Industries

This SPIE will briefly examine the state of the broadband market. It will examine the state of the satellite broadband market and look at what new generation satellites bring to consumers.

This report will examine the significance of this acquisition for both companies and the market. Overall, this was a positive acquisition for Amdocs and Actix. It also confirms the consistency of Amdocs long-term vision for continuing to serve the business and technical needs of CSPs.

In this study, Frost & Sullivan compares the disaster recovery options available to business, and the advances that the cloud has offered for businesses of all sizesbut particularly the SMB segmentfocusing on the value proposition of Disaster Recovery as a Service. We also provide an overview of key characteristics of a strong disaster recovery s...

In this SPIE, we sift through the results of the 2013 Frost & Sullivan Cloud User Survey to identify industries that are adopting hosted cloud services at a faster rate than the business population at large. We present adoption statistics and usage patterns for the high growth financial services and healthcare industries, as well as the mercurial h...

This report represents the Stratecast position on the current viability, momentum, and challenges of SDN and NFV. While the two are distinct technologies, CSPs appreciate them as components of a broader effort toward programmability and automation. That is why, for the sake of this report, we treat them as parts of a single conversation. As the pos...

This paper examines the state of Internet commerce, with particular attention to the consumer retail space. It will be of special interest to network operators and those companies who supply them technology.

The Asia-Pacific WAN optimization market registered modest growth in 2012. The market experienced a sluggish start, which left many vendors questioning the future of the WAN optimization controller market. With the prevalence of the Internet and Internet-based applications, the traditional WAN design was transformed, with the Internet often conside...

This report focuses on the problem of content management, as revealed by recent surveys, and the impact that this has on consumer consumption habits. In particular, some attention will be given to the perceptions of consumers: what is limiting their ability to use the HD TV to its ultimate potential? The paper then explores the ways in which a smar...

This research service examines consumer perceptions of car sharing based on a survey conducted in 2012 in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Only one out of four city residents in Europe is familiar with the car sharing concept. Once familiar, the interest rate in car sharing reaches 38%. Consumers are most attracted by the all-inclusive and ...