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Global Mobile Broadband FOrum 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 »Blog
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Broadens its In-House Developed enterprise-class WLAN Product Line
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 »Blog
Comcast ActiveCore – Massive step forward for SD-WAN and Potential Router Market Trouble
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 »Blog
Cloud and DCI – Vendors with Different Definitions talk up DCI at Deutsche Bank Tech Conference
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 »Blog
Huawei Connect – Connecting Clouds and Everything Else
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 »Blog
Nokia Broadband strategy Revealed
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 »Blog