![]() Different Scenarios can Play Out for the Networking Industry While the potential Broadcom / VMWare combination could affect many industries, this blog shares our view on its impact on the networking industry. As an opening thought, this big deal may experience regulatory challenges, considering regulators prohibited Broadcom from acquiring Qualcomm and NVidia from acquiring ARM. This deal is not a lock. If the deal closes, we expect Broadcom will follow its familiar playbook and cut headcount significantly. If past is prologue, Broadcom will slash sales staff and administrative positions immediately after the deal closes. Broadcom runs lean, and we would be surprised if it didn’t relocate the remaining VMware employees from lovely locations like Palo Alto to more spartan facilities. Once the initial synergistic changes are complete, we view three scenarios depending on how Broadcom executes following the acquisition.
Companies will seriously look at M&A. We find this interesting as the enterprise market for DC equipment is peaking as we speak (ASPs are driving revenue growth on mostly flat units/ports). The Hyperscaler market is now 2+ generations ahead of enterprise-focused systems, so there is already a complete bifurcation between what enterprise and cloud customers buy and use. Maybe we get two unique supply chains and very different market shares as a result of this corporate combination.
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In 1Q22, revenues of the Telecom Core market were 4% greater than the year-ago quarter, according to our recently updated report. The market has been inconsistent in performance over the past four quarters, oscillating between Y/Y growth and Y/Y declines. The report also includes an updated long-term forecast. For the outer years of our forecast, we are maintaining our long-term forecast since the previous report.
Highlights: Amdocs experienced the strongest Y/Y revenue performance, while Ingate experienced the strongest sequential (Q/Q) revenue performance. The top 5 vendors in the quarter (ranked by revenue size in the report) were the following: 1. Huawei - grew Y/Y 2. Nokia - grew Y/Y 3. Amdocs - grew Y/Y 4. ZTE - declined Y/Y 5. Ericsson - declined Y/Y Regional revenue performance in the quarter for the largest four regions was as follows: North America - grew Y/Y Europe - grew Y/Y Greater China - declined Y/Y Asia Pacific (excluding China) - grew Y/Y 650 Group's Telecom Core report breaks out over fifteen vendors and includes detailed segmentation, forecasting, and market shares. Please contact us for press inquiries and further report information. In 650 Group's top vendor performance, we only include vendors broken out directly in the report. Other vendor's in our rest-of-market category are not included in the top performing list. 650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, cloud, enterprise, and SP markets. Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is active throughout the supply chain throughout the world. Learn more at http://www.650group.com Fortinet had its Accelerate 2022 conference today. Its executive team presented its current strategy and expectations for the future and highlighted what it thinks are its key differentiators in the marketplace. The company explained: (a) the importance of its ASIC and its software code-base called FortiOS, (b) its services bundling strategy called "Fabric," and (c) its sales and marketing differentiation (the presentation was intended mainly for its selling partners as well as for financial analysts). We were reminded of the relative simplicity of Fortinet's messaging (Fabric, ASICs) and the solid financial results that illustrated its sales team and partners' success (it grew product revenue 54% Y/Y in the most recent quarter). ASICs and FortiOS. The company explained that it takes around four years to develop an ASIC. According to its ASIC roadmap, it has three types of ASICs: Network Processing, Content Inspection, and Entry-level Systems-on-Chip. CEO Ken Xie explained that the company uses 7nm process geometry semiconductors for its ASICs, which we assume means for its CP10 (content inspection) based on the timeframe shown in its ASIC Roadmap. The company's marketing strategy around its ASICs is that these systems allow its firewall platforms to perform better than competitors. The company's operating system software that runs on its firewall platforms has evolved to include many functions besides standard firewalling, including SD-WAN, Enterprise WLAN Controller, and SASE. What's interesting is that Fortinet is up till now has been taking an appliance-focused strategy and integrating many non-firewall services into its FortiOS. However, the company indicated that the OS will find itself in many environments in the future. Indeed, management highlighted that it sells FortiOS to four different environments today, including