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Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
9 July 2008
 
Patti A. Reali   Sylvain Fabre   Peter Kjeldsen   Jouni Forsman   Phillip Redman   Michael J. King   Tim Zimmerman   Bettina Tratz-Ryan   Martin Gutberlet   Juan Ignacio Fernandez   Gauri Pavate   Akshay K. Sharma   Elroy Jopling   Adam Daum   Mike McGuire   Andrew Frank   Deborah Kish   Van L. Baker   Amanda Sabia   Sandy Shen   Carolina Milanesi   Joy Yang   Martina Kurth   Jean-Claude Delcroix  

Network service providers continue to focus on cost savings, particularly for operational expenditure, but competitive pressures will make the end-user experience and new services increasingly important. This Hype Cycle identifies the key infrastructure technologies and trends in NSPs' networks.




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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • What You Need to Know
    • The Hype Cycle
    • The Priority Matrix
    • Off The Hype Cycle
    • On the Rise
      • LTE-A
      • White Spaces
      • 4G Standard
      • RF over Glass
      • VoIP Wireless WAN
    • At the Peak
      • Next-Generation Service Delivery Platform
      • 802.11r
      • Femtocells
      • WiMAX 802.16e-2005
      • High-Speed Uplink Packet Access
      • Long-Term Evolution
      • PBT and T-MPLS
    • Sliding Into the Trough
      • Network DVR
      • Radio Over Fiber
      • IMS
      • MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC)
      • VDSL2
      • 802.11n
      • Switched Digital Video
      • Mobile TV Broadcasting
      • TD-SCDMA
      • IPTV
      • Wireline Home Networking (Coaxial and Power Line)
      • WiMAX 802.16d-2004
      • DOCSIS 3.0 Cable CPE
    • Climbing the Slope
      • FTTx
      • GMPLS/ASON
      • Next-Generation Satellite
      • High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
      • Interactive TV
      • Next-Generation Voice
      • ROADMs
      • cdma2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
      • Carrier Ethernet
      • Residential VoIP
    • Entering the Plateau
      • MPLS Infrastructure
      • Digital Terrestrial TV
      • Next-Generation SDH/SONET
      • Digital TV (Cable, Satellite)
      • Video on Demand
      • WDM
    • Off the Hype Cycle
      • Fixed-Mobile Convergence
      • WCDMA and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
    • Appendixes
      • Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
Hype Cycle Phases
Table 2.
Benefit Ratings
Table 3.
Maturity Levels
Figures
Figure 1.
Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
Figure 2.
Priority Matrix for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
Figure 3.
Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2007




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