Next-Generation Networking

Next-Generation Networking (NGN) focuses on the massive shifts in network technologies, services, and pricing models, that are changing the way organizations connect.

Topics include gigabit wireless (5G and gigabit-grade LTE); private wireless networks; MPLS, Ethernet, Internet, and optical services; and software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and SD-WAN. We track the deployment of edge computing and edge data centers, and monitor the move to WAN cloud exchanges (WAN-CX). In our ongoing WAN Economics research, we track the rates and performance of WAN services. We assess connectivity options for DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a service) and track best practices for optimal operations and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Principal Research Analyst

John Burke

Topics Covered:

  • WiFi 6
  • LTE, 4G, 5G
  • MPLS, Ethernet
  • Private Wireless
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
  • Network Function Virtualization (NfV)
  • WAN Economics
  • WAN-Cloud Exchanges (WAN-CX)
  • Internet
Our Next-Generation Networking Research
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Reports

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Webinars

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Security testing of new application code is tedious, difficult, and complicated...and often put off, phoned in, or passed ...

If we're learned one thing from Covid-19, it's that business transformation relies on infrastructure. As many organization...

62% of all traffic initiates or terminates (or both!) outside the corporate network, changing forever the definition of an...

The pandemic has reinvigorated the move to support work-from-home, IOT is surging, and security needs to match the challen...

In this new work-from-home world, IT leaders must move quickly to deploy and manage technologies that support remote work....

What will life really be like in 2025 and beyond? How will enterprises function? What will employees, customers, and consu...

Enterprises accumulate new cloud solutions rapidly, but still run 40% of their workloads in their own data centers. Withou...

The two fundamental questions that network and telecom managers must answer right now are these: How much should I be spen...

Blogs

Essential Next-Generation Networking news, tips and resources curated for you by our research experts.

Most CIOs have at least heard the term technical debt. And if you’re from a programming background, you might know a...

October 15, 2020

Edge computing is vital not just to the burgeoning world of real-time responsive IoT, but to enterprise network security, ...

August 18, 2020

Everything is different now. That’s true for all of us, as we cope with the enduring presence and lingering aftereff...

August 17, 2020

As enterprises begin to embrace the idea of edge computing, all evaluations should begin with use cases. After all, the o...

August 13, 2020

According to Nemertes’ Cloud and Cybersecurity 2019-2020 Research Study, 2019 was the year the average enterprise fo...

July 31, 2020

The ultimate end state of software-defined network security is what we at Nemertes Research call deep segmentation. The t...

July 28, 2020

  “Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.” This line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The...

July 16, 2020

There are still savings to realize with new networking approaches, even though the time has passed when an you might expec...

May 14, 2020

Infographics

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