on appliances, as virtual software (that can operate in a data center, on a cloud hyperscaler infrastructure, or as cloud-native SaaS), as a container, or as cloud-delivered services. The company said that VM revenues are growing very fast, but expects its VM revenue stream to "go cloud-native." The company says it is "working on" a SaaS business and that its customers will consume these SaaS services through Fortinet's own cloud service. To summarize, management said that its R&D team is heavily investing in cloud designs and expects to make new cloud-related announcements soon. Fabric. The company highlighted its sales strategy called "Fabric." CEO Ken Xie said that Fortinet charges less for its services, only around 20% of product prices and that when it uses bundling (which we interpret as synonymous with its "Fabric" strategy), it "discounts a lot." The company shared a slide highlighting "Broad Service with Half the Cost." The slide highlighted its FortiCare, FortiGuard, and FortiTrust services on this slide. On the company's earnings call earlier in May, it said it is "giving away" services in some cases. The company's Fabric offering includes services/functions/software such as "Access & Endpoint Security," FortiGuard Threat Intelligence," "Secure Networking," "Cloud Security," and "Network and Security Operations." If we were a competitor to Fortinet, we would find it frustrating to compete with Fortinet's discounting of these services – yet customers seem to embrace Fortinet's integrated product offerings. Sales and Marketing. The company rapidly embraced SD-WAN a few years back, and now many of its firewall customers are using the same appliances to run SD-WAN networks. Likewise, Fortinet has embraced the SASE marketing moniker and has found large selling partners for this offering. Likewise, the company has adopted a selling strategy called "OT" that takes advantage of its ruggedized products (first introduced in 4Q20); it has experienced substantial growth in new vertical markets such as manufacturing and construction. The company's management has likewise embraced the industry trend of converging networking and security functions. It expects to sell using its positioning as a leader in "Secure Networking." Fortinet has experienced strong growth LTM product growth of 44% growth, which supports Fortinet's decisions to embrace SD-WAN, SASE, OT, and Secure Networking.
We participated in the Huawei Analyst Summit 2022 (#HAS22) for three days this week. The conference started with a keynote featuring Rotating Chairman, Ken Hu and then there were many executives and managers in charge of various operating groups at Huawei. To summarize, Hu said there will be challenges ahead and emphasized software, services and partnerships instead of asserting leadership in hardware as it did last year. Additionally, other speakers discussed the progress Huawei is making in F5G, introduced its latest Massive MIMO 64T64R radio system, discussed its progress with both indoor cellular and Fixed Wireless Access markets. At the keynote, Ken Hu, and his other colleagues on stage made no mention of hardware systems, semiconductor, nor optical component plans, in sharp contrast to the year-ago HAS keynote made by last year's Rotating Chairman, Eric Xu. Instead Ken and his colleagues focused on the importance of software development (re-engineering software compliers to boost performance, for instance), the opportunity to work with the Huawei cloud service, entry to new markets (automobiles, the metaverse), and of course, the company's green initiatives. Mr. Hu also addressed supply chain challenges, saying that "it is true that we face a chip shortage," and that "we have no plans to build chip factories ourselves." Hu also said that the shortage will be "fixed in a few years." Hu also said that the company is organizing itself to allow for the shutdown of divisions or product areas more easily than could have been done in the past, which we think could mean it is planning for what might happen if Huawei cannot obtain chips, for instance, for its smartphone business. The last of Hu's prepared remarks was to remark that "Huawei has quite a few challenges ahead." In the Telecom Core meetings that were held, there were several interesting points raised by the presenters. The team says that container based systems are not as mature as that of systems based on Open Stack and that Containers are not standards based. Regarding Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) market, Huawei said that its experience is that "almost all" of its customers are using MEC for network connectivity and though it had offered a marketplace for third party applications, they haven't been adopted much as of yet. Huawei sees Slicing as an emerging opportunity that will allow its operator customers to monetize their networks and to offer differentiated experiences.
