Head within the Cloud, Toes on the Edge

November 22, 2023

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I am again with a brand new episode of TeleGeography Explains the Web.

Within the scorching seat this time: Nokia’s Paul Unbehagen. Paul has a deep historical past within the networking world, so he approaches his position at Nokia—NE Americas CTO—from the angle of a community engineer.

Though our major matters this week are enterprise cloud and right-sizing cloud utilization, we use these as a springboard into many matters circling the state of the community in 2023.

We contact on the historical past of the enterprise’s transfer into the cloud and why some firms have reevaluated their cloud technique lately.

Because it so usually does, the geography of the cloud comes up, together with Paul’s tackle location and design within the cloud. This brings us to the sting—not solely what it means and the place it’s, however a few of the new and thrilling use instances of what edge computing facilitates.

Embedded in that dialog can also be 5G and the way cellular can push the community into being a central a part of the enterprise. And we are able to’t resist mentioning AI/ML.

Paul and I had a good time waxing philosophical about how networks and cloud have modified and what it may imply for the longer term.