When it comes to network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN), it is no longer a question of “if,” but rather “how” and “when.” Yet, surprisingly, much of the conversation around NFV and SDN is focused on technology, and very little is ever said about operational proc ...

Nachman Shelef, vice president and general manager at HPE ConteXtream, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss why customers should look to HPE as they transition their infrastructures to meet rapidly changing service demands. ...

Kelly Ahuja, SVP, Service Provider Business, Products, and Solutions, Cisco, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss Cisco’s recent announcement of software solutions for CloudScale networking. Cisco worked with web-scale and service providers to identify their network priorities; across the boar ...

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Vice President of Service Provider Portfolio Marketing at Juniper Networks Paul Obsitnik and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, discuss the recent expansion of Juniper’s Network Functions Virtualization portfolio. Cloud CPE, which is a fully automated, end-to-end network functions virtualization solution, ...

Dennis Cox, chief product officer of Ixia, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss the need for true 100% visibility. Today, many vendors claim to provide 100% visibility, but many drop packets and create blind spots in your application performance. Understand what is needed for true visibility a ...

Sanjay Munshi, Senior Director of Product Management at Brocade Communications, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss Brocade’s significant new network visibility product announcement: carrier-grade, physical and virtual network packet brokers, virtual TAPs, an SDN based session director and a ...

Ray Mota of ACG Research and Sanjay Munshi of Brocade Communications discuss the role of analytics as a key enabler in the evolution of mobile network architectures and business models. Watch Sanjay make the case for analytics architectures to evolve alongside mobile architectures, citing a few lead ...

Mike Marcellin, senior vice president of strategy and marketing at Juniper Networks, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss Juniper’s significant new NFV announcements: a carrier-grade virtualized version of its MX Series Edge Router, the vMX, as well as new Contrail Cloud and Junos DevOps capab ...

Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks, discuss how the cloud is changing the way businesses consume and share information: for internal use or for sharing information with customers and business partners.The trouble with the cloud is its not ubiquitous; it is made up of di ...

Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Rami Rahim, EVP/GM of the Juniper Development and Innovation team at Juniper Networks, discuss the definition of a high IQ network architecture and the significance to service providers and their customers. They recap Juniper's recent announcement of new solutions that wi ...

In addition to economic uncertainty, vendors in the router and switching market are dealing with more intensive competition, diminishing service provider’s profit margins, and their largest customers cutting spending and delaying purchases of new equipment. Against a backdrop of global economic ins ...