"FTTx - Experiences and Strategies - Filling the Pipe of the NGN" Now Available.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79855) has announced the addition of FTTx - Experiences and Strategies - Filling the Pipe of the NGN to their offering.

Starting in the 80s and 90s, fibre optic infrastructure has found its way in the telecom backbones and has been more and more used in the access network to connect large business accounts. Nowadays, many companies and governments in Europe, America and Asia are exploring the potentials of FTTx technologies for the consumer market. The discussions, on what specific decisions should be taken by whom and how high the risks are if a certain way is entered or not, often seem to have an emotional touch.

Questions to be answered

-- How is the regulation context concerning FTTx infrastructures and services? How much do subsidy or innovation programmes by national/local authorities or incumbents influence the FTTx deployment?

-- Which types of actors invest in FTTx infrastructure? Which are the different business models of the major actors?

-- What technologies and infrastructure solutions are preferred in the different countries and which are the reasons?

-- What kind of services are offered on FTTx infrastructures? Where are the exclusive or innovative services? What are the differences to the service portfolio based on other fixed broadband infrastructures?

-- How much bandwidth do today's services require? How will the bandwidth demand be in the near future? Which and where are the high bandwidth consuming killer applications?

-- Which are alternative infrastructure solutions? Which is their today's penetration and will they respond to future needs?

-- What are the investments and subscriber forecasts? What are the profitability forecasts?

Who should buy this report?

Incumbents, alternative telcos and CaTV carrier

This report can be used as a benchmark tool and reference document for strategic planning such as identifying the opportunities and best practices for the improvement and development of new services; in addition, the report allows the identification of potential threats and the evaluation of possible alternatives to achieve future targets.

Regulators

Evaluation of the impact on the overall telecom market with the introduction of these new applications & technologies (operator competition, new players arriving, etc.).

Manufacturers and TV-content provider

Market overview as regards the current user demand and other benchmark aspects with regard to the most successful technologies in operation, the development of promising applications, technical limitations, etc.

Investors and analysts

To understand the impact of these new technologies within the global market of ICT and what are the potential future scenarios in terms of users, revenues, etc.

Regulation overview and subsidy programmes

-- Asia

-- Europe

-- North America 

Business models

-- FTTx infrastructure owners

-- background/origin and strategy

-- Service and content providers on FTTx infrastructures

-- Position of incumbents

-- Network deployment strategies

-- where and who to be connected?

-- Open plat-forms

-- infrastructure and services from various providers

-- Proprietary offers

-- infrastructure and services from one single provider

-- Partnerships between network owners and content providers

Types of services

-- Overview of standard and innovative services

-- Service offer strategy (bundling of services versus stand alone services)

-- Positioning of FTTx based services within the actor's general service portfolio

-- Successful and withdrawn services

-- Outlook on future services

Technological aspects

-- Advantages of FTTH versus FTTC/GPON versus point-to-point Ethernet

-- Bandwidth needs today and in the future

-- Aspects on data compression 

Market and FTTx related service forecasts for major countries in the world (2006-2012)

-- Overview of done and planned FTTx investments

-- Broadband services penetration (DSL, cable modem, FTTx, etc.)

-- Telecom services penetration (e.g. Internet users)

-- IPTV service scenarios

-- Overview of socio-demographic and geographic data 

-- Revenue and usage forecasts

-- Disruptive effects stemming from various solutions (IPTV, CaTV, satellite, etc.)

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79855