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Monday, December 8, 2014

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Nuage/ALU on the VNS Solution in an SP Context

Accelerating time to deployment, enabling differentiation, achieving policy continuity for services and applications from the endpoint to the cloud, and streamlining operations with the same automation and elastic system architecture at every key point in a network deployment aspirations widely pursued by both enterprise IT teams as well as service providers providing cloud and network services to business and enterprise customers. With the introduction of its Virtualized Network Services solution, building on the strengths of its already available Virtualized Services Platform for cloud and virtual data center networks, Nuage Networks is enabling the kind of pervasive agility its enterprise and SP customers have been searching for by bringing the benefits of cloud and virtual infrastructure technologies to enterprise branch and distributed network sites. 

Click here to download report of ACG’s analysis of the VNS offering and its contribution to achieving these goals in its Research Note on VNS.

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Paul Parker-Johnson


ACG HotSeat Whiteboard on Nuage Networks: Seamless enterprise networking; data center to branch

Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks, discuss how the cloud is changing the way businesses consume and share information: for internal use or for sharing information with customers and business partners.The trouble with the cloud is its not ubiquitous; it is made up of distinct islands of capability. The compute resides in the data center, and the consumers reside remotely.

Nuage Networks has shown that with SDN we can remove the static constraints within and across the data center to unleash the speed of consumption of information within the cloud. We now need to provide the same seamless environment for the branch environment and to improve the dynamic nature of the wide area network.

ACG Innovation Spotlight with Rotem Salomonovitch of Nuage Networks

Paul Parker-Johnson, ACG Research, and Rotem Salomonovitch, Nuage Networks, discuss the cloud and how it is changing the way businesses consume and share information. The trouble with the cloud is its not ubiquitous; it is made up of distinct islands of capability. The compute resides in the data center, and the consumers reside remotely, in the offices and branches of corporations or at the households and on the move. In the car, on the train, at the airport (or even on the plane). These users, the consumers of the data in the cloud are mobile and that means this is a global problem.

The fabric that links the information flow across and through the cloud is based on static networking models, models that have not fundamentally changed for over 20 years; technology has evolved but the fundamental architectures have remained the same.

Nuage Networks has shown that with SDN we can remove the static constraints within and across the data center to unleash the speed of consumption of information within the cloud. We now need to provide the same seamless environment for the branch environment and to improve the dynamic nature of the wide area network.


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Paul Parker-Johnson

The Word on Nuage Networks' VNS Solution

Paul Parker-Johnson catches up with Nuage Networks on the strengths of their new Virtualized Networking Services Solution. Find out what he has to say.

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Juniper Networks: Leveraging the Benefits of Virtualization and Automation

Mike Marcellin, senior vice president of strategy and marketing at Juniper Networks, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss Juniper’s significant new NFV announcements: a carrier-grade virtualized version of its MX Series Edge Router, the vMX, as well as new Contrail Cloud and Junos DevOps capabilities that enable customers to leverage the benefits of virtualization and automation. Service providers' technology, operations, and business model transformations are also key discussion points, as well as customer use cases for Juniper’s new NFV solutions. 


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Forecast of Residential Fixed Broadband and Subscription Video Requirements

Residential fixed broadband usage has evolved from static search and information retrieval to multimedia content delivery on a wide variety of devices. The move from broadcast service, which is multicast across the metro network, to broadband video service, which is unicast, and the use of many more devices in each household will have a massive impact on the required bandwidth capacity of the metro network.

ACG Research presents a five-year projection of average household bandwidth requirements. Average household bandwidth requirements are estimated to be 2.5 Mbps in 2014 and will grow at a five-year CAGR in a range from 19 percent to 44 percent with a most likely value of 31 percent. 


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