
Bill Beesley
Chief Architect, MSO Strategy and Development
Bill Beesley’s tenure with Cox Communications, and more recently with Fujitsu, have given him deep insider knowledge of the real-world challenges MSOs face as they tackle unprecedented operational and technical transformation. He combines hands-on experience with strategic whole-industry vision of the art, architecture and science of communications networking. Driven by operational and practical wisdom as much as by technological expertise, Bill extends the discussion beyond the alphabet soup of the day and into the operational demands of constant use. Whether it’s EPON, GPON, Ethernet, DAA, or DOCSIS, he provides key insights into simplified, efficient network operations and durable performance. When he isn’t developing practical network solutions for MSOs, you might find Bill brewing beer and mead; mountain-biking; playing bass in a rock band; or even Bitcoin mining. In the words of musician Maynard James Keenan, you might call all this a Perfect Union of Contrary Things.
Bill Beesley
Deploying AI at the O-RAN edge for real time behavior recognition
Fujitsu’s O-RAN virtual Central Unit/Distributed Unit (vCU/DU), featured in a recent blog, brings the power and potential of AI to the O-RAN edge using NVIDIA’s converged accelerator platform, paving the way for all manner of potential enterprise applications. One example is Actlyzer, an AI-based video analytics application for real time human behavior recognition, which Fujitsu is in
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Is it Time for MSOs to Modernize their Legacy Networks?
Salvador Dali said “Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.” Given that one constant in the world of communications networking is change, Dali’s observation about modern art also holds true for network modernization. Network operators face constant demand to deliver new revenue-generating services and
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Why do MSOs Need Open Standards for AI/ML?
It is generally believed that after doing something once, it’s easier to do it again. But the converse applies in the world of network operations, where doing something once actually makes it harder to do it the next time—or more importantly, the next thousand times. Once a technology is introduced into the network, the operations
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Times, they are a-Changin’ (and the Pace is a-Heatin’ Up)
Three decades is a long time to be in the same industry, even one as historically slow-moving as telecommunications. It’s certainly long enough to become familiar with the typical rate of change. Looking back over my thirty-year telecom tenure, it’s clear that bigger changes are happening at an accelerating pace. A quick look at how