Information Technology

This report examines some of the key changes to the assurance market, including: --The blending of test and operations environments --Analytics as a staple of service assurance solutions --Organization-wide access to customer and network intelligence --The recombination of user-plane and control-plane data for customer experience visibility -...

This report focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, and follows an earlier report on the future of work. See Intellectual Property Workers: The Impact on Network Operators, (SPIE 2015-11) March 2015. In particular, it explores why exercises in innovation that are mandated by executive leadership are doomed to failure; and why designi...

Although IoT is still coming into focus for many, it already connects more than nine billion devices worldwide; over the next five years, that number is expected to grow to between 20 billion and 50 billion devices. In 2025, IoT is expected to create between $4 trillion to $11 trillion in economic benefits globally. IoT is a logistical and economic...

Inventory is beginning to play a much more important role at the center of this change, supporting fulfillment, planning, maintenance, analytics, service creation, and service enablement in a much more dynamic fashion than legacy systems ever did in the past. This SPIE examines the need for a dynamic, real-time OSS with a flexible, accurate invento...

By 2025, the combined value of IoT technologies could reach more than $6 trillion. So, it would seem imperative that the market understand what Big Data, AI, and machine learning are, and how they can work together. This Stratecast report briefly discusses exactly that, and presents results that a growing number of organizations are achieving, and ...

In this SPIE, the first in a series of reports detailing the results of the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Cloud User Survey, we look at the adoption trends for public, hosted private, and bare metal cloud services.

In this years look forward, Stratecast provides several views voiced by our analyst teams of likely developments in the multiple dimensions of the communications marketplace, including those tied to: Big Data, business services, cloud, connected home, consumer services, the operations & monetization functions, and secure networking. These prognost...

This report will be useful to providers of infrastructure services, platforms, and equipment, which are interested in tracking how their customers use their infrastructure products. It will also be useful to software providers that are interested in tracking the evolution of software consumption models.

This paper explores the current capabilities of the 4G network infrastructure in the United States, looks at future developments, and explores the desirability of continuing to build telecommunication public policy on the proposition that there is a divide between the Internet haves and have-nots that needs to be bridged though governmental action....