Yesterday, Ericsson and Juniper announced plans to partner to tackle 5G transport challenges together. Additionally, Ericsson announced a partnership with optical transport company, ECI. The companies said that Ericsson’s Router 6000 product family will focus on fronthaul and backhaul and edge compute and will be complemented by Juniper MX, PTX and… Read More »ERicsson and Juniper Re-Partner To Pursue 5G; ECI also announced
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
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
