By 2012 the Wireless Handset User Community is Expected to Reach 3.8 Billion Users.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43037) has announced the addition of Top Ten Telecommunications and Communications Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2006 to 2012 to their offering.

The top ten telecommunications markets have shifted to become communications markets. This is the result of convergence of voice and data networks to digital transport of voice, video, and data signals on the same network. Transport over existing TDM infrastructure is being replaced with transport over IP infrastructure.

Service providers are actively moving towards IP-based next-generation networks. They need to protect their existing investment while upgrading to Internet protocol systems. The trunk gateway technology coupled with local technical support helps establish a stable NGN test bed, which is the first step toward a migration of traffic to IP based systems.

Network service needs relate to connectivity and bandwidth. Requirements are changing at a rate that is difficult to satisfy within budget constraints using traditional services. Consumer market for broadband leverage combined voice, video, gaming, voice over IP (VoIP), and entertainment signal transport.

Wireless networks are evolving increasing sophistication. WiMAX promises to be adopted by every community as a combined emergency and Internet access technology. There is a 1.8 billion wireless handset user community in 2005 that promises to grow to 3.8 billion users by 2012. Enterprises have a range of private networks. Each of the 11,000 mainframes in the world has a private network to support it.

A primary contributor to the paradigm of connectivity and bandwidth is the fact that the distribution of the work force in many business sectors has evolved to a point where most people work from remote locations much of the time. Redistribution has occurred to locate staff closer to customers, manufacture products closer to suppliers, and streamline the supply chain with just in time inventory control systems. Remote workers are sales people, services people, and general business workers.

50 percent of an enterprise's work force works away from the main office. Networks based on traffic flowing from a branch office to headquarters are no longer sufficient. Communication needs of the business relate to the ability to communicate with the remote sites and people working in remote locations including from home.

In health care applications the network may be required to support telemedicine and medical imaging from the clinic to the specialists. In the redistribution of the work force, the services industries need to support sales and services consultants working at as many as ten different sites every day. Applications used by enterprise are evolving. Enterprises across all sectors rely on collaborative tools.

Electronic messaging and electronic meetings are used to conduct daily business from any location. Applications focus on enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). These are critical to the running of the business, and must be accessible and perform equally well from all locations.

Network Service Solutions

Network services solutions match requirements in terms of making the workforce more productive by automating processes ad providing access to information in a timelier manner. Network service solutions accommodate changing bandwidth requirements due to growth. The enterprise has a need to support ad-hoc, one-time events.

Networks need to implement cost effective point-to-point, hub-and-spoke and any-to-any topologies to match end point profiles of the enterprise. Systems need to be flexible enough to allow evolution from one topology to another as the needs of the enterprise change. Service guarantees are being implemented for applications that are essential to the running of the business. Best effort is not an option. Service level guarantees offered could either be rigid and applied equally across all applications or flexible to provide tight coupling to enterprise application requirements.

Real time video and voice applications are sensitive to congestion. Congestion causes lower priority applications to disrupt higher priority or real time applications.

Offering service level guarantees is a step forward in satisfying enterprise needs. Metro Ethernet deployments or other best-effort services are being replaced by service level agreements (SLAs).

Supporting multiple service levels puts more levers of control in the hands of the service provider-enterprise partnership, enabling a more efficient use of the network while ensuring performance and priority levels appropriate to each application's requirements and business priorities.

To ensure that the network service continues to satisfy requirements enterprises with a single service level are considering the emerging need for multiple service levels. The network service will evolve to continue increasing the bandwidth of their service as requirements grow. High speed services with a single service level can be achieved.

Worldwide telecommunications and communications equipment market forecasts, shipments in dollars analysis indicate strong growth in very large existing markets. Markets at $267.2 billion in 2005 are anticipated to reach $628.2 billion by 2012.

Key Topics

- Impact of Competition - Market Growth Dynamics- Multimedia Markets - Web Services - Market Makers - Marketing Globally - Internet Traffic - IP Telephony Service Solutions - Strategies to Improve Performance - Demand for Total Solutions - Customer Financing Arrangements - Converged Voice and Data Networks

Topics Covered

Top Ten Telecommunications Executive Summary

1. Top Ten Telecommunications and Communications Market Description and Market Dynamics

2. Top Ten Telecommunications Company Market Shares and Markets Forecasts

3. Top Ten Telecommunications and Communications Product Description

4. Selected Top Ten Telecommunications and Communications Company Organization and Strategy

5. Top Ten Telecommunications and Communications Company Profiles

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Companies Mentioned

- Nokia - Motorola - Siemens - Alcatel - Avaya - Cisco Systems- Ericsson - Fujitsu- Huawei Technologies - Intel - Lucent Technologies - NEC - Nortel - Samsung - UT Starcom

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