Vendors including Cisco, Juniper, and Arista all recently introduced merchant silicon chips into the mix.
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5G SA Architecture is Financially Superior to NSA, IHS White Paper Claims
The report, which was sourced by ZTE, does admit that its findings aren’t likely to change the minds of many operators.
Service Provider SDN Deployments Near Universal, IHS Markit Finds
By the end of this year, 74 percent of the service providers said they will use SDN to deliver new services, while 65 percent will use it in operations and management operations.
IHS Markit: Off-Premises Cloud Services Will Reach $414B by 2022
This new research increases predictions made by IHS in May as the cloud services market has seen steady growth in existing regions and big growth in developing regions.
North America Will Be First With 5G, IHS Markit Survey Says
Lower latency, high capacity, and lower cost per bit are the three big draws for operators to deploy 5G.
H3C Among Top Data Center Ethernet Switch Vendors, Says IHS Markit
Respondents to IHS Markit’s survey indicated they expect a 1.5x increase in the average number of physical servers in their data centers by 2019.
Off-Premises Cloud Services to Reach $374B in 2022, Says IHS Markit
In 2017 Amazon led the IaaS market with 41 percent of revenue, while Microsoft topped the list for PaaS with 26 percent of revenue, according to IHS Markit.
Data Center Network Equipment Revenue Hit $13.7B in 2017
Bare metal switch revenue was up 60 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2017. And it’s projected to reach $3.6 billion in 2022, with cloud deployments as the primary driver.
Dell EMC Overtakes HPE in Data Center Server Revenue
White box server revenue is steadily taking revenue from the name brands.
HPE Leads Data Center Server Market, IHS Says
Enterprises continue to be the biggest server buyers — for now.
SD-WAN Startups Head Toward the Trough of Disillusionment
The hype cycle for SD-WAN vendors has moved fast.
IHS Markit: 85% of Operators Plan to Deploy Smart Central Offices
50 percent of central offices will have CORD by 2023.
Survey Crowns Nokia, Huawei, Ciena as Top Optical Networking Vendors
DCI is set to be significant driver of the optical networking space.