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probably] drive a lot of compute and
storage [capability].” Many other IoT
applications present more modest
profiles, he indicates. “[They] may
be growth drivers but not necessarily
massive consumers of bandwidth.”
Outside of data intensive applica-
tions such as autonomous systems,
IoT more generally may continue to
face credibility issues. Beckert re-
flects, “[IoT] has been the next big
thing for two decades.” He says that
the Cisco VNI outlook report has
suggested that 10
billion active IoT
devices by 2020
would still only
generate 1 percent
of global IP traffic.
Practical issues,
too, he points out,
have remained
the same: realistic
applications, satisfactory business
models and adequate network archi-
tectures offering the right coverage.
IoT = healthcare
saviour?
The role of big data from key IoT
applications, in itself, however may
have a more critical socio-economic
role. At the University of California
Berkeley’s CITRIS and the Banatao
Institute, Dr Brandie Nonnecke focuses
on the interface between these roles
and upcoming communication poli-
cies. She believes these datasets will
not only grow in importance but are
becoming “the strongest international
commodities” of all. She continues, “No
matter what, stakeholders are wanting
to gain access to that data. The data is
going to be very valuable.”
Major new applications will emerge,
she predicts, across many systems
and at the macro-scale in areas such
as urban management and resiliency.
Sample applications already researched
include big data management to im-
prove urban traffic congestion/pollution
emission targets, with real-time mod-
els built from comparisons around the
globe. Still, Nonnecke acknowledges
some likely bottlenecks remain in ap-
plications concerning both proprietary
technologies and interoperability of
Private Networks Now Dominating Core International Routes
Source: TeleGeography
UCaaS Seats I stalled with Tele
Source: Synergy; Broadsoft; courtesy RAD-INFO IN
The Market Segments, Pick One
BroadSoft
Cisco
Metaswitch
RingCentral
8 x 8
Genband
Mitel
ShoreTel
Microsoft
0 2 4 6 8 10 1
Q1 16
Q3 16
<100-25
<250 emp
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Private Share of Used Capacity
Trans-Atlantic
Trans-Pacific
US-LatAm
Intra-Asia
Bill Barney
May - June, 2017
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