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 ...

  Alcatel-Lucent announced a new family of core routers, the 7950 XRS. They provide an integrated P-Router and Label Switched Router (LSR) solution ...

Cisco CloudVerse is a comprehensive architectural approach. It treats multiple data centers and networks as a vast pool of dynamic resources that constitut ...

The Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS core router provides an integrated P-Router and Label Switched Router solution with high port and slot density per chassis to d ...

Many service providers want to integrate packet and optical using IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) technology. ACG has investigated how a specific vendor, Cisco ...

High traffic growth, service diversity, cloud services, escalation of service threats and low core utilization are creating challenges for service provider ...

Today’s networks are all about optimizing performance and realizing maximum revenue. Service providers need products and services that decrease compl ...

Brocade has developed three SDN use cases built around an SDN controller and Brocade’s MLXe series routers that are compliant with the recommend ...

  ACG Research’s Evolving IP and Optical Architectures discusses the implications of IP traffic growth and new services on current archi ...

  High traffic growth, service diversity, cloud services, escalation of service threats and low core utilization are creating challenges for servic ...

Brocade has developed three SDN use cases built around an SDN controller and Brocade’s MLXe series routers that are compliant with the recommend ...

  Network-based applications such as Voice over IP, cloud, collaboration services and video applications of all kinds are driving the need for high ...

Networks are becoming more difficult to plan and optimize because of high traffic growth, volatile traffic patterns, changes in network architecture and mo ...

Current approaches to network resiliency are inadequate to meet evolving network performance and cost requirements. Existing schemes such as 1+1 protection ...

  Juniper recently announced its approach to transition enterprises and service providers to SDNs.  Ray Mota and Brad Brooks, Juniper Networks ...

Michael Kennedy, ACG Research, and Ken Osowski, Procera Networks, discuss Intelligent Policy Enforcement and the ROI for two use cases. Listen to them ...

ACG Research compared the nLight approach to protection and restoration to the widely used 1+1 optical protection scheme. A sample 12 node core network was ...

  Mobile traffic growth is exploding in response to the worldwide uptake in smartphone sales. At the same time new types of smartphone applications ...

The value of cloud computing is best realized when services function transparently and automatically at any scale. Although this nirvana goal is clearly in ...

ActiveVideo has introduced CloudTV, a cloud-based approach to delivery of modern user interfaces and other applications. This cloud-based approach supports ...

ACG Research analyzed four approaches to replacing all or some MPLS VPN WAN services with business broadband Internet services without compromising ne ...

Cisco Network Convergence System is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their share ...

  Cisco Network Convergence System is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their ...

Traffic requirements are growing rapidly because of the widespread acceptance of online video services, cloud computing, and mobile broadband. WAN costs al ...

Growth in application uptake and related traffic volumes are outpacing the ability of legacy platforms to keep pace. Providers are aware that they not only ...

BTI Intelligent Cloud Connect provides converged optical and LSR based architecture that responds to the challenges of today’s metro data center netw ...

F5 Networks' solution delivers data center consolidation, DDos and S-Gi mobile network simplification. Business Case for S-Gi Mobile Network Simplif ...

ACG Research's business case examined the five-year total cost of ownership of Cyan’s packet-optical hollow core network solution versus com ...

Cloud computing, video streaming, and social media are contributing to a dramatic rise in metro and regional inter data center traffic that includes data c ...

  ACG Research conducted two use cases to show how businesses are using managed network services to support their network-centric business strategi ...

Mobile broadband traffic growth is driving large cost increases but revenue is failing to keep pace. Service providers, consequently, are seeking solutions ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are becoming more serious and sophisticated. Attack motivations are increasingly financial or political. Roughly half ...