Vertical BLOG

Will MEF 3.0 help to expand the community beyond the Tier 1 Service Providers who have been the biggest backers of MEF to date? Erin Dunne, Director of Research Service, Vertical Systems Group, comments on how the provisioning of automated, agile services presumes a deep ecosystem and common standards ...
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Vertical Systems Group's Research Director Erin Dunne examines the impact of cable's continuing share gains in the Ethernet services market and entrance into the SD-WAN market. Hosted by Alan Breznick from Light Reading ...
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Experts explore what is driving service innovation and where the market is headed. What are the hot service innovations, how will they impact customers, how are service providers taking advantage of new technologies to be more efficient and responsive to customer needs, what will be the impact of SD-WAN managed services, and what new service innovations ...
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• Erin Dunne, Director Research Services, Vertical Systems Group (moderator)
• Nick King, VP of Cloud Solutions Marketing, VMware
• Mike Frane, VP Product Management, Windstream
• Gregg Holzrichter, ‎CMO, BigSwitch Networks
• Russ Currie, VP, Enterprise Strategy, NETSCOUT
• Sunit Chauhan, ‎Sr. Dir., Nuage Networks
• Jeff Baher, Sr. Dir., Dell EMC Networking & SP Solutions

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Vertical Systems Group's latest research shows that the penetration of fiber-lit buildings in the U.S. with twenty or more employees increased to ...
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As fiber-lit building penetration increases to 49.6% in 2016 ...
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TelecomTV video featuring: Rosemary Cochran, Principal, & Erin Dunne, Director of Research Services, Vertical Systems Group ...
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Takeaways from MEF16 can be summed up with three words - energy, urgency and collaboration. High energy was palpable throughout the four-day event, generated by attendees who represented more than 250 organizations from 30+ countries ...
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is transforming the telecom industry toward more open, more flexible, more scalable - and more data-driven network services and solutions. Big Data is increasingly becoming an essential component of this transformation ...
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"The Vertical Systems Group LEADERBOARD is the industry’s foremost benchmark for measuring Ethernet Service Provider market presence." Click through for rollup of latest press coverage of Vertical's Mid-Year 2016 Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARDs ...
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