Mobile backhaul continues to be a critical issue for all mobile operators to address as they deliver new data and video services to their subscribers. Cost, reliability, manageability and quality ...

The service provider edge has become sophisticated in response to demands for higher-speed broadband data services, residential triple play and IPTV. Subscriber and policy management features are key market drivers. ...

Process-aware pure play vendors seek out unified modeling capabilities, adopt data management practices and explore human-driven workflow definition to differentiate against larger infrastructure suite vendors. This report contains a market ...

The governance and management market continues apace with vendors adopting Web 2.0 tools and inviting both developers and business analysts into the fold. However, open source promises to disrupt the ...

The RAS market has evolved from a focus on access to managed security and application-enhanced service models. Client usability and management features remain differentiators while 3G WWAN access and mobile ...

Collaboration and productivity vendors continue to push the bounds between consumer and business user, plying social networking concepts within portals and adopting Web 2.0 technologies such as tagging, voting a,mnd ...

The application infrastructure market continues to explore virtualization technologies, leverage SOA and focus on integration. However, complete software lifecycle support and mid-market entry points, ROI and vertical solutions have dibs. ...

Middleware software and services vendors continue to embrace open source, adopt SaaS as a direct service model and create highly verticalized solutions, while exploring more agile scripting languages for general ...

The media gateway market has reached $1.4 billion and is still showing signs of growth, despite its predicted demise as the world goes all IP. Evidence is strong that there ...

Current Analysis' demand-side research showed that nearly half of enterprise customers surveyed still use frame relay services. The survey also shows that most enterprise frame relay users are transitioning their ...

Now that multi-degree ROADM offerings are available from most vendors, the focus has shifted toward enabling inexpensive two-degree connections at the metro edge. Now, in the metro core, packet optical ...

Managed services in telecom is less controversial than ever. Carrier skittishness over entrusting third parties to manage applications, services and networks continues to fade as competition and technology drive demand ...

Current Analysis' end-user research shows that, while a strong majority of enterprise ATM users plan to transition part or all of their networks to IP and/or Ethernet, a minority of ...

Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is inherent in the all-IP NGN infrastructure visions where users from any terminal can access any service. As the infrastructure commoditizes, carriers are reorganizing internally to capture ...

As operators of all types enter into or expand the scope of their respective TV/video service offerings to address both competitive pressures and consumer demand, video headend systems will play ...

Though expectations were never high that IMS would be adopted in a monolithic manner, operators are taking an even more deliberate and measured adoption path to the next-generation architecture than ...

In 2007, the top three U.S. cable companies gained 4.06 million VoIP subscribers while the top three telcos lost 3.99 primary residential voice lines. No wonder bundles with voice matter, ...

The adoption of user-generated content in combination with mobile advertising and LBS has changed the data services landscape. The plethora of new applications will push demand and bring forth new ...

Public safety applications offer promise to a struggling metro-scale WiFi market. To execute on this promise, vendors will need to highlight successful launches and distract from the difficulties facing public ...

The start of mobile WiMAX certification testing allows the industry to maintain claims of a substantive lead over LTE and other 4G options. Just as importantly, it provides a distraction ...