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Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2005
29 June 2005
 
John S. Mazur   Peter Kjeldsen   Jouni Forsman   Bettina Tratz-Ryan   Juan Ignacio Fernandez   Patti A. Reali   Jennifer Liscom   Todd Hanson   Deborah Kish   Tina Tian   Sumit Malik  

Service providers are starting to invest in their networks again, now that the dark days of 2001 to 2003 are behind them. Several of the new technologies they are considering are at the Peak of Inflated Expectations.




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Table of Contents


1.0
    
 The Hype Cycle

2.0
    
 On the Rise

2.1
    
 Photonic Switching
2.2
    
 IP Multimedia Subsystem

3.0
    
 At the Peak

3.1
    
 BPL
3.2
    
 Fixed-Mobile Convergence
3.3
    
 Next-Generation Wideband Cable Modem
3.4
    
 IP TV/Video Over DSL
3.5
    
 Next-Generation xDSL

4.0
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

4.1
    
 MPLS
4.2
    
 Optical Exchange Equipment
4.3
    
 GMPLS/ASON
4.4
    
 FTTx
4.5
    
 Next-Generation Voice

5.0
    
 Climbing the Slope

5.1
    
 Carrier Ethernet
5.2
    
 Free-Space Optics

6.0
    
 Entering the Plateau

6.1
    
 Wavelength Division Multiplexing

7.0
    
 Appendix A: Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels


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Table 1.  
 Hype Cycle Phases
 

Table 2.  
 Benefit Ratings
 

Table 3.  
 Maturity Levels
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2005
 



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