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?