Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group
New CTO – It was great to see and hear Juniper’s new CTO, Bikash Koley at NXTWORK. The message was very clear that new networks need to be built, not only from the speeds and feeds technology point of view, but from the operator point of view. Scale and simplicity… Read More »Juniper NXTWORK Analyst Day Takeaways
Nokia was bullish on its technology developments and cautious on telco capex. CEO Rajeev Suri described the telecom market as having tough market conditions and expects telco equipment market revenues down in 2018. He said the Swedish competitor pricing aggressively and that it will be difficult to keep share in China… Read More »Nokia Analyst Meeting Update
This week, we attended the Global Mobile Broadband Forum, held in London, and found several interesting points we thought we would share. Much of the focus of the conference was about 5G wireless networks, and since the show was in London, many of the service providers who we met with… Read More »Global Mobile Broadband FOrum update
Back on 5/9/17, we discussed how Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) had announced its in-house developed enterprise-class WLAN products. A couple days ago (on 9/20/17), ALE announced further developments to its WLAN product line and now has a broadening product line of Stellar WLAN products. Initially, ALE announced a lower end Stellar… Read More »Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Broadens its In-House Developed enterprise-class WLAN Product Line
Yesterday, Comcast announced its ActiveCore SDN platform. We are attending Comcast’s analyst day and learned quite a bit on day one, but wanted to focus this blog on Routing. To date, there has been an argument of SD-WAN and it ability to replace expensive telco MPLS solutions. If a customer… Read More »Comcast ActiveCore – Massive step forward for SD-WAN and Potential Router Market Trouble
We attended the Deutsche Bank Tech conference this week and met with a ton of companies. It is always interesting to see the difference in questions from investors vs. those directly in the industry. During the conference, each company put spin and had different definitions of Data Center Interconnect (DCI)… Read More »Cloud and DCI – Vendors with Different Definitions talk up DCI at Deutsche Bank Tech Conference
Last week we attended Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai which is turning into a massive event for Huawei with significant customer attendance. It was tons of fun to talk to customers, catch up with friends, and the different parts of Huawei while on the show floor. While there are ton… Read More »Huawei Connect – Connecting Clouds and Everything Else
We attended the Nokia analyst meeting for its Fixed Access business, where the company explained its priorities for the upcoming year. these include: (a) an expansion to its In-Home WiFi focus, (b) an aggressive push to move all but physical layer functions into the Cloud, and (c) the launch of… Read More »Nokia Broadband strategy Revealed
Tomorrow, at 8:30 AM, we are presenting at the Flash Memory Summit 2017 and will share our views on the storage infrastructure market. We expecting growth in segments such as hyperconverged, All Flash Arrays, and SDS. We expect growth from customer groups such as Cloud Service Providers, as well as… Read More »Storage Infrastructure Market update
We attended the F5 analyst meeting, the first with new CEO, Francois Locoh-Donou. It is clear that the new CEO understands the impact the growth in the cloud has on F5, and VP Sales John DiLullo even went so far as to say that beginning about 18 months ago, his… Read More »F5 Analyst Meeting – Application Security Focus
