Communications M&A Market M&A and investment activity is constantly underway in the cloud communications and cloud networking industries as service providers and vendors both look to scale and make capability acquisitions. Cavell’s unique positioning in the market as a trusted advisor to many service providers means it’s ideally placed to assist companies in M&A. Cavell …
Networks used to be more complex to deploy but had a simpler architectural design. Data and applications were either run by the provider, by the customer on their server, or a mix of both. Â
With the rise of cloud, ‘where is my application hosted?’, and ‘how do I connect to it?’ are two of the most important questions in networking.
Employees are also no longer where they were before: now they are on the move, remote working or in the office. Distribution and Cloudification have become the buzzwords of the networking industry.
While many of us, myself included, were being distracted by talk of the ‘metaverse’ and glitzy headlines about 3D avatars in virtual meetings the most pertinent news coming out of Microsoft Ignite might have slipped the net. Highlighted in Tom Arbuthnot’s excellent Microsoft focused blog, the news relating to the customer experience, CX, industry might …
Microsoft Teams growth has reached new heights. From 44 million in March 2020 to 145 million in April 2021, when will the growth stop?
Technology markets evolve at a rapid pace. Fluctuation in enterprise demand requires unified comms vendors to adapt their portfolios to remain relevant. One area that is causing increasing disruption within the unified communications space is the surging demand and uptake of video conferencing services. Video communication was often seen as an optional extra. Conference calls …
Should Unified Comms Vendors Be Scared of Video Conferencing? Read More »
This article looks at the recent acquisition of Metaswitch and Microsoft, and tries to answer the question as to why, and what this means for the future of networks
This article covers the recently announced news about the purchase of SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak by HPE for $925 million.
The rising popularity of Teams has encouraged many in the cloud communications space to explore closer partnership with Microsoft, Inspire 2020 outlined Microsoft’s vision for where the main opportunities lie
Microsoft announced the launch of Azure for Operators (AFO) in Autumn 2020. This is the start of Microsoft bringing together a series of virtualised network functions and other applications into the Azure cloud for service providers to utilise. The ambition may initially be for 5G and some traditional voice services but seems a lot broader moving forward. Below is the diagram that showed …
Azure for Operators – What Does It Mean For Service Providers? Read More »
SASE (pronounced Sassy) stands for Secure Access Service Edge. Let’s break down this latest marketing buzzword for you.