Huawei spent a lot of time conveying that participation in the F5G (Fixed 5G) market is shared with other participants. Among those who shared the stage with Huawei were standards body ETSI, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Globe Telecom (Phillipines), MTN Group (South Africa). Besides its product managers discussing F5G, Ken Hu also highlighted its importance during his aforementioned keynote. Huawei's Radio Access Network (RAN) team highlighted a new 64T64R Massive MIMO system that has 384 antennae elements. Through multiple presentations, various managers highlighted how the new M-MIMO system enhances throughput and range, reduces power and other advantages of using its new product. The company also highlighted its Digital Indoor System (DIS) as a means of enabling enterprises across various vertical markets including manufacturing, coal mines, the steel industry, the petrochemical industry, shipping ports, healthcare, power-grid companies and others. Huawei said that in 2H22, it will bring to market a low-power chip-based system, as well. The company also highlighted a customer, Schneider Electric, who expects to enter its deployment phase of Huawei DIS systems later in 2022. We found that Huawei's participating in the Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) market is interesting. Similar to Ericsson, Huawei isn't participating meaningfully in the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) part of the FWA market and instead is selling just the RAN equipment. It has a certification program where it endorses other manufacturers, including greenpacket, who made a presentation at the Huawei conference. greenpacket explained that it is seeing a lot of demand lately for "hybrid" FWA CPE systems, which we took to mean that these were battery-based devices that users can travel around with. It is the experience of the presenters (both Huawei and greenpacket) that their customers in places like Kuwait and South Africa consume about 2-3 times more data using FWA than do average mobile (eMBB) customers. The presenters contrasted this with the T-Mobile experience in the US market where 10% of its FWA customers consume 1 TB per month. We found this contrast very interesting and feel that the screen sizes of customers in the US market (probably lots of high-end TVs) dramatically exceed that of the South African market (predominantly smart phones). In our own FWA report, we have seen significant ramp-ups in volume in the 3GPP FWA market. ![]() 51.2 Tbps Switch ASICs to Drive the Migration to 800 Gbps and 1.6 Tbps Starting in 2H22 NVIDIA continues to drive products and solutions at a rapid pace. They continued to push the boundaries and accelerate the pace of innovation in the data center through the recent GTC announcements. With the launch of Spectrum-4, we got to see NVIDIA’s first Ethernet Switch announcement and what they were busy developing since acquiring Mellanox. Keeping with the accelerating theme, NVIDIA clearly accelerated the pace of Innovation and proudly showcased Spectrum-4 at GTC. Market Background Over the next five years, 51.2 Tbps ASICs will be responsible for over $20B in Data Center Switching revenue. About 2X the size of the 100 Gbps upgrade cycle and 4X the size of the 400 Gbps upgrade cycle. This class of ASIC is critical to allowing data centers to scale as more workloads become hardware accelerated. Hardware acceleration can come via the server, NiC, or DPU and causes networking bandwidth to double every year compared to the more traditional growth of 30-40%. NVIDIA’s 51.2 Tbps ASIC NVIDIA’s Spectrum-4 announcement included many new and first-to-market capabilities. It was the first 51.2 Tbps ASIC announced in the market and the first switch that can do 64 ports of 800 Gbps from a single ASIC. It also supports 1.6 Tbps speeds, another first and the preferred speed for the two most prominent Hyperscalers. In addition, NVIDIA announced Spectrum-4 as a fully integrated Switch that will sample later in 2022 and begin shipping in 2023. The chip will be produced at TSMC in the 4N process. NVIDIA did over $1B in Ethernet Switch and NIC revenue in 2021. It's All About The SERDES NVIDIA will be using its own, homegrown, 112 Gbps SERDES. SERDES has always been a challenge in switch development, with many ASIC companies having to integrate 3rd party SERDES. However, we view vertically integrated as a source of differentiation and will become more common in the future as ASICs increase in speed. SERDES will also be a key to adding additional IP blocks and photonics to the networking ASIC, as those markets evolve. The Speeds And Feeds Race NVIDIA’s Spectrum-4 introduced several features that help it distinguish and route traffic. These traffic classes are often described as elephant and mouse flows. The key at a market level is that AI and accelerated computing put a considerable burden on the network. So AI networking switches need to keep pace with this new class of ‘elephant flow’ traffic and not slow or drop packets. At the same time, accelerated traffic is growing as a percent of traffic. Multiple 100G ports are already standard at the RFP level for AI workloads. 