What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

Mike Hammett nanog at ics-il.net
Wed Jan 26 13:29:14 UTC 2022


Like most other things cloud, the value is going to be much harder to find than the hype. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Thomas" <mike at mtcc.com> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 1:52:20 PM 
Subject: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile? 


There was an article in the Economist (sorry if it's paywalled) about 
Dish entering the mobile market using an AWS backend. I don't think that 
AWS brings much more than compute for the most part so I don't really 
get why this would be a huge win. A win maybe, but a huge win? I can 
certainly see that not having tons of legacy and accreted inertia is big 
win, but that's true of any disruptor. In the end they still need base 
stations, spectrum, backhaul and all of that to run their network, right? 

Am I missing something, or is this mainly hype? 

Mike 

https://www.economist.com/business/will-the-cloud-business-eat-the-5g-telecoms-industry/21806999 


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