2Q16 Vendor Financial Index: Five Vendors in Low-Risk Category
Solid revenue outlook, high operating margins and other factors put Adtran, Arista, Brocade, Cisco and Juniper into low-risk category ACG Research has released its 2Q 2016 Vendor Financial Index report, which delivers More...
Business Case Analysis: Ericsson Router 8801 Distributed Subscriber Management
OTT traffic places huge demands on the backbone network. Three major trends are contributing to this: 1. Content moving towards 4K media streaming and requiring seven-times the bandwidth for each individual stream; More...
The 5G Wave of the Future
Today, congestion plagues low-frequency below 6GHz spectrum bands, which, consequently, not only makes it very difficult to add more capacity but also limits the number of antennas used (no more than two or three More...
Two Major Vendors Shift Risk Categories: 1Q 2015 Vendor Financial Index Results
Ericsson Jumps into the Med-Risk Category and ALU Moves from Medium Risk to High Risk ACG Research has released its 1Q 2015 Vendor Financial Index report, which delivers independent information about the sustainability More...
Nokia-ALU: Long-Term Market Share Impact Will Definitely Shake Up the Market
Before we discuss Nokia-ALU and the impact this new company will have on the market, let me first clarify in case there is any doubt: this is an acquisition, not a merger. As for Alcatel Lucent, well, there are More...
Reshaping System Architectures: Open at Every Turn?
Disaggregated, modular, mix and match, open, these are the sound bites of the emerging white box and open software ecosystems. Will they define the architectural thinking used throughout our information-driven world More...
Ericsson: Adding Trust + Governance to Agility in the Cloud
Periodically, advances are made that propel the state of the art to a new level and allow us to accomplish things that were just not possible before. It’s a powerful experience and is the nature of real progress. In More...
4Q Vendor Financial Index Results: Ericsson Jumps into the Low-Risk Category
ACG Research has released its 4Q Vendor Financial Index report, which delivers independent information about the sustainability of a vendor or company to help providers assess the risk of selecting the right vendor More...
Ericsson Smart Services Router: Scaling the Control Plane
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 is increasing even more quickly as the Internet moves from More...
A TCO ANALYSIS OF ERICSSON’S VIRTUAL NETWORK SYSTEM CONCEPT APPLIED TO MOBILE BACKHAUL
Controlling total cost of ownership (TCO) of access, aggregation, and edge networks used for mobile backhaul and broadband services in the face of explosive traffic growth is one of the biggest challenges facing More...