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市場調查報告書
下一代網路（NGN）
Next Generation Network: Will the RBOCs be Googled Up?
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本報告已在2011年07月19日停止出版。
調查全球通訊領域，獲得高度評價的美國市調公司 IGI Consulting, Inc.（總公司：波士頓），調查分析了下一代網路後，出版了一本綜合報告書 "Next Generation Network: Will the RBOCs be Googled Up?"。
報告書內容包括：下一代網路的現況與未來成長、下一代網路對現有企業（尤其是 RBOC）的影響、拓展下一代網路的各企業動態、ITU 等的標準制定狀況等等，內容綱要摘記如下：
摘要
前言
網路現況
現有企業
- 競爭狀況
- RBOC vs CLEC (IXC)
- RBOC 收購 IXC
- 纜線企業 vs. 衛星企業
- 總括
大型企業與新型企業
非現有型企業
- 新型企業的市場支配力
- Google
- Yahoo!
- Microsoft
- EBay
- 新型企業 vs. 大型企業
- 新型企業的威脅
RBOC（Bell 系地區通訊業者）的課題
下一代網路
下一代網路技術
- NGN 標準規格狀況
- FTTP
- IPTV
- R-OADM（光分叉復用器）
- VoIP
- 總括
圖表
Abstract
The Next Generation Network (NGN) - these are magic words to many in the
telecommunications business. They invoke an image of a new network that will
correct all of the problems of the existing network (s). The nature of the
problems to be corrected and the resulting nature of the envisioned new
network depend largely on the background, training, and beliefs of the
observer. Maybe this is a relativistic view of NGN! These words also invoke
images of new opportunities for equipment sales, new service revenue
opportunities, and improved operating efficiencies.
A major question to be considered when thinking about the NGN is the impact of
the coming changes on the traditional carriers, particularly the RBOCs. We
must evaluate the unprecedented changes now taking place in the network as
they will impact the RBOCs who have a vast, undepreciated investment in the
current, but now obsolete, technologies. They, uniquely of all players in the
communications game, will be stressed by the need to continue to earn on their
embedded investments, while making major investments to replace their network
assets, and while making substantial investments to complete their network
structures (e.g., SBC buying AT&T..
This report uses an empirical approach to forecasting the NGN. It first
reviews the current market drivers of the network and our forecasts of market
impacts that will likely change the directions of major telecommunications
companies. It also considers what the major players are now doing or are
saying they are going to be doing (how they are investing.) We will consider
the direction of major standards bodies in a separate chapter (the author has
a great respect for their activities, having been a founder and vice chairman
of T1M1 for its formative years) but our emphasis will be on following
investments, market influences, and business drivers.
The first section of the report describes how the very nature of the network
has been changing since the beginning of this decade and how that change is
accelerating. In addition to a change in the nature of the network, its growth
pattern is changing. The growth of the network (in terms of traffic carried)
has continued through the telecommunications slowdown of the early 2000's. The
overbuilt condition of our backbone infrastructure kept this growth from being
translated into accelerating equipment sales. Now we see a new driver - FTTP
- that will cause the growth to accelerate even more, and again the nature of
the traffic is going to further change.
There are numerous conferences and standards efforts underway projecting what
the NGN will be. But as noted before, the outcomes of these efforts will
likely depend on the participants and their built-in prejudices rather than on
any rationally derived likelihood of the design of the NGN. While some very
elegant solutions will be developed to problems generated by trying to
visualize the NGN to fit a given set of preconceived notions, it is
problematic as to the utility of these solutions.
In addition to the main purpose of the report, i.e., forecasting and
describing the Next Generation Network, this report
- Identifies major technologies and/or services that are driving change
toward the NGN, including FTTP, IPTV, R-OADMs, and VoIP.
- The report includes extensive descriptions of each of these
technologies/services as well as market forecasts for each.
- The report describes the change in the network in terms of traffic carried
and type of traffic, and provides extensive forecasts of traffic by type.
- The current competitive market situation is described and analyzed.
- The report includes extensive material on the impact of the NGN drivers on
the RBOCs, and the increasingly difficult situation surrounding the RBOCs.
- The new competitors - Google, Yahoo, MSN and others are identified in
their threat to the traditional network competitors. The Internet service
providers become major network players, because they are the ones that are
actually making money on the network!
- Describes how these new competitors could in fact become major network
players in the development of the NGN. CAN the RBOCs BE GOOGLED UP?
