Or so my ESP of Everything (ESPoE) tells me
This article appeared word for word in the Daily Local News on Monday, seemingly stealing it from some techie website and passing it off as news we can use. There couldn’t possibly have been one person reading the Local who read it past the first sentence: "To help service providers reduce operating expenses and drive new revenue streams embracing the Internet of Everything (IoE), Cisco ( NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced it has added the Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) to its Evolved Services Platform (ESP), marking another key milestone in the company's network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined-networking (SDN) strategy." OK, now, without going back to look, tell me what these initials stand for: IoE WAE ESP – (Wrong!) NFV SDN And going forward, there is only one of those that you’ll ever notice again. And I predict you’ll hear/see it over and over and over: The oh-so-cute-by-half IoE. Someone somewhere is oh-