The Opportunity in Evolving IP Services

The next-gen of IP services is now emerging and offering a new set of features such as personalization and better management of flow-based traffic that will enable service providers to emphasize service monetization, employ better network scaling, and more efficiently utilize resources in their business models. In his most recent FierceTelecom article, Michael Kennedy discusses IP monetization, usage management, and optimization services and why these new feature sets are important SPs. Click here to read.

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Michael Kennedy
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Use Cases Define Future Shape of Software Defined Networking

Software Defined Networking (SDN) began as a conceptual extension of data center virtualization and as such its true form has been tough to visualize. Now, as SDN use cases are being revealed on the web and in public forums, it is becoming clearer what SDN is, how it will be implemented and who will benefit or be hurt by its adoption. Read more: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/use-cases-define-future-shape-software-defined-networking/2012-09-11.

For more on SDN read Michael's FierceTelecom article  "Building a Case for Software Defined Networks for Metro Networks."  

Read Michael's interview with Carrier Ethernet News to get his thoughts on how SDN technology will make its way into CE networks and when. Click here to read the complete interview. 

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Michael Kennedy
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Hard Data on the State of the Internet

In his FierceTelecom article, Michael Kennedy discusses the state of the Internet and cites Akamai's "State of the Internet" report, security issues, IPv4 exhaustion and performance statistics to give a view of Internet's actual behavior.  Click here to read the article.

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Connection-Oriented Strategies for Next-Gen Networks

FierceTelecom has recently released its e-book Connection-Oriented Ethernet. In "Ethernet Strategies for Next-Gen Networks" Michael Kennedy, business case analyst, provides a deep dive into Connection-Oriented Ethernet, its benefits, how it exceeds SONET and discusses Ethernet-centric and MPLS-centric approaches and the challenges each poses for service providers.

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Michael Kennedy
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Thanks to Microsoft, Nokia will succeed in North America

At CES I saw a Nokia Lumia 800 demonstration of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) OS and was blown away on several fronts: the user interface is new and different, the operation is simple and the 800 is an uncomplicated yet powerful platform. But before you go crazy on the definition of success let me define what that means in the short term: Nokia pulling 10 percent of the U.S. handset market share and Microsoft pulling in 20 percent of the OS market share by 2015.

Read more at FierceTelecom.

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Chris Nicoll
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