MEF16 – Fujitsu’s Jeff Babbitt on Open Architecture
Openness and Disaggregated are big themes at #MEF 16, says Fujitsu’s Jeff Babbitt.
But when you ask what openness really means, different vendors and different service providers will offer different interpretations. To a large extend, it is a question of degree for both open software and open hardware.
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You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.