Hyperscalers, Open RAN, Private 5G and chip announcements were top news at the MWC show in Barcelona last week. Based on disclosures at the show, Open RAN looks to go commercial in 2023 and 2024, hyperscalers are obtaining contracts to carry an increasing amount of telecom-related workloads, Rakuten Symphony is… Read More »MWC 2022 Recap
Marvell to Add Innovium to Its Portfolio to Enhance High-End DC Switching On August 3rd, Marvell announced its planned acquisition of Innovium for $1.1B. The addition has good synergies. Innovium had several design wins in the hyperscaler segment and Marvell provides additional scale, desire to expand custom, semi-custom, and merchant… Read More »Marvell to Add Innovium to Its Portfolio to Enhance High-End DC Switching
Semiconductor and Supply Chain Shortages Limit Data Center Buildouts Incline Village, NV. August 23, 2021 — According to a newly released report issued by the 650 Group, US hyperscaler cloud market revenue grew 43% Y/Y in 2Q21 while the supply chain for Data Center Equipment into hyperscalers performed unevenly due… Read More »650 Group’s Latest Cloud Market Report Shows US Hyperscalers Set Cloud Revenue and CAPEX Records in 2Q’21
On April 21, 2021, DISH, the fourth wireless operator in the US market, and hyperscaler Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to work together, whereby DISH will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to build a cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network. The DISH/AWS announcement is important because this is the… Read More »Implications of the DISH / AWS Announcement
Profits Remain Elusive as Cloud Providers Target Revenue Growth over Profitability INCLINE VILLAGE, NV, Feb. 22, 2021 – According to a new report published by 650 Group, titled: IaaS Hyperscaler SWOT Report 2020-2025, IaaS revenue grew to over $100 B in 2020 and $50 B in Capital Expenditures for data… Read More »New 650 Group Cloud Report: IaaS Generated $200,000 in Revenue Every Minute of 2020 as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google GCP Outpaced the Overall Market
In a briefing with Rakuten Mobile today, we learned two neat things: It is experimenting with 3GPP on satellite, and it hopes to announced a full-stack Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) customer as early as next quarter. The company also shared some plans that it has for improving coverage to 96%… Read More »Rakuten Mobile Reveals Future plans
Disaggregation has been around in the networking space for nearly a decade, especially in hyperscalers data center Ethernet Switches. The insatiable demand for bandwidth, control, and cost reductions drove the white box from the Google science project to the dominant consumption model for Ethernet Switching in the hyperscalers. The high-scale… Read More »Disaggregated SP Router Market – Strong Market Adoption as we head into 2021
Facebook revenue grew robustly in 2Q20, and its CAPEX guidance remained consistent for 2020 compared to previous revisions in the last two quarterly results. Facebook’s results were counter trend to our expectations that many advertisers would pull back spending do to COVID-19 based on lack of supply (no need to… Read More »Facebook – Robust Search and Social Revenue Growth Counter trend to Overall Market
Enterprise and Consumer’s Use of Cloud Resources Changing to the New Normal because of COVID-19 PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. Aug. 5, 2020 — According to a newly released report issued by founding analysts of 650 Group, US Hyperscaler Cloud market revenue grew 11% Y/Y in 2Q’20 while the supply chain for… Read More »US Hyperscalers Set Cloud Revenue and CAPEX Records in 2Q’20
Google, the largest US Hyperscaler by revenue, reported Search and Social results that declined Y/Y for the first time while IaaS revenue grew nearly $1B Y/Y. We were a little surprised at Facebook’s robust growth compared to Google’s. Google’s results were in line with our overall expectations for Search and… Read More »Google – Revenue Down Y/Y in Search While IaaS Shows Robust Growth
