Key CommSoft Learnings from #MWC19
This BLOG, written after Mobile World Congress, held in February 2019 in Barcelona, outlines some of the key learnings and trends in the Commsoft markets and provides snippets of my current view of future More...
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Juniper Networks Powers Transformation to the Cloud
Juniper Networks‘ CEO Rami Rahim and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, talk about the industry transformation underway with cloud More...
Performance, Success & Visibility: You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See
Wendy Bahr, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Organization, Cisco Systems, Lori Cornmesser, Vice President of Global Channel Sales More...
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ACG offers three levels of its acclaimed video services to fit your marketing objectives and budgetary needs: 1. HotSeat: The HotSeat More...
Juniper Networks Cloud CPE Solution: Helping Providers Transition to Software-Centric Network
Vice President of Service Provider Portfolio Marketing at Juniper Networks Paul Obsitnik and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, discuss the More...
100% Visibility: An ACG HotSeat with with Dennis Cox, Ixia
Dennis Cox, chief product officer of Ixia, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss the need for true 100% visibility. Today, many More...
Evolution of Mobile Network Visibility: ACG HotSeat with Sanjay Munshi, Brocade
Sanjay Munshi, Senior Director of Product Management at Brocade Communications, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss Brocade’s More...
SDN Industry Trends & Key Economic Findings
In this presentation Ray Mota, analyst, discusses key software-defined network industry trends and economic trends in the space. He More...
Total Cost of Ownership Study: Network Packet Brokers
This study compares the total cost of ownership of hardware-based first-generation network visibility solutions with Brocade’s next More...
Challenges and Opportunities of DAA for MSOs
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for bandwidth. Although there More...
Succeeding on an Open Field: The Impact of Open Source Technologies on the Communication Service Provider Ecosystem
The increasing use of open source technologies in communication service provider (CSP) networks is having a profound impact on the CSP ecosystem. In this report, we explore the More...
Spotlight on the Busine$$ of SD-WAN
Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead Cloud Virtual Systems Infrastructure, ACG Research, gives the opening address (sponsored by Layer123) at the SDN + NFV World Congress in the More...
Enabling Automated SDN Control and White-Box Networking the ADVA Way
It is no secret that major changes are happening in the way we design, build and manage communication networks. Insatiable bandwidth demand and the migration of workloads and More...
Challenges and Opportunities in 5G Transport
Many service providers and vendors have tied their future to the successful commercial deployment and evolution of 5G mobile networks and services. Unlike prior generations More...
Leveraging Open Applications for Optical Network Transformation
With the recent announcement and debut of Nokia’s WaveSuite application software, Nokia is transforming the way transport network services are consumed and monitored. Read More...
Ten takeaways from MWC Americas 2018: Not exactly a repeat of last year
Fresh off of the second annual Mobile World Congress Americas, held this year in LA (and... 
Mobility
Today, there are 6.5 billion mobile connections globally, surpassing the human population. By 2016 we will... 
ACG Research: With VoWiFi, It’s All about the Economics
When we look at the wireless residential and enterprise access industry today, we see that the...Lenovo: Data Center Switch Solutions for Enterprise Data Centers
ACG Research conducted an economic analysis of several leading More...
Vendors’ Value-Driven Solutions Define Success for Service Providers’ Business
Three mega trends in deployment of network infrastructure have been moving in the same direction for some time: virtualization of network infrastructures, network automation and cloudification More...
Lenovo: Data Center Switch Solutions for Enterprise Data Centers
ACG Research conducted an economic analysis of several leading vendors of DC switches for private datacenters. The analysis included the total cost of ownership for different DC switches More...
Orchestrating Dynamic Enterprise Services
Overcoming the Challenges of SD-WAN and vCPE Mass Deployment: An ACG White Paper In order to adapt to changing customer expectations and increasing competition from a new generation of cloud..The Business Values of Network Visibility Solutions
Today’s increasing network complexities require tools that offer detailed visibility into the network traffic. These tools enable the IT team to increase its awareness of the traffic characteristics and potential..The Business Value of an Integrated NFV Infrastructure
Communication service providers’ modus operandi for competing in today’s dynamic market environment is to accelerate time-to-market for services demanded by their subscribers while minimizing the cost to do it. Deployment of..The Business Value of Agility
Infrastucture and service agility require the right tools, and one important tool is operations support system, which allows CSPs to reduce time-to-market and lower the cost of new service creation..ACG Research 3Q17 Vendor Financial Index: Four Vendors in Low-Risk Category
Solid revenue outlook, high operating margins and other factors put Adtran, Arista, Cisco and Juniper into low-risk category ACG Research has..Stofa Goes Live with Arris R-PHY Solution: A Market Impact Report
Stofa, a major cable operator in Denmark, recently selected the Remote-PHY version of the Distributed Access Architecture to upgrade its network..
High-Performance Business Consulting
Growth Strategies and the High-Performance Business Consulting Accelerating technology and business innovations continue to wreak havoc on revenues and returns across..
Challenges and Opportunities of DAA for MSOs
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing..
