Abstract
Overview:
Deciding where to invest in Next Generation Network (NGN) applications is
difficult without key business case analysis. Planning NGN application
deployment is difficult without insights into application value to customers,
services blending opportunities, or strategies for services migration.
This report evaluates two key elements of NGN: Service Delivery Platforms
(SDP) and the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework for service creation,
delivery, and management. It also addresses the IMS and SDP ecosystem and
value chain, applications, and provides a market forecast for 2011 through
2016. In addition, it provides an overall business case analysis for IMS and
SDP as well as a per-application assessment for major IMS based applications.
Finally, the report provides specific recommendations for network operators,
infrastructure providers, and application providers.
The report provides analysis of application trends, an analysis of NGN OSS/BSS
market and forecast, evaluation of multi-application operational challenges
and solutions, and multi-application operational challenges and solutions.
Audience:
- NGN application vendors
- NGN infrastructure providers
- Service integrator companies
- Incumbent and emerging network operators
Report Statistics
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- Publication Date: July 2011
- Total Number of Pages: 117
- Keywords: NGN, NGN Applications, IMS, SDP, IP Multimedia Subsystem,
Service Delivery Platform, NGN Application Business Case, NGN Application
Business Drivers, IMS Application Deployment Challenges, IMS Application
Operational Challenges, NGN Application Operation, NGN Application
Implementation
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Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. NGN Market Outlook and Forecast
- 2.1. SDP Forecasts
- 2.1.1. Markets for SDP Solutions
- 2.1.2. Functional Break-up of SDP Solutions Revenue
- 2.1.3. Mediawise Break-up of SDP Solutions Revenue
- 2.1.4. Geographical Segmentation of SDP Solutions Revenues
- 2.1.5. Markets for SOA Platforms
- 2.2. IMS Forecasts
- 2.2.1. Overall Metrics
- 2.2.2. Video Telephony
- 2.2.3. Unified Messaging
- 2.2.4. Push to Talk (PTT)
- 2.2.5. Wireless Wireline Convergence
- 2.2.6. Online Gaming
- 2.2.7. Video on Demand (VOD)
- 2.3. Outlook by Region
- 2.4. Outlook by Operator Type
- 2.5. Outlook by Application
- 2.6. New Business Opportunities
3. NGN Business Case Analysis
- 3.1. Overall Business Case Portfolio
- 3.1.1. Application Monetization Categories
- 3.1.2. Revenue Inputs to the Business Case
- 3.2. Application Trends
- 3.2.1. The Initial Application: Voice
- 3.2.2. The Multi-screen Offering Strategy
- 3.2.3. High Bandwidth Evolution
- 3.2.4. Everything Goes to the Cloud
- 3.2.5. Bearer Services Become Completely Commoditized
- 3.2.6. Dependence on VAS Applications for Profits
- 3.2.7. Application Migration Cross Platforms
- 3.2.8. Completely New Applications
- 3.2.9. The Adolescence of the NGN to Cause Turmoil
- 3.3. Application Analysis
- 3.3.1. Presence
- 3.3.2. Dynamic Address Book
- 3.3.3. Personalized Communications and Information
- 3.3.4. Universal Prepay
- 3.3.5. Consumer and Business Voice Services
- 3.3.6. Rich Calls
- 3.3.7. Video Calls
- 3.3.8. NGN Messaging
- 3.3.9. Unified Communications
- 3.3.10. Push-to-X
- 3.3.11. Wireless-Wireline Convergence
- 3.3.12. Entertainment
- 3.3.13. Video on Demand
- 3.3.14. Community of Interest Communications
- 3.3.15. Augmented Reality
- 3.3.16. Universal Billing
- 3.3.17. Social Networking
- 3.3.18. Services Blending
- 3.3.19. Advertising
- 3.4. The Multi-Application Operational Challenges and Solutions
- 3.4.1. Operational Services Mediation: Longer-term View
- 3.4.2. Operational Services Mediation: Intermediate-term View
- 3.4.3. Operational Services Mediation: Short-term View
- 3.4.4. Business Issue: Third Parties and Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- 3.4.5. Business Issue: Dealing with Virtual Network Operators (VNO)
- 3.5. NGN OSS/BSS Analysis and Market Forecast
- 3.5.1. What is NGN OSS/BSS?
- 3.5.2. Drivers for NGN OSS/BS
- 3.5.3. Challenges for NGN OSS/BS
- 3.5.4. NGN OSS Challenges
- 3.5.5. NGN BSS Challenges
- 3.5.6. NGN Solutions and Forecasts
4. Appendix: NGN Technologies
- 4.1. Technical Overview of IMS and SDP
- 4.1.1. SDP Architecture
- 4.1.2. SDP and OSS/BSS
- 4.1.3. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
- 4.1.4. Technologies Supporting IMS