A working bit of science history dodged a bullet last month.
For those in the business of mobile networks, “Open RAN” is the “next big thing”. But there are serious obstacles.
It is one of the most bleak and forbidding places imaginable, surfaces of rock relieved only by the cracks and thrusts of ancient tectonic forces.
‘Cost-reduction’ is the kind of thing that makes many an engineer’s eyes glaze over. It’s not sexy. It won’t shine on your resume. And it’s a lousy path to promotion. But if your aim is to deliver a working product to a paying customer and make money at it, the need will arise. Like anything […]
Technologies come and go, but some linger. And there’s a reason they linger. They keep making money. Take the conventional phone network. It lingers because cellphones don’t answer all needs (which is why firms have receptionists and PBXs), and because some people don’t want to give up their conventional phones and don’t care enough about fast […]
The buzz around “project management” these days is about the various flavors of “agile” development being applied to, or advocated for, IT projects and other software engineering. “Conventional” project management is passed off as old hat. But IT projects are a little different from conventional product development, because IT projects are almost never “productized”. IT is […]
Paradoxically, most reverse-engineering (RE) projects are undertaken by firms who own what they’re trying to reverse-engineer, often because it was acquired without the original designers, sometimes because the firm has lost the institutional memory to support it. But some RE projects are specifically intended to, say, understand how to interoperate with a competitor’s equipment, in […]
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