SDWAN and the Enterprise Edge: Market Update
“What do they know of SDWAN, who only SDWAN know?”* The total market for SDWAN services continues to growly strongly. We forecast a total market in 2027 of at least $22B in 2027, and possibly as much...
View Article“Service aware Silicon”- Implications drawn from Nokia’s new FP5
For an industry so obsessed with decoupling, layering and software-ization, it seems ironic that many conversations about these end up at the very bottom: the silicon. Yes, the cloud is changing...
View ArticleSubex User Conference: Perspectives
Subex’s 17th (!) annual user conference was a slick affair. The conference kicked off with an impressive virtual world animation and conference experience, the online event taking place in what looked...
View ArticleTelecomTV Open RAN Summit 2021: Review
No real surprises at TTV’s Open RAN summit. But that’s not to say there weren’t interesting developments. It turns out a year can be a long time in telecom. Looking back at my writeup on the same event...
View ArticleFutureNet Asia: Review
Europe’s telcos are, broadly speaking, much like one another. In Asia, it’s a much more varied story. FutureNet’s first Asia-focused event was an ambitious undertaking. Asia is home to a around 60% of...
View ArticleAutomating Security
CSPs and Enterprises both need a radical new approach to the challenges – and sizeable opportunities – in Security. Appledore forecasts that by 2026 17.9B USD is at stake in the form of managed...
View ArticleEricsson Vonage – what does this mean?
Ericsson are acquiring Vonage for USD 6.2 billion to spearhead, what it says is, the creation of a global network and communication platform for open innovation “The core of our strategy is to build...
View ArticleRakuten Symphony Tunes Up
If Japan saw the premiere, then Europe is about to see a whole tour. The latest briefing call with Rakuten Symphony contained a characteristic mix of significant achievements, transparency, vision,...
View ArticleExploiting the $3.3 Billion Telecom Operations AI Market
AIOps is the foundation of telecom operations innovation platform to improve network availability, capital efficiency, and cyber-attacks in cloud networks. AIOps is a critical system that dramatically...
View ArticleThe Rapid Evolution of End-to-End, Cross-Domain Service Orchestration
CSPs have the opportunity to capture a sizable slice of a $130bn+ incremental revenue opportunity (as estimated by Appledore Research) in the growing markets of dynamic enterprise services, IoT, 4IR...
View ArticleTransport Automation and the New Enterprise Model: A Deep Dive with Juniper.
The promise of cloud is the promise of automation. It’s almost that simple. Automation has many benefits; from reduced costs, to on-demand agility, to pro-active healing and higher effective...
View ArticleEvolving Assurance for the Cloud and 5G Era
The telecommunication industry invests billions of dollars each year in labor and capital expenses in its quest to provide high availability and network reliability in its communication infrastructure....
View ArticleEvent Preview: FutureNet World, London, 10-11 May 2022
As FutureNet World returns to London, we preview the event and answer the key question: worth attending? In the years immediately prior to the pandemic, FutureNet World established itself as a...
View ArticleNetwork Automation Software Market Enters New Phase of Growth
The market for telecom network automation software (NAS) is forecast to grow to $17.7B by 2027, according to new analysis by Appledore Research. Appledore’s definition of network automation software...
View ArticleMobiledgeX Disappears from View
MobiledgeX completely disappeared from view in April after its acquisition by Google. The X-factor of edge offerings from public cloud providers, and the increasing alignment of CSPs with them, seems...
View ArticleRakuten Symphony Quarterly Update Q1/22
Buckle up! It’s another Rakuten Symphony & Mobile media & analyst update. The latest briefing provided the now customary mixture of remarkable progress, boundless optimism and alternate...
View ArticleNew Automated Security Services Forecast is Good News for CSPs, If…
The enterprise services market is undergoing dramatic realignment, with the net result that Service Providers face a significantly larger opportunity – if they execute effectively and aggressively....
View ArticleAssurance, Dynamic Networks and Federation
Dynamic networks are increasing, rather than decreasing, the need for federation. Not only do big bang transformations not work, they can’t work. A big part of the reason is the inertia of existing...
View ArticleJuniper Cloud Metro gets the priorities right
Aston Martin’s Gayden factory, in the UK, was the location for the launch of Juniper Cloud Metro Network last week. The Aston Martin factory was an interesting (or even inspired) location for the...
View ArticleRakuten Mobile/Symphony Q2 Update
On 9th August, Rakuten Group provided a readout on its Q2 results, with more detailed drilldowns on Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, presented by joint CEO Tareq Amin. It has been a year since the...
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