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AvidThink publishes research briefs and reports on infrastructure technologies including Edge, IoT, SD-WAN, SDN, NFV. We also provide customized research and go-to-market consulting. In the last five years, AvidThink’s research reports (as part of SDxCentral’s research offerings) have been downloaded over 110,000 times by 40,000 technology buyers and industry thought leaders. We’ve partnered with well-known clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 firms to bring you the reports you see on our Research Reports archives.
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Reports and Briefs
Trusted reports and research briefs covering the latest in infrastructure technologies.
Improving the Economics of Private Clouds
This research brief compares a typical limited-automation and labor-intensive process versus a highly automated approach using the Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A ) solution.
2020 State of NFV Report
This research brief presents exclusive viewpoints from leading CSPs worldwide on the results of their current NFV deployments, their expectations for next-generation services (like 5G), the benefits of open-source initiatives, and their views on key challenges ahead.
Disaggregation in Networking: The Second Wave
This research brief explores the drivers behind this second wave of disaggregation, the architectural implications, and the resulting business impact for service providers
Articles
Thoughtful and insightful analysis.
Driving standards adoption - the MEF SD-WAN Certification Program
In November 2019 MEF introduced the SD-WAN Certification Program, which enables SD-WAN managed service providers (MSP) along with SD-WAN product...
OFC 2020 actually happened last week; I’m not joking
Despite COVID-19, OFC 2020, the Optical Fiber Conference, actually took place in San Diego from March 10-12. So how was attendance?
RSA Expo through the lens of COVID-19
The new coronavirus, COVID-19, meant some companies had pulled out of participating in the RSA conference, but their absence was invisible on the...