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 ...

If you have a background in carrier services, like me, you are undoubtedly tired of hearing about how much more agile, responsive, and cost efficient cloud ...

The proliferation of Internet of Things  end-points and the connectivity required for various verticals and solutions is exacerbating the profitabilit ...

At the 2016 OFC Conference, Inphi announced its ColorZ technology, which delivers 100Gb/s, 100GHz, fixed dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) in a ...

With the introduction of Infinera Instant Network, Infinera is taking another step forward in its journey toward cognitive networking. Leveraging the exper ...

  An analytics offloading use case conducted by ACG Research compares the total cost of ownership of Brocade’s architecture with tw ...

Consumption of video is driving exponential increases in mobile bandwidth demand. ACG Research projects most likely peak period bandwidth requirements to i ...

  The Juniper Networks’ open data center infrastructure architecture was compared to a proprietary programmable architecture that requires si ...

Traditional network architectures based upon purpose-built network appliances and the resulting complex manual and proprietary systems interfaces used to s ...

ACG Research has written a whitepaper, which was sponsored by VMWare and Affirmed Networks, that explores two emerging models of NFV deployment: 1) cu ...

This study compares the total cost of ownership of hardware-based first-generation network visibility solutions with Brocade’s next generation networ ...

Extending nV from the edge to access reduces total cost of ownership as compared to a leading competitor’s converged services solution. Integrated ...

That video makes up the majority (90%) of total consumer IP traffic and is quickly overtaking mobile data traffic is not new information, but the type of e ...

Data traffic is exploding on mobile networks, approximately doubling every year. Mobile operators must plan to profitably meet the ravenous appetites of th ...

In a previous ASR9000 whitepaper ACG Research described the business case for scaling the next-generation network with the Cisco ASR 9000 System. ...

  Service providers and large enterprises struggle to implement lab environments that emulate their operational networks. Reproducing the scale of ...

Network bandwidth usage is growing at annual rates of 60 percent or more because of the rapid adoption of video and cloud services. Control plane traffic ...