This Cloud Connect report examines expected developments in technology innovation, customer requirements, and service offerings over the next two to three years. Rather than focusing solely on precise feature roadmaps for the next 12 months, the study takes a broader, forward-looking view of how Cloud Connect services may evolve and what they should deliver in the future.
The report is exploratory and future-oriented, with particular focus on areas such as SDN, virtualization, NFV/VNF, SD-WAN, cloud services, and cloud communications, including Cloud UC and UCaaS.
Report Highlights:
- Country coverage of 25 providers
- L3 IP versus L1/2 Ethernet
- IPsec tunnels
- Security options
- SLAs
- Pricing models
- Other aspects such as CoS, WANx and other options, Support services around CSPs’ services, Cloud On-Premise, VNFs marketplaces, Microsoft “Virtual WAN”, Equinix
Market Coverage:
Asia Pacific, Europe, The Americas
Company Coverage:
For Cloud providers | Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Equinix, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Intercloud, Interxion, Oracle, Megaport
For Cloud carriers | AT&T, BT, Colt, GTT, OBS, NTT, Tata, Telefonica, Verizon, and other global carriers