Disruptive Technologies And The Wireline Telco

Published by: Ovum Plc

Published: Jun. 8, 2009 - 16 Pages

Table of Contents

Executive summary

In a nutshell

Ovum view

Key messages

Fibre and Long Term Evolution are the biggest potential disruptors

Business case hard to build for some technologies

ICT convergence provides opportunities for service providers

Disruptive network technologies

Introduction

IP multimedia subsystem

VoIP

Ethernet

LTE

WiMAX

Fibre (FTTx)

Disruptive IT technologies

Web 2.0 or web-based platforms

Virtualisation

Cloud computing

Open source software

Implications for telcos

ICT convergence provides enabling technologies and opportunities for SPs

Greater network efficiencies on the whole

What be will be the most disruptive and when?

List of Tables

Table 1: Drivers and barriers to deploying disruptive network technologies

List of Figures

Figure 1: Disruption to the telco from the various technologies

Figure 2: FTTB/H is the biggest positive disruptor to the wireline telco

Figure 3: Disruption timeline

Abstract

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