I took some time from my time off last week to do some modeling on the way AI could impact telcos. There are, according to my model, some verticals that have extraordinary potential to gain from AI adoption. Is telecom one of them? Let’s see what I found, starting first with some foundation points.| Andover Intel
Another question that my series of blogs on telecom standards raised with telcos themselves is “Why couldn’t NFV have fixed these problems?” On the surface, the concept of virtualizing network functions, which is what I advocated in THIS blog, would seem to be what NFV aimed to do. So why didn’t it work?| Andover Intel
Mainframes, monoliths, hybrid cloud, AI…all these are terms that we kick around, but one company, IBM, embodies them all in a way that no other does. IBM is also doing pretty darn well these days. In the last 6 months, it’s stock has gone up over 20%, and in the last year over 50%. Is there a relationship between the four tech terms I opened with and IBM’s success? Can answering that offer us any insight into the future of computing and even networking? Could their recent announcement o...| Andover Intel
What, if anything, can we say about the value of AI to network operators, to telcos in particular? Is it transformational, justified, or simply applicable? Are there any missions that fall clearly into the “gain” category? I’ve dug through almost 200 comments made by operators on the topic, and this is what I’ve found.| Andover Intel
Many of you who read my blog know that Andover Intel has a users-only email link and we encourage consumers of technology to comment, ask questions, debate, or whatever with complete confidentiality. My blogs on standards in general and 6G in particular generated emails from 51 of 88 operators who have commented, as users, and that’s the highest level of response so far.| Andover Intel
OK, let’s face facts. The whole of telecom standards is broken, and something radical is needed to fix it. You only have to read the story of 5G, and reflect on past initiatives like frame relay and ATM, or the IPsphere concept, or Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to see how badly the industry is served by telecom standards. But we’ve been stuck in the process for decades, and that demonstrates how difficult it is to change things there. Do we know what needs to change, what barriers...| Andover Intel