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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…