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Key Trends 2023 Broadband deployments have accelerated, driven by massive government and private funding. While cable continues to slug along the l ...
The Internet is, no doubt, a marvel, definitely an unmatched entity with its constant technological advancements. Its popularity has been driven by our zea ...
Practitioners in a variety of industries have been adopting real-time digital twins in their operations at an increasing rate over the past several years. ...
This article evaluates the goals, philosophy, and implementation path of the Huawei Autonomous Driving Network product plan vision against industry criteri ...
ACG has introduced a visionary, innovative and widely applicable model for continuously achieving superior results in digital enablement. The model is ...
To excel in a cloud-native world our data center fabrics should be, well, cloud-native too, top to bottom, end to end As an industry we’ve had a g ...
The first step in starting up a new IT project is figuring out what needs to be done. In addition to a plan, and to get the most from your IT investments, ...
Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for build ...
Service providers’ roadmap for digital transformation must focus on improving the customer experience Service providers are facing competition fro ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for b ...
Many vendors and CSPs have bought into the Autonomous Networks vision, as articulated by the TM Forum. Now, some of these have committed themselves to achi ...
Until recently, network technology vendors to communication service providers had a well-established competitive market position with brand loyalty, l ...
According to recent data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in July 2023, mobile data usage continues to climb, ...
Open optical networking, the optical network design methodology that disaggregates transponders from the underlying optical line systems1, appears to be ga ...
Software continues to eat the telecom sector, having major effects on all aspects of the business, network technology, and operations. Key Trends in 202 ...
To succeed in a vertical approach, SPs must consider several important factors Internet of things presents a significant opportunity for service provi ...
Introduction to Network Slicing: Not Completely New, But Different Ultra-low-latency networks have received significant press in the last few years. The ...
My recent report Digital ecosystems: setting new standards for integration describes the standards work being carried out by TM Forum and MEF for orde ...
I have always believed that lower-latency mobile gaming services could enhance the revenue of CSPs, especially mobile operators. But I have been skeptical ...
I attended the Ultra-Broadband Forum (#UBBF22) in Bangkok, Thailand in October 2022 and the associated TM Forum summit on #autonomousnetworks. U ...
Managing today’s dynamic, evolving networks and services demands a comprehensive, integrated and flexible service assurance system that provides: ...
Let’s face it. 5G xHaul transport can be complex. In addition to the traditional backhaul, there is fronthaul and new midhaul that also have complex ...
This blog introduces the idea of an autonomous network control center, a next-generation NOC and much more. This will be a lens through which I intend to r ...
Overall The TM Forum’s #DTW23 conference, held 18−21, September 2023, in Copenhagen was attended by 3,700 people. As always, it focused on t ...
Dear colleagues and friends, I’ve arrived at a point in my journey where I’ve decided to shift the balance of things in which I invest my en ...
Private 5G allows the deployment of private wireless networks at facilities where coverage, speed, and security capabilities are needed beyond those offere ...
The carrier routing and switching market saw a year-over-year recovery, growing 17%. Driving this growth is backhauling and core routing upgrades. Use ...
LAN infrastructure is mature and a thing of the past, right? Maybe that’s worth rethinking given the change in technology, wireless endpoints, user b ...
Governments worldwide are investing massively in bridging the so-called digital divide. The US government alone is allocating over $73 billion to extend br ...
Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Ian Hood, Red Hat, discuss how a distributed application cloud model is needed for higher-quality products and innovative digit ...
Join ACG @ Global NaaS Event on 28–30 October 2024 Dallas, Texas, USA Building the NaaS Experience GNE brings together the indus ...
A business case for technology is different than any other case. It requires significantly more research and planning and should be based on a detailed stu ...
In my January 4th blog Warnings about 5G in C-Band, Hype or Reality? I examined the public record concerning how the cellular carriers were about to ...
As is so often the case, several of the recent articles about 5G, such as the NPR article https://www.npr.org/2021/12/21/1066240779/boeing-airbus-5g-w ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) is defined by the cable industry as an architecture to meet the industry’s 10G goal, to deliver the capacit ...
The concept behind a business model is self explanatory. Consisting of two words “business” and “model,” the term technically means ...
Defining Basic Disaggregation in Networking Disaggregated Networking is not a new concept, but Complete Disaggregated Networking is. Before un ...
The acquisition of Unitas Global by PacketFabric, both of which are owned by Digital Alpha, brings a wealth of synergies to the table. Recently, ...
Although a government shutdown was averted, had it happened, cyber security and providing impregnable networks for the CIA, FBI and other U.S. government a ...
Work-from-home (WFH) for many employees became the operating standard during Covid-19, but now as the pandemic recedes and workers are gradually returning ...
2020 was a year of reacting for Communications Software, OSS/BSS, and operations, not planning, not dreaming, just reacting to the constantly changing envi ...
Join ACG at Global Naas 2024! The event, sponsored by MEF, will be held in October 28-30 in Dallas. Why should you be there? GNE bri ...
I attended the TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 20−22 September 2022. Approximately 3,000 people attended, in ...
As I explained in my Part 1 blog in January, Are Service Providers Truly Ramping up Deployment of Open Optical Networking?, during Q2 2021, ACG Research co ...
The networking landscape has experienced remarkable growth and transformation in recent years, driven by factors such as the proliferation of cloud use cas ...
The telecom sector underwent significant transformation in 2023, driven by several key trends including the continued rollout of 5G, the increasing demand ...
BUSINESS The search continues for Blue Money The industry growth of 1% is unimpressive, given the investments operators need to make. Operators ...
The TM Forum #DTW24 Ignite conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 18−20. Three things stood out at the conference: Autonomous ne ...
Digital transformations are always motivated by improving an organization’s performance at one or another level. In some cases the focus is imp ...
A leader in PON and other broadband technologies, Nokia is positioning itself as a key player, capitalizing on the massive broadband for everyone init ...