12.8 Tbps and 25.6 Tbps ASICs can not keep pace with a fully loaded AI cluster. Beyond AI While the announcement focused on NVIDIA examples, such as connecting Spectrum-4 to NVIDIA Certified OVX OEM servers, we view the market as benefiting from NVIDIA taking networking seriously. Cloud customers have always requested multi-vendor at the ASIC and system level, and the ability to collapse networking tiers with 51.2 Tbps will be a critical driver to adoption. We, therefore, expect Spectrum-4 to apply to the whole data center, not just focused on the high-end or NVIDIA-connected solutions. We are excited to see this switch show up in 2H22 in the customer’s hands. We attended Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Las Vegas-based Atmosphere conference. It was very well attended, and this was Aruba’s first in-person user conference in over two years as we come out of the pandemic. Aruba made several important announcements at the event, including a formal Network as a Service (NaaS) offering, a series of broad cloud-services announcements, a formal unveiling of the Aruba/Pensando partnership, and the availability of industry first location-based access points. The biggest splash came with Aruba’s NaaS announcement. While the company has been offering NaaS for two years, most of the deals were custom deals. In one of the smaller group meetings, the company shared a few of the logo wins, which included Texas A&M, Brookfield Properties, and Trevecca. What Aruba has done is standardized its offerings to a number of “service packs” that resellers can approach customers with. The company basically took its two years of experience and and packaged up what it felt were the best practices and the most common packages, which include wireless, switching and more. On a related topic, 650 Group announced that it is publishing a NaaS report, which of course includes historical and forecast data for this up and coming market. Additionally, in the small group breakout meeting, some resellers were asking questions about what happens at the end of a three or five year subscription and whether the offering can be split up or must it be sold as one. We feel that Aruba will be working closely with their partners over the next year or so to support them as NaaS gains stickiness, but that there is some genuine interest as markets move away from pure CAPEX models towards subscription and as-a-Service. The company also announced significant enhancements to its Aruba Central Cloud-Managed Services offerings, with Aruba Central NetConductor. NetConductor allows for cloud-based central management of wired, wireless and WAN systems as well as to SASE systems. It also integrates the capabilities of two other functions well known to Aruba customers, Network Access Control (NAC) and Dynamic Segmentation. Aruba has based NetConductor on some widely used protocols like EVPN, VXLAN and BGP which would allow for integration with both Aruba gear and non-Aruba gear.
During the first day’s keynote sessions, HPE CEO, Antonio Neri, spent quite a bit of time on stage. Former Cisco CEO John Chambers joined him on stage so that they could discuss the HPE and Pensando’s partnership. It was interesting to see Chambers literally hugging Neri, especially considering that Chambers ran Aruba’s arch-nemesis, Cisco Systems, for two decades. It made the keynote very interesting. We covered the Aruba-Pensando announcement last fall and you can find more about it here. Another thing that is interesting is that Neri’s presence was felt beyond the Chambers discussion, as Aruba Central is now part of HPE GreenLake. HPE claims that this gives IT admins a single operating model for network, compute and storage services across edges, data centers, and public clouds. Aruba announced that its newer access points have all been shipping with a location-based feature that leverages GPS. This is a differentiator for Aruba because it said it is not charging extra hardware or subscriptions charges to use GPS. We’ve been thinking about what this function can do for Aruba customers. Relative location capabilities have been around on WLAN Access Points and on Bluetooth beacons for several years now and many vendors offer it. However, the way we see it is that having a GPS capability makes location capabilities far easier to use because what Aruba’s location capabilities do is position all the APs on an absolute basis, and thereafter, a relative service like wayfinding, dwell time analytics and the like can be anchored to specific places on a floor plan without having to get the ruler out, so to speak. Also, maintaining control over inventory can be simplified because these Aruba APs know where they are, like, what ceiling tile they can be found in, or what building they were moved to. In summary, at the Atmosphere show, Network as a Service has become a major talking point in the industry, Aruba’s cloud service now shares the stage with other top players in the industry, and Aruba announced a really cool function on its access points that simplifies location services. Hyperscalers, Open RAN, Private 5G and chip announcements were top news at the MWC show in Barcelona last week. Based on disclosures at the show, Open RAN looks to go commercial in 2023 and 2024, hyperscalers are obtaining contracts to carry an increasing amount of telecom-related workloads, Rakuten Symphony is amassing a growing list of partners, Qualcomm/Marvell and other chip companies are taking front-stage at MWC, and there were a variety of new private 5G-related announcements including those from Cisco, Huawei, Mavenir and Federated Wireless. We took some time to compile some of the most noteworthy announcements, sorted by company.
