The continuous information service from broadbandtrends identifies and analyzes key opportunities and trends, while addressing potential issues and challenges facing both operators and equipment vendors as telecommunications network infrastructures migrate and transform, driving new business models, services and applications. 

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Key Questions Answered

Our program is designed to provide answered to the following:

• What is the role of a "service provider" versus a "network provider"?
• What are the opportunities for broadband in vertical markets?
• What is the impact of wireline displacement on fixed broadband services?
• How will the growth of mobile broadband services impact fixed broadband access?
• What impact will broadband stimulus and regulation have on operator business models?
• What new applications are emerging that will drive additional revenue over broadband networks?
• What is the impact of over-the-top video and 3rd party applications on broadband infrastructure?
• What strategies are emerging in the pricing, packaging, and marketing of fixed and mobile broadband services?
• What is the role of the consumer in the Smart Home?
• What are the key market trends and challenges driving Smart Grid technology adoption?
• Who are the innovators in Smart Grid deployment?
• How will operators integrate and manage the large number of devices that make up the Smart Grid?

Key Coverage Areas

broadbandtrends provides strategic, competitive and market intelligence in the following key areas:

• Next Generation Access Networks/Services/Devices
• Fixed and Mobile Broadband infrastructure/Services
• Service provider business and network transformation
• Emerging Broadband Issues, Challenges & Opportunities
• Municipal/Enterprise Broadband Networks

broadbandtrends comprehensive coverage of the broadband ecosystem follows a number of key areas and continuously evolves.

Key Technologies: DSL, Cable, FTTx (WDM-PON, 10G PON, NG-PON), Mobile Broadband (WiMAX, HSPA, LTE, etc.), Satellite, Ethernet in the First Mile, Home Networking (MoCA, HomePNA, HomePlug, UWB, ZigBee, Wi-Fi etc.), Conditional Access & Digital Rights Management, Middleware, Application Stores

Key Platforms: DSLAMs, CMTS, Fiber-to-the-Home, Fiber-to-the-Building, Fiber-to-the-Node, Multi-Service Access Platforms, Content Delivery Networks, Carrier Ethernet; Femtocells, FTTx gateways & Optical Network Terminals, Set Top Boxes, Residential Gateways, IP Video Gateways

Key Applications: Broadband Entertainment (Over-the-Top Video), Multiscreen Services, TV-Everywhere, IP-TV, Voice over Broadband, Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Mobile backhual, Triple and Quad Play Services, Service Convergence, Bundling, Interactive, Entertainment Packaging, Regulatory Impacts.

Emerging Broadband Issues, Challenges & Opportunities: Regulatory Impacts, Bandwidth Caps, Bandwidth Metering, Walled-Garden vs. Open Garden Applications, Cord-Cutting,Net Neutrality, Economic Stimulus, National Broadband Plans