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The range of opportunities for consumers to access video content via IP has exploded over the last couple of years. This has been driven on the one hand by growing bandwidth, the proliferation of new IP-enabled devices including tablets, smartphones and Smart TVs. But it has also been enabled by the entry into the market of a whole range of providers of IP video services – including established pay TV operators as well as commercial and public broadcasters and new OTT aggregators.

IP video service providers have objectives that are many and varied. Some would like to extend the reach of existing services or to provide new functionality to their existing subscribers or users, while others are seeking to compete with existing providers by offering a pure-play OTT service. In a business that is still at such an early stage of growth, the range of monetisation models sometimes seems to be as broad as the number of IP video services available.

In December 2012 we carried out a survey of over 200 industry profesionals into the experiences of providers and potential providers of IP Video services.

This report presents the results of the survey and builds a picture we’ve built of what is actually happening in the world of video services and you’ll gain an understanding of the range and scope of IP video services and the business models underpinning them.

From managing the brand’s perception across websites or street-shops to subscribers’ actual appreciation about the services and applications they pay for, Customer Experience Management is claimed to be a part of every business process.

In this paper, Astellia analyze why this focus on subscribers is so important now and what the main drivers are for this shift in operator’ focus from being mostly network oriented to customer centric.

In the second part we analyze what the requirements are
to adequately align subscribers’ expectations with the Operator’s key asset: the network.

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The signaling network – the nervous system of an operator’s international and roaming business – also holds significant profit drivers for the roaming business. How can you uncover these opportunities to optimize roaming profits?

This paper explores these opportunities and provides specific strategies you can employ to unleash new roaming profits through signaling.

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This paper is the fourth in the series of us outlining the potential threats faced through bulk SMS delivery to a mobile network. Revenue assurance is essentially seeking to curb such revenue leakages to ensure products and services provided by operators are adequately billed and revenues are collected in a timely manner from subscribers and wholesale partners alike. 

With revenue leakages on the rise, this white paper seeks to give focus on identifying this increasing problem from SMS and the manner in which this occurs through the use of grey routes for traffic conveyance and how having a solution such as HAUD Systems could be the answer many operators are looking for to combat this leakage, as well as ensure that satisfactory market prices are being paid for termination of all SMS to a mobile network.

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This white paper will show that legacy Point-to-Point (PtP) architectures alone are no longer sufficient to support the modern RAN. That’s not to say, however, that there is no place for such technology in the modern backhaul environment; quite the opposite is true. In order to successfully and efficiently supply the RAN with backhaul, an operator must expect to adopt several technologies, including PtP, and implement them on a case-by-case basis.

While every backhaul technology exhibits distinct advantages, as well as some constraints, none of them can be considered as a ‘catch all’ solution. However, an optimum solution can be achieved by leveraging synergies between two best-of-breed technologies: P2MP and P2P.

The key message to take away from this paper, is that there is no ‘silver bullet’ when it comes to backhaul—operators will have to adopt several technologies, deploying each where most appropriate.

The demand for high bandwidth applications at both the consumer and enterprise level is going through a period of explosive growth; a period that is not expected to end any time soon. Consider a handful of statistics from Cisco’s VNI forecast: Global IP traffic increased eightfold in the last five years and will multiply by a factor of three over the next five. In 2016 global IP networks will deliver 12.5 petabytes of data every five minutes. By the same year there will be three connected devices per capita. As with the deployment of any new technology there are a number of elements that operators need to balance; chief among them cost and performance.

In October 2012, Telecoms.com Intelligence surveyed more than 290 industry players worldwide—including more than 120 network operators, as well as regulators, content providers and software developers—in order to capture the industry’s views on this vital technological development.

This report reveals the results of this survey including an overview of the market in 2012, 100G motivators and price Vs performance.

This paper is the third in the series of outlining the potential threats Africa is facing with SMS spam.

With Africa being the second largest mobile market in the world, second only to Asia, it is deemed to be the fastest growing mobile market today with 735 million mobile subscribers expected at the end of 2012, leaving a golden opportunity for messaging abuse attracting the likes of spammers, fraudsters and illegitimate users, resulting in revenue leakages and disputes for mobile network operators.

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Ethernet services have become largely mainstream, with well-established standards and strong global acceptance.
However, continued expansion introduces new challenges that must be addressed by enhancing overall service experience.

Speed is the key success factor, with the critical components of service delivery, service agility, and service assurance working in concert to sustain market differentiation.

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Uncovering the IP Communications Potential

Mobile operators in many developed markets are finding that their revenues from traditional communications services are coming under sustained pressure from the onslaught of “free” alternatives from over-the-top IP-based messaging and voice providers (OTTs). KPN Mobile, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and, most recently, China Mobile have all indicated that their voice and messaging revenues are either already in decline or potentially at risk from their subscribers’ adoption of OTT services.

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