Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF FIGURES
THE LIGHTWAVE NETWORK SERIES OF REPORTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
MARKET CONDITION
- The Competitive Landscape - Threats in Every Direction
- RBOCs vs. the CLECs (IXCs)
- The RBOC Counterattack - Long Distance
- RBOCs vs. Cable Companies
- Cable Companies vs. Satellite Companies
REVENUES OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF CARRIERS
- Market Share Forecast
- Market Forecast Methodology
- Changes in Market Share
- Relationship to Company Strategies
CAPITAL DRIVERS AND FORECASTS
- Categories of Capital Expenditures
- Capital Drivers
- H-S Accesses
- "Up-Network" Traffic Implications of High-Speed Accesses
- H-S Access Forecasts
- Traffic Forecasts Programs
- FTTx
- VoIP
- Network Modernization
- ROADMs
- Tunable Lasers
- Summary of Capital Forecasts for Programs
- Capital Forecasts
- Historical Patterns
- Forecasted Capital
CLASS OF CARRIER AND SELECTED COMPANY IMPACTS
- The IXCs
- The Most Likely Scenario
- BellSouth Buys AT&T
- SBC Buys MCI
- Verizon Buys Sprint
- Another Possibility
- Cable Companies
- Telcos
- Summary of Company Impacts
OVERALL FORECAST SUMMARY
APPENDIX I - LISTING OF ACRONYMS
APPENDIX II - DATA TRAFFIC FUNDAMENTALS
- Internet Traffic Calculations
- Bits and Bytes
- Transfer Rate
- Busy Hour Traffic
- Protocol Efficiencies
- Statistical Multiplexing
- Peaking
- Summary of Concepts
APPENDIX III - DSLAM TRAFFIC CALCULATION EXAMPLE
- Illustration of Data Node Calculation
- Transfer Rate and Busy Hour
- Protocol Inefficiencies
- Statistical Multiplexing
- Peaking
- A Numerical Example
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