Technology Recycling
It is funny to see how many good ideas come at the wrong time, but can later be recycled when the timing is right. As we all know, predicting the timing of a technology isn’t the easiest.
Look at the famous God Boxes that everyone thought were dead. Today it is the hottest new architecture in Transport and it’s called P-OTS (hmm, I can’t think of a worse name for a plain old telephone system – sorry packet optical transport system).
Another famous old technology – thin clients. But, now what does cloud computing enable? That’s right – thin clients. As we enter the “Google world of Internet” more and more applications will reside in the cloud – enabled by high speed access networks and virtualization in the data centers.
IP as a bearer of data in radio access network ten years ago was interesting from a technology point of view but never gained any traction with the carriers. Today on the other hand, you see everyone launching new IP or Ethernet-based Radio Access Equipment to carry mobile data.
So whats next – IPv6?
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