Tom Nolle
Tom Nolle is president of CIMI Corporation, a strategic consulting firm located in Voorhees, New Jersey. He has been consulted on projects in banking, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, and publishing; helped develop network standards; and consults on everything from LANs to satellite communications. Tom is know for a breezy style of speaking and writing, a dedication to the truth, and his "Southern Man" hat!
5G: Time to get real about what it will be used for
Hype around 5G suggests it will prompt revolutionary changes in what wireless is used for, but it’s success will be providing better answers to existing problems.
SD-WAN may be the key to smart network services
Managed SD-WAN devices at the edge could be how network operators personalize services for enterprises.
Economic crisis threatens networking growth
The beginning of a new year normally is a time to reflect; it's all the more so when the network industry is facing (along with the rest of the economy) a major financial crisis.
Can networking get real?
If you looked recently at the companies started by venture capitalists and touted as the "next Cisco" or "next Google," you know the meaning of the term "bad ending."
A 'C change' in CDN?
In the world of content distribution networks, A is for Akamai. What about the rest? Is B for BitGravity, or maybe BitTorrent because of the potential impact of peer-to-peer technology on CDNs? Is C for content? I don’t think so. I...
PBT vs. MPLS: What if nobody wins?
Who wins the PBT/MPLS wars? Quite likely neither, because the fight may change how networks move data.
Facing the Sundance reality
Cablevisions' acquisition of Sundance and Newsday may light the direction the industry has to take. The industry is being transformed by content but we’re not even thinking much about how that content gets produced or how it’s paid...
Thinking beyond IMS
For a half decade, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has been either the savior of mobile service stability and progress or the last bastion of walled-gardenism, so to speak. The emotionalism of the discussion has obscured a really...
Picocell technology could help make fixed-mobile convergence a reality
An interesting thing happened in 1999. The unit price of a long-distance voice call to consumers, which had been falling since the early 1980s, finally crossed over the cost curve and long-distance voice became a loss leader. This...
Access wars
Last year, the Associated Press reported that a test of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic on Comcast’s network showed that the cable giant was somehow interfering with P2P flow. This year, there’s a story that AT&T and Verizon have at...
Cisco’s succession plan, or lack thereof
John Chambers announced recently that he’d stay on at Cisco for another three to five years, and Charlie Giancarlo departed. Cisco now seems back where it started with respect to a Chambers successor. Clearly every company that...
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