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The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) analyst team has completed its annual assessment of the communications service provider (CSP) monetization. This market is defined by Stratecast to include the key business management functions of: billing mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, and policy mana...

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM analyst team has completed its annual assessment of the communications service provider (CSP) monetization market. This market is defined by Stratecast to include the key business management functions of: billing mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, and polic...

The Consumer Communication Services tracker has been reformatted to reflect feedback received from Stratecast's clients. The new format provides detailed information for several companies in the consumer communication services market for US and Canada. The aggregated data—delivered by country, technology, and company—includes subscriber, revenu...

In this research service, MPLS/IP VPN means VPN services enabled over a carrier’s private MPLS network. VPN service is a site-to-site connection, with the service provider managing the end-to-end network. A private IP VPN uses the infrastructure of one network provider. A public IP VPN (or Internet VPN) carries data across multiple and nonspecifi...

Existing (legacy) systems cannot address the operations, orchestration and monetization requirements that the above-listed transformational initiatives bring to bear. New systems are the ultimate answer, but addressing the “legacy gap” left by existing systems cannot come from a mandate to rip and replace. Installed networks continue to rely on...

Existing (legacy) systems cannot address the operations, orchestration and monetization requirements that the above-listed transformational initiatives bring to bear. New systems are the ultimate answer, but addressing the “legacy gap” left by existing systems cannot come from a mandate to rip and replace. Installed networks continue to rely on...

The ODAM sector is now forced to respond to a virtualization transformation idea—it can hardly be called a plan—that was basically sprung on them with no clear direction for simultaneously supporting the physical and virtual components of a hybrid network. The idea of winging it for operations and monetization support leads to drama. The pres...

Since 2009, Stratecast has conducted an annual North American Consumer Communication Services (CCS) Survey. This survey is designed to understand consumer perceptions on landline phone, wireless/cellular phone, Internet access and subscription video services. As well as, identify consumers’ use of technologies such as over-the-top (OTT) and Inter...

This report examines consumer communication services spending (the wallet), and the implications this will have on service providers, regulators and policy makers. It will be of interest to all of these groups, as well as content developers.