Summary

This study provides quantitative and qualitative data as well as analysis on the main telecom network optimisation technologies including:
Traffic and policy management – Network design – Video infrastructure – Cloudification – Telco software

Two deliverables to provide you efficiently with this outstanding expertise:
1. Report (ppt format)
The state of the art for key network optimisation technologies, coming along with the impact on strategies of the key telecom equipment makers (Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Networks) and major telcos (AT&T, DT, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Verizon and Vodafone) in order to gather all necessary information to understand and assess issues & opportunities of these markets.

2. Dataset (xlsx)
Data & Forecasts up to 2019 covering seven main network optimisation technologies for three regions
– North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as World consolidated
– Network optimisation technologies consolidated by zone with a breakdown by Traffic and policy management, Telco WiFi, Mobile Backhaul, Video optimization infrastructure, SDN/NFV, Cloud equipment, OSS/BSS

Table of contents

1. Executive summary
1.1. Operators’ challenges to evolve their networks
1.2. Operators still being careful about spending
1.3. Technical-economic responses available to operators
1.4. Networks at the heart of telcos’ strategies
1.5 Telco migration to future architecture with SDN and NFV
1.6. Equipment suppliers need to find a new development path
1.7. Equipment suppliers building their business around IT services

2. Current status of network optimisation solutions markets
2.1. Traffic and policy management
2.1.1. Traffic and policy management: concept
2.1.2. Traffic and policy management: market drivers and barriers
2.1.3. Traffic and policy management: deployment level
2.1.4. Traffic and policy management: ecosystem
2.1.5. Traffic and policy management: market revenues
2.2. Network planning: Carrier Wi-Fi – Backhaul
2.2.1. Carrier Wi-Fi: concept
2.2.2. Carrier Wi-Fi: market drivers
2.2.3. Carrier Wi-Fi: deployment level
2.2.4. Carrier Wi-Fi: ecosystem
2.2.5. Carrier Wi-Fi: market revenues
2.2.6. Mobile backhaul: concept
2.2.7. Mobile backhaul: market drivers and barriers
2.2.8. Mobile backhaul: deployment level
2.2.9. Mobile backhaul: ecosystem
2.2.10. Mobile backhaul: market revenues
2.3. Video infrastructure- CDN and transparent caching – Web and video optimisation
2.3.1. CDN and transparent caching equipment: concept
2.3.2. CDN and transparent caching: market drivers
2.3.3. CDN and transparent caching: deployment level
2.3.4. CDN and transparent caching: ecosystem
2.3.5. Web and video optimisation: concept
2.3.6. Web and video optimisation: ecosystem
2.3.7. Video infrastructure: market revenues
2.4. Cloudification – SDN/NFV – Cloud computing
2.4.1. SDN and NFV: concept
2.4.2. SDN and NFV: market drivers and barriers
2.4.3. SDN and NFV: deployment level
2.4.4. SDN and NFV: ecosystem
2.4.5. SDN and NFV: market revenues
2.4.6. Cloud computing: concept
2.4.7. Cloud computing: development level
2.4.8. Cloud computing: ecosystem
2.4.9. Cloud computing: equipment market revenues
2.5. Network systems management – OSS/BSS
2.5.1. OSS/BSS: concept
2.5.2. OSS/BSS: deployments
2.5.3. OSS/BSS: ecosystem
2.5.4. OSS/BSS: market revenues

3. Positioning of equipment suppliers
3.1. Cisco
3.2. Ericsson
3.3. Alcatel-Lucent
3.4. Huawei
3.5. Nokia Networks

4. Telco strategies
4.1. AT&T
4.2. Deutsche Telekom
4.3. Orange
4.4. Telecom Italia
4.5. Telefónica
4.6. Verizon
4.7. Vodafone

List of tables and figures

List of tables and figures

1. Executive summary
• The “ROADS” from Huawei
• Annual regional traffic, 2015-2019
• Networks’ new and changing requirements
• Benefits from network optimisation technologies
• Growth and breakdown of the network optimisation technologies market, 2015-2019
• Telco strategies
• State of art of SDN and NFV deployments in 2015
• Equipment suppliers’ strategic priorities
• Map of positioning of the network optimisation technologies in terms of market size in 2019 and 2015-2019 CAGR
• Broader network vendors ecosystem

