Telecom
Good morning/afternoon/evening; do we have many in Telecom? It would be good to hear opinions about uf you the traditional service providers will evolve to compete with the Googles, Amazons, Facebooks, etc of the new tech reality. Thanks all. Opine away! -Technical Marketing, Viavi Solutions
Verizon Engineer here. With a lot of the purchases made by Verizon and ATT you can see it tending that way. Verizon seems to be going that route buying Yahoo and AOL but in my opinion they'll be decent at a lot of things, not master of all.
I'm at Comcast and I have wondered this myself. A couple things to consider first the amount of money to set up infrastructure like google fiber is billions and they have abandoned the idea. The other thing is millennials will opt for cheap online services but after people start to get married and have kids the amount of time is not worth the small savings.
Verizon owns so communications they have not abandoned anything
Google implements these builds as proof of concept more than for profit
The disruptor could be 5G, but we said that about LTE... also 5G has a great deal of challenges like mounting locations for radios... I like the strategy of the service providers getting into (or keeping) the content... i think without this, those providers without content will get acquired... it's entertaining times certainly. whoever thought Wal-Mart's dominance would ever be challenged in retail... hat's off Amazon...
5G will change the game, because OTA HD steaming of network and traditional cable channels will,be possible. Wireless FIOS for all!!
Totally agree... so long as service providers and local governments can hash out mounting locations for the slew of small cells that 5G require
How is working/pay at viavi solutions
pay is great... work is great. really good CEO, but like many vendors in the telecom ecosystem, we go as the industry goes. pretty good this year. been a bit since a bonus but that's made up by RSUs and the stock's been doing pretty good. relaxed work atmosphere. Work where you can get an IP connection, so that's nice... for people not familiar, we were formerly known as JDSU
when did that happen?? rename or bought out? I use JDSU testers daily. was unaware of the change...
Comcast just launched xfinity mobile. I guess they plan on evolving by trying to break into well established business models? I don't know. With that said, I really wish Google hadn't abandoned fiber. It was really starting to give Comcast the competitive shove they needed to get docsis 3.1 deployed.
Yes... and we make fiber testers and testers for DOCSIS 3.1 so any change like that affects us. we also do it in analytics and assurance systems so that helps the impact...
We are sort of Telecom, not on the hardware side but do custom Voice XML, IVRs, phone routing, etc.
Webpass here, there are some practical issues to overcome with 5G for MDU's and dense urban areas. I see penetration and service in these markets largely unchanged (aside from bandwidth) even with the roll out of "self install" 5G AP's, simply because coverage is poor-non existent in a majority of structures. However if done properly it will have a huge impact on sprawl areas, from a throughput and lawsuit perspective. I don't see communities remaining silent while large sector antennas are installed on every other pole in their neighborhoods, even if the FCC allows for it. More so there are issues for areas that have been "undergrounded".
I'm at Google Fiber but have worked for many of 'the big guys' and I have never seen something so poorly run as this. Children with no experience and gigantic egos constantly trying to reinvent the wheel. They will break their necks focusing on tiny issues while everything else around them is crashing and burning.
Always amuses me when I hear of yet another startup trying to disrupt core Telco connectivity. And if Google can't do it with all their might, no one can.
Google could have if they had planned better and not let kindergarteners with no experience lead it.
Talkdesk here. Call center software.