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
The Lightwave Network Series of Reports
Executive Summary
Introduction
State of the Network
Network Traffic
FTTP Traffic Impact
The Traditional Competitors
The Competitive Landscape - Threats in Every Direction
- RBOCs vs. the CLECs (IXCs)
- The RBOC Counterattack - Long Distance
- RBOC Purchase of IXCs
- Cable Companies vs. Satellite Companies
- Current Competition Summary
EMERGING "SUPER COMPETITORS" AND NEW COMPETITORS
Network Activities of the Super Competitors
- Verizon
- SBC
- Comcast
- Network Activities Summary
THE NON-TRADITIONAL COMPETITORS
Market Power of the New Competitors
- Google
- Yahoo!
- Microsoft
- EBay
Comparison of New Competitors vs. Super Competitors
- Net Income
- Current Assets
- Capitalization
The Threat of the New Competitors!
THE PROBLEMS OF THE BROCS
THE NEXT GENERATION NETWORK
NGN - Architecture
- NGN - Access
- NGN - Transport
- Local
- Soft switches
- MSPP
- Metro DWDM
- R-OADMs
- IXC
- R-OADMs
- OC-768 and SONET Advances
- IP
- "Big Iron"
- NGN - Control
- New Competitors vs. Super Competitors View of Control
- Control Forecast - A Compromise
- 1. Direct Control
- 2. Common Control and the Intelligent Network
- 3. NGN Control
Summary of NGN Forecast
THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE NEXT GENERATION NETWORK
NGN Standards Activities
- ITU
- IEFT
- Comparison of ITU and IEFT NGN Views
FTTP
- FTTP Rationale
- The FTTP Architecture
- Other Approaches for Access Architecture
- Fiber to the "X"
- xDSL Versions
- RBOC FTTP Plans
- Verizon
- SBC
- BellSouth
- Qwest
- FTTP Forecast
IPTV
- IPTV Architecture
- Super Hub Office
- Video Hub Office
- Serving Offices
- IPTV Forecast
- Verizon
- SBC
- BellSouth
- Qwest
- Overall IPTV Forecast
Network Modernization - R-OADMs
- Summary of R-OADM Description
- R-OADM Forecast
- Systems
VoIP
- VoIP Implementation Example
- VoIP Forecast
- Telecom Service Market Impact of VoIP
Report Summary
- The Marketplace
- The Next Generation Network
Table of Figures
- Figure 1, The RBOCs in Danger of Being Googled!
- Figure 2, Network Traffic 1999-2001
- Figure 3, H-S Accesses vs. Dial-Up Penetration
- Figure 4, FTTP and Network Traffic Forecasts
- Figure 5, Market Matrix
- Figure 6, RBOCs vs. CLECs (IXCs)
- Figure 7, RBOCs in Long Distance
- Figure 8, RBOCs Subsume IXCs and CLECs
- Figure 9, RBOCs vs. Cable Companies
- Figure 10, Cable Companies vs. Satellite Companies
- Figure 11, Current Telecommunications Competition
- Figure 12, Summary of Super Competitors' Network Activities
- Figure 13, Super Competitors Network Activities
- Figure 14, Non-Traditional Competitors
- Figure 15, New Competitors becoming Super Competitors
- Figure 16, Net Income of Super Vs. New Competitors
- Figure 17, Current Assets - Comparison of Super Competitors and New
Competitors
- Figure 18, Capitalization - New Vs. Super Competitors
- Figure 19, RBOCs in Danger of Being Googled!
- Figure 20, Next Generation Network
- Figure 21, Control Migration to Network Edge
- Figure 22, Identified Technologies of the NGN
- Figure 23, Differences between ITU and IEFT NGN Views
- Figure 24, Five Reasons for 'Why FTTP Now?'
- Figure 25, FTTP Architecture - Central Office Portion
- Figure 26, RFP PON - Outside Plant Portion
- Figure 27, RFP PON Service Assignments
- Figure 28, Fiber to the 'X' Varieties
- Figure 29, Chart of Various xDSL Technologies
- Figure 30, FTTP Forecast - HPs Cumulative Passed vs. Served
- Figure 31, FTTP Forecast - Comparison to H-S Accesses
- Figure 32, IPTV Global Architecture
- Figure 33, IPTV Access Architecture - xDSL
- Figure 34, FTTP Architecture for IPTV
- Figure 35, IPTV Hub Office Architecture
- Figure 36, IPTV Forecast
- Figure 37, R-OADM Concept
- Figure 38, R-OADM System Unit Forecast - US
- Figure 39, Price Forecast for R-OADMs
- Figure 40, R-OADMs Market Forecast - US
- Figure 41, OADM vs. R-OADM Market - US
- Figure 42, Cable Company (or CLEC) VoIP Network
- Figure 43, Forecast for Gross VoIP Market
- Figure 44, Forecast of Net and Gross VoIP Service Markets
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