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...
View ArticleAutomation Will Be a Continuum
“You will need all of them”, says Dr. Louay Eldada. Eldada, CEO of Quanergy was referring to the idea of fusing multiple types of sensors together to paint a complete picture of a vehicle’s...
View ArticleFuture of Networking: Pica8 Open Networking OS/Protocol Stacks on Bare Metal...
Disclaimer: The author has no business relationship with Pica8 or any of the companies he interviews or writes about. Introduction: Tired of all the SDN and network virtualization hype? And that “open”...
View ArticleHOT Interconnects (HOTi) Summary- Part I. Building Large Scale Data Center...
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...
View ArticleHOTi Summary Part II. SDN & NFV Impact on Interconnects & Cloud Orchestration...
Introduction: This article summarizes the HOTi August 26th keynote presentation from SDx Central’s Roy Chua. The impact of SDN, NFV and other Software Defined WAN/ open networking schemes on...
View ArticleHighlights of Telecom Council TC3 Panel on 5G Telecom Regulation
Introduction: A spirited discussion of telecom regulation issues took place September 28, 2016 at the Telecom Council’s TC3 summit in Mt. View, CA. Most of it was related to making 5G a reality. We...
View ArticleGlobal Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) 2016 Award Recipients
The awards were presented on December 8th at a gala dinner at the Santa Clara Convention center that this author attended. I was amazed that ~ 2,000 executives attended this event, especially...
View ArticleWhy Telco Mergers Destroy Jobs and Stifle Competition
Telco Mergers Result in Job Losses: Management from CenturyLink and Level 3 talked up their announced merger (CenturyLink will acquire Level 3) at the Citi Internet, Media and Telecommunications...
View ArticleDeath Knell for Google Fiber? Parent Company Reduces Spending & Cuts Jobs
Google’s parent company Alphabet significantly scaled back its investment in its Google Fiber service in the third quarter. The company said it was curbing the expansion of its high-speed fiber optic...
View Article2017 Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Award Winners Span the Globe
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced its 2017 award recipients on December 7th after a late dinner in Santa Clara, California attended by over 1500 semiconductor industry executives. The...
View ArticleAlexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised
Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa went down on Friday while speaking the wrong error messages to customers. During a ½ hour span Friday morning, I heard the following from Alexa on my Echo device,...
View ArticleNon-Board OCP Equipment Purchases Top $1.2B in 2017; 5 year CAGR forecast of 59%
Executive Summary: The OCP (Open Compute Project) commissioned IHS Markit to do a market study of who, besides OCP Board members, were using OCP specified hardware and to estimate/forecast the...
View ArticleJEDEC Forum: Artificial Intelligence/ML/DL & IT Requirements for Edge Computing
Introduction: Several new ideas, concepts and forecasts were made at JEDEC’s Mobile & IOT Forum on March 26, 2018 in Santa Clara, CA. Those related To Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning/...
View ArticleMicrosoft requests FCC to use TV White Spaces for Restoration of wireless...
Last week Microsoft asked the FCC for Special Temporary Authority to use TV white spaces (TVWS) to restore communications in areas of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands affected by hurricanes Irma...
View ArticlePuerto Rico & US Virgin Islands to receive up to $77 million from FCC to...
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are in line to receive up to $77 million from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to restore communications after hurricane Maria made most of the...
View ArticleRapidly Deployable WiFi Played Key Role in Thai Cave Rescue
A U.S. based company’s outdoor WiFi gear played an important role in the recent Thailand cave rescue. In a saga that gripped the world, 12 young Thai boys and their soccer coach were trapped for two...
View ArticleThe Dangers of WiFi/Internet Enabled Cameras and the IoT Connected Home
Introduction: Reports from across the U.S. indicate an ever-increasing problem of hackers accessing the Wi-Fi/Internet enabled cameras from Nest and other IoT security/surveillance device companies....
View ArticleAssessment of Open Networking, Bare Metal Switches, White Boxes, and NFVi
The Vision and Reality of Open Networking: From 2012 to at least 2016, there was tremendous industry buzz about disaggregation of the network switch, transport equipment, and network appliances. Many...
View ArticleIs Lifecycle Services Orchestration (LSO) Ready for Large Scale Deployments &...
By Alan J Weissberger and Kaustubha Parkhi Introduction: The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is developing LSO (Lifecycle Services Orchestration) specifications in order to automate the entire lifecycle for...
View ArticleSummary of IEEE Ethical Standards for Robotics and AI
Summary of IEEE Ethical Standards for Robotics and AI by Alan J Weissberger Introduction: Should robots and artificial intelligence (AI) be used to improve the human condition and enhance productivity...
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