Routing & Switching
In this syndication we analyze use cases, deployment environments, technology developments, product offerings and uptake by service providers of products in multiple categories of the global market for IP/MPLS/Ethernet-based routing and switching products.
Cisco Routed Optical Networking, an integral part of the Cisco Converged SDN Transport architecture, represents a transformative approach in modern ne ...
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 ...
The proliferation of Internet of Things end-points and the connectivity required for various verticals and solutions is exacerbating the profitabilit ...
An analytics offloading use case conducted by ACG Research compares the total cost of ownership of Brocade’s architecture with tw ...
The Juniper Networks’ open data center infrastructure architecture was compared to a proprietary programmable architecture that requires si ...
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 ...
Bandwidth-intensive media content is dramatically increasing pressure on service providers’ and enterprises’ networks. Although demand is climb ...
New services including video streaming, cloud services and mobile broadband are driving IP/MPLS core network traffic demand at annual rates of 35% to 85%.& ...
Data center traffic scale and volatility are growing in response to these data center changes. Traffic flow patterns are changing as well. In addition to t ...
ACG analyzed the total cost of ownership of meeting requirements for scale and flexibility in the mobile multimedia core for the Cisco ASR 5500 and a leadi ...
Alcatel-Lucent announced a new family of core routers, the 7950 XRS. They provide an integrated P-Router and Label Switched Router (LSR) solution ...
The Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS core router provides an integrated P-Router and Label Switched Router solution with high port and slot density per chassis to d ...
High traffic growth, service diversity, cloud services, escalation of service threats and low core utilization are creating challenges for service provider ...
Today’s networks are all about optimizing performance and realizing maximum revenue. Service providers need products and services that decrease compl ...
High traffic growth, service diversity, cloud services, escalation of service threats and low core utilization are creating challenges for servic ...
Brocade has developed three SDN use cases built around an SDN controller and Brocade’s MLXe series routers that are compliant with the recommend ...
Mobile traffic growth is exploding in response to the worldwide uptake in smartphone sales. At the same time new types of smartphone applications ...
Cisco Network Convergence System is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their share ...
Cisco Network Convergence System is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their ...
Service providers have unique challenges as they work to transform their networks and why choosing the right partner is critical to success. Read ...
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 ...
Providers are responding to consumers’ demands by updating their networks, migrating to new technology and changing business models Video distribu ...
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 ...
Service providers and large enterprises face stiff challenges: the network infrastructure and their operations are growing at tremendous pace and becoming ...
ACG Research conducted an economic analysis of several leading vendors of DC switches for private datacenters. The analysis included the total cost of owne ...