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One of the key themes of Adtran's industry analyst conference, held last week in the company's home town of Huntsville, AL, was raising the company's visibility and marketing profile. "We make a good product, but people don't know about us," said a bemused Tom Stanton, CEO of the company....
December 8, 2011 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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Drivers including fair use, enhanced use cases, network convergence, VoLTE and M2M will combine to finally push the network policy control market over the billion-dollar mark in 2014, and to $1.394 billion in 2015, representing a heady 31 percent CAGR from the 2010 market of $365 million. Vendors looking to succeed in this market can no longer come to the table with PCRF alone. It must be part of a system sale, a larger control plane solution or policy integration services.
Nov. 28, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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A robust network policy solution is essential for monetizing the network and introducing flexible, enhanced services. Network policy control architectures are expanding beyond a centralized policy and charging rules function (PCRF) solution to include solutions implemented in gateway devices and solutions that encompass multiple networks. MNOs need to decide which use cases they want to implement and select the architecture and solution that meet those requirements.
Sep. 28, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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IPv6 Day achieved its goal of increasing IPv6 awareness and traffic. However, too many enterprises and service providers believe they can hold onto IPv4 forever and use network address translation to communicate to IPv6 endpoints. These solutions will create more problems than they solve.
Jul. 28, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Cisco's ASR 9000 system is slated to incorporate the company's network virtualization (nV) technology in the first half of 2012, and we expect service providers with high-speed broadcast requirements to take advantage of it to lower their costs and reduce the complexity of designing, deploying and managing their network. However, the promised 96 Tbps network performance is dependent on the availability of a 1.2 Tbps line card, which Cisco has not yet announced.
Jul. 25, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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The market for wholesale backhaul services in North America will grow from $2.45 billion in 2010 to $3.9 billion in 2015, with the majority of this growth coming from Ethernet backhaul. Successful backhaul service providers will be those that can demonstrate price/performance and reliability, have software tools in place and can meet the specific needs of the mobile market.
Jun. 27, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Without the implementation of urban microcells, 3G and 4G operators will fall short of mobile capacity within the next three years. In order to cost-justify the rollout of metrocells, the combined RAN/backhaul unit will have to reach a price point of $5,000 per unit and will need to comply with a wide range of design criteria.
Jun. 21, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Amdocs last week announced its intention to acquire Bridgewater Systems. The buy gives Amdocs a needed customer experience component set, positions it to move aggressively in 4G wireless and locks up its North American Tier 1 presence--all at a very low price. Bridgewater gains expanded global sales and distribution capacity, immediate access to a long list of well-heeled customers and respite from the vagaries of smaller company revenue flow.
Jun. 20, 2011 | Report | by Susan McNeice | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg, Brian Partridge
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Ericsson announced its agreement to acquire B/OSS software heavyweight Telcordia, putting the industry on notice it intends to drive more of the ecosystem business battle toward software and services and, in turn, put a greater emphasis on connected experience. Its portfolio isn't yet complete, but it just scored a major tactical win.
Jun. 15, 2011 | Report | by Susan McNeice | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg, Ken Rehbehn, Sheryl Kingstone, Brian Partridge
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The advent of the mobile all-IP era is forcing operators to change how signaling is handled in mobile networks, and a new element, the policy exchange controller (PEC), will become a key requirement as networks scale. Operators should begin scoping out viable PEC vendors now to ensure policy/signaling issues don't derail their 4G future.
Jun. 8, 2011 | Report | by Brian Partridge | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg
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RadiSys, the Oregon based company known in the telecommunications world for its ATCA and IP Media Server platforms, announced Tuesday that it would acquire Continuous Computing in a $105 million cash-and-stock deal....
May 6, 2011 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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Telco Systems, a provider of multi-service Carrier Ethernet access and demarcation solutions, quietly announced on April 20th that it had acquired the major assets and intellectual property of ANDA Networks in an all cash transaction. The product lines are indeed complementary....
