Author: Alan Weissberger
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HOT Interconnects (HOTi) Summary- Part I. Building Large Scale Data Center Networks
The annual IEEE Hot Interconnects conference was held August 24-25, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA. We review selected presentations in a series of conference summary articles. In this Part I. piece, we focus on design considerations for large-scale Data Centers (DCs) that are operated by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
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FCC Completes Reverse Auction as Forward Auction Looms Large
Executive Summary: The FCC concluded the first round of its two-part spectrum incentive Auction 1000 on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Broadcasters sold some or all of their spectrum usage rights in exchange for millions of dollars. It’s been called a “reverse auction” and formally as “Auction 1001” since spectrum was being relinquished rather than acquired. The “forward auction,” formally known…
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How Telcos Can Play a Prominent Role & Monetize the IoT
Introduction: With extraordinary potential, impact and influence, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to make a lot of money and improve efficiencies for many different industries. At the IoT Developers Conference, Ericsson cited a Gartner Group prediction of “$1.9 Trillion value-add IoT revenue across industry sectors in 2020.” Indeed, IoT is one of the hottest tech…
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2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?
Introduction: For its first few years, the Open Networking Summit (ONS) focused on pure SDN – strict separation of control and data planes, centralized SDN controller computing routes for hundreds of “packet forwarding engines” in its domain and OpenFlow as the southbound API/protocol used between control and data planes. Overlay networks (a logical network mapped…
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Google Fiber’s Slow Rollout & Pole Access Challenges
Introduction: Google Fiber1 had only 53,390 TV customers as of Dec. 31,2015, according to U.S. Copyright Office data published in a recent MoffettNathanson report. Furthermore, growth in subscribers is slowing. The report said that Google Fiber’s video customer base grew by 79 percent over the previous year. It grew at 136 percent for the last…
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More or Less Competition from FCC’s Approved “Open” Set Top Box Proposal?
On Feb 18, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) narrowly approved a proposal by Chairman Tom Wheeler to let consumers swap their cable television boxes for cheaper devices and apps, a move that is intended to increase competition in the $20 billion set-top box market. The proposal passed on a 3-to-2 vote, with commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael…