Service Provider Information Technology, or SPIT, is Light Reading's term for the evolving set of non-traditional telecom (and data networking) technologies that allow for a greater degree of flexibility in the creation, management, delivery, and monetization of new-generation communications services.Learn More
SPIT Infographic
What exactly is Service Provider IT and how does it relate to the communications ecosystem? Here's a graphic that'll give you a snapshot of what we're talking about and appeal to your inherent aesthetic sensibilities
SPIT Manifesto
What is SPIT, why is it 'hot stuff' and how does it relate to the major challenges facing communications service providers today? The updated SPIT Manifesto answers these questions and achieves the near impossible task of giving a slime green splat a happy home.Learn More
SPIT Video
For operators looking to develop, deliver and monetize new services, run their companies more efficiently and provide an overall better experience for their customers, Service Provider IT, or SPIT, is just as important as the network.Learn More
10:45 AM Saar Gillai, the CTO of HP Networking, discusses the overall opportunity for software-defined networking and HP's perspective on this new way of thinking about networks
HW vendors seem to resort to touting the performance required to run several virtual machines and services on a single platform. I think the real fear is that SDN will increase the appetite for low-cost hardware (from China) and therefore speed up the commoditization that they're already experiencing.
It sounds like SDN is another scheme made up to kill hardware vendors. These Telco's and internet service providers must realize that if they kill all of their hardware suppliers just so they can save a few bucks in their network management tools, there will be no one but the Chinese to make hardware for them. I contend the business concept of adapt or die is not going to work in North America because even if you adapt you die. I recall Jetsream, at the height of its business, just simply quit and screwed all of thier cusotmers. Perhaps they were the smart ones, and as time goes on, the NA hardware vendors one by one will bow and take the Jetstream route.
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Bill Me, Don't Bamboozle Me Phil Harvey 11/2/2012 - 8:15 AM All the effort service providers put into a simple, powerful network experience is wasted if the bills they send to consumers are confusing and full of unnecessary jargon and analytics
4G World 2012: Does LTE Add New Jobs? Phil Harvey 10/30/2012 - 7:30 AM Our salary report is making the rounds here at 4G World and carriers may need to fill very different types of jobs as more consumers start using LTE
Metaswitch Forum 2012: The CxO Show Phil Harvey 10/12/2012 - 11:00 AM Metaswitch CEO John Lazar and CTO Martin Taylor talk about the company's place in an evolving network and its future as a software-focused business
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