Dell’Oro: SD-WAN Market decelerated in Q1
The worldwide SD-WAN market continued to expand in the first quarter of 2020, but the 24 percent year over year growth rate was well below the 64 percent annual growth...
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IDC: OCP-compliant hardware to grow at a 16.6% CAGR
Worldwide revenue from the Open Compute Project (OCP) infrastructure market will reach $33.8 billion in 2024, according to a new report from IDC, hitting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
Cignal AI: Network operators accelerate Capex in response to COVID-19
The effects of COVID-19 simultaneously catalyzed demand for transport equipment and paralyzed supply chains worldwide during the first quarter of 2020, according to Cignal AI’s latest Transport Hardware Report. Results...
Vertical Systems Group: How will COVID-19 impact SD-WAN?
Following a triple-digit revenue increase in 2019 for U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services, the growth outlook for 2020 has been lowered to 17% due to the impact of COVID-19, according...
Dell’Oro: Optical Transport Equipment sales for DCI up 13% in Q1
Sales of optical transport equipment used for data center interconnect (DCI) increased 13 percent year-over-year in 1Q 2020, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group,. The top three vendors...
650 Group: Ethernet switch market dropped 10% YoY in Q1
The Ethernet Switch Market declined nearly 10% Y/Y on weak campus and data center results in 1Q20, declining to approximately $7 billion, according to a newly released report from 650...
Mobile operator survey: 81% say progress toward 5G is moving rapidly
Approximately 30% of mobile service providers are already proactively planning to add 5G standalone capabilities to their networks, and another 9 percent say their companies will move directly to standalone,...
Crehan: Server-class Ethernet adapter market up 30% YoY in Q1
Shipments of total server-class Ethernet adapters increased more than thirty percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020, according to a recent report from Crehan Research. This increase is the...
Opengear: Estimated the cost of enterprise network outages
In the US, nearly two-fifths (38%) of senior IT decision-makers and network managers reported losing more than $1 million in the past 12 months, according to a recent study commissioned...
IDC: Limited COVID-19 impact to global telecom service spending
IDC is predicting that worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay TV services will reach nearly $1.6 trillion in 2020, a decrease of 0.8% compared to 2019, indicating only a limited...
IDC predicts 5.1% dip in IT spending, growth for infrastructure
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IDC lowered its forecast for global IT spending, saying it now expects a decline of 5.1% in constant currency terms this year to $2.25 trillion....
Vertical Systems Group’s U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN LEADERBOARD
AT&T tops Vertical Systems Group's newly 2019 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services LEADERBOARD. The following companies achieved a position on the benchmark (in rank order based on site share): AT&T,...
IDC predicts drop in IT spending in nearly every industry in 2020
IDC is predicting that worldwide IT spending to decline 2.7% this year due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with certain industry segments such as hospitality and tourism-heavy...
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