By Michael Howard, senior research director carrier networks, IHS Markit Bottom Line Three-quarters of carriers participating in the IHS Markit software-defined networking (SDN) survey say they have already deployed or will deploy SDN in 2016; 100 percent plan to deploy the technology at some point The top drivers for service provider SDN investments and deployments… Read more →

Introduction: Two talks are summarized in this second HOTi summary article.  The first examines different topologies for High Performance Computing (HPC) networks with an assumption that Data Center (DC) networks will follow that topology. The second talk was a keynote on the impact of SDN, NFV and other Software Defined WAN/ open networking schemes. 1…. Read more →

by Scott Bicheno & edited by Alan J Weissberger Six of the world’s biggest technology companies have joined forces in order to work out how best to exploit the 150 MHz of unlicensed spectrum that has been made available for commercial use. The spectrum is in the 3.5 GHz band (specifically 3550-3700 MHz) and is… Read more →

By Michael Howard, Senior Research Director Carrier Networks, IHS Markit Key Points: 100 percent of service providers participating in the IHS Markit NFV strategies survey say they will deploy network functions virtualization (NFV) at some point, with 81 percent expecting to do so by 2017 Moreover, 59 percent of operator respondents have deployed or will… Read more →

Executive Summary AT&T has become the newest member of Intel’s Super 7 initiative, a coalition of technology companies — including Facebook, Google and Microsoft — that are seeking to revolutionize the data center. Under a new partnership, AT&T will use Intel’s semiconductor technology to advance its network virtualization strategy and integrated cloud platform. AT&T SDN/NFV… Read more →

Highlights of the US Mobile Market Q2 2016 ·         12 years ago, US mobile data revenues were less than 5% of the overall revenues. In Q2 2016, mobile data revenues crossed the 75% threshold becoming the second country after Japan to do so. ·         Service revenue declined again, down 2% YoY. Overall revenue was flat as device… Read more →

Note:  This is an edited excerpt of a US Telecom article at: https://www.ustelecom.org/blog/clecs-thriving-%E2%80%93-regulatory-help-not-needed According to a research paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, a visiting senior policy scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, cash flow analysis shows that the competitive local exchange provider (CLEC) industry is better positioned than incumbent providers (ILECs & MSOs/CableCo’s), who… Read more →

The networking world continues to progress open source software solutions.  The ONOS® Project, a software defined networking (SDN) operating system for service providers, today announced availability of an ONOS-based leaf-spine fabric solution for data centers and service provider Central Offices. This is the first L2/L3 leaf-spine fabric on bare-metal switching hardware that is built with SDN… Read more →

The global network functions virtualization (NFV) market, which includes NFV hardware, software and services, will be worth $15.5 billion by 2020, according to the latest NFV Hardware, Software, and Services Annual Market Report from IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions. “Between 2015 and 2020, the service provider NFV market will… Read more →