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Multiband Microwave Provides High Capacity & High Reliability for 5G Transport
Summary Consumer and enterprise customers demand higher-speed connections, greater reliability, more visibility, and faster response times. These demands have led to the development of 5G, built to support an Internet of Things (IoT), higher capacity, and very-low-latency connections. Service providers will need many network tools to address connections to 5G base stations that support this low latency, high bandwidth, and high reliability.
Open banking initiatives are high on the investment agenda for 2018 - Ovum
The topic of open banking has been at or close to the top of the industry agenda for several years now, largely catalyzed by the European Commission’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
ESBs are doing well as SOA declines as a heavyweight approach - Ovum
Enterprise service buses (ESBs) continue to be the backbone of integration infrastructure of many large enterprises. The upcoming Ovum report, 2017 Trends to Watch: API-led and Cloud-based Integration, elaborates on the gradual demise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a heavyweight “big bang” solution architectural approach and examines why ESBs continue to enjoy a successful independent existence as a robust piece of middleware.
Cherwell strengthens enterprise service management proposition with Advanced Marketplace acquisition - Ovum
Cherwell Software has announced the acquisition of Advanced Marketplace (AMP), an ITSM implementation service provider that specializes in supporting organizations embracing service management practices and technology. The acquisition will help Cherwell strengthen its mApp ecosystem, broadening the value proposition of the popular service management platform beyond just the IT department. Enterprise service management (ESM) is a topic of great focus and much conversation.
Price reductions boost sales to ensure a Happy Christmas for smart home vendors - Ovum
In the run-up to Christmas season, several vendors in the smart home market took advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday’s shopping frenzy to promote their products with price reductions and exclusive deals. This initiative to boost sales has helped the smart home industry to consolidate and gain ground in the mass market, making it a Merry Christmas for many vendors.
Ciena delivers a dynamically programmable coherent modem targeted at DCI and submarine applications - Ovum
Ciena’s next-generation WaveLogic Ai modem raises the standard in the high-capacity, long-distance transmission technology race by offering open APIs that enable customer-programmable bandwidth (in 50Gb increments) and advanced telemetry. The next critical step for Ciena will be to deliver on its promise of integrating the new modem in future products starting in 2Q17.
Merchants will become the real drivers of change in the payments ecosystem - Ovum
It’s clear that 2017 will be another year of major change in the retail payments industry.
Mexico’s controversial wholesale 700MHz network plan passes crucial milestone - Ovum
The contract awarded to the Altan consortium to build and manage a wholesale 700MHz network in Mexico is an important milestone for the controversial regulatory plan to create the network, which was included in the government’s constitutional reforms in 2013 and aims to develop a more competitive environment and cover unconnected residents. The bidding process entailed several delays and last-minute disputes, and the network is expected to require over $7bn of investment.
Snap’s $25bn IPO is based on a firm foundation for monetization - Ovum
The US-headquartered messaging player Snapchat, which recently became Snap Inc., has filed for an IPO which values the company at approximately $25bn. The IPO has been filed confidentially, which does not put the company under obligation to publicly share user and revenue KPIs, but allows it to gauge interest among investors ahead of going public early next year.
Business TV moves toward DIY personalization with ADB's vuCaster - Ovum
Personalization of the digital user experience is a core strategic objective for enterprises operating in today’s connected economy, driven by the adoption of smartphones, broadband, cloud, and now the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Ovum’s 2016/17 ICT Enterprise Insights survey, almost half (41%) of media enterprises and digital service providers report that creating a personalized user experience will be their top business priority in the next 18 months.
Cloud providers have untapped opportunities in Singapore - Ovum
Although Singapore businesses are familiar with cloud services, their adoption of cloud services is relatively modest. Large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) differ in their planned investments into cloud layers. To improve cloud adoption, cloud service providers must simplify how they articulate the benefits of their cloud services to Singapore businesses.
Will 2017 be the year of the student information system in higher education? - Ovum
The global economic crisis in 2008 has had a profound negative impact on endowment performance, public sector financial support, and the ability of students and their families to pay tuition, and in recent years, disruption in the higher education industry has been accelerating at an unprecedented pace.
Becoming a DSP: Good company makes the transition easier - Ovum
Digital transformation may be an overused term but it is still useful shorthand for the journey CSPs are having to undertake to bring digital services to the market and make their operating model more efficient and agile to support the digital lifestyle of their customers.
2017 Trends to Watch Higher Education - Ovum
There has been a significant amount of change in the higher education industry over the past decade. With funding pressures and increasing focus on student success and completion, IT plays a pivotal role in delivering key services, enabling digital transformation, and providing competitive institutional differentiation. The ability to achieve this is dependent on IT partnering with institutional leadership at a strategic level to meet institutional goals.
White paper: Re-architecting Legacy Systems is the Keystone for Transformation - Ovum
This white paper was sponsored by Ciber and draws on Ovum’s existing research on the application modernization space as well as Ovum’s proprietary tools and databases. The views expressed in this white paper are based on Ovum’s ongoing research into the technology and services markets, including ongoing conversations with vendor, advisory, and enterprise customers. Please click the link below to download the White paper.
