Networks Intelligence Centre
The Networks channel provides decision support analysis to operators, service providers, applications developers, infrastructure and software vendors, regulators and manufacturers who are looking at the potential of network technology to enable advanced applications and services. The service addresses trends, business models, strategies, underlying technological shifts and the market demand for new networks and spans the full range of next-generation broadband wireless, cellular, and convergent technologies and services.
2012 Research Agenda
Analysis:
- CDN strategies
- (Mobile broadband) pricing strategies
- Customer experience management
- Backhaul demand and addressable market
- Backhaul for small cells
- Mobile CDN strategies
- Real-time billing and online charging
- Role of billing in M2M
- Satellite backhaul strategies
- Volume sales of handsets by network technology
- Key device feature analysis and penetration rates, e.g. GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC, etc.
- MVNO/E/As
- Carrier Wi-Fi
- Customer data and CEM
- IMS update
- LTE Advanced
- LTE forecasts
- MVNO/E/As enablers
- OSS/BSS market trends and forecasts
- OSS/BSS transformation strategies
- Small cells
- LTE devices beyond handsets
- Mobile broadband devices – Defining, segmenting and scoping the market
- Mobile broadband devices – MIDs, MCDs and smartbooks
- Mobile broadband devices – Netbooks and notebooks
- WWAN – enabled e-reader markets
- Rural broadband
- Customer economics
- Enabling VAS
- Managed services forecasts
- OSS/BSS outsourcing strategies
- Traffic and signalling management and optimisation
- Traffic and signalling: Diameter, authentication, security
- IP cable convergence
- Backhaul forecasts
- BTS forecasts
- Impact of broadband on capex + capex forecasts
- Vendor scorecards
Market Data:
- Network and tower sharing contracts
- Global Public WLAN Hotspots
- Global support systems and managed network contracts
- Managed services & outsourcing contracts
- Mobile network subscriptions by technology
- Mobile infrastructure contracts
- Fixed broadband subscriptions by technology
- Global, NGA and NGN deployments and developments
- WiMAX deployments, licence awards, contracts & subscriptions
- Future networks & licences
- BTS coverage
Forecasts:
- Mobile CDN
- Carrier Wi-Fi
- Small cells
- OSS/BSS
- Managed services
- Rural broadband
Conference Papers:
- CDN Asia 2012 2012
- Telecoms Fraud and Revenue Assurance 2012
- Mobile Data Offloading 2012
- Network Security 2012
- Packet Transport Networks 2012
- Managed Services Middle East 2012
- 3G, HSPA+ & LTE Optimisation 2012
- LTE Latin America 2012
- Customer Experience Management World Congress 2012
- Transport Networks for Mobile Operators 2012
- Managed Services Latam 2012
- Policy Control & Real-Time Charging 2012
- Next Generation Core Networks Summit 2012
- LTE MENA 2012
- Mobile Video Optimisation 2012
- Carrier Ethernet Americas 2012
- LTE World Summit (Industry Summit) 2012
- IMS World Forum (Industry Summit) 2012
- Next Generation Telecom Towers 2012
- Delivering Network Service Assurance – Optimization and Automation 2012
- Broadband Traffic Management North America 2012
- WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking 2012
- Carrier Ethernet Russia & CIS 2012
- Broadband Traffic Management Latin America 2012
- Industry Summit 2012
- Broadband Traffic Management Asia (co-located with LTE Asia) 2012
- SDP Global Summit (Industry Summit) 2012
- LTE Asia 2012
- ETSI Annual Business Innovation Summit 2012
- Self Organising Networks 2012
- IP Workflow 2012
- Broadband World Forum 2012
- SDP Asia 2012
- Customer Experience Management ME 2012
- Spectrum 2012
- LTE North America 2012
- Broadband Traffic Management Global Congress 2012
- Carrier Ethernet APAC 2012
- Subscriber Data Management 2012
