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Multi-Terabit Switch Chips & Software

October 2018

Cloud-based services and the data centers required to deliver those services are driving strong demand for high-performance switch chips that can handle up to 12.8 Tbit/s in a single device. Following significant investment over the past five years, there are now more companies than ever before with competitive Ethernet switch chips. The market is rapidly […]

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Multicore Processor & Switch Survey 2018

September 2018

Integrated multicore processors and switch chips are at the center of networking systems and general-purpose processors, designed for servers, are also widely used for packet processing. Virtual network functions (VNFs) running on server processors are replacing physical systems at both the core and edge of the network. Integrated multicore processors, with standard processor cores and […]

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5G/LTE Base Station, RRH, CPE & IoT Components: A Competitive Analysis

August 2018

As the mobile industry prepares for the introduction of 5G services, we have seen significant investment in components to implement 5G/LTE macro and small base stations, centralized and cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), remote radio heads (RRH), customer premises equipment (CPE) and handset modems, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The latest components support 3GPP […]

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Universal CPE: The Ultimate CPE Solution?

May 2018

Universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) systems are generic network appliances that can be provisioned with virtual network functions (VNFs) to support all the networking functions required in a typical enterprise office. uCPE systems are often provided as part of a communications and cloud services solution that can include virtual applications and functions running on servers […]

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Multicore Processors Accelerating Network Virtualization: A Competitive Analysis

February 2018

Multicore processors are more important than ever in networking systems due to the shift to virtualized networks using software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). Virtual network functions (VNFs) may be running on servers in the data center, on network appliances platforms at the edge of the network or on universal CPE (uCPE) systems […]

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Gfast Rollout Starts With Amendment 3 Chipsets

January 2018

With governments mandating minimum broadband speeds and users investing in Ultra HD TVs and the latest gadgets, we are seeing rapidly-growing demand for higher-speed fixed broadband. Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are increasingly using cloud-based services, are also using fixed broadband lines for their main Internet connection or as a backup connection. Mobile data […]

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Smart NICs: Accelerating Virtualized Applications 

November 2017

Communications service providers are investing heavily in large and hyper-scale data centers to deliver content, data processing and communications services. The applications delivering these services must have access to high-speed storage and networking, be secure and run in a virtualized environment based on software-defined networking (SDN). Virtualization software, load balancing, encryption, deep packet inspection (DPI) […]

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From 25/100G to 400/600G: A Competitive Analysis of Optical Modules & Components

July 2017

Global communications networks are changing dramatically. High-speed mobile access and cloud services are driving massive bandwidth demand from users. Virtualization is changing the network, with application servers and many of the network functions themselves hosted in large data centers. Hyperscale data center operators and service providers are installing 100 Gbit/s (100G) connections across their networks, […]

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Terabit Switch Chips & Software for SDN & the White Box Era

January 2017

The industry is moving to cloud-based services with virtual functions implemented on servers in data centers. These virtualized solutions require significantly higher bandwidth between servers and between applications running on the servers and users. Switches are the key link, providing low latency packet forwarding, network virtualization and overlay capabilities to maximize performance in virtualized network […]

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Multicore Processors Driving Network Virtualization: A Competitive Analysis

December 2016

Multicore processors are at the heart of the revolution in the world’s communications infrastructure, enabling virtualized network functions (VNFs) and the shift to cloud-based services. Industry developments including software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) rely on server platforms with multicore processors that scale from small and medium-size business premises equipment, through the network […]

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