Network Transformation
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-8
Continuing from last week, let us dig deeper in the IP Optics building block in reference to the Metro Networks. If you leave aside some boundary cases and some parts of the world geography where the fiber infra is in…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-7
Continuing from last week, let us dig deeper into the IP – Optics split. Let us start by acknowledging that IP is all pervasive. That IP is the God of telecommunications and IT. No one can survive without it any…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-6
Continuing from last week, let us today explore another aspect of building blocks. If one building block was a good choice yesterday, will it be a good choice today? I guess, I do not have to say much. We all…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-5
Continuing from last week, let us continue to discuss the example of a bad network split. We saw that Government does the worst network splits and create so many limitations in terms of future network expansions and create a lot…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-4
Continuing from last week, let us discuss an example of a bad network split. By network split, I mean that you carve out a piece of the network that you are happy to buy from one vendor independently of the…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-3
Continuing from last week, let us discuss further as two how we can have standards and still a lot of innovation. The trick is to find the right partitions. If we split the network into layers in such a way…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-2
Continuing from last week, let us explore the role of standards in creating the networks. Standards do not exist for everything and it is great that they do not. Imagine if government standardized the the sizes, colors and materials of…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks….
Continuing from last week, let us continue to discuss on custom vs standard. We will continue to consider a network as a building. There can be many modes of getting the building constructed, let us have a look at the…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? What is the right strategy?
Let us continue the discussion from last week and build on the theme of Hardware vs Software. The equipment are just the building blocks for a network and the end goal is to deliver services. Services have a “retail” connotation…
Router: Should we buy it as Hardware?
Continuing from last week, let us further evaluate the Router or L3 device composition. Let me share a picture to try and simplify this ongoing transformation. I have tried to make things very simple, and some of you may say,…