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| IP Test & Measurement: The Coming Consolidation |
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In any economic downturn, the first thing carriers look to do is cut costs; however, the places carriers can least afford to cut costs are in the areas of customer service and quality of experience (QoE). In order to stay competitive in the IP market, test and measurement (T&M) vendors must continually release updates and/or new products addressing the needs of their clients. However, doing so requires heavy investment: T&M is an expensive business in which to remain competitive.
Service providers are trying to find ways to maximize their investments and control operational expenditures to deploy, manage, monitor, and control their networks. Some operators will continue to shift from network-centric operations to service-centric operations made possible by next-generation networks and the power of IP, while others rely on customer self-services as a critical channel for account management, e-commerce, service ordering and delivery, customer service, and trouble ticket desks.
Many in the industry see a desire on carriers' parts to move away from boutique, specialty T&M vendors to those that can provide all-in-one solutions, in order to assure better customer service at a cheaper rate. This is expected to not only fuel more consolidation in the market, but also continue fueling the trend of savvier solutions that solve multiple problems from one interface. As this happens, the T&M industry will continue to overcome the challenges presented by slow economic conditions.
Many vendors are noticing several factors leading to a compression in the T&M marketplace, in which the number of vendors likely will become fewer over the coming months. One obvious reason is the economy, simply because good T&M operations are expensive to operate, and only those companies with the best balance sheets will remain profitable and able to continue releasing product updates and new products addressing service provider demands.
IP Test & Measurement: The Coming Consolidation provides an in-depth look at the T&M market, including trends in the industry and the evolution of its products. It also examines the growth strategies for T&M vendors, including markets that are expected to grow over the next 12 months, challenges the market continues to face, and partnerships and acquisitions that are occurring. Additionally, this report provides a comparative analysis of 16 of the top vendors in the T&M market.
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 Table of Contents (vsi1208_toc.pdf) |
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| Over the next 12 months, the T&M market is expected to continually grow and evolve. One trend in the T&M space is that more vendors find their service provider customers becoming managed service providers (MSPs). Some vendors are utilizing the MSP skill set for the products they are using in Web-based application offerings; thus, causing a projected growth within the MSP model in the IP market. The following excerpt shows markets in which the vendors included in this report have T&M business, as well as markets in which the companies expect to see growth over the next 12 months. |
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 Companies analyzed in this report include: Apparent Networks Inc.; CA Inc. (Nasdaq: CA); ClearSight Networks Inc.; EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq: EXFO; Toronto: EXF); Empirix Inc.; Fluke Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR); GL Communications Inc.; Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA); JDS Uniphase Corp. (Nasdaq: JDSU; Toronto: JDU); NetQoS Inc.; Packet Design Inc.; Spirent Communications plc (Pink Sheets: SPMYY); London: SPT); Symmetricom Inc. (Nasdaq: SYMM); Tektronix Communications, a subsidiary of Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR); Tollgrade Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: TLGD); and WildPackets Inc. |
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| Other companies mentioned in this report include: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU); Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A); Anritsu Corp.; BMC Software Inc. (NYSE: BMC); Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq: CPWR); Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ); IneoQuest Technologies Inc.; Iptivia Inc.; NetIQ Corp., a subsidiary of Attachmate Corp.; NetScout Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT); Network Instruments LLC; and Niksun Inc. |
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