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Arista Networks – Campus Core – A Little Bit of Campus, A Little Bit of Data Center
Today Arista announced its entry into the campus market launching several products in the core and aggregation layer for campus switching. For years there has always been a blurry line on how one defines campus core, partially driven by the utility of the Cat 6500 installed base. But this has… Read More »Blog
NFV World Congress – Nokia, NEC/netcracker, Google, CenturyTel Highlights
Keynotes at the NFV World & Zero-Touch Congress in San Jose, California were very interesting today. We share our observations and view of the main themes from these interesting presentations by Nokia, NEC/Netcracker, Google, CenturyTel. The main theme of these presentations, we think, is this: NFV/SDN is now deeply in… Read More »Blog
Huawei Enterprise Services Growth was 33% Last Year
We attended the Huawei Analyst Summit 2018 in Shenzhen, China last week and reported mainly on service provider trends. This week, we highlight some of our observations about Huawei’s Enterprise business, specifically, the enterprise business. The Enterprise Services revenue grew 33% Y/Y in 2017, driven by 56% Y/Y growth in… Read More »Blog
Huawei Analyst Meeting Recap – a Big Focus on Artificial Intelligence and a Downplay of 5G
Eric Xu, Rotating Deputy Chairman of Huawei addressing audience questions at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2018 The main theme of the the Huawei HAS 2018 meeting keynotes was Artificial Intelligence and, secondarily, nearly ubiquitous networks connections across the world. Huawei expects 86% of enterprises to have experimented with AI by… Read More »Blog
NetApp Analyst Meeting – Focused on Hyperconverged, All Flash Array and Public Cloud Software
At NetApp’s analyst meeting today, CEO George Kurian sees opportunity in selling HCI (introduced F2Q18, 4-5 months ago), AFA, share-taking in SAN, and public cloud software and services. Every large customer NetApp talks to, according to Kurian, is using multiple cloud service providers and/or SaaS services and most are using the… Read More »Blog
Mavenir Analyst Briefing – UCaaS, RCS Monetization, xRAN & 5G markets
Mavenir held a ‘virtual’ analyst meeting – essentially a webinar – that conveyed the company’s efforts on several new initiatives: (a) SMB UCaaS – small business unified communications, (b) Messaging as a Platform (MaaP), (c) Monetization of messaging, (d) Security Solutions (relating to toll fraud, for instance), and (d) xRAN/Open… Read More »Blog