Tag Archives: Fog

I have been asked to provide a few (personal( thoughts on the Future of Internet. I am glad to share them with you seeking for comments…. Internet development trends Ø  From an infrastructure point of view the big backbones are future proof, at least for the coming two decades. New …

The quest for intelligence Networks were born as mechanical systems, not really a surprise if one considers the time of their “invention”. Even the first “robots” were mechanical systems. Intelligence in a mechanical system is not necessarily “null”, the basic building stones for intelligence are present in (some) mechanical systems: …

In the beginning it was the Cloud. It looked like the solution to massive storage and computation, It was also a perfect support for distributed service architecture with some parts of the service run locally and some part in the Cloud. Then the fog appeared. The availability of storage and …

It was September 12th, 1958, when the first integrated chip was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instrument (for the record, that first chip was using germanium, not silicon. Robert Noyce few months after that first chip was able to create one based on silicon). It took 12 more years …

One of the potential of 5G is its capability to hand over the control of communications resources to applications/users. These can self organise their network capabilities/resources. To what extent this will happen remains to be seen, since Network Operators are not likely to open up their network resources. Network slicing …

Yesterday I spoke in a panel on fog, the shift of clouds to the edges of the network. The panel focused on the business drives and consequences. The four panelists, although came from different sectors, agreed that fog is inevitable from a business viewpoint. For some it will be a …

We are experiencing a shift from a communications infrastructure to a communications fabric: the former being characterized by a top down design with network equipment under full control of a few recognised (regulated) Operators that balance the use of resources mostly on economic returns; the latter being characterised by a …

The tail wags the dog Terminals are already a crucial factor in wireless economy. Their volume sustains investment in their evolution that progresses like a clockwork. Basically, every year we have a significant improvement in terms of processing and storage capability, every 3 to 4 years a significant improvement in …