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 ...

Innovations in cloud, big data, and mobility as well as users’ expectations for anywhere, anytime, and any device access are defining new data center ...

Cyan’s packet optical hollow core, IP over Connection-Oriented Ethernet solution, reduces costly IP core routing by handling transit traffic usi ...

ACG Research analyzes three programmable High-IQ network use cases that were created by Juniper Networks. The analyses show the benefits derived from ...

Three use cases illustrate the breadth of the Cisco Evolved Services Platform and NFV solution: 1) Virtual managed services lowers the operating cost for p ...

ACG Research compared the total cost of ownership of the present mode of operations with the virtual managed service solution for two managed services offe ...

Residential fixed broadband usage has evolved from static search and information retrieval to multimedia content delivery on a wide variety of devices. The ...

The relentless pace of innovation is driving developers and service providers to redefine how they bring applications and services to users. Users’ d ...

ACG conducted an analysis of a typical scenario that a service provider faces when migrating to a VMO based Gi LAN network to expand network scale. The sce ...

ACG Research performed the economic analysis for performance, high availability, and manageability advantages of HPE’s Helion OpenStack Carrier- ...

Infinera revolutionized optical integration with the introduction of its industry leading 100G Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) in 2005. In 2011 the co ...

This ACG Research report investigates the trends and directions that service providers are taking in the deployment of their data centers and specifically ...

With the promise of 5G on the horizon and the continued growth in the number of devices to be connected with IoT and user applications, network traffic ban ...

Infrastucture and service agility require the right tools, and one important tool is operations support system, which allows CSPs to reduce time-to-market ...

Infinera, a company long known for its industry leading photonic integration, has announced the release of its Xceed Software Suite. The suite consist ...

Communication service providers' modus operandi for competing in today's dynamic market environment is to accelerate time-to-market for servic ...

  Today’s increasing network complexities require tools that offer detailed visibility into the network traffic. These tools enable the IT te ...

Communication service providers love minimizing their cost base while maximizing their revenue streams. Yes, I may have captioned the obvious here, but it ...

Analysis of alternative platform designs in a Tier 1 installation highlights simpler, more agile design with an estimated five-year TCO of 53% and 3x faste ...

The service providers’ industry is undergoing a profound disruption, which is driving increased competitive dynamics and causing tepid revenue growth ...

The path to continuous innovation is clear. NOW is the time to embrace more agile and openly architected service delivery platforms Under the umbrella o ...

ACG Research's Paul Parker Johnson recently completed a total cost of ownership study of a prominent Tier 1 operator who carried out a broad transition ...

Innovations in 5G, virtualization and cloud technologies will make new applications and services possible in both personal and industrial IoT in the next s ...

Service providers have unique challenges  as they work to transform their networks and why choosing the right partner is critical to success. Read ...

Although mature, cost-effective and widely deployed, 10 Gb/s pluggable optical technology no longer addresses the increasing bandwidth and distributed work ...

Deployment of C-RAN architectures has enabled increased deployment of optical mobile fronthaul solutions to deliver low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivit ...

CREATING AGILE NETWORKS: BUSINESS NETWORKING AND THE ADVANCE OF THE CLOUDS The industry’s adoption of cloud-native designs is on. Cloud-native design ...

Today, we live in a cloud-centric world with cloud-native applications and services reaching hundreds of millions of users globally via massive data center ...

Cloud-native applications and services are highly dynamic and distributed across hyperscale, software-driven, virtualized application and network infrastru ...

128 Technology is delivering an SD-WAN solution that is clearly differentiated from the competition. Where traditional SD-WAN has delivered incremental ben ...

Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, talks with Priya Natarajan, Sr. Director, Head of WW GTM, Lenovo Networking, about addressing customers’ key concerns ab ...

The ONUG Community is in the vanguard of migrating of enterprise IT applications to hybrid multi-cloud environments. Although the business benefits are rea ...

In this service provider case study, we explore how Nsight, headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin and delivering residential, enterprise and mobile communi ...

Although network slicing will have a direct impact on mobile dedicated resources and their allocation, it will be the mobile transport network that will co ...

With the recent announcement and debut of Nokia’s WaveSuite application software, Nokia is transforming the way transport network services are consum ...