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但telco要能存活一定要學webscale
但telco要能存活一定要學webscale
Tom Anschutz: They have, so I would say "yes" overall. A lot of what they've done, in terms of microservices, is focusing on a sort of computer service model, rather than a functional entity model, which is really core to the whole transition into microservices as VNFs. That's sort of the big thing. They've [web-scale companies] also improved operational efficiency and what I would call maybe "business efficiency" as well.
But in other cases, we don't have as much of an alignment with the large web services companies. Notably, their business typology, or their infrastructure typology, is significantly different. They remain on the bleeding edge of buying more servers, and putting them into a small number of very large locations. They keep taking the technology in one direction, one that we're not close to needing or being at.
The fact that they have these very large locations, they know exactly how many servers they're going to buy, and whatnot, and that leads to a very different business relationship with manufacturers than telcos would typically be able to enjoy. For example, when Facebook creates yet another server -- even when they freely open it and provide it at Open Compute Project -- it's not instantly clear how anyone could make use of it. Because it's a given that it has Facebook's operations, it has their model for acquiring servers in certain numbers. Sometimes it's difficult, then, to see how you make use of that, even when it's been offered up as something to be shared. So it falls on both sides.
There's a good benefit in reuse and learning from what's gone on in the web-scale organizations. But not everything maps up. It's not the same business. It's not doing telco just like web-scale companies do IT. So it does require a mapping, or a thinking through, on how to gain the benefits from what they have invented and developed.
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