AUTOMATING FIREWALL CHANGE MANAGEMENT

whitePaper | August 2, 2021

Traditional methods of building wide area networks (WANs) have always had limitations, but fell even further behind with the adoption of the cloud and remote work. Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) have simplified many aspects of WAN management, but are unable to fully break away from the hub-and-spoke model due to security requirements. Modern WAN-as-a-Service offerings address these shortcomings while providing organizations cost savings and improving network performance.

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

5G networks are more than just an iteration of networking technology. They enable fundamentally new ways for businesses to operate and offer their products and services. To unlock this, service providers will need to adopt a new network architecture that is software-defined, fully disaggregated and has the ability to be distributed optimally to meet performance and latency requirements.

whitePaper | August 30, 2021

The Heavy Reading 2020 5G Network & Service Strategies Operator Survey is designed to provide insight into how operators will scale 5G networks and identify the service strategies operators believe will drive investment and customer value. Developed in association with the report sponsors, the survey questionnaire was fielded to respondents in the Light Reading service provider database in January 2020. It was open only to employees of communications service providers (CSPs).

whitePaper | December 18, 2019

Edge is a vital aspect of 5G as the weight of bandwidth demand continues to increase. By 2025, the average amount of data traffic that will go through a North American smartphone is predicted to be 25 GB per month, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report, a tenfold jurnp from 2016's average traffic amount. Driving this jump is an increased reliance on streaming, advanced video graphics, and a rise in bandwidth-heavy applications. This means the bandwidth demand on SG will be, by today’s standards, astronomical.

whitePaper | July 18, 2021

In this Omdia White Paper, learn more on: How converged policy will evolve in 5G. Why operators need converged policy. How operators need converged policy. The importance of a cloud-native policy across NSA to SA migration.

whitePaper | July 20, 2021

In 2Q21, Heavy Reading surveyed 86 communications service providers (CSPs) across global regions on their plans for customer premises equipment overall and universal CPE (uCPE) specifically. This report presents the highlights of that survey. Omdia’s uCPE Tracker – 1H21 Annual Forecast report projects that the worldwide uCPE hardware market will grow from $52.5m in 2020 to $2.3bn in 2025—an impressive CAGR of 113% over five years. With this in mind, Heavy Reading expected to see good support for uCPE from survey respondents, and we were not disappointed. We targeted the survey at CSPs planning to implement uCPE within, at most, 24 months. Nevertheless, the respondent pool showed a more lively than anticipated adoption of uCPE. 59% of US, 61% of Asia Pacific (APAC), and 39% of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) respondents have already deployed uCPE.