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"in the long run you don't need that much HW to be an operator" - have you ever worked for a facilities based ISP or Telco and visited the interiors of dozens o
by walrus01 6y ago
"in the long run you don't need that much HW to be an operator" - have you ever worked for a facilities based ISP or Telco and visited the interiors of dozens of different POPs? Please do so and then come tell us all about how telecom infrastructure on a national and global scale isn't composed of massive amounts of hardware all over the place.
- ng55QPSK 6y agoI work in a team that created 5G. And around ~2014 it was clear: operators want to go away from own HW.
- walrus01 6y agoJust because you've outsourced some function to another contractor or telecom doesn't make the physical stuff go away. It just abstracts it away to someone else's responsibility.