6. Communications Paradigms The Communication Fabric will have some significant differences from the infrastructure we are used today. It will be a set of networks, most at the edges of the main pipes, that will not just be seen as transport facilities. Actually they will have processing power and storage …

5. From Infrastructure to Fabric In the coming years the number of local network, both deployed by a variety of owners (residential, shops, malls, municipalities …) will keep growing and in addition we will see a variety of objects creating networks, smart phones, computers but also cars, light poles, appliances, …

4. Beyond 4G – FRA and Edge Nodes The Long Term Evolution, LTE or 4G, is already in the past. True, there are still many area not covered, a few will never be covered (probably), but from a biz and engineering point of view the situation is clear. It improved …

3. Network and Networking Decoupled It seemed impossible, just thirty years ago that a service can be provided without a coordination with the network and yet this is what has happened. And there is no way back. Increasing revenue by providing more services is no longer an option for Telecom …

2. Network and Services Decoupling Digitalisation and Internet killed this coupling of network and services. Today most telecommunications services we are using are not provided by the Telecom Operator – Network Owner. Think about accessing information on the web. You might be using Google or DuckDuckGo to search for information, …

1. From Phones to Network to Services Once upon a time, in 1874, you would buy a couple of phones and you will look for someone who would lay the required wires to connect them. Not very practical indeed, so it doesn’t come to a surprise that in just a …

Just few posts ago I stressed the importance of lowering the cost as a fuel to innovation. Here let me take an opposite tack, just to show how varied is that concept we call innovation. I stumble onto an article published in the June 2014 Economist Technology Quarterly about the …

Innovation is a complex beast with several facets (and components). Researchers believe in a perfect world where the best technology will prevail, and of course "best" stands for the most performant one. Only a few would go as far as to acknowledge that "cost" is also of of the parameters …

3D printing is getting more and moro common and it is expanding from prototyping applications to commercial use, opening up, at the same time, new possibilities. This is the case of a company in the Netherlands, Luxexcel, that has found a way to print optical surfaces, like lenses. The problem with …

There are many ways to innovate, and some of them do not require a sparkling objects full of new features, rather a dramatical cost in delivering very specific functionality. This is the case for the Foldoscope, the result of work of a team at Stanford University that has wondered how to improve …