Global LTE connections reach 2.37 billion
The global migration from 3G to 4G continues to gather pace. Global LTE connections grew 59 percent from June 2016 to June 2017 reaching 2.37 billion, according to 5G Americas...
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Cignal AI forecasts 400G Coherent WDM shipments in 2020
Shipments of 400G coherent WDM volume starts to ramp this year, led by Ciena deployments and then followed by other suppliers six to nine months later, according to a newly-published,...
Vertical Systems: Mid-Year 2017 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD
Orange Business Services (France), Colt (U.K.), AT&T (U.S.), Level 3 (U.S.), BT Global Services (U.K.), Verizon (U.S.) and NTT (Japan) hold the top spots (in rank order based on retail...
Dell’Oro: Spending on Small Cells Starts to Take Off
The Small Cell Radio market continued to be the bright spot during 1H17 — advancing at a double-digit pace — in the otherwise gloomy RAN market, according to a newly...
Kuwait-based Zain Group positions for digital transformation
Kuwait-based Zain Group, which now has operations in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, has just raised $846 million in cash by selling a 9.8% equity stake to...
Crehan: Data Center Ethernet Switch Market is Hot
Sales of data center Ethernet switches saw the strongest growth in five years during the second quarter of 2017, with year-over-year growth of fourteen percent, according to the latest report...
Private Interconnection bandwidth is growing at a 45% CAGR
In reading the Q2 financial reports of leading global carrier, cloud companies, semiconductor fabricators and network equipment vendors, one might be tempted to think that we are in a period...
Vertical Systems: Mid-Year 2017 U.S. Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD
AT&T tops Vertical Systems Group's U.S. Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD results for Mid-Year 2017. The following eight companies achieved LEADERBOARD status (rank order based on retail port share): AT&T, Level 3,...
Dell’Oro: WLAN market bolstered by cloud subscriptions
Migration to higher-end and Cloud-managed products will bolster the Wireless LAN market between now and 2021, according to a newly released market forecast report by Dell’Oro Group, which predicts that...
Interconnection Bandwidth Growing Faster than the Internet
Interconnection bandwidth is growing at a 45% compound annual growth rate, significantly faster than the expansion of Internet bandwidth (24% CAGR) or MPLS (4% CAGR), accounding to a newly released...
Dell'Oro forecasts G.fast revenue growth of 600% in '19
According to its latest Broadband Access 5-year Forecast Report from Dell’Oro Group, G.fast revenue growth is set to increase by almost 600% in 2019 as operators complete testing and trials...
MeriTalk: federal agencies planning to adopt converged infrastructure
MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT, has announced the results of its latest report, Converged: At the Core of IT All, which examines federal...
AT&T Tops U.S. Fiber Lit Buildings LEADERBOARD
AT&T topped the newly released U.S. Fiber Lit Buildings LEADERBOARD from Vertical Systems Group based on results for year-end 2016. Eleven companies attained a position on the 2016 U.S. Fiber...
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