Industry conferences, news websites, panel discussions, and message boards add tremendous noise to what is really the critical issue: what does the customer think? The IHS annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers. They gather the service provider's perceptions of optical networking equipment company leadership, and measure the decision criteria hierarchy service providers use when making vendor decisions.
2019 IHS Markit Optical Vendor Service Provider Leadership Survey Excerpt
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