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ACG has introduced a visionary, innovative and widely applicable model for continuously achieving superior results in digital enablement. The model is ...
Dear colleagues and friends, I’ve arrived at a point in my journey where I’ve decided to shift the balance of things in which I invest my en ...
Overall The TM Forum’s #DTW23 conference, held 18−21, September 2023, in Copenhagen was attended by 3,700 people. As always, it focused on t ...
To succeed in a vertical approach, SPs must consider several important factors Internet of things presents a significant opportunity for service provi ...
Open optical networking, the optical network design methodology that disaggregates transponders from the underlying optical line systems1, appears to be ga ...
World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider with $17 billion in annual revenue, and ACG Business Analytics have establish ...
The TM Forum #DTW24 Ignite conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 18−20. Three things stood out at the conference: Autonomous ne ...
The acquisition of Unitas Global by PacketFabric, both of which are owned by Digital Alpha, brings a wealth of synergies to the table. Recently, ...
According to recent data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in July 2023, mobile data usage continues to climb, ...
The carrier routing and switching market saw a year-over-year recovery, growing 17%. Driving this growth is backhauling and core routing upgrades. Use ...
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- ...
Defining Basic Disaggregation in Networking Disaggregated Networking is not a new concept, but Complete Disaggregated Networking is. Before un ...
The telecom sector underwent significant transformation in 2023, driven by several key trends including the continued rollout of 5G, the increasing demand ...
I attended the 2024 Ultra-Broadband Forum 2024 on 30 October through 1 November in Istanbul, Türkiye. I also chaired the Huawei Autonomous Driving Net ...
This article evaluates the goals, philosophy, and implementation path of the Huawei Autonomous Driving Network product plan vision against industry criteri ...
The concept behind a business model is self explanatory. Consisting of two words “business” and “model,” the term technically means ...
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The state of world economies is impacting technology spend, but enterprises and service providers have options to address the uncertainty and thrive.& ...
Until recently, network technology vendors to communication service providers had a well-established competitive market position with brand loyalty, l ...
Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for build ...
I have been reading a lot about how genAI and Large Language Models with machine learning (LLM/ML) will replace humans, or at least much of the work, in ma ...
Managing today’s dynamic, evolving networks and services demands a comprehensive, integrated and flexible service assurance system that provides: ...
In this episode of The Deep Edge Podcast, we delve into the recent strategic partnership between Arrcus and NVIDIA, spotlighting the in ...
Just in Case You Missed It: ACG Research Fireside Chat! Listen to Gurudatt Shenoy, Cisco, and Ray Mota, PhD, CEO, principal analyst, ACG ...
BUSINESS The search continues for Blue Money The industry growth of 1% is unimpressive, given the investments operators need to make. Operators ...
Service providers’ roadmap for digital transformation must focus on improving the customer experience Service providers are facing competition fro ...
Operations support systems and business support systems are being rewritten or refactored to cloud-native, microservices-based apps capable of running on h ...
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Private 5G allows the deployment of private wireless networks at facilities where coverage, speed, and security capabilities are needed beyond those offere ...
Practitioners in a variety of industries have been adopting real-time digital twins in their operations at an increasing rate over the past several years. ...
To excel in a cloud-native world our data center fabrics should be, well, cloud-native too, top to bottom, end to end As an industry we’ve had a g ...
Introduction to Network Slicing: Not Completely New, But Different Ultra-low-latency networks have received significant press in the last few years. The ...
Nokia’s fixed networks business is seeing revenue momentum after a number of sluggish quarters. It continues to innovate in products to expand its pa ...
Cloud configurations are evolving with new instances materializing at network and premises edge locations at a rapid pace. For example, comm ...
My recent report Digital ecosystems: setting new standards for integration describes the standards work being carried out by TM Forum and MEF for orde ...
Let’s face it. 5G xHaul transport can be complex. In addition to the traditional backhaul, there is fronthaul and new midhaul that also have complex ...
Digital transformations are always motivated by improving an organization’s performance at one or another level. In some cases the focus is imp ...
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 ...
As is so often the case, several of the recent articles about 5G, such as the NPR article https://www.npr.org/2021/12/21/1066240779/boeing-airbus-5g-w ...
In my January 4th blog Warnings about 5G in C-Band, Hype or Reality? I examined the public record concerning how the cellular carriers were about to ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for b ...
Although carriers are investing heavily in their networks, especially in edge network equipment and services, they have been neglecting core routers. Over ...
2020 was a year of reacting for Communications Software, OSS/BSS, and operations, not planning, not dreaming, just reacting to the constantly changing envi ...
During the Ultra-Broadband Forum 2024 on 30 October through 1 November in Istanbul, Türkiye, I had an opportunity to sit down with Stephen Shao, ...
The networking landscape has experienced remarkable growth and transformation in recent years, driven by factors such as the proliferation of cloud use cas ...
As I explained in my Part 1 blog in January, Are Service Providers Truly Ramping up Deployment of Open Optical Networking?, during Q2 2021, ACG Research co ...
Key Trends 2023 Broadband deployments have accelerated, driven by massive government and private funding. While cable continues to slug along the l ...
As a result of the global growth of connectivity, primarily driven by mobile internet usage, the demand for services related to communication will continue ...
A leader in PON and other broadband technologies, Nokia is positioning itself as a key player, capitalizing on the massive broadband for everyone init ...