DISH chairman says 5G deployment is 6 months behind schedule. DISH says it fell behind on a technical level and that it realized it has to become the systems integrator. Expects to light up 25 metro regions in June, representing 20% population coverage. Huawei is pivoting towards fiber in certain markets like the home market. It announced, for instance, Fiber to the Room (FTTR) and contrasted it to Wi-Fi which it claims has a variable experience. Huawei's wireless Chief, Ryan Ding, keynote speech noted several points. By the end of 2021, Huawei signed more than 3,000 commercial 5GtoB contracts with Chinese operators and partners for industry applications (implies operators involved in all), including coal mining using remotely controlled shearers communicating over 5G. Mavenir showcased End-to-End 5G Core, IMS and automation hosted on AWS. The company calls this a "pilot" and asserted that using a core on AWS system would reduce TCO and speed up rollouts. Mavenir also announced 5G Radio Units from 8T8R to 64T64R (Massive MIMO) that use Qualcomm chips and that it plans to develop vDU RAN software based on the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card, both systems of which are expected to be available for global deployment in 2023. Telefonica advocated for OpenRAN and explained its selection of technology suppliers such as radio/RRU/AAU (NEC, Comba, Airspan), Baseband (Altiostar/Rakuten Symphony), Small Cell (Node-H, Askey, Qualcomm), RIC (Nokia), as well as Intel, Mavenir, Parallel Wireless, IBM/Red Hat and VMWare. It says it selected NEC as the systems integrator. The pan-European operator said that Open RAN reduced vendor lock-in and is most cost-efficient over the medium/long term, however suffers from integration with OSS and the time to carry out interoperability tests until Open RAN is mature. It expects Pilots to continue during 2022, then initial deployments in 2022/2023, followed by "massive deployments" beyond 2023 (we think this means 2024). Rakuten Symphony announced it had acquired San Jose, CA based Robin.io, an automation and orchestration software company. Rakuten Symphony also announced an Open RAN trial at MTN that includes Accenture and Tech Mahindra. Symphony also said AT&T will use Rakuten's Site Manager, a software system that designs workflows for network deployments; additionally, AT&T's proprietary capacity planning tool. Cisco and Rakuten announced a partnership described as a joint go-to-market model. Nokia is Rakuten's first "Symworld" partner, whereby Nokia's core software will be made available to Symphony customers. Qualcomm. Made announcements about private 5G automation, a partnership with Microsoft about Private 5G, Mavenir portfolio expansion (also discussed elsewhere in this article), Fujitsu mmWave, and 5G FWA. Orange announced plans to use Ericsson 5G SA core for Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg and Poland, Nokia 5G SA core for France and Slovakia and Oracle for 5G core signaling in all countries. It plans to launch SA commercially in 2023. Microsoft Azure announced Operator Distributed Services, which is a combination of its 2021 acquisition of AT&T Network Cloud Services and Azure for Operators tools. The company explains that it will enable operators to run all their workloads, including RAN, core, mobile and voice core, OSS and BSS, on a single carrier-grade hybrid platform. Microsoft also announced that AT&T is integrating its 5G network with Microsoft Azure Private Multi-access Edge (MEC) computing to develop AT&T Private 5G Edge. Telstra collaborates with Ericsson and Microsoft to begin 5G-enabled edge compute trials. Cisco announced ORAN partnerships with private 5G vendors like Airspan and JMA Wireless and said it is in customer trials with both vendors. As it had said a month earlier with its private 5G launch, this is being offered as a subscription service operated by Cisco, and Cisco will allow customers to use their own brand to market the service. Cisco announced it is on a variety of Private 5G projects including at Chaplin, Clair Global, Colt Technology Services, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, Maderia Island, Network Rail, Nutrien, Schaeffler, Group, Texas A&M, Toshiba, Virgin Media O2, and Zebra Technologies. ZTE announced lighter Massive MIMO radios, its UniSite NEO and a new "Gen 2" FWA CPE based on Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF platforms. Marvell announced 5G-related product line enhancements, including a reference design with DELL technologies that creates a server based baseband processing system. ![]() 2022/'23 Server Designs to Adopt Higher Speeds and use AEC to Address Server Connectivity The AEC market has entered 2022 with solid momentum. We have many ASIC and cable suppliers entering the market to address a need to replace DAC in higher-speed network designs. As we enter OFC this week, the market continues to increase in offerings. In addition, there is a strong backlog forming as Hyperscalers and most cloud providers look towards the