Alfonso ha i brividi lungo la schiena ….
Ha ragione. E' incredibile come le persone e le organizzazioni, quando sono in difficolta', tendano ad agire in modo irrazionale e non sostenibile.
Rilancio con questo post di benoit Deutsche Telekom is Watching You.
... the network designer said In front of 1,000 people at the BBWF, Wolfgang Schmitz of Deutsche Telecom...
Schmitz is building the ultimate "intelligent network" spending hundreds of millions to capture "every session, of every customer, all of the time."
His suppliers (mostly Siemens) love him, because they can charge five times as much for "smart" network gear. One explained “it needs a lot of cycles to do all this work.”
E tutto cio' per nulla...
The complexity leaves DT a year behind the French offering video and they are still debugging the network and Microsoft IPTV. A complicated network costs more to build and is far harder to maintain. It's virtually a job guarantee for the many engineers running the system. ...
In Paris a few days later, I saw the 21st century alternative to DT's grand edifice. ... Free's success is built on a remarkably simple network that simply adds standard equipment where they have congestion. Xavier Niel has 2 Cisco CRS-1's at the center, which are doing exceptionally well. They handle everything he throws at them and have plenty of reserve capacity.
This "stupid network" works well because adding bandwidth is cheap while management is expensive.
An almost unbelievably small team of engineers in Paris manage the entire network and even design the DSLAMs and the Freebox. The network does one thing well: deliver packets reliably. That allows voice and video to be simple applications, easy to add inexpensively.
