| NOTAS: | "In a climate of perpetual change, network equipment and technology vendors must constantly innovate to provide their customers with newer and more efficient ways to move traffic across their networks and charge for the service. Their customers need network innovation from vendors because they continue to struggle to right the imbalance between the growth of data traffic and the cost to transport and manage it on the one hand and the revenues generated by that traffic on the other. This report looks at the most significant network infrastructure trends to watch in 2014 and beyond as network operators seek a better balance between cost and revenue. Those trends include small cells, data and customer experience management, the move to more software-dominated networks, increased optical network capacity in the metro, and changes with the silicon used by network equipment providers (NEPs)." |
