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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

F5 Networks' solution delivers data center consolidation, DDos and S-Gi mobile network simplification. Business Case for S-Gi Mobile Network Simplif ...

Mobile broadband traffic growth is driving large cost increases but revenue is failing to keep pace. Service providers, consequently, are seeking solutions ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are becoming more serious and sophisticated. Attack motivations are increasingly financial or political. Roughly half ...

Innovations in cloud, big data, and mobility as well as users’ expectations for anywhere, anytime, and any device access are defining new data center ...

Residential fixed broadband usage has evolved from static search and information retrieval to multimedia content delivery on a wide variety of devices. The ...

ACG conducted an analysis of a typical scenario that a service provider faces when migrating to a VMO based Gi LAN network to expand network scale. The sce ...

ACG Research performed the economic analysis for performance, high availability, and manageability advantages of HPE’s Helion OpenStack Carrier- ...

With the promise of 5G on the horizon and the continued growth in the number of devices to be connected with IoT and user applications, network traffic ban ...

Communication service providers' modus operandi for competing in today's dynamic market environment is to accelerate time-to-market for servic ...

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

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 ...