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| source: Bell Labs |
If you work in the telecom industry long enough, you are likely to discover yourself changing focus from time to time. Having started out in cable TV, consumers were really 100 percent of my focus. When I switched to the competitive side of telecom, enterprises, wholesale and small and mid-size businesses became the focus.
When the internet hit, it was clear that consumer apps were going to drive growth and change, so I switched back to following consumer apps, business models and revenue streams almost exclusively.
I’m pretty sure that another shift back to enterprise is coming, since 5G is likely to be about enterprise, in terms of business success, incremental revenue and growth. Internet of things is the driver, since IoT will be “purchased” by enterprises and businesses, either to serve business users or consumers.
Some other inklings are that even enterprise wireless traffic looks to be on the cusp of significant change, according to Bell Labs.
Looking only at video, which is driving bandwidth requirements globally, there might be a shift there as well. Where today video is driven by consumer content and video, in the future it is possible that video will be driven by IoT devices.
Those are huge shifts. This time around, though, the emphasis likely will be on vertical industry shifts to IoT, not the particularities of access platforms.
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| source: Bell Labs |
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