08.19.09 |
Two Steps Forward - One Step Back… Ethernet Network Visibility and Performance Monitoring By Charles R. Kenmore
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Frequently, I read various trade articles, and it strikes me that we typically only talk about progressive, new innovations that stress novel ideas in the post-Internet era. Perhaps I’m a bit jaded, having gone through the ups and downs of the industry (e.g. the go-go-90’s, the tech bubble bust, and the latest recession). That said, when one looks at the telecom industry today, it’s really not that much different conceptually than nearly 25 years ago when the divestiture or break-up of Ma Bell (AT&T) occurred to stimulate competition, growth, and innovation in the telecom space. Sure we’ve met the goals of doing things faster, cheaper, and with better technology, but many of the same goals and themes are relevant in this new age of “social media networking,” “converged services,” and “triple or quadruple play” nomenclature. Instead of acronyms like SMDS, ATM, ISDN, SNA, and MS-DOS, we’ve simply developed new 4+ letter acronyms like E-LAN, DWDM, and the five-letter GMPLS to pick-up the slack. So is it just a matter of degree that we continuously improve? Have we actually learned from our past mistakes as we blaze new trails of innovation? |
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