Networking and Communications Equipment

Featured Research

• Technology Overview for Ethernet Switching Fabric
  16 May 2013
• How to Control Recreational Internet Traffic in Enterprise Networks
  1 May 2013
• Avoiding Problems With the Multiple Networks Providers Use to Build Your WAN
  25 April 2013
• Optimize Enterprise Networks to Improve SaaS Performance
  25 April 2013
• OpenDaylight Project Casts Cloud Over SDN Deployments
  15 April 2013
• How to Be Sure Fabric-Based Infrastructures Fit Your Needs
  1 April 2013
• Agenda Overview for Communications Service Provider Infrastructure Solutions, 2013
  4 January 2013
• Predicts 2013: Five Areas Where Network Managers Can Reduce Costs or Avoid Investment Risk
  14 December 2012
• Predicts 2013: Success in Leveraging UC Will Be Easier With a Unified IT and Business Strategy for Collaboration
  4 December 2012
• Use These Four Key Principles to Migrate From Hosted IP Telephony to UCaaS
  30 November 2012

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Wireless Devices, Software and Services, 2012
  21 August 2012
• Hype Cycle for the Telecommunications Industry, 2012
  1 August 2012
• Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2012
  31 July 2012
• Hype Cycle for Wireless Networking Infrastructure, 2012
  31 July 2012
• Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2012
  31 July 2012
• Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Operations, 2012
  30 July 2012
• Hype Cycle for ICT in China, 2012
  30 July 2012
• Hype Cycle for Networking and Communications, 2012
  27 July 2012

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers
  29 April 2013
• Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls
  7 February 2013
• Magic Quadrant for Fiber-to-the-Home Equipment
  16 December 2012
• Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing
  10 December 2012
• Magic Quadrant for Operations Support Systems
  23 October 2012
• Magic Quadrant for Session Border Controllers
  9 October 2012
• Gartner to Retire MarketScope for Network Configuration and Change Management
  19 September 2012
• Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony
  17 September 2012
• Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications
  27 August 2012
• MarketScope for Unified Communications for the SMB Market, North America
  10 August 2012

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• Vendor Rating: Cisco
  3 May 2013
• Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, 2013
  1 May 2013
• Cool Vendors in Communications Service Provider Operational and Business Infrastructure, 2013
  30 April 2013
• SWOT: NTT Data, IT Services, Worldwide
  29 April 2013
• Cool Vendors in Unified Communications and Network Systems and Services, 2013
  25 April 2013
• Cool Vendors in NFC, 2013
  24 April 2013
• Cool Vendors in Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2013
  19 April 2013
• Vendor Rating: NetApp
  25 March 2013
• Vendor Rating: Avaya
  25 February 2013
• Vendor Rating: Verizon Communications
  20 December 2012