Nemertes Research is a research-advisory firm that specializes in analyzing and quantifying the business value of emerging technologies headquartered in Mokena, Illinois

Mokena, Illinois

Mokena is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,583 at the 2000 census, with a special census conducted in 2007. The 2007 census showed that the population of the village increased to 18,669 people residing within the corporate limits...

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

 called it "a respected American think-tank", while others mention its name as a concrete example in an article criticizing "unscrupulous think tanks".

Research Focus Areas

Nemertes Research focuses in the following areas:

• Application delivery and optimization
• Cloud, virtualization and data center
• Managed & Hosted services
• Security and compliance
• UC, Collaboration & Social computing
• WAN/LAN & wireless

Internet Infrastructure

In 2007 and 2008 Nemertes published widely publicized reports on Internet infrastructure trends focusing on bandwidth demand versus build-out, and more recently, logical Internet issues involving IP address depletion and route table scalability. In particular, its widely noted report, "Internet Interrupted: Why Architectural Limitations Will Fracture the 'Net" Nemertes argued that Internet access capacity will become insufficient to handle demand as early as 2010 These findings have supported the positions on the need to increase internet capacity taken by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA),. The findings and conclusions of such reports have been widely criticized.