technology to solve next-generation server-to-ToR connections. Server designs continue to embrace AI/ML and HPC principles, which cause the NIC speed to increase from 25G to 100G and beyond rapidly. In addition, DPUs and custom accelerators increase bandwidth at an even faster clip. As a result, multiple 100G ports per server in the Cloud will be standard, and the current path of using DAC is not a sustainable path from a power or cost standpoint. AECs, which have already enabled the implementation of Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) deployments, are ready to enable a new deployment of NIC to ToR implementations. We expect most server-to-ToR connections in hypersscalers to be AEC within our forecast period. It is clear that multiple Cloud providers are standardized on AEC and moving away from DAC. There are several different varieties of AEC, and in 2022 we expect Switch AEC and Shift AEC to be the most popular choices. As we look toward the end of the forecast, Secure AEC and Multi-Rack AEC will become an essential part of the ecosystem. At OFC, it will be exciting to see AEC in action and begin the conversations about AEC adoption into Enterprise and SP data center architectures. Fig.1 NIC-to-TOR Migration to Active Solutions/ Source 650 Group By Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group. According to 650 Group's recently published report, in 4Q21, revenues of the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market were 2% greater than the year-ago quarter. For the full year, the market grew modestly. Over the last four quarters, the market has consistently grown on a Y/Y basis. Our report also includes an updated long-term ADC forecast. The top 5 vendors in the quarter (ranked by revenue size in the report) were the following: F5 - declined Y/Y Citrix - declined Y/Y Radware - grew Y/Y A10 - grew Y/Y Kemp - grew Y/Y On a regional basis, Greater China had the strongest Y/Y growth and on a Q/Q basis. In January, Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital announced their plans to acquire Citrix for $16.5B. We expect the deal will impact Citrix’s installed base while they evaluate the impact of the deal. Regional revenue performance in the quarter for the largest four regions was as follows: -- North America - declined Y/Y -- Europe - declined Y/Y -- Asia Pacific (excluding China) - declined Y/Y -- Middle East and Africa - declined Y/Y The ADC report breaks out over five vendors and includes detailed segmentation, forecasting, and market shares. Please contact us for press inquiries and further report information. In 650 Group's top vendor performance, we only include vendors broken out directly in the report. Vendor's in our rest-of-market category are not included in the top performing list. About 650 Group 650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, cloud, enterprise, and SP markets. Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is active throughout the supply chain throughout the world. ![]() SD-WAN Subscription and Hardware Revenue to Dominate 2022 Mix The SD-WAN market exited 2021 with record hardware and subscription revenue. In addition, the market continued to benefit from many customers pulling in house their digital transformation projects and becoming more reliant on multi-cloud environments that embrace premises, colocation, and cloud-based applications. Our market forecast press release is now published, read it by clicking here. In alphabetical order, the top 5 five vendors (Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba, Versa, and VMware) continued to increase their market share in 2021. In addition, each vendor has unique strengths in their offerings that customers find attractive. We expect that 2022 will feature additional vendor changes as Extreme Networks (Ipanema acquisition and organic), Juniper Networks (128 acquisition and broadening Mist portfolio), and Palo Alto Networks (CloudGenix acquisition) each play to their core strengths as they try to gain market share. With each of these acquisitions and vendor announcements, the industry continues to see an increase in multi-product solutions and single-pane of glass management capabilities. Cloud Managed is the delivery mechanism to achieve a single-pane of glass in many cases. We note that mid-size companies and networks will outperform large enterprises in 2022 after two years of lagging performance because of COVID-19. However, as we look at the market, we expect this to cause additional market share shifts, and vendors have uneven performance across the medium and large segments of the market. At the same time, many vendors have pursued an SP strategy in Europe as many European countries look for different vendors for their dual-source strategy. Unfortunately, many of these trials and decisions were delayed because of a lack of lab time. Still, we expect many announcements and partnerships that were postponed because of the pandemic to occur during this calendar year. |
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