2006 Global NGN, IP and VoIP - Volume 1 - Global Overview, Analyses and Stats

Content

• 1. Ngn - Key To Success In Telecoms
  • 1.1 Overview and analysis
    • 1.1.1 Introduction
    • 1.1.2 Telcos and the nextgen revolution - analysis
    • 1.1.3 Internet economy requires NGNs - now
    • 1.1.4 Nextgen investment strategies
    • 1.1.5 Broadband VoIP
    • 1.1.6 Historic overview
    • 1.1.7 Growth of IP-VPN (NGNs)
  • 1.2 NGN infrastructure developments
    • 1.2.1 Next Generation Networks (NGN)
    • 1.2.2 Infrastructure competition
    • 1.2.3 Narrowband services
    • 1.2.4 Mobile infrastruture
    • 1.2.5 Broadband infrastructure
• 2. Ip - Convergence And Applications
  • 2.1 NGNs: converging networks
    • 2.1.1 Dedicated voice and dedicated data networks
    • 2.1.2 Changes driven by IP
    • 2.1.3 Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
    • 2.1.4 Next Generation packet Networks (NGN)
    • 2.1.5 IP objectives
    • 2.1.6 Next Generation Network (NGN) standards
    • 2.1.7 IMS forum
  • 2.2 IP=IT
    • 2.2.1 From VoIP to triple play
    • 2.2.2 From basic services to value added applications
  • 2.3 IP - enhanced services
  • 2.4 IP is making data market redundant
  • 2.5 IP is upsetting the telcos
  • 2.6 Technology and communication
• 3. The Future Of Voice (Fixed, Mobile, Voip)
  • 3.1 Telephone companies - experts in negative marketing
    • 3.1.1 Don't use the phone
    • 3.1.2 Don't use the mobile phone
    • 3.1.3 Don't use the fixed phone
    • 3.1.4 The IP solution
  • 3.2 The future of voice
    • 3.2.1 Market under pressure
    • 3.2.2 Rearguard skirmishes in the voice market
    • 3.2.3 A neglected market
    • 3.2.4 Fixed-line SMS
  • 3.3 The future of mobile
    • 3.3.1 Voice still the killer app
    • 3.3.2 But data is the future
    • 3.3.3 Rebalancing of the industry
    • 3.3.4 Devices-driven developments
    • 3.3.5 Only option in developing countries
    • 3.3.6 Multimodal services
  • 3.4 VOIP
  • 3.5 Pricing strategies
    • 3.5.1 Telecoms price developments
    • 3.5.2 From bundling to triple play
    • 3.5.3 New ways to measure ARPUs
  • 3.6 Conclusion
• 4. Voip
  • 4.1 Analysis
    • 4.1.1 The continuing importance of voice
    • 4.1.2 Give VOIP a chance
    • 4.1.3 VOIP service quality
    • 4.1.4 Industry issues
    • 4.1.5 Don't over regulate
    • 4.1.6 VOIP needs to be underpinned by NGNS
    • 4.1.7 Corporate markets
    • 4.1.8 VOIP - a case of evolution, rather than revolution
    • 4.1.9 Wireless VoIP
  • 4.2 Market overview
    • 4.2.1 Historic overview
    • 4.2.2 Key trends and developments
    • 4.2.3 VoIP regional market overview
  • 4.3 Statistics and forecasts
    • 4.3.1 IP market statistics and forecasts
    • 4.3.2 VoIP and the business sector
    • 4.3.3 VoIP and consumer awareness
    • 4.3.4 IP Centrex to be popular with SME's
• 5. Outsourcing
  • 5.1 Managed network services
  • 5.2 Outsourcing
    • 5.2.1 Outsourcing, cosourcing, insourcing, tasksourcing
    • 5.2.2 Outsourcing market statistics for 2006 and beyond
    • 5.2.3 Outsourcing market statistics for 2005
    • 5.2.4 Outsourcing market statistics for 2004
    • 5.2.5 Historical overview
  • 5.3 IP Centrex or VOIP outsourcing - the battle for the SME market
• 6. Technology
  • 6.1 Limitations of IPv4
    • 6.1.1 IPv4 - the current TCP/IP version
    • 6.1.2 Address space
    • 6.1.3 NAT - Network Address Translation
    • 6.1.4 Addressing difficulties for Mobile Devices
    • 6.1.5 Security
    • 6.1.6 Quality of Service
  • 6.2 IPv6 and Next Generation Networks (NGN)
    • 6.2.1 Introduction
    • 6.2.2 IPv4 and IPv6
    • 6.2.3 The Telcos' Next Generation Network
    • 6.2.4 MPLS-based telco and corporate 'NextGen' networks
  • 6.3 Telephony and Voice over IP
    • 6.3.1 VOIP
    • 6.3.2 Internet telephony
    • 6.3.3 VOIP on private networks
    • 6.3.4 Comparing the Internet and the telephone network
  • 6.4 Streaming media and conferencing
    • 6.4.1 Streaming video and audio
    • 6.4.2 Unidirectional and bidirectional streaming
    • 6.4.3 Video-on-demand and bandwidth restrictions
    • 6.4.4 Open-standard streaming systems
    • 6.4.5 Proprietary streaming systems
    • 6.4.6 File download vs. server streaming
    • 6.4.7 Commercial aspects of proprietary systems
  • 6.5 Video On Demand
    • 6.5.1 VoD History and futures
    • 6.5.2 VoD system functionality
    • 6.5.3 Impact of VoD on media industries
    • 6.5.4 VoD system requirements
    • 6.5.5 QoS and specialised routers/switches
    • 6.5.6 IP multicasting
    • 6.5.7 Triple Play for differing access networks
• 7. Glossary Of Abbreviations
• List Of Exhibits
  • Exhibit 1 - Nextgen telecoms
  • Exhibit 2 - Global outsource market services
  • Exhibit 3 - What is IMS?
  • Exhibit 4 - ITU Definition of Next Generation Network
  • Exhibit 5 - IP based enhanced services
  • Exhibit 6 - Top ten technologies that will impact communication
  • Exhibit 7 - Triple play pricing examples
  • Exhibit 8 - Teen pop singer launches own VoIP service
  • Exhibit 9 - VoIP issues
  • Exhibit 10 - Regulator attitudes to VoIP
  • Exhibit 11 - Comparative advantages of outsourcing and insourcing
  • Exhibit 12 - Mobile outsourcing agreements - 2005
  • Exhibit 13 - Contrasts between the telephone network and the Internet
  • Exhibit 14 - Adoption of digital broadband technologies
• List Of Tables
  • Table 1 - Global telecoms investments - 2005, 2010, 2015
  • Table 2 - Terabit Router Leading Vendors - Market Share - August 2005
  • Table 3 - Regional residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers - 2006; 2009
  • Table 4 - Estimated growth of inbound VoIP traffic - Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe - 2005
  • Table 5 - VoIP subscribers - Skype, Vonage, France Telecom, Time Warner
  • Table 6 - VoIP access lines in US - 1999 - 2007
  • Table 7 - Number of global outsourcing deals - first quarters - 2004 - 2006
  • Table 8 - US jobs going offshore - 2003 - 2008; 2010; 2015