A new architecture is emerging, and it stands to disrupt the way networks have been built for the last 10 to 20 years. This new network architecture effect ...

Peter Fetterolf's whitepaper The Business Case for Adaptive IP presents key requirements of next-generation IP networks and explains how the ...

With  the increase of bandwidth requirements and demands related to smart homes, IoT, and advanced cloud applications, the need for symmetrical, scala ...

5G will be an engine of change in many types of end-customer applications, using numerous new wireless and mobile networking technologies. With 5G, th ...

SD-WAN services are becoming increasingly popular globally. The worldwide market for SD-WAN is $1.8 billion in 2020, growing to $2.9 billion in 2023. SD-WA ...

Network automation is not new, but the level of automation (full automation) is now possible in the telecom infrastructure and is a major enabler of Indust ...

As the network elements become virtualized, more standardized, and more intelligent and as the industry moves to a 5G era, the opportunity exists to reimag ...

Communications service providers are engaged in a strategic evolution of their infrastructures using virtualized and cloud-native designs. This effort ...

The inherent complexity in highly distributed virtualized systems drives the need for end-to-end automation and orchestration across all layers of the telc ...

Three forces are at work that will greatly increase the operational complexity of the 5G access network, requiring that operations be automated to an unpre ...

The emergence of public cloud computing has transformed enterprise IT and public cloud services continue to evolve and grow at a rapid pace. Public cloud o ...

Adoption of digital solutions on a wide scale is predicated on continued innovation in the fundamental network technologies and on the service provider&rsq ...

Network operators usually have built their infrastructures separately by service with purpose-built solutions, creating large, complex networks that can sl ...

If you have a background in carrier services, like me, you are undoubtedly tired of hearing about how much more agile, responsive, and cost efficient cloud ...

The proliferation of Internet of Things  end-points and the connectivity required for various verticals and solutions is exacerbating the profitabilit ...

At the 2016 OFC Conference, Inphi announced its ColorZ technology, which delivers 100Gb/s, 100GHz, fixed dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) in a ...

With the introduction of Infinera Instant Network, Infinera is taking another step forward in its journey toward cognitive networking. Leveraging the exper ...

  An analytics offloading use case conducted by ACG Research compares the total cost of ownership of Brocade’s architecture with tw ...

Consumption of video is driving exponential increases in mobile bandwidth demand. ACG Research projects most likely peak period bandwidth requirements to i ...

  The Juniper Networks’ open data center infrastructure architecture was compared to a proprietary programmable architecture that requires si ...

Traditional network architectures based upon purpose-built network appliances and the resulting complex manual and proprietary systems interfaces used to s ...

ACG Research has written a whitepaper, which was sponsored by VMWare and Affirmed Networks, that explores two emerging models of NFV deployment: 1) cu ...

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 ...

Controlling total cost of ownership of access, aggregation, and edge networks used for mobile backhaul and broadband services in the face of explosive traf ...

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 ...

Connection-Oriented Ethernet holds great promise for creating a single aggregation and transport metro infrastructure. It provides the flexibility and scal ...

MPLS-TP is a standard under development by the IETF for packet optical transport networks. The key objective of the IETF effort is to provide a universal s ...

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 ...