Juniper made a significant announcement at OFC on the photonics front. It announced the launch of silicon photonics optics designed and built by Juniper. This is a big deal for the industry and for data center networking. To give some market background, as the market moves from 100 Gbps to… Read More »Juniper’s OFC Photonics announcement is a big deal
Juniper Networks announced plans to acquire Mist Systems for approximately $405M in cash. We think this deal makes sense for Juniper, who can now sell a key technology – WLAN – into its customer base of large and medium enterprises. Valuation of the deal probably fell a bit short of… Read More »Juniper announces plan to Acquire WLAN Vendor, Mist Systems
We attended the Mobile World Congress last week in Barcelona along with an estimated 104,00 others from nearly every country in the world. We met with over 42 companies and nearly 200 people at the show and attended many press announcements. While most of the MWC19 headlines were about 5G,… Read More »MWC19 Was As much About Enterprise and Unlicensed as it was 5G
Today I attended the Extreme Analyst day at the NASDAQ in New York. Extreme’s 4Q18 switch revenue grew over 10% and in our preliminary view of 4Q18, it took share. The company highlighted over 30,000 customers and over 6,000 partners in a one-Extreme approach that has integrated the acquisitions of… Read More »THOUGHTS from Extreme NEtworks analyst day
Today, Amazon announced that it will acquire eero, a consumer mesh WiFi equipment company that as of 3Q18 had 13% revenue share. In 3Q18, the consumer mesh WiFi market measured just over $150M, which was up just over 34% Y/Y. The number one player by revenue was NETGEAR in 3Q18,… Read More »Amazon Acquisition of eero Impacts Google, NETGEAR, Linksys, Ubiquiti and TP-Link
Western Digital Corporation, also known as WDC, held its investor meeting yesterday. We highlight four important disclosures: (a) it expects HDD to survive, despite flash’s advantages, (b) WDC’s plans to use RISC and launch a new memory interface, (c) an update on current business trends, and (d) the company’s plans… Read More »WDC Analyst Meeting Update; reiterating the 10x cost differential between HDD and Flash
On November 13, 2018, Cisco announced its new Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controller. With this announcement, Cisco now enables large enterprises to manage their WLAN networks from the cloud. This announcement has several components to it that are interesting. Available C4Q18 The 9800 runs Cisco IOS XE The 9800 can be… Read More »Cisco’s New Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller Signals A Shift Towards Cloud-Managed
Our big takeaway from its recent global analyst meeting was that Nokia is formalizing its enterprise business. Of course, the company’s primary business, which focuses on telecom service providers, is undergoing major product updates, including towards 5G, Fixed Wireless Access and towards network slicing. We have published about these topics… Read More »Nokia Analyst Meeting UPdate; A Focus on Enterprise
At Mavenir’s analyst meeting in Dallas today, the company stated that it expects to grow its revenues about 10% Y/Y in 2018. In arriving at this revenue, it is pursuing a price-aggressor strategy to some extent and has a surprisingly broad portfolio of telecom-focused products. Its product line is software-oriented,… Read More »Our take on Mavenir, new entrant to Radio Access Network (RAN) market
Mid-band spectrum shortages in the US was the main thrust of the 5G Americas sponsors. The idea is that the rest of the world has lots of mid-band spectrum available and service providers in countries that could be considered economic leaders (Japan, Korea, China, Western European countries) have plenty of… Read More »5G Americas Update on Mid-Band, CBRS, 5G C0re