2. Current status of network optimisation solutions markets
• Optimising traffic with DPI
• Utilisation of PCRF
• Telefónica Latin America – implementation of service plans by application
• Traffic and policy management providers
• Policy management market and regional breakdown, 2015-2019
• Offloading to Wi-Fi
• Percentage of traffic offloaded
• Wi-Fi fully integrated in telcos’ network beyond offloading
• Wi-Fi hotspots deployment
• Wi-Fi equipment suppliers
• Public hotspots (deployed by operators)
• Carrier Wi-Fi equipment market and regional breakdown, 2015-2019
• Technical limitations of E1/T1 leased lines as a backhaul solution
• Pros and cons of fibre and wireless backhaul solutions
• Reusing the existing FTTH network for LTE mobile backhaul
• How backhaul solutions are positioned
• Breakdown of a mobile operators’ costs
• Vodafone strategies by markets
• Operators’ backhaul deployment strategies
• Backhaul equipment suppliers
• Mobile backhaul market and regional breakdown, 2015-2019
• A CDN integrated into an operator’s network
• How transparent caching works
• Telco CDN: a two-sided model
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Examples of telco CDN
• Acquisitions/partnerships between the different types of company
• CDN and transparent caching vendors
• Transcoding for multiscreen distribution
• Downloading a file on an LTE network – with and without TCP optimisation
• Mergers and acquisitions over the past two years
• Web and video optimisation vendors
• Video infrastructure market, 2015-2019
• How SDN works
• How NFV works
• Reduced network costs for operators
• First elements to be migrated by major telcos
• SDN and NFV solution vendors
• SDN and NFV products commercially available from key players
• SDN and NFV market and regional breakdown, 2015-2019
• Breakdown of the SDN/NFV market in 2019 by type of customer
• Shared management of the cloud’s different hardware and software layers
• Top cloud computing companies
• Main cloud infrastructures and software suppliers
• Cloud equipment market and regional breakdown, 2015-2019
• Cloud services market by segment, 2015-2019
• Use of OSS/BSS in operator networks
• OSS/BSS deployments in operator networks
• Major acquisitions by OSS/BSS vendors
• OSS and BSS vendors
• OSS/BSS market and regional breakdown, 2015-2019

3. Positioning of equipment suppliers
• Cisco’s recent major acquisitions
• Cisco product revenues growth rates
• Cisco SDN approach around its ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure)
• Cisco NFV platform: Evolved Services Platform (ESP)
• Ericsson’s strategy by technology
• SDN as a catalyst for network transformation
• SDN and NFV seen as revenue generating technologies
• Alcatel-Lucent’s strategic partnerships
• The cloud at the heart of future network architectures
• Cloudband architecture
• Huawei’s R&D activities
• Huawei’s vision of the industry around “ROADS”
• Huawei’s Softcom architecture
• Cloud Edge: Network Edge to cloud
• Nokia Technology Vision 2020
• Central role of the cloud for the future network
• SDN and NFV works

4. Telco strategies
• AT&T LTE coverage
• AT&T’s vision of the future network
• AT&T network transformation
• SDN role in AT&T infrastructure
• Deutsche Telekom network coverage targets
• Deutsche Telekom network transformation vision
• Deutsche Telekom transformation – TeraStream
• Orange Chrysalid programme
• Orange’s vision of SDN and NFV
• Orange implication in defining SDN and NFV use cases
• vIMS Proof of concept
• Investment plan of Telecom Italia for the domestic market
• Telecom Italia’s investment in fiber in the new 15-17 plan
• Telecom Italia’ vision on network softwarisation
• Telecom Italia benefits from NFV
• Telefónica’s investments in 2014
• Telefónica’s vision for migration to network virtualisation
• Telefónica roadmap to the end–to-end virtualisation journey
• The whole network concerned by the transformation network under virtualised form by Telefónica
• Verizon’s LTE network coverage
• Verizon’s innovation programme
• Verizon’s vision on SDN and OpenFlow
• Verizon’s expectations from leveraging SDN for NGN services
• Vodafone’s investment in mobile networks in Europe
• Vodafone Spring project
• Telco over Cloud Proof of concept

DataSet Scope

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Investment forecasts for 2015-2019 for the following market segments

Traffic and policy management
• DPI, PCRF and Policy control functions

Network design
• Telco Wifi
• Mobile backhaul

Video infrastructure
• Video optimisation, CDN servers, transparent caching, encoders, VoD servers

Cloudification
• SDN and NFV
• Cloud equipment

Telco software
• OSS/BSS

Geographical coverage
• North America
• Europe
• Asia-Pacific
• Global consolidation

Geographic area

Asia-Pacific Europe North America World

Players

  • Cisco
  • Ericsson
  • Alcatel Lucent
  • Huawei
  • Nokia Networks
  • AT&T
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • Orange
  • Telecom Italia
  • Telefónica
  • Verizon
  • Vodafone

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  • Tags: Backhaul, CDN, cloud, data traffic, FTTx, network planning, network optimisation, carrier equipment, virtualised network architecture, software-based networks, Network systems management

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