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Simon Sherrington
March 2017
This report reviews LTE-Advanced Pro technology development and deployment, highlighting the key networking features and showing how far vendors and operators have gotten in terms of developing, trialing and deploying the technologies. It also profiles leading mobile RAN system vendors, as well as a leading LTE-A Pro chipset vendor, showing how far they have come in terms of implementing, trialing and deploying Release 13 networking features.
Craig Leddy
March 2017
Today, pay-TV service providers and content companies face a wider variety of security threats than ever before, and most are ill-prepared to deal with them. This report assesses the new threats facing pay-TV providers, including video piracy and cyberattacks. It discusses the widening array of vulnerabilities that are exposing providers, as well as new solutions for protection. The report includes an overview 10 pay-TV security suppliers that offer products in the U.S. cable market.
February 2017
This report, part of Light Reading's Testapedia initiative, surveys the means and methods of monitoring and assuring the performance of vCPE. The market for tools to monitor vCPE is dependent on the challenges inherent in vCPE implementations, and the development of the market for vCPE itself, so this report also characterizes the vCPE market. It includes overviews of companies that provide the pertinent tools and services.
Sandra O'Boyle, Senior Analyst – CEM & Customer Analytics, Heavy Reading
February 2017
Big data analytics is an increasingly essential tool for CSPs in managing customer experience management (CEM) - the process of managing all customer touchpoints to ensure a positive relationship with a brand. This report looks at the state of CEM in CSPs today, analyzing the market trends that are driving the next wave of customer experience, the competitive landscape for CEM vendors, and how vendors are meeting CSP needs for CEM solutions.
Steve Koppman, Contributing Analyst
February 2017
This report reviews the posture of U.S.-based MSOs regarding these new technologies at this early stage of their emergence. It discusses key issues involved in terms of operators and technologies, reviews various areas where the MSOs are implementing or considering virtualization-based technologies and profiles several of the most pivotal industry players in this domain, concluding with a view to the future.
Simon Stanley
January 2017
This report details and analyzes high-performance Ethernet switch devices, embedded SDN and operating system software and innovative IP solutions, identifying the key requirements and highlighting the advantages they hold for equipment manufacturers and service providers. The report also reviews vendor strategies and surveys component features, performance and flexibility in this important market.
Craig Leddy
January 2017
To overcome its upstream limitations, the cable industry is rallying around full-duplex Docsis (FDX), which enables multi-gigabit upstream speeds. This report explores FDX, including the market drivers, requirements and challenges. It includes an update on Docsis 3.1, recent MSO activity and how the supplier market is shaping up.
Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
January 2017
The Future of Virtualization Indexes track CSP progress in deploying virtualization. CSPs remain devoted to network virtualization, but progress has been somewhat slow, and their timetables appear to be slipping. This report provides the findings of Heavy Reading's third survey on the Future of Virtualization Indexes, based on data gathered in November 2016.
Guy Zibi, Managing Director, Xalam Analytics
December 2016
This report takes an extensive look at FTTH adoption patterns across the continent, including key infrastructure, market structure and regulatory drivers along with current and projected levels of homes passed and connected.
Simon Sherrington
December 2016
This report assesses the roles that telecom operators and their vendors might play in the manufacturing revolution. It defines Industry 4.0, how that fits with other visions of the industrial future and what role connectivity will play in enabling manufacturers to revolutionize the ways they run their operations. Finally, it profiles companies from parts of the value chain to show how they address the Industry 4.0 opportunity.
Simon Stanley
December 2016
This report surveys high-performance multicore processors for virtualized networking applications, including general-purpose multicore processors, integrated multicore processors, I/O processors and network processors. The report also reviews the strategy, product mix and product architectures of multicore processor, IP and software vendors. This report covers 20 vendors, and uses information and product documentation supplied by these vendors, detailing more than 90 devices or groups of devices.
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Heavy Lifting
VNFs Draw Attention to Testing Needs
Denise Culver
3/16/2017 7:45:00 AM
As the infrastructure to support the onboarding of virtual network functions (VNFs) emerges, so the need for supporting test tools becomes increasingly apparent.
Shared Spectrum for 5G New Radio
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
3/10/2017 5:15:00 AM
There are compelling opportunities for shared spectrum in 5G, but the industry must seize the opportunity in the specification phase to realize them.
Digital Transformation Grows Up
Denise Culver
3/9/2017 8:30:00 AM
Companies are reacting to the need for digital transformation with evolved strategies and supporting products.
Pay-TV Security Gets 50 Shades Darker
Craig Leddy
3/2/2017 10:45:00 AM
Pay-TV providers are seeing new security threats and vulnerabilities every day, and are facing numerous challenges trying to tighten the security that protects organizations, as well as their ...
Defining NG Core for 5G Networks
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
2/27/2017 11:05:00 AM
5G services demand a new system architecture and core network.
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