The Deep Edge Podcast

In this episode, Ray Mota discusses the macro drivers, traffic, and impact areas of opportunities for Telco and vendors in 2020.

Ritesh Mukherjee, VP Product Management, 128 Technology, and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, discuss how 128 Technology is differentiating itself in the SD-WAN and router spaces. Providers are facing multiple challenges with their infrastructure as they address the rapidly changing market demands. Decision-makers are looking for new solutions that efficiently confront their issues. 128 Technology meets providers’ demands with its tunnel-free solutions. Ritesh and Ray talk about tunnel-free networking, its benefits, and cite use cases that highlight how the 128 Technology solution can enable and support a provider’s network and business logistics. They point out the future of technology—machine learning and artificial intelligence—and how the company is working to address this evolution.

Andy Ory, Co-Founder, CEO, 128 Technology, and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, discuss network transformation and how 128 Technology is addressing this accelerating global evolution. Providers need architectures that meet these changes, and 128 Technology is meeting their requirements and providing solutions with its tunnel-free technology. To highlight their innovation, Andy and Ray discuss the SoftBank use case and how 128 Technology’s unique structural approach, technology and value prop is enabling SoftBank to build its services. They also discuss the cloud and its impact and importance on network transformation.

Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage Networks, and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, catch up for a third time for a discussion on what SDN can do for network automation, economic benefits of virtualization, and what carriers must do to reap those benefits.  This session focuses on sustainable business solutions for SD-WAN, and why a silo-ed automation layer is no longer viable. Sunil goes to the whiteboard and shares how moving up the chain to a centralized, policy-based architecture taps into the true value of cloud automation.

Kevin Wollenweber, Vice President of Product Management in the Service Provider Network Systems business at Cisco, and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, discusses the company’s recent announcement of the Cisco 8000 Series and what that means for Cloud and Service Providers.

Service providers worldwide are in a race to deploy 5G technology and services. To achieve the promise of greater speeds and capacity with 5G, operators will need to densify their networks, resulting in significant growth in the number of macro cells and small cells. To optimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the RAN, many service providers are planning to leverage Open-RAN architectures that centralize baseband processing functionalities. This allows for a much more efficient utilization of baseband unit (BBU) resources and improves operational efficiency at cell sites. However, by moving process-intensive functions to an aggregation site, bandwidth and latency transport requirements will increase.