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 ...

OTT traffic places huge demands on the backbone network. Three major trends are contributing to this: 1. Content moving towards 4K media streaming and requ ...

Coriant announced new Coherent Multiservice Sleds for the Coriant Groove™ G30 Network Disaggregation Platform. The high-density, 1RU Groove G30 ...

Coriant has issued multiple announcements leading up to the 2018 Mobile World Congress: enhancements to its Hyperscale Carrier Architecture (HCA) ...

The increasing use of open source technologies in communication service provider (CSP) networks is having a profound impact on the CSP ecosystem. In this r ...

Stofa, a major cable operator in Denmark, recently selected the Remote-PHY version of the Distributed Access Architecture to upgrade its network t ...

Service providers and large enterprises face stiff challenges: the network infrastructure and their operations are growing at tremendous pace and becoming ...

Network and service provisioning are undergoing the greatest changes in the history of telecommunications, faster, more flexible, and more automated to ...

Market forces and the insatiable demand for bandwidth, both upstream and downstream, are driving cable operators to modernize their network infrastructure ...

ACG Research conducted an economic analysis of several leading vendors of DC switches for private datacenters. The analysis included the total cost of owne ...