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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Service providers’ roadmap for digital transformation must focus on improving the customer experience Service providers are facing competition fro ...
Digital transformation is a big topic. It’s so big, in fact, that it’s hard to grasp what it means and what it’s all about. So the best w ...
Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for build ...
Digital transformations are always motivated by improving an organization’s performance at one or another level. In some cases the focus is imp ...
The first step in starting up a new IT project is figuring out what needs to be done. In addition to a plan, and to get the most from your IT investments, ...
A business case for technology is different than any other case. It requires significantly more research and planning and should be based on a detailed stu ...
The acquisition of Unitas Global by PacketFabric, both of which are owned by Digital Alpha, brings a wealth of synergies to the table. Recently, ...
Cloud configurations are evolving with new instances materializing at network and premises edge locations at a rapid pace. For example, comm ...
I have always believed that lower-latency mobile gaming services could enhance the revenue of CSPs, especially mobile operators. But I have been skeptical ...
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 ...
According to recent data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in July 2023, mobile data usage continues to climb, ...
Just in Case You Missed It: ACG Research Fireside Chat! Listen to Gurudatt Shenoy, Cisco, and Ray Mota, PhD, CEO, principal analyst, ACG ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BUSINESS The search continues for Blue Money The industry growth of 1% is unimpressive, given the investments operators need to make. Operators ...
Join ACG @ Global NaaS Event on 28–30 October 2024 Dallas, Texas, USA Building the NaaS Experience GNE brings together the indus ...
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- ...
Operations support systems and business support systems are being rewritten or refactored to cloud-native, microservices-based apps capable of running on h ...
Private 5G allows the deployment of private wireless networks at facilities where coverage, speed, and security capabilities are needed beyond those offere ...
Join ACG at Global Naas 2024! The event, sponsored by MEF, will be held in October 28-30 in Dallas. Why should you be there? GNE bri ...
The telecom sector underwent significant transformation in 2023, driven by several key trends including the continued rollout of 5G, the increasing demand ...
The TM Forum #DTW24 Ignite conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 18−20. Three things stood out at the conference: Autonomous ne ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The continuing pandemic has forced millions of organizations and individuals around the world to adopt technological methods of living, working, and learni ...
Governments worldwide are investing massively in bridging the so-called digital divide. The US government alone is allocating over $73 billion to extend br ...
My recent report Digital ecosystems: setting new standards for integration describes the standards work being carried out by TM Forum and MEF for orde ...
Open optical networking, the optical network design methodology that disaggregates transponders from the underlying optical line systems[1], appears to be ...
Managing today’s dynamic, evolving networks and services demands a comprehensive, integrated and flexible service assurance system that provides: ...
I attended the Ultra-Broadband Forum (#UBBF22) in Bangkok, Thailand in October 2022 and the associated TM Forum summit on #autonomousnetworks. U ...
Defining Basic Disaggregation in Networking Disaggregated Networking is not a new concept, but Complete Disaggregated Networking is. Before un ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) is defined by the cable industry as an architecture to meet the industry’s 10G goal, to deliver the capacit ...
World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider with $17 billion in annual revenue, and ACG Business Analytics have establish ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for b ...
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 ...
To succeed in a vertical approach, SPs must consider several important factors Internet of things presents a significant opportunity for service provi ...
The state of world economies is impacting technology spend, but enterprises and service providers have options to address the uncertainty and thrive.& ...
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The carrier routing and switching market saw a year-over-year recovery, growing 17%. Driving this growth is backhauling and core routing upgrades. Use ...
2020 was a year of reacting for Communications Software, OSS/BSS, and operations, not planning, not dreaming, just reacting to the constantly changing envi ...
A leader in PON and other broadband technologies, Nokia is positioning itself as a key player, capitalizing on the massive broadband for everyone init ...
In this episode of The Deep Edge Podcast, we delve into the recent strategic partnership between Arrcus and NVIDIA, spotlighting the in ...
Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Ian Hood, Red Hat, discuss how a distributed application cloud model is needed for higher-quality products and innovative digit ...
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. ...
