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

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of
> direct operational control.

Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the
Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate
because it's all black box.

Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 months of
opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

> On 1/26/22 16:41, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > s/de-risk/re-risk/
> >
> > it's just a different risk
>
> I should have finished that sentence with "de-risk their infrastructure
> spend", because the actual risk is in having to spend money upfront to
> build the network.
>
> For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of
> direct operational control.
>
> Mark <= who run way from a suggestion to run iBGP route reflectors in
> AWS :-).
>
> Mark.