aren’t familiar with ATM, a little background. ATM was THE telco-grade packet-switching technology of choice for most […]
Our most recent two posts, from yesterday and Friday, have talked about one stunningly simple idea that helps to overcome one of OSS’ biggest challenges – data quality. Those posts have stimulated quite a bit of dialogue and it seems there is some consensus about the cleverness of the idea. I don’t know if the […]
Last Friday’s blog discussed how I’ve just been blown away by the most elegant OSS innovation I’ve seen in decades. You can read more detail via the link, but the three major factors in this simple, elegant solution to data quality problems (probably OSS’ biggest kryptonite) are: Being able to make connections that break standard […]
Looking back, I now consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with an amazing product on the first OSS project I worked on (all the way back in 2000). And I say amazing because the underlying data models and core product architecture are still better than any other I’ve worked with in the two decades […]
Further to yesterday’s post that posed the question about whether your data was AI ready for virtualised network assurance use cases, I thought I’d raise a few more notes. The two reasons posed were: Our data sets haven’t had time to collect much elastic / dynamic network data yet Our data is riddled with human-generated […]
“In the virtualization domain, the old root cause technology is becoming obsolete because resources and workloads move around dynamically – we no longer have fixed network and compute resources. Existing service assurance systems in the telecommunication network were designed to manage a fixed set of resources and these assurance systems fall short in monitoring dynamic […]
It’s only recently dawned on me that TM Forum Live! has a new website and a new name. It’s now called Digital Transformation World. Time has flown. It’s already less than two months until the event (14-16 May 2018 in Nice, France). Catalyst day is on the 17th. Registrations can already be made… at this […]
“Most people know what they want, but don’t know how to get it. When you don’t know the next step, you procrastinate or feel lost. But a little research can turn a vague desire into specific actions. For example: When musicians say, “I need a booking agent”, I ask, “Which one? What’s their name?” You […]
