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

Service Provider Technology

CSPs push ahead with digital transformation, or think they do

By Kris Szaniawski 18 Oct 2018

Investment in IT platforms is essential, but without customer-centric processes and data management strategies also in place, no CSP can claim that its digital transformation is "well advanced" or "completed."

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Smartwatches will soon start eating into smartphone time

By Rishi Kaul 18 Oct 2018

Although not a current reality for most wearable consumers, cellular-capable smartwatches will continue to roll out over the next few years.

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Facebook Portal pioneers AI-powered video calling

By Ronan De Renesse 12 Oct 2018

Facebook Portal targets the growing Facebook Messenger video-calling audience.

Service Provider Markets

Tata Communications bolsters its cybersecurity services

By Inderpreet Kaur 11 Oct 2018

Tata Communications is well placed to become a global provider of security services, given its wide scale of global operations and infrastructure consisting of over 240 points of presence across six continents.

Service Provider Markets, Service Provider Technology, Enter...

Capex accelerates in 2Q18 as 5G investments begin in earnest, supported by fast fiber broadband

By Upin Dattani, CFA 11 Oct 2018

Communications provider capex has increased markedly in the six months to June 2018, in line with Ovum’s five-year forecast, which predicted investment to increase in 2018 after three years of broadly flat spend since 2014.

Service Provider Technology

Adtran supports the digital transformation of rural America

By Jaimie Lenderman 10 Oct 2018

In recent weeks, Adtran has made a series of announcements publicizing its involvement with several electric cooperatives throughout the US with the task of developing high-speed wireline networks to support digital transformation in rural communities

Consumer and Entertainment Services

What if OTT video is not simply a cheaper alternative to pay TV?

By Tony Gunnarsson 09 Oct 2018

Across a handful of mature markets, there are now more subscriptions to services delivered solely over the top (OTT) of the internet, such as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, than there are pay-TV subscriptions. The good news for pay-TV operators is that there is significant overlap between OTT video and pay TV.

Service Provider Technology

European cloud ecosystem specialist Interxion is targeting 10 million enterprises

By Ian Redpath 09 Oct 2018

On October 4, 2018, at Interxion’s analyst day in Madrid, the company outlined its strategy for future revenue growth.

Service Provider Markets

Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other SVOD providers will have to maintain a European content quota of 30%

By Sarah McBride 08 Oct 2018

On October 2, 2018, the European Parliament approved the new audiovisual media services (AVMS) directive. The directive is expected to take effect by the end of 2018, once the EU Council has given its formal approval, and then EU member states have 21 months to adopt it into national law.

Service Provider Markets, Enterprise Services, IT, Enterpris...

Telstra enterprise segmentation drives customer satisfaction

By David Kennedy 08 Oct 2018

Telstra's reorganization of its enterprise offer and segmentation is delivering big improvements in customer satisfaction. The strategy is a case study on successful segmentation.

Service Provider Markets

US looks to implement new principal consumer data protection rules to provide consistency across states

By Sarah McBride 05 Oct 2018

On September 24, 2018, the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a public consultation on new consumer privacy legislation.

Consumer and Entertainment Services

Comcast mulls over options after acquiring Sky

By Ismail Patel 03 Oct 2018

This opinion assesses how Comcast and Sky Europe can make the most of their "megamerger."

Service Provider Markets

5G is here – almost – with the launch of Verizon 5G Home

By Mike Roberts 01 Oct 2018

Verizon 5G Home is a milestone in the telecoms market because it is the first large-scale commercial launch of broadband services based on 5G technologies, albeit not on a fully standardized version of those technologies.

Service Provider Markets

Despite previous threats of a boycott, Italy's 5G spectrum auction already sees sales top €5bn

By Sarah McBride 28 Sep 2018

On September 10, 2018, Italy's 5G spectrum auction began, with seven operators qualifying for the auction. Frequencies in the 700MHz, 3.6–3.8GHz, and 26GHz bands are up for grabs and so far, the auction of the 700MHz band has been completed, raising €2bn, while the 3.6–3.8GHz band continues to see bidding at unprecedented levels.

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