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Business Opportunities and Markets for NGN Solutions

Dittberner Associates
November 1, 2003
1500 Pages - SKU: BCEQ1136747

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SCOPE OF THE REPORT

THE DAI PERSPECTIVE (formerly PROJECT ESS) report Edition 48, "BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND MARKETS FOR NGN SOLUTIONS" is the newest release in Dittberner Associates' THE DAI PERSPECTIVE multi-client GLOBAL TELECOM TECHNOLOGY SERIES study program. This report provides the following major categories of information and guidance:

Comprehensive description of NGN technologies and their alternative architectures
Cost-based price forecasts of NGN systems Media Gateways, Softswitches
Market forecast for NGN systems by Carrier segment — 2003 - 2010
Future of circuit vs. packet switching for voice
Standards and protocol issues and their evolution
Case studies of over 40 telecom service providers' NGN migration strategies and experience with Voice over Packet services and will report their network configurations, implementation problems and realistic future outlook.
Company overview and detailed product technical descriptions of 60 world-class VoP systems / solutions offered on the world market
Detailed installed base of NGN systems (MGs, Softswitches, SGs) by country, by supplier, and by operator
Conclusions and recommendations for each carrier type

This report will analyze the technical, economic and real-world implementation problems associated with handling voice services over IP and ATM technologies over the next decade. It will provide definitive analyses of the basic problems, opportunities, realistic market potential and market take-up of these technologies. It will present an analysis of all of the significant world-offerings in the field of multi-service switching systems, provide realistic long-term forecasts of their cost-based price, and compare the various network architectures associated with voice over packet services.

The report will also provide an analysis of the total installed base of voice over packet systems, on-order positions, and the market forecasts over the next decade. It will provide conclusions and recommendations for each major class of telecommunication service provider on the realistic action that they should take over the course of the coming year in relationship to voice over packet technologies and service offerings.

REPORT ORGANIZATION

VOLUME 1:

PART I - TECHNICAL & ARCHITECTURAL FORECASTS
This section describes the trends, approaches and architectures used in today’s networks, elaborates in detail on issues of alternative architectures for NGN, standards issues / protocols and their evolution, provides a 10-year forecast of NGN equipment sales and forecasts the future trends of softswitches and gateways over the next 8 years

PART II - NGN SYSTEMS — COMMERCIAL TRENDS / USER EXPERIENCE
This sections describes the structural trends in industry organization and presents 40 case studies of user experience with Next Generation switching equipment. These companies are profiled, their experience described, typically describing the individual systems currently employed, as well as plans for their replacement or updating.

PART III - NGN SYSTEMS INSTALLED BASE
This section provides the detailed record of the installed and on order position data by each manufacturer, country and operator.

PART IV - CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS
Provides our conclusions and recommendations resulting from this study, specifically tailored to individual major topics, as well as for different classes of carriers, and for telecommunications equipment manufacturers.

VOLUME 2:

PART V - NGN SYSTEMS OFFERED ON WORLD MARKETS
Part V of Volume 2 provides an exhaustive textual company background and system description of NGN systems vendors and their products, each followed by highly formatted technical specifications of each of the solutions covered in this report. There are tentatively 60 companies presented in this section, with 113

