ONAP ‘Dublin’ Lightens Network Orchestration: The latest release of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) sports enhancements designed to get the software up and running faster, so carriers can get on with sexy innovation. www.lightreading.com/open-sour…
5G Will Be 100x Faster Than LTE? More Like 2.7x Faster www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g… 5G speeds are failing to live up to hype. Is anyone surprised by this?
" … much of the dysfunction of tech regulation — from botched anti-sex-trafficking laws to the EU’s plan to impose mass surveillance and censorship to root out copyright infringement — are the result of trying to jury-rig tools to fix the problems of monopolies, without using anti-monopoly laws, because they have been systematically gutted for 40 years." craphound.com/news/2019…
Built on Sand: “Wherever we go, we’re surrounded by sand. It’s in the floors beneath us, walls around us and ceilings above us, plus the sidewalks and roads we use to get from place to place. Sand is a key ingredient in concrete, asphalt, and glass, not to mention the silicon chips inside our phones and computers. It is an essential component of modern life as we know it, yet, strangely enough, we are starting to run out.” 99percentinvisible.org/episode/b…
RIP Rip Torn: Actor’s actor, political activist, badass boingboing.net/2019/07/0…
IBM Builds Telco Muscle With $34B Red Hat Acquisition: IBM sees its combination with Red Hat as enabling a full virtualization stack for service providers, from infrastructure to OSS and everything in between. My latest on Light Reading. www.lightreading.com/cloud/ibm…
“Draw me like one of your French girls.”
