Just in Case You Missed It: ACG Research Fireside Chat!
Listen to Gurudatt Shenoy, Cisco, and Ray Mota, PhD, CEO, principal analyst, ACG Research, discuss market trends and challenges in transport and datacenter networking.
Until recently, network technology vendors to communication service providers had a well-established competitive market position with brand loyalty, l ...
ACG has introduced a visionary, innovative and widely applicable model for continuously achieving superior results in digital enablement. The model is ...
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, ...
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. ...
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, ...
The concept behind a business model is self explanatory. Consisting of two words “business” and “model,” the term technically means ...
The continuing pandemic has forced millions of organizations and individuals around the world to adopt technological methods of living, working, and learni ...
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 ...
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 ...
To succeed in a vertical approach, SPs must consider several important factors Internet of things presents a significant opportunity for service provi ...
As a result of the global growth of connectivity, primarily driven by mobile internet usage, the demand for services related to communication will continue ...
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 ...
Key Trends 2023 Broadband deployments have accelerated, driven by massive government and private funding. While cable continues to slug along the l ...
I attended the Ultra-Broadband Forum (#UBBF22) in Bangkok, Thailand in October 2022 and the associated TM Forum summit on #autonomousnetworks. U ...
Introduction to Network Slicing: Not Completely New, But Different Ultra-low-latency networks have received significant press in the last few years. The ...
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 ...
The telecom sector underwent significant transformation in 2023, driven by several key trends including the continued rollout of 5G, the increasing demand ...
This article evaluates the goals, philosophy, and implementation path of the Huawei Autonomous Driving Network product plan vision against industry criteri ...
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 ...
Operations support systems and business support systems are being rewritten or refactored to cloud-native, microservices-based apps capable of running on h ...
Cloud configurations are evolving with new instances materializing at network and premises edge locations at a rapid pace. For example, comm ...
Although carriers are investing heavily in their networks, especially in edge network equipment and services, they have been neglecting core routers. Over ...
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 ...
Digital transformations are always motivated by improving an organization’s performance at one or another level. In some cases the focus is imp ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for b ...
According to recent data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in July 2023, mobile data usage continues to climb, ...
Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for build ...
Open optical networking, the optical network design methodology that disaggregates transponders from the underlying optical line systems[1], appears to be ...
The carrier routing and switching market saw a year-over-year recovery, growing 17%. Driving this growth is backhauling and core routing upgrades. Use ...
A leader in PON and other broadband technologies, Nokia is positioning itself as a key player, capitalizing on the massive broadband for everyone init ...
The networking landscape has experienced remarkable growth and transformation in recent years, driven by factors such as the proliferation of cloud use cas ...
2020 was a year of reacting for Communications Software, OSS/BSS, and operations, not planning, not dreaming, just reacting to the constantly changing envi ...
3 Keys for MSPs to Unlock the Economic Value of an Integrated Wired, Wireless, and WAN Offering Join Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, and Liliane Offredo- ...
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 ...
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 ...
My recent report Digital ecosystems: setting new standards for integration describes the standards work being carried out by TM Forum and MEF for orde ...
Digital transformation is a big topic. It’s so big, in fact, that it’s hard to grasp what it means and what it’s all about. So the best w ...
Private 5G allows the deployment of private wireless networks at facilities where coverage, speed, and security capabilities are needed beyond those offere ...
BUSINESS The search continues for Blue Money The industry growth of 1% is unimpressive, given the investments operators need to make. Operators ...
Governments worldwide are investing massively in bridging the so-called digital divide. The US government alone is allocating over $73 billion to extend br ...
I have been reading a lot about how genAI and Large Language Models with machine learning (LLM/ML) will replace humans, or at least much of the work, in ma ...
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 ...
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 ...
Service providers’ roadmap for digital transformation must focus on improving the customer experience Service providers are facing competition fro ...
The Internet is, no doubt, a marvel, definitely an unmatched entity with its constant technological advancements. Its popularity has been driven by our zea ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
