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 ...

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 ...

Connection-Oriented Ethernet holds great promise for creating a single aggregation and transport metro infrastructure. It provides the flexibility and scal ...

MPLS-TP is a standard under development by the IETF for packet optical transport networks. The key objective of the IETF effort is to provide a universal s ...

Many service providers want to integrate packet and optical using IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) technology. ACG has investigated how a specific vendor, Cisco ...

  ACG Research’s Evolving IP and Optical Architectures discusses the implications of IP traffic growth and new services on current archi ...

Networks are becoming more difficult to plan and optimize because of high traffic growth, volatile traffic patterns, changes in network architecture and mo ...

Current approaches to network resiliency are inadequate to meet evolving network performance and cost requirements. Existing schemes such as 1+1 protection ...

ACG Research compared the nLight approach to protection and restoration to the widely used 1+1 optical protection scheme. A sample 12 node core network was ...

ACG Research's business case examined the five-year total cost of ownership of Cyan’s packet-optical hollow core network solution versus com ...

Cyan’s packet optical hollow core, IP over Connection-Oriented Ethernet solution, reduces costly IP core routing by handling transit traffic usi ...

Infinera revolutionized optical integration with the introduction of its industry leading 100G Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) in 2005. In 2011 the co ...

This ACG Research report investigates the trends and directions that service providers are taking in the deployment of their data centers and specifically ...

Infrastucture and service agility require the right tools, and one important tool is operations support system, which allows CSPs to reduce time-to-market ...

Infinera, a company long known for its industry leading photonic integration, has announced the release of its Xceed Software Suite. The suite consist ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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) ...