1st quarter 2022 showed the impact of supply chain constraints on deliveries and recognizable revenue, though demand (indicated by vendor backlogs) rema ...

Many vendors and CSPs have bought into the Autonomous Networks vision, as articulated by the TM Forum. Now, some of these have committed themselves to achi ...

3 Keys for MSPs to Unlock the Economic Value of an Integrated Wired, Wireless, and WAN Offering Join Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, and Liliane Offredo- ...

LAN infrastructure is mature and a thing of the past, right? Maybe that’s worth rethinking given the change in technology, wireless endpoints, user b ...

Work-from-home (WFH) for many employees became the operating standard during Covid-19, but now as the pandemic recedes and workers are gradually returning ...

Netcracker, an NEC company, has long supplied comprehensive suites of BSS and OSS software to CSPs worldwide. Now, Netcracker has launched the Netcracker D ...

There are three main approaches for implementing autonomous network operations driven individually by the automation tool vendors, the network element vend ...

Open Network Users Group (ONUG) and ACG Research will host a special briefing by ACG’s Dr. Peter Fetterolf at ONUG’s Spring 2022 conferenc ...

In Formula 1 racing, the pit crew works lightning fast to get the racer back on track. IT teams face the same pressure to respond immediately to user and b ...

I attended the Qualcomm 5G Summit in San Diego on 9-11 May 2022. These are the key points that I took away and some insights gained. Trends on which Qua ...

Because of the increased volume, complexity, interfaces and connectivity that require service providers and enterprises to architect, operate and manage ne ...

Although carriers are investing heavily in their networks, especially in edge network equipment and services, they have been neglecting core routers. Over ...

Although a government shutdown was averted, had it happened, cyber security and providing impregnable networks for the CIA, FBI and other U.S. government a ...

The Internet is, no doubt, a marvel, definitely an unmatched entity with its constant technological advancements. Its popularity has been driven by our zea ...

The concept behind a business model is self explanatory. Consisting of two words “business” and “model,” the term technically means ...

In addition to economic uncertainty, vendors in the router and switching market are dealing with more intensive competition, diminishing service provider&r ...

  Today’s cloud-based services, while clearly ground-breaking, still have important gaps to fill, such as in the reliability and integrity of ...

The Linux Foundation just announced the formation of a new open source development project intended to harness contributions from a wide range of cloud and ...

  Many public cloud offerings require that existing applications be extensively re-architected to run on their infrastructure. If providers offer h ...

  Many steps are available for cloud providers to take to enhance their platforms' efficiency and scale. I mention three techniques here that h ...

The financial and analyst community tend to roll up equipment vendors’ revenues for product lines into a single high-order number to gauge market siz ...