Today’s increasing network complexities require tools that offer detailed visibility into the network traffic. These tools enable the IT te ...

Communication service providers love minimizing their cost base while maximizing their revenue streams. Yes, I may have captioned the obvious here, but it ...

Analysis of alternative platform designs in a Tier 1 installation highlights simpler, more agile design with an estimated five-year TCO of 53% and 3x faste ...

The service providers’ industry is undergoing a profound disruption, which is driving increased competitive dynamics and causing tepid revenue growth ...

The path to continuous innovation is clear. NOW is the time to embrace more agile and openly architected service delivery platforms Under the umbrella o ...

ACG Research's Paul Parker Johnson recently completed a total cost of ownership study of a prominent Tier 1 operator who carried out a broad transition ...

Innovations in 5G, virtualization and cloud technologies will make new applications and services possible in both personal and industrial IoT in the next s ...

Service providers have unique challenges  as they work to transform their networks and why choosing the right partner is critical to success. Read ...

Although mature, cost-effective and widely deployed, 10 Gb/s pluggable optical technology no longer addresses the increasing bandwidth and distributed work ...

Deployment of C-RAN architectures has enabled increased deployment of optical mobile fronthaul solutions to deliver low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivit ...

CREATING AGILE NETWORKS: BUSINESS NETWORKING AND THE ADVANCE OF THE CLOUDS The industry’s adoption of cloud-native designs is on. Cloud-native design ...

Today, we live in a cloud-centric world with cloud-native applications and services reaching hundreds of millions of users globally via massive data center ...

Cloud-native applications and services are highly dynamic and distributed across hyperscale, software-driven, virtualized application and network infrastru ...

128 Technology is delivering an SD-WAN solution that is clearly differentiated from the competition. Where traditional SD-WAN has delivered incremental ben ...

Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, talks with Priya Natarajan, Sr. Director, Head of WW GTM, Lenovo Networking, about addressing customers’ key concerns ab ...

The ONUG Community is in the vanguard of migrating of enterprise IT applications to hybrid multi-cloud environments. Although the business benefits are rea ...

In this service provider case study, we explore how Nsight, headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin and delivering residential, enterprise and mobile communi ...

Although network slicing will have a direct impact on mobile dedicated resources and their allocation, it will be the mobile transport network that will co ...

With the recent announcement and debut of Nokia’s WaveSuite application software, Nokia is transforming the way transport network services are consum ...

Telecommunications service providers have both a special role and a compelling set of opportunities at the network edge. This paper explores the reasons wh ...

Communication service providers (CSPs) are active participants in delivering cloud-based applications and flexible, scalable networking services based on ...

It is no secret that major changes are happening in the way we design, build and manage communication networks. Insatiable bandwidth demand and the migra ...

Users’ ever-increasing expectations and the technology breakthroughs that continue to feed them have created an unprecedented level of pressure and c ...

Many service providers and vendors have tied their future to the successful commercial deployment and evolution of 5G mobile networks and services. Unlik ...

It is no surprise that increasing bandwidth demands, changing traffic patterns driven by the migration of applications and workloads to the cloud, and co ...

New study by ACG Research provides first-hand perspectives from service provider experts globally on challenges and opportunities in the provisioning and ...

The Radio Access Network (RAN) constitutes the second most expensive part of the mobile network after spectrum. The global RAN market has been dominated by ...

With the emerging need to connect users to clouds, traditional WAN connectivity using leased lines and MPLS is falling short. Today, the services are every ...

Growth will primarily be driven by 4K/8K video, gaming services, and 5G mobile networks. In order to maintain or improve profit margins, service providers ...

ACG's paper presents the results of a TCO analysis comparing the economics of a converged IP/MPLS transport network with more traditional ded ...

Accelerating time to deployment, enabling differentiation, achieving policy continuity for services and applications from the endpoint to the cloud, and st ...

Overcoming the Challenges of SD-WAN and vCPE Mass Deployment: An ACG White Paper In order to adapt to changing customer expectations and increasing ...

This BLOG, written after Mobile World Congress, held in February 2019 in Barcelona, outlines some of the key learnings and trends in the Commsoft ...

Providers are responding to consumers’ demands by updating their networks, migrating to new technology and changing business models Video distribu ...

As Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization  have matured, cable companies are making plans to leverage those technologies ...

Markets have been busy recently with announcements of solutions to help service providers benefit from powerful innovations in SDN, NFV and cloud computing ...