Ovum for Network vendors

Understand the implications of the evolving infrastructure value chain as SDN, NFV and cloud computing challenge the dominance of traditional vendors

Communication service providers (CSPs) are going digital. As they shift from CSP to Digital Service Provider and seek to become more agile their approach to sourcing and relationship with traditional vendors is changing. Their priority is to deliver faster, all-IP, cloud-driven services with vendor and hardware agnostic infrastructure.

The challenge for network vendors is navigating a new and rapidly evolving value chain as new competitors enter the previously walled garden of the telecoms market. At the same time technologies such as 5G, FFTs, GPON, G.Fast, and Mobile Edge Computing present new opportunities.

Ovum helps you:

Establish the impact of major trends such as cloud computing on the market and your business
Idenitfy where traditional vendors, software companies, start-ups and developer ecosystems fit in telco procurement plans
Identify where service providers plan future investments and track their deployments

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Facebook invites regulation in a bid to shape the dialogue around content restrictions

By Charlotte Palfrey 18 Apr 2019

While regulators and lawmakers around the world look at introducing rules on the kind of content that social platforms should remove and how quickly they should do it, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has called for governments to regulate social platforms.

Service Provider Markets

Regulating cybersecurity of 5G networks: a key concern for the EU

By Sarah McBride 15 Apr 2019

By 2025, 5G revenue is estimated to reach €225bn. 5G networks will connect billions of objects, including those in critical sectors, so it is essential that any vulnerabilities in the networks are addressed. On March 26, 2019, the EC released its recommendation to conduct national and EU-wide reviews of the cybersecurity of 5G networks.

Service Provider Technology

Service-based core architectures: Are carriers ready to make the infrastructure leap required for 5G?

By Stephanie Gibbons 15 Apr 2019

Leading vendors are putting their new 5G core product launches at the forefront of their next-generation networking portfolios. But are operators ready to make the leap?

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Cloud gaming gets an extra life

By George Jijiashvili 15 Apr 2019

Having failed to captivate consumers at the beginning of the decade, cloud gaming is having another shot at success.

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Ad-dependent or not, GAFA is not safe from the regulatory backlash

By Guillermo Escofet 15 Apr 2019

While US regulators dither, Europe is leading the way in imposing limits on the huge wealth and power accumulated by the Silicon Valley giants Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA).

Service Provider Technology, Service Provider Market Forecas...

On the Radar: Clearfield is transforming network infrastructure

By Julie Kunstler 10 Apr 2019

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Key Trends: Smart Home

By Michael Philpott 09 Apr 2019

Service Provider Markets

Satellite-based wholesale takes off

By David James 09 Apr 2019

Satellite service providers should concentrate on wholesale business models because the retail demand for remote broadband connectivity is far too fragmented to be addressable directly.

Service Provider Markets

Is Facebook serious about becoming a telecoms wholesaler?

By David James 09 Apr 2019

Despite the creation of a new Facebook subsidiary to sell space fiber capacity on a wholesale-only basis, Ovum continues to be skeptical that it has long-term aspirations to become a wholesale carrier.

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Smart home cybersecurity is now critical for greater IoT adoption

By Michael Philpott 09 Apr 2019

The number and types of connected devices in the home are rapidly growing, leading to greater consumer convenience, but they can make the home more vulnerable to attack from cybercriminals.

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Key trends in the smart home market: March 2019

By Mariana Zamoszczyk 05 Apr 2019

A roundup of key events in the smart home market in March.

Service Provider Technology

Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies 2019: Operators differ on network upgrade strategies

By Jaimie Lenderman 03 Apr 2019

There was no shortage of topics up for discussion at the Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies (CNG) show in March 2019, including Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX), distributed-access architecture (DAA) transformation, and customer quality of experience (QoE).

Service Provider Markets

4G technology has a long-term role to play

By David Kennedy 02 Apr 2019

Ubiquitous 5G networks will support the digitalization of all of our industries and interactions, but 4G networks will be an integral part of mobile operators' strategies for many more years.

Service Provider Markets, Go-to-Market Strategy, Market Oppo...