Transport L0-L2 vs L3: Hardware vs Software
Continuing from last week, today I want to just show you two pictures. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so this blog is going to a couple of thousand words plus more! The first picture is just…
What I learned from a story about Steve Jobs
Lets again deviate a bit from last week. Today I will share a lesson that learned from a story I read about Steve Jobs. This is from the time that he was let go from Apple. He purchased a Pixar…
What is relevance of software in Layer 0 – Layer 3 Transport Equipment?
Continuing from last week, today I will share some context on where to find the software in transport equipment. We will limit the discussion to L0-L3 equipment, as we already know that all equipment that are beyond L3, are essentially…
What I learned from an incident shared by my friend Neeraj Gupta
Continuing from last week, today I will share a lesson I learned from a dear friend Neeraj Gupta. He currently works in telecom space and has had experience of working in various profiles over last 25 years in India. He…
Where is the software? And why do not we have more of it?
Continuing from last week, let us now examine why the software component is still small in telecom, apart from the mobile core, the network management systems and some SDN stuff. I guess the main reason is that dis-aggregation has not…
What I learned from Jack Welch’s Interview
Continuing from last week, I would like to talk about a lesson from another great leader today. I have not had any chance to interact with Jack Welch but have had multiple opportunities to learn from him, through his interviews…
How do we measure progress of transformations?
Continuing from last week, today we will explore one key aspect of transformations. We must have effective ways of measuring and tracking the effect of our efforts. Let us take one example, Automation. We know that automation is very important…
What I learned from an incident quoted by President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Let us again deviate a bit from last week, and let us talk about a lesson I leaned from one from one of the incidences at ISRO quoted by President De. APJ Abdul Kalam. He himself was a great leader…
Plan, Plan and Plan: The key to transformations
Continuing from last week, today we will cover another simple aspect about transformations. They say that Rome was not built in a day. I learned it as another phrase when I was at Huawei, a phrase called, “Yi bu, Yi…