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Broadband Services, Applications, and Networks: Enabling Technologies and Business Models
IEC Publications, Dec 2003, Pages: 632
In today's economy, broadband carriers must make conscientious decisions about how and where to expand, what technologies to deploy, and which business models are most feasible. To compete effectively, they must offer an assortment of engaging applications and services for both the residential and business end user, and they must continue to evolve their networks to accommodate increasing access speeds. Broadband Services, Applications, and Networks: Enabling Technologies and Business Models focuses on the most promising broadband applications and services and the business strategies that are most viable to ensure favorable return on investment.
Authored by industry professionals highly experienced in the realm of broadband, this report features in-depth analysis of the most critical issues involved in delivering broadband applications and services in today's marketplace.
Topics covered include
- broadband access technologies (DSL, cable, Ethernet, wireless)
- network security
- operations support systems
- asset management
- service deployment
- customer care and retention
The report also examines the current and potential markets for a range of broadband applications and services and proffers business strategies that providers can adopt to help ensure profitability. Detailed case studies from service providers around the world also provide invaluable insights into the challenges and opportunities present in today's global broadband industry.
Offering a range of perspectives on the forces driving the broadband and high-speed access sectors, Broadband Services, Applications, and Networks: Enabling Technologies and Business Models is an important resource for any communications company that hopes to profit from the evolutions in broadband applications and services.
Features of this report:
- Analyzes existing broadband market conditions and discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the broadband industry today and in the future
- Identifies how adequate business models and pricing strategies can assist broadband service providers in achieving profitability
- Presents the most recent market predictions for the near- and long-term viability of select broadband applications and services
- Examines the implications of new research on the evolving needs of broadband users and how those needs may best be satisfied
A Sampling of Questioned Addressed in This Report:
- What are the market characteristics and opportunities that will catalyze future broadband adoption?
- What are the most popular broadband applications?
- Is there truly a broadband 'killer app'?
- How are emerging applications and services affecting broadband penetration, profitability, and the creation of new business models?
- What is the optimal network architecture for providing a full range of communication services-voice, video, and data-over telephone lines?
- Which are the most favorable business models for creating a commercially attractive user market for new broadband services?
- What are the key merits of IP technology as an underlying vehicle for the delivery of today's and tomorrow's broadband services?
- What metro transport solutions will enable service providers to deliver all the benefits of broadband services at the lowest possible prices?
- How do you maintain revenue growth in the face of flattening demand and decreasing prices?
- What techniques can carriers and service providers use to increase monthly revenue beyond traditional POTS?
- What are the business challenges presently facing multiservice operators and equipment vendors?
- How does one develop and successfully deploy an asset-management solution in a broadband environment?
- What issues do legacy telecom carriers face when migrating into the broadband environment?
- What is the most cost-effective means to manage P2P traffic?
- What security protocols and data encryption methods have been and are being developed to meet the demands of home and enterprise customers?
- What are the current misunderstandings and myths surrounding broadband?
Who Should read this report?
- Application service providers (ASPs) that must bridge the last mile of broadband connectivity to deliver guaranteed outsourced services
- Competitive access providers that seek competitive entry and new strategies to gain access to the 'last mile'
- Competitive local-exchange carriers (CLECs) that must choose the best access technologies for their desired markets based on customers' bandwidth requirements, security, reliability, time to market, traffic-management strategies, and cost
- Enterprise customers who strive to centralize their telecommunications planning and management functions and to select a competitive access strategy
- Enterprise information technology (IT) managers that must understand the differences among the various broadband technologies and anticipate which is most appropriate for their networks
- Equipment vendors that must keep up to date on the most preferred network access architectures in the rapidly changing marketplace
- Incumbent local-exchange carriers (ILECs) that must evolve their networks to meet the bandwidth requirements of both business and residential customers
- Interexchange carriers (IXCs) whose innovative end-to-end networks will utilize the high-speed reach of broadband technologies
- Internet service providers (ISPs) that must offer enhanced, bandwidth-intensive services to remain competitive Regulators that will shape the future of the competitive market for broadband technologies through continued policy making
- University professors whose courses and research activities must keep abreast of the latest developments in access technologies and related regulations
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