April 26, 2011 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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On April 4, Nortel announced that it had accepted a stalking horse bid of $900 million from Google for the Nortel library of approximately 6000 patents, with the final auction of the Nortel IP assets expected to take place in June, 2011....
April 7, 2011 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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In contrast to Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco, Juniper is opening up its network OS to third-party developers. Juniper's Junos Platform yielded 70 partners as of Q4 2010. Yankee Group sees Junos Platform as a qualified success so far, but the true test will not happen until the SDK for Junos Space has at least 12 months in the field and the SDK for Junos Pulse is released.
Apr. 6, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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DNS can be leveraged by communications service providers (CSPs) to provide not only increased network security, but differentiated services. Users, particularly parents, are willing to pay for increased control over their family's Internet experience. However, CSPs must ensure that their solutions comply with the spirit of Net neutrality.
Apr. 5, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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An active DNS management strategy is increasingly important to enterprises due to the addressing and security complexities inherent in recent industry trends, most notably the transition to cloud computing and the adoption of IPv6. Here we outline the pros and cons of in-house, ISP and managed service provider DNS management options.
Feb. 28, 2011 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Looking ahead to next week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Yankee Group sees apps and devices grabbing the headlines once again. But MWC will also foster critical innovation in enterprise mobility, NFC and IMS, to name just a few. Meanwhile, the cold war between mobile network operators and over-the-top players will show no signs of thawing.
Feb. 9, 2011 | Report | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Susan McNeice, Jennifer Pigg, Ken Rehbehn, Chris Marsh, Wally Swain, Nick Holland, Brian Partridge, Chris Nicoll
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AT&T's tiered pricing plan will have a significant impact on many players in the mobile data industry. Now that data customers must keep tabs on bandwidth consumption, operators, content providers, manufacturers and developers will either enjoy new growth opportunities or be forced to rethink their mobile business strategies.
Jul. 8, 2010 | Report | by John Keough | CO-AUTHORS: Susan McNeice, Jennifer Pigg, Sheryl Kingstone, Chris Nicoll
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Leased backhaul transmission capacity cost mobile network operators (MNOs) U.S.$25 billion in 2009, and it continues to skyrocket, accounting for as much as 60 percent of opex. MNOs looking to prosper in the face of ever-rising traffic demands need to revamp their backhaul strategies, embracing Ethernet, backhaul operation and/or design services and RAN sharing.
Jun. 24, 2010 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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The growth in mobile data traffic has reinvigorated the femtocell and Wi-Fi markets. Why carry the traffic on your mobile network when you can pass that hot potato to the residential broadband network? Recent announcements and product introductions in the femto/Wi-Fi markets are making mobile access offload a reality, but gaps in the solutions still exist.
May. 25, 2010 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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In this webinar, Yankee Group analyst Jennifer Pigg discusses the mobile backhaul solutions operators are deploying today and the emerging strategies for tomorrow.
April 27, 2010 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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In this webinar, Jennifer Pigg examines the mobile backhaul solutions operators are deploying today and the emerging strategies for tomorrow.
Apr. 27, 2010 | Live Webinar | by Jennifer Pigg
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The Metro Ethernet Forum's Global Interconnect standard for linking up diverse Carrier Ethernet networks offers carriers both opportunities and challenges. Regional carriers have the most to gain, while global carriers that don't move fast have the most to lose.
Mar. 18, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg
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This Tues Cisco announced their new addition to the CRS family of core routers the CRS-3 billed as a 322 Terabit Router. This means it has over three times the capacity of the CRS-1 which has a maximum system capacity of 92 Tbps....
March 12, 2010 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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Mobile network operators (MNOs) cannot afford to hang on to their TDM and SONET/SDH networks forever. MNOs should be trialing two technologies, SyncE and IEEE 1588, that promise to enable in Ethernet the same synchronization characteristics that have formed the basis of the TDM-based mobile network.