CDW 2016: SPs must go beyond best-effort techniques to advance with OTT video - Ovum
Conventional wisdom has held that ever-increasing broadband speeds will always provide the necessary room for video streamed over the top (OTT) of the public Internet to grow in scale and sophistication. However, at this year’s Content Delivery World (CDW 2016) conference, held in London on November 8–10, service providers (SPs) were urged to adopt new techniques to ensure that best-effort delivery remains good enough for tomorrow’s viewers.
Preparing for 5G: Network and security considerations - Ovum
Even though fully standardized 5G won’t be commercially available until 2020, operators can’t afford to sit back and not prepare. 5G will address a much wider range of spectrum bands and use cases and services than we have seen in previous mobile generations. As such 5G will bring about radical changes to the mobile operator’s network.
CloudNativeCon helps define microservices-based development - Ovum
The first cloud-native conference, CloudNativeCon, which was held in Seattle November 8-9, 2016, was a sellout event that helped define a new approach to application development based on microservices and containerization. The same event ran concurrently with KubeCon, a conference for the Kubernetes community, and the combined conferences were organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Enterprise mobility: A vital piece of the digital transformation puzzle - Ovum
Digital transformation is, undoubtedly, a hot topic and an area of significant interest to organizations across the globe. It’s important to remember that digital transformation means different things to different organizations and encompasses many different themes and considerations. There are, however, common areas that are imperative to any digital transformation effort, and mobility is certainly one of them.
Infinera announces a meshponder to address the need for 200G and 400G - Ovum
The next-generation PIC in Infinera’s meshponder provides 2.4x the capacity of its previous PIC, 200G, and a roadmap to 400G. The new meshponder can be connected to different meshponders with different slices (channels) directed to the appropriate meshponders. The slicing capability is enabled by the new Flexgrid ROADM. Infinera’s solution can slice “elephant flows” of traffic for data centers and “mouse flows” for carriers and everything in between in 100G increments.
Infinera announces a meshponder to address the need for 200G and 400G - Ovum
On November 17, 2016, Infinera announced the Infinite Capacity Engine, a meshponder for 200Gbps+ that utilizes Infinera's fourth-generation Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC). Infinera has been lagging the market with its 200G+ solution and point solutions in regional networks, so this will allow it to compete more effectively by offering higher capacity and purpose-built point solutions for high traffic scenarios.
Digital tools still need to work with analog brains - Ovum
There is no doubt that digital productivity tools, delivered via laptops, mobile phones, and tablets, are useful in enabling users to create, share, and distribute their work efficiently. However, research suggests that there are significant educational benefits to some old-fashioned analog skill sets that can be critical to the way we think and solve problems.
$2.1 trillion in communications capex up for grabs in next five years - Ovum
Ovum’s new capex forecast projects that communications provider (CP) capex will exceed $2.1 trillion over the next five years (2017–21). Well over $800bn of this capex will reach vendors. Spending their technology budgets wisely, though, will continue to challenge CPs as revenue growth rates slow. Total revenues for the three types of communications providers (CPs) we track will grow from $2,851bn in 2015 to $3,427bn in 2021.
2017 ICT Enterprise Insights: Government investment priorities - Ovum
Ovum’s latest ICT Enterprise Insights (ICTEI) survey once again provides a timely snapshot into the thinking of government CIOs across the globe. This year’s survey highlights how government CIOs are focusing on allocating spend to improving employees’ access to a wider range of mobile applications. At the same time, investment is flowing into customer relationship management and analytic tools.
To drive adoption of SDN, OIF demonstrates Transport Application Programming Interface (TAPI) - Ovum
The goal of networking standards groups is to establish multivendor/multicarrier standards that interoperate. To achieve that goal, the OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum) is conducting a global interoperability demo to test software-defined networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interfaces (TAPI) among 5 global carriers and 11 system and software vendors.
With tighter regulations and increasingly savvy consumers, cybersecurity transitions from an IT to a business-wide profitability concern - Ovum
Major players across a variety of consumer-facing industries have been targets of cybersecurity attacks in recent years (e.g., Anthem, Sony, Target, Home Depot). Therefore, the security of consumer data is rapidly becoming an issue that companies have to prioritize not only in their cybersecurity/IT infrastructure agenda but also within their public relation endeavors.
CenturyLink acquiring Level 3 to create stronger US player and larger global challenger - Ovum
CenturyLink just announced its agreement to acquire Level 3 Communications for $34bn, a move that will create a larger fiber-rich national carrier in the US and a larger global challenger for its enterprise business and customers. Both companies have a strong US presence and footprint, but they will combine their global assets to create a stronger global enterprise provider.
Acquisition of Level 3 by CenturyLink creates North American wholesale giant - Ovum
On October 31, CenturyLink announced it would spend $34bn to acquire Level 3 Communications. In January, Ovum predicted that “increased M&A activity will impact the wholesale market in a variety of ways.” Provided the transaction secures the necessary approvals, it will create a third giant in the North American wholesale market and a significant player in the global wholesale market.
Where are enterprises in achieving digital transformation? - Ovum
Ovum’s ICT Enterprise Insights program 2016/17 has now been released. Based on primary interviews with more than 7,000 senior IT buyers across the globe, it provides some very interesting, detailed data on how enterprises are progressing with respect to their digital transformation strategies and how this is translating into investment in different technologies.
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