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Re: Where at IETF is done: cloud computing, small cells, base station?

2013-11-15 15:12:43
On 11/15/2013 12:42 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
let me select cloud computing.

It is a marketing term that does not immediately relate to any specific
technology as such.


That's true for the term now, but it came out of a meaningful technical enhancement.

Specifically, it originally referred to very rapidly increased and potentially very large-scaled remote computing.

The capability of calling on vastly larger amounts of remote computer extremely quickly was a significant innovation, over historical models of remote computing.

But yeah, today it just means "somebody else runs the machine."

d/

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