If you don't do anything else today, watch this short video interview with Malcolm Orr, senior platform architect at Colt Technology Services Group Ltd .

His key point? If the traditional communications networking industry -- telcos and their vendors -- don't get their **** together and make wide area networks more dynamic and consumable (in part by adopting open source R&D methodologies), the web-scale giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook will lose patience and do it themselves.

If that happens, it's game over.

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Something to think about… and do something about, more to the point.

— Ray Le Maistre, , Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading