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The North American dedicated internet access (DIA) services market is mature but has experienced a fresh burst of energy in the past few years as software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) challenge the status quo of traditional WAN services. While some customers have chosen to create a hybrid SD-WAN network by adding broadband links to MPLS or E...

The North American carrier Ethernet services market is in the mature stage of its lifecycle, with revenue growth under pressure from price compression, market saturation, and the broader adoption of SD-WAN using multiple underlay technologies. Providers interviewed for this analysis identified 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps as the most commonly requested Ether...

The North American wavelength services market is in the mature stage of the product life cycle. In recent years, the request for wavelength services has snowballed, driven by exponential demand for high bandwidth from wholesale and retail customers looking to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, the adoption of AI-enabled applicatio...

This Frost Radar™ evaluates wireline and mobile telecommunications providers, managed service providers, internet service providers, value-added resellers, systems integrators, and other types of resellers of hosted IP telephony, cloud PBX, and/or UCaaS services. The size of a provider’s North American UCaaS installed base is the main metric that F...

Edge computing pushes intelligence, data processing, analytics, and communication capabilities to where the data originates: at network gateways or endpoints. The aim is to reduce latency and ensure efficient networks, operations, service delivery, and an improved user experience. Private multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a private mobile networ...

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is rapidly evolving into a strategic enabler of secure, agile, and cloud-centric enterprise operations. As complexity grows, demand for managed SD-WAN services is surging, helping organizations streamline deployment and maximize value. Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Global Network Survey reveals North America...

A wide array of video conferencing devices are available today to satisfy the needs of users in meeting spaces of all types small spaces, huddle rooms, and medium- to large-sized meeting rooms. These devices ensure optimized audio, video, and content sharing for both in-room and remote participants. As the global meeting room devices industry ...

Frost & Sullivan defines cloud-connected calling enablement as a segment of the voice over internet protocol (VoIP) access and session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking. Cloud-connected calling enablement services provide carrier-grade managed voice and telephony services into third-party cloud private branch exchange (PBX) environments such as Mi...

Wavelength services are high-speed, low-latency services that connect point-to-point circuits. They create a private and secure connection, typically between data centers, carrier hotels, and enterprise locations that require high bandwidth connectivity. Wavelength services are highly scalable. The North American wavelength services market is in a ...