Feb. 22, 2010 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Spectrum caps in Latin America are threatening incumbents' plans for mobile broadband expansion. Regulators need to revisit--and in many cases remove--spectrum caps to ensure healthy mobile broadband rollouts in the region.
Feb. 11, 2010 | Report | by Wally Swain | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg
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Over a quarter of Yankee Group survey respondents say they expect at least a third of their infrastructure to move to cloud computing in the next year, but company-wide adoption remains low. This executive-level research report features interviews with cloud computing pioneers and reveals their unique perspectives and metrics for success in 2010.
Jan. 28, 2010 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Zeus Kerravala, Jennifer Pigg, Camille Mendler, Sheryl Kingstone, Emily Green
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Mobile backhaul capacity will have to increase by a factor of five over the next three years to support the growth in mobile data traffic. Millimeter wave backhaul offers gigabit-level, robust connectivity for connections of three kilometers or under, as well as advantages in licensing and operational cost. For service providers that need the speed for short-haul connections, millimeter wave has emerged as a viable option.
Dec. 22, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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The economic crisis permanently changed how consumers, enterprises and network builders approach everything. But those changes will create new opportunities in the Anywhere ecosystem, especially in the areas of cord-cutting, devices, cloud computing and network innovation. Here's our take on 2010's winners and losers.
Dec. 15, 2009 | Report | by Christopher Collins | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Dianne Northfield, Jennifer Pigg, Joshua Holbrook, Camille Mendler, Jon Paisner, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Agatha Poon
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The sale of Nortel's assets spells the end of an industry icon and creates opportunities for further consolidation among communications suppliers. By entering stalking horse agreements with Nokia Siemens for its CDMA and LTE business, and with Avaya for its Enterprise business, Nortel in essence established a reserve price for qualified bidders. Ericsson and Avaya came in with the highest bids, and both companies are well positioned to gain from the acquisitions.
Oct. 7, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Yankee Group defines cloud computing today as scalable, virtualized information services provided on demand over the Internet with multitenant capability, service-level agreements (SLAs) and usage-based pricing. The objective of cloud computing is to save the enterprise cost and complexity and improve service to the end-user or client.
Aug. 24, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Eugene Signorini, Sheryl Kingstone, Agatha Poon
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Mobile network operators (MNOs) should transition to fiber in the backhaul where there is a clear ROI, and microwave where capex and speed to deploy are concerns and where microwave can support the speeds and distances needed. Copper-based technologies such as T1 and DSL should be used to leverage existing infrastructure until the growth in traffic and performance demand of 4G/LTE make the use of copper unviable.
Jun. 26, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Carrier Ethernet services will continue to experience healthy growth, but service providers are tired of waiting for robust, scalable Carrier Ethernet transport solutions.
May. 21, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Service providers are ideally positioned to take advantage of users? growing awareness of the limitations of today's cloud computing services. Service providers should transition hosted services to the cloud to achieve better margins and grow their managed services-cum-cloud computing base.
Apr. 29, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg
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Jen Pigg and Phil Marshall comment on the speculation around Nokia Siemens Networks' bid to acquire Nortel s Carrier Network unit along with its LTE R&D resources.
April 8, 2009 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg
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President Obama, we need an Anywhere Network policy to advance America from 19th place in world broadband penetration and to plant the seeds of ubiquitous connectivity. But more importantly, the Anywhere network is at the heart of a broader economic recovery and can help advance progress on your health care, energy, and community service agendas as well.
Jan. 26, 2009 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg, Emily Green
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Service providers must transform their businesses to profit from the Anywhere Network, which through ubiquitous connectivity brings the convergence of the internet, communications, mobility, media and machine.
Sep. 29, 2008 | Report | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg
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P2P is a burden to ISPs today. Within the next 5 years, it will become a leading content distribution technology for very large file-sharing applications (notably video) as well as smaller files and streaming applications.
Jul. 18, 2008 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg