Posts by YodaFone

AT&T: Three-quarters of our network is going virtual, and we're open-sourcing the tools

Blame the Googles

Vodafone has the same mad scheme on it's future road map - virtualize the core of the network and move to NFV and SDN. They believe this will save them all the costs associated with expensive network vendor equipment (e.g. Cisco, Nokia, etc) and on staff costs as the whole provisioning process becomes a simple series of clicks.

They say they have to be like Google in order to be able to scale like Google. The mentality that "Google is a success" we should be just like Google is frighteningly naive. Why should the network of a global advertising agency match that of a mobile phone operator and ISP?

Can't wait for "The network has hung please wait while we reboot it."

Vodafone puts hundreds of Brits on the 'at risk of layoffs' list

Re: "most competitive market place in the history of our industry"

Sadly this round of redundancies is purely driven by the accountnts not common sense. Flat 20% head count reduction across all teams to try get OPEX under control. No managers at risk though, so all the high cost timwasters will continue to mismanage the company into the ground.

When they bought C&W it appears that not only did they get a nationwide fibre network but they also inherited the famous traits of being both clueless and witless. They haven't taken into account projects in flight, major strategic investments or how busy each team is; just a simple 20% must go and the rest must pick up there work.

Permanent staff with years of experience go out of the door while contractors keep they're jobs. Vodafone are dumping the brains out of the business and keeping the clueless incompetents who don't understand what a network is let alone how to run one successfully.