By Phil
9 October 2007
10:33 am
Flying to Dallas
Last week was an exciting week, both from an airline mileage perspective and from events.
I started with presenting to the CTC/STCA meeting in Chicago on Saturday. This is a meeting of both US and Canadian Telecommunications Consultants. The focus of our discussion was the next major transition occurring in our industry, the convergence of Communications with IT Information Processing. Much as the convergence of voice onto the data network changed the role of the consultant over the last 5 years, this convergence will change the role over the next 5 years.
Following this I flew to Barcelona to join with John Roese in kicking off the EMEA Nortel Enterprise Technology Forum (NETF). This is an exciting event that is ...
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By Phil
22 August 2007
7:14 pm
I was just in a meeting with the wide area network managers for a large Wall Street investment firm. These are the guys who architect the router network, CCIEs and all. As we talked through the future of their WAN, one of them said something I never thought I would hear as an unsolicited comment: "What we really want is a way to send L2 packets over the WAN as a connection…so we can just have a simple Ethernet Switch in the branch…eliminating the router altogether." I was astonished, after 5 years, the router-less branch is beginning to be seen by network managers, even by the router aficionados, as a potential reality. Back in 2002, the concept of a simple ...
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