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05/09/2013
Semiconductor Vendors Will Benefit Big From IoE
ABI Research‘s latest data on the Internet of Everything (IoE) shows more than 10 billion wirelessly connected devices in the market today, growing to more than 30 billion by 2020. Node- or sensor-type devices will drive future growth, accounting for more than 60 percent of the installed device base by 2020. "The emergence of standardized […]
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05/09/2013
Why OTN Switching Is On The Rise
According to Infonetics Research, 86 percent of the service providers it surveyed are planning to deploy optical transport network (OTN) switching. “OTN switching is no longer a niche technology,” comments Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst/Optical. “In the recent past, there was a sizeable minority of carriers who planned to skip OTN switching, but that minority is […]
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05/08/2013
More Network Traffic, More Blade Solutions
3G and 4G mobile broadband has increased data traffic to the IP network and to Internet points of presence, creating such specialist DPI and optimization firms as Allot and Sandvine. “If it were not for performance needs, no operator would deploy a distributed network,” says Joe Hoffman, principal analyst. “But since the market demands that […]
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05/08/2013
How SMB Marketers Are Outspending Their Enterprise Rivals
North American B2B small business marketers – when compared with their B2B enterprise peers – allocate more budget to content marketing, plan to spend more on content marketing over the next 12 months and outsource content creation less frequently, according to a new report from the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), sponsored by Outbrain. The report […]
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05/07/2013
T-Mobile USA: Network, Handset Promises Must Be Kept
No more Number Three nice guy. A survey by Mich.-based Market Strategies International says T-Mobile USA (which now incorporates MetroPCS [CTDaily, 05/02/13]) is poised to take the fight to its competition with the addition of Apple products and its new contract-free “un-carrier” strategy…as long as it delivers on its promise of an incredible network experience. […]
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05/07/2013
After A Down Year, Carrier Ethernet Market Headed For $39B In 2017
According to Infonetics Research, the global carrier Ethernet equipment market fell 3 percent (to $34 billion) in 2012, following a 13-percent spike in 2011. However, the group predicts slow but steady growth during the next five years, reaching about $39 billion in 2017. Spending on IP edge routers totaled $9.4 billion last year, the most […]