Bharat Book Bureau

In the last decade wholesale telecoms has dramatically increased in importance, along with the variety and complexity of retail communications services.

Here we provide an insight into the future of enterprise communications and discuss the benefits of next-generation enterprise managed services for enterprises.

The amount of digital content within the standard home is rapidly increasing. Network-based backup solutions are an obvious opportunity for broadband service providers (BSPs) to add value for their clients, while garnering additional revenue.

Ovum surveyed major telecom equipment vendors to gauge their views on how they package, market, and sell network equipment software. Vendors are still struggling to move software development from an overhead to a profit center model.

Although SIM-only tariffs have always been available, it is only recently that they have emerged from the shadows of the traditional prepaid and postpaid tariffs.

Desktop virtualisation is an innovation hotspot in 2009. There are more than 25 vendors active in this market, ranging from market leaders Citrix and VMware through leading followers to start-ups driving specific innovations.

Personal travel assistants will become increasingly important and ''sticky'' applications for urban mobile users during the next few years, but much of the benefits will flow to Internet application providers rather than the mobile industry.

Alcatel-Lucent is the optical vendor to beat but faces challenges in the metro WDM market.

The frantic buzz that surrounded IMS from 2004 to 2007 has died down, and it would be easy to think that it had fallen entirely by the wayside. But in fact operators still see IMS as a crucial part of their future network architectures.

In this first network equipment power benchmarking report, Ovum surveyed major network operators and systems vendors to gauge their views on issues and trends for power consumption in public networks.