Research

New deployments of optical fiber to U.S. commercial buildings and data centers expanded in 2020 despite the pandemic, according to the latest ENS @Fiber Plus research from Vertical Systems Group....

Dell'Oro Group has appointed Dr. Cliff Grossner to the role of Vice President, Edge Computing and IT Equipment Silicon including coprocessors for AI and ML. His current research agenda also...

Data center customers deployed seven million more server-class Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) ports in 2020 than in 2019, resulting in a new record high for this market, according to...

 Global adoption of 5G is happening at 3X the pace as with 4G LTE, according newly released statistics from the trade organization 5G Americas.According to data provided by Omdia, the...

 The following companies achieved a position on Vertical Systems Group's 2020 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services LEADERBOARD (in rank order based on site share): AT&T, Hughes, Verizon, Comcast, Windstream, Lumen,...

After spending aggressively during the first half of 2020, Traditional Telco operators (Incumbent and Wholesale) in North America curbed spending on optical and packet hardware during the fourth quarter. 4Q20...

Total shipments of 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data center switch ports increased more than 20% during full-year 2020, according to a recent report from Crehan Research Inc. The robust increase,...

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market grew 1.5% year over year to $25.8 billion during the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), however, worldwide server shipments declined 3.0% year over...

 The Wireless LAN market experienced double-digit growth year-over-year in 4Q2020 thanks to government and stimulus spending in many countries including China, Japan, and the USA. Overall market outlook strengthens, according...

The worldwide Campus Switch revenue declined in 4Q 2020, following a short recovery in the prior quarter, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.  The year-over-year revenue decline was...

 Optical transport equipment revenue increased 1 percent in 2020 reaching $16 billion with growth in all regions with the exception of North America and Latin America, according to a new...

The worldwide SD-WAN market grew 50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the prior year, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The top five vendors...

North American network operator purchases of optical and packet transport hardware dropped sharply in the fourth quarter, according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report from research firm Cignal AI,...