VOLUME 1 - Architectures, Softswitches and Gateways

Part I - Technical & Architectural Forecasts

1. Introduction to Edition

A. Introduction

B. The DAI Perspective - A Global Telecom Technology Series

C. Organization of this Report

D. Plans for Future Editions on The DAI Perspective

2. Executive Summary

3. Architectures for NGN Solutions

A. Introduction

B. General Architectures for Voice over Packet.

C. VoIP vs. VoATM - Getting it Right

D. VoDSL

E. Voice over Cable TV

F. SIP Basics

G. MEGACO Basics

H. Other Protocols.

I. Future Trends

4. Standards Issues and Protocols

A. General Trends

B. Large ASICs

C. Standard Open APIs for Multi-Service Networks

D. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

E. MPLS

F. SIGTRAN

G. DiffServ

H. MEGACO

I. CALEA.

J. Voice Compression / Silence Suppression

K. Other

L. Future Trends

5. Softswitches

A. Introduction

B. Concept and Requirements

C. Software Architecture

D. Hardware Platforms

E. Protocol Issues

F. Universal Single Box Architecture vs Separate Boxes

G. Internet dialup traffic offload applications and VoIP H.323 applications

H. Class 4 replacement Applications

I. multimedia capabilities Architecture for advanced services on both fixed and mobile networks

J. Future Trends

6. Media Gateways

A. Introduction

B. Local Media Gateway

C. Trunk Gateways

D. Subscriber Premises Gateways (Single Line and Multiple Virtual Line)

E. Gateways for Cable TV Telephony

F. Issues of Voice Encoding and Silence Suppression

G. Future Trends

7. Signaling Gateways

A. Introduction

B. SS7 Basics

C. Concept and Requirements

D. System Architecture

E. Software Issues

F. Future Trends

8. Media or Application Servers

A. Introduction

B. Concept and Requirements

C. Software Architecture and Protocol Issues

A. Future Trends

9. IN/AIN Trends in NGN Networks

A. Introduction

B. IN and the Packet Network

C. Future Trends

10.Softswitch Cost-Based Price Forecast

A. Introduction

B. Assumptions for our Forecasts

C. Software Development Expenses incl. Royalties for Third Party Modules

D. Allocation of R&D cost

E. Cost of Hardware Platforms

F. Cost Model for Small Softswitch

G. Cost Model for Large Softswitch

H. Cost Model for Softswitch Module in an Integrated Gateway

I. Summary and Conclusions

11. Media Gateway Systems Cost-Based Price Forecast (25-40)

A. Introduction

B. Assumptions for our Forecasts

C. Line Port Units - Analog and ISDN

D. DSL Units

E. Trunk Port Units

F. Switching Fabric

G. Common Control Processors

J. TDM / Packet Conversion Units

K. Allocation of R&D Cost

L. Cost Model for Small Local Media Gateway

M. Cost Model for Large Local Media Gateway

N. Cost Model for an “All-in-One” Local Exchange

O. Cost Forecast for Small Trunk Gateway

P. Cost Model for Large Trunk Gateway

Q. Cost Forecast for Residential gateway

R. Summary and Conclusions

12. Potential Savings from Implementing NGN Solutions (20-30)

A. Introduction

B. Savings from Purchasing and Installing Exchange Equipment

C. Savings from Eliminating Tandem Exchanges

D. Savings from Engineering the Network

E. Savings from Eliminating Local-to-Local Trunks

F. Savings from Achieving Better Utilization of the General Transport Infrastructure

G. Operational Savings

H. Summary of Savings

D. Conclusions

13. Realistic Migration Scenarios to NGN.

A. Introduction

B. Concept and Requirements

E. Migrating to a Packet -Based Trunk Network

F. Capping TDM (Local) Exchange Growth and adding NGN Exchanges

G. For New Carriers: Multiple Virtual Lines + DSL over Copper Loops

S. Future Trends

14.Business Case Analysis for NGN Solutions Deployment

A. Methodology Used

B. ROI, Payback and NPV Analysis for Replacing the Transit Network

C. ROI, Payback and NPV Analysis for Replacing IP Trunks on Class 5 Switching

D. ROI, Payback and NPV Analysis - Deploying Multiple Virtual Lines + DSL over Copper Loops

E. Future Trends

15. NGN Market Forecast

A. Forecasts Provided in This Chapter

B. Ten-Year NGN Market Forecast

Softswitch Market Forecast

Media Gateway Market Forecast

Signaling Gateway Market Forecast

Application Server Market Forecast

C. Vendor NGN Market Shares by Region

D. Current NGN Service Revenues by Region

Part II -Commercial Trends / NGN Deployment Plans / User Experience

1. Introduction

2. Structural Trends in Industry Organization

A. Next Generation Network Security Issues

3. NGN Equipment Deployment Plans and User Experience by Major Carriers Worldwide (Tentatively 30 carriers)

A. 2nd Century Communications

1) Company Profile

2) NGN Systems and Suppliers Utilized by Application.

3) Current Services/Applications on NGN Equipment

4) Major Drivers for Deploying NGN equipment

5) Major Implementation Problems Encountered

6) Range of Budget Planned for NGN Solutions

7) NGN Applications Planned

a. VoDSL

b. IP Centrex

c. Unified Communications

d. Personalized Services

e. Presence Management

f. IP Based Voice/Video Conferencing

g. Other

8) Benefits Achieved from NGN.

9) Advice to Others / Lessons Learned

Sections B through Y follow a similar format to that of Section A.

B. AT&T

C. BellSouth

D. BT

E. France Telecom

F. Global Crossing

J. Intermedia

M. Level 3

N. Korea Telecom

O. KPN

P. Qwest Communications

Q. Sprint

R. SBC Communications

S. Time Warner Telecom

T. Telecom Indonesia.

U. Telecom Italia

V. Telia.

W. Telstra

X. TDS Metrocom

W. Verizon

Y. MCIWorldCom.

Z. OTHERS

Part III - Media Gateways, Softswitches and Signaling Gateways Installed Base

1. Worldwide NGN Offerings by Supplier.

A. Introduction

B. Methodology

C. Chapter Organization

2. Worldwide NGN Installed Base by Country and Operator

3. Summary of the Installed Base

A. Summary by Manufacturers

B. Summary of Installed & On Order Status by Country

C. Summary by Country

D. Summary of Installed & On Order Status By Manufacturer

Part IV - Conclusions & Recommendations

1. Global Conclusions

2. Technical Summary and Conclusions.

A. The Future of Circuit Switching vs. Packet Switching

B. Media Gateways

C. Softswitches

D. Signaling Gateways

E. Application Servers

F. Other Issues

3. Recommendations

A. Global Recommendations to All Carrier Typ

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