All Reports

Telco App Servers: NGIN Revs Up for a Serious Run at SIP

Vol. 5, No. 4, September 2009

This report considers the service-layer capabilities that operators will need to establish to support third-party service development and evaluates the strategies of leading vendors of telco app server technology as they position themselves for the next evolution of this market. It also profiles 10 leading companies in the market.

LENGTH: 31 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Infrastructure as a Service: Telcos Aim for the Cloud

Vol. 5, No. 3, June 2009

This report examines the development of IaaS, explores the opportunity it represents for telcos, and analyzes the key areas telcos still need to address – particularly around infrastructure management – if they are to participate in this emerging market. It also profiles ten leading providers of IaaS-enabling technologies.

LENGTH: 29 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Order to Cash: How SOA Can Break Down Telco OSS Silos

Vol. 5, No. 2, March 2009

This report discusses the order-to-cash process and how next-generation products are driving demand for SOA-based OSS/BSS architectures. The report examines process and system areas that are challenging telco process architects as they try to consolidate and manage product data centrally and create a future-proof process that spans fulfillment and billing.

LENGTH: 33 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Accelerating Telco Services Through SaaS/PaaS: Strategies for SDPs in the Cloud

Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2009

This report explores strategies for cloud computing, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) approaches, as well as new approaches to service innovation, such as service exposure and service syndication, that are blurring the boundaries between SaaS and PaaS. The report also profiles 15 leading vendors in telco services.

LENGTH: 31 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Combining Telco Services: The Network Service Broker Opportunity

Vol. 4, No. 4, September 2008

This report defines the network service broker and explores various approaches to service brokering at different levels of the network. It also examines the relationship between service brokering, service orchestration, and mashups in the Web 2.0 domain. The report includes a comparative analysis of 11 leading vendors in this market.

LENGTH: 31 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Content Delivery Platforms: The Next Big SDP Dilemma

Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008

This report examines content delivery platforms such as the roles open to operators, the range of content delivery infrastructure functions, and the option to outsource infrastructure roles and capabilities. It also analyses the impact that market change and new operator requirements will have on the vendor community. A comparative analysis of 16 leading companies and their delivery products and functions is included with this report.

LENGTH: 29 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Telco SOA Frameworks: A Blueprint for Service-Layer Transformation

Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2008

This report examines the use of SOA principles and technologies in IT-based service-layer transformation. It profiles three of the IT transformation market's newest contenders, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, and Nokia Siemens Networks, and evaluates how their grand designs stack up against each other and those of other IT transformation vendors.

LENGTH: 19 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Subscriber Data Management: It's Time to Get Personal

Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2008

This report analyzes emerging subscriber information management approaches and technologies, as well as two key categories of application that help operators deliver a personalized customer experience: identity management and real-time decision enablement. It also evaluates the products and strategies of 14 leading vendors in this market.

LENGTH: 28 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Beyond SDP: Building a Telco Service Factory

Vol. 3, No. 5, December 2007

This report details and analyzes the effects that product data management systems (PDMSs) will have on the delivery of next-generation telco services. It explores and outlines how network operators are likely to implement PDMSs and provides a competitive analysis of the different approaches that suppliers of PDMS technology are taking.

LENGTH: 24 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

SDPs & Service Components: The Web 2.0 Effect

Vol. 3, No. 4, October 2007

This report analyzes SDP vendor strategies for broadening the appeal of service componentization and reuse. It discusses emerging trends that are driving the evolution of the SDP and identifies the technology areas that must be addressed if operators are to use service components as the building blocks of next-generation products.

LENGTH: 32 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Service Management: The Key to SDP/OSS Integration

Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007

This report analyzes the role of service management, with a unified view of OSS function, in next-generation service delivery. It profiles key vendors in the SDP/OSS integration market and considers future market trends, finding that operators will come to be differentiated as much by service management as by services themselves.

LENGTH: 31 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Telco Web 2.0 Mashups: A New Blueprint for Service Creation

Vol. 3, No. 2, May 2007

This report explains what Web 2.0 mashups are and discusses how operators can exploit this new paradigm. It describes the technologies required to support Web 2.0 service creation and analyzes 12 vendors that have Web 2.0 strategies and technologies and the ability to help operators adopt them.

LENGTH: 31 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

SDP & Rich Media Services: Challenges & Opportunities

Vol. 3, No. 1, February 2007

This report discusses the SDP market, focusing on the potential and challenges relating to how SDPs can help network operators deliver and manage rich media services. It reviews SDP market trends and major players, and identifies the key challenges that technology suppliers and network operators continue to face with SDP.

LENGTH: 11 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Subscriber Information Management: Who's Doing What

Vol. 2, No. 6, December 2006

This report identifies a wide range of information that telecom operators must pull together and assesses the implications of subscriber information management for next-generation services. It looks at approaches being proposed to manage subscriber information and migrate operators to a coherent architecture, and analyzes vendors operating in this sector.

LENGTH: 27 PAGES    PRICE: $1250 SEE DETAILS

SDP Market Changes: Who Wins & Why

Vol. 2, No. 5, November 2006

This report examines the current state of play in the maturing service delivery platform (SDP) market as the concept gains wide acceptance, focusing on the role of SDP framework vendors in the supply chain. It includes two major SDP implementation case studies and profiles of nine leading SDP framework vendors.

LENGTH: 36 PAGES    PRICE: $1250 SEE DETAILS

SDP & IMS: Changing the OSS Landscape

Vol. 2, No. 4, August 2006

This report details the evolution of next-generation telco operations support systems and how they fit with service delivery platforms and IP Multimedia Subsystem. It analyzes how OSS suppliers are adapting to new realities in the telco sector, analyzes issues being tackled by industry bodies, and profiles eight leading NGOSS vendors.

LENGTH: 29 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Service Delivery and XML: The Path to Carrier SOA

Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2006

This report looks at XML networking technology and its suppliers in the context of how XML is likely to be deployed by telecom network operators and service providers. It explores how carriers will seek to differentiate their next-generation networks and increase the value of the services they provide using XML.

LENGTH: 28 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Service Orchestration: The Key to Telco SOA

Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2006

This report analyzes the technologies emerging to support the development of composite telco services. It investigates how telcos can apply service orchestration and pinpoints the orchestration approach that network operators will need to adopt. The report also analyzes the strategies of key vendors and their development of service delivery platforms.

LENGTH: 23 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

Policy-Based Service Control: Rules of Order

Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2006

This report analyzes the approaches to service-related policy control now being defined in the standards bodies. It provides a detailed accounting of what policy control does, how it works, and how it fits into the overall context of the SDP. Leading vendors addressing policy-based aspects of service delivery are profiled.

LENGTH: 25 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

SDP and IMS: Perfect Together?

Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2005

This report examines the conceptual and technological underpinnings of the service delivery platform (SDP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technologies to determine exactly how they will be deployed in carrier networks, and why it will be important for network operators to include both in their long-term service delivery plans.

LENGTH: 19 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

SDP Market Adoption: The Next Wave

Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2005

The premiere edition of Services Software Insider examines the progress that service providers have been making in implementing service delivery platforms (SDPs). We look at which operators are moving to an SDP approach, their reasons for doing so, and which technologies they are backing in their race to bring SDPs onstream.

LENGTH: 20 PAGES    PRICE: $900 SEE DETAILS

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