Research Center

The Challenge The scale of malicious attacks against communications service providers (CSPs) is increasing at a frightening pace. According to a report from Arbor Networks report, in the first half of 2016, the peak DDoS attack size reached 579Gbps, up 73 percent from 2015.... More Info

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Tab There’s a common misconception about the concept of evolution: that it has a purpose in mind, an end-goal.... More Info

In CSP News...Deutsche Telekom has launched the the first Global, Enterprise Network powered by the Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance (ngena), offering its corporate customers rapidly deployable network connections and services. All ngena partners share their networks and connect them to a global, highly standardized network that is based on state-of-the-art technology that is managed by software.... More Info

This on-demand panel discussion highlights how service providers can compete with web-scale cloud providers and thrive in an era of digital disruption, by boosting Agility and investing in development models that expedite speed-to-market and time-to-monetization for higher volumes of complex services.... More Info

As written recently in The Economist, the world’s most lucrative asset is no longer oil, but data. Data is the currency of the 21st Century, and companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Tesla have replaced Big Oil as the most powerful companies in the world— the collective having control over much of the world’s data and over much of the revenue to be made in the “data economy.” “Ten years ago, the challenge was to collect the data, and Big Data became the means by which businesses could affordably collect the data they never had before…... More Info