The idea of an autonomous network (AN), requiring no human intervention, has been around for a long time, but advances in technology and standards are putt ...

Developments in the broader cloud computing and networking segments of the information and communications technology industry are introducing profound ...

As network links grow from 100GE to 400GE and larger it is becoming more important to use autonomous capacity optimization to optimize network link capacit ...

Service and application intelligence are critical component of next-generation metro networks. End-to-end orchestration and automation are necessary to ens ...

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are committed to the vision that the most valuable services in the future will be delivered with the simplicity ...

Cloud computing, edge computing, 5G, and metro networks are converging with the promise of offering new categories of consumer and enterprise services. Net ...

Peter Fetterolf's paper The Economic Benefits of Distributed Broadband Services compares the legacy centralized BNG architecture with the spi ...

The growing demand for bandwidth, which only accelerated over the past few months, and the emerging importance of delivering mission-critical services in a ...

Innovative technologies and bandwidth-intensive applications are driving tremendous growth in access networks, which is driving the need for capacity ...

The pandemic continues to rattle the world economy. It has disrupted demand and supply, creating havoc in the global ecosystem with pernicious effects for ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles on the TM Forum’s Autonomous Networks vision and Huawei’s product roadmap for achieving the Autonomou ...

The changing dynamics in the enterprise as a result of the COVID pandemic has elevated the network to the status of essential infrastructure. High availabi ...

The dominant model of application design today is the modular, micro services-based framework of cloud-native implementations. A parallel evolution of the ...

As service providers and utilities build out rural broadband networks, an important consideration is the network capacity required in middle-mile rings as ...

This article evaluates the approach that Huawei is taking in its Autonomous Driving Network Solution product plan vision to meet the challenges of implemen ...

Mark Mortensen's article evaluates the goals, philosophy, and implementation path of the Huawei Autonomous Driving Network product plan vision against ...

Over the last decade, enterprise networking has experienced a key paradigm shift with the transition from the deployment of physical network appliances tha ...

Private enterprise networks typically use MPLS, SD-WAN or Carrier Ethernet services. Managed network services are ubiquitous and easy to deploy; however, i ...

The market for managed network services is large and growing. The worldwide market for managed services in 2020 was $52 billion and is expected to gro ...

Mobile network operators are engaged in a far-reaching evolution of their infrastructures toward support of 5G. Enabling these deployments involves signifi ...

Network function virtualization  allows many virtual network functions  to run on a single x86 physical device. This allows managed service provi ...

Peter Fetterolf's whitepaper The Business Case for Adaptive IP presents key requirements of next-generation IP networks and explains how the& ...

The demand for managed network services has never been so great. ACG Research projects that the managed services segment will grow with a 54% CAGR wit ...

A new architecture is emerging, and it stands to disrupt the way networks have been built for the last 10 to 20 years. This new network architecture effect ...

Peter Fetterolf's whitepaper The Business Case for Adaptive IP presents key requirements of next-generation IP networks and explains how the ...

With  the increase of bandwidth requirements and demands related to smart homes, IoT, and advanced cloud applications, the need for symmetrical, scala ...

5G will be an engine of change in many types of end-customer applications, using numerous new wireless and mobile networking technologies. With 5G, th ...

SD-WAN services are becoming increasingly popular globally. The worldwide market for SD-WAN is $1.8 billion in 2020, growing to $2.9 billion in 2023. SD-WA ...

Network automation is not new, but the level of automation (full automation) is now possible in the telecom infrastructure and is a major enabler of Indust ...

As the network elements become virtualized, more standardized, and more intelligent and as the industry moves to a 5G era, the opportunity exists to reimag ...

Communications service providers are engaged in a strategic evolution of their infrastructures using virtualized and cloud-native designs. This effort ...

The inherent complexity in highly distributed virtualized systems drives the need for end-to-end automation and orchestration across all layers of the telc ...

Three forces are at work that will greatly increase the operational complexity of the 5G access network, requiring that operations be automated to an unpre ...

The emergence of public cloud computing has transformed enterprise IT and public cloud services continue to evolve and grow at a rapid pace. Public cloud o ...

Adoption of digital solutions on a wide scale is predicated on continued innovation in the fundamental network technologies and on the service provider&rsq ...

Network operators usually have built their infrastructures separately by service with purpose-built solutions, creating large, complex networks that can sl ...