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Facebook – Robust Search and Social Revenue Growth Counter trend to Overall Market
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 »Blog
Google – Revenue Down Y/Y in Search While IaaS Shows Robust Growth
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 »Blog
Cloud Revenue Differs Greatly Between Search and IaaS as 2Q20 results Affirm 650 Group Forecast Projections
Over the next five days, we will highlight each of the US Hyperscalers and the results they had during 1H20 and 2Q20. Today we will start with the overall trends in the market. US Hyperscaler revenue grew 20% in 2Q20 compared to a year ago, setting a new record. US trade… Read More »Blog
And then there were 10 (RAN VEndors)
Before the consolidation in the Mobile Radio Access Network (MRAN) market that occurred in the past decade during Huawei’s ascendancy, there were a dozen major RAN vendors. They included Motorola, Lucent, Alcatel, Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, NEC, Fujitsu, Samsung, Nortel, Huawei and ZTE, and they hailed from the US, France, Germany,… Read More »Blog
Our take On Ciena’s Pluggables Strategy
We attended two separate presentations made by Ciena last week and have reflected on the comments made by the company. In summary, Ciena advocated using both pluggables like ZR and ZR+ as well as high-performance optical transport systems (its main business) together to construct cost-effective networks. The mix and match… Read More »Blog
HPE Aruba’s Purchase of Silver Peak Strengthens Edge and Branch Portfolio
Alan Weckel: This week, HPE Aruba announced its planned acquisition of Silver Peak for $925 million with an expected close date during HPE’s fiscal 2020, so we expect the deal to close in calendar 4Q20. SD-WAN is becoming a battleground for vendors as an increasing portion of enterprises want single-pane… Read More »Blog