Service Delivery Platforms & Service Orientated Architecture Report 2007-2012

Table of Contents

• 1.1 Background
• 1.2 The Vertical Service Delivery Approach
• 1.3 The Horizontal Service Delivery Approach
  • Figure 1: A traditional service delivery environment
  • Figure 2: SDP approach to the service delivery environment
• 1.4 What is a Service Delivery Platform?
  • Figure 3: Positioning of the IMS and of the Service Delivery Platform
• 1.5 Applications realised through the use of Service Development Platforms
• 1.6 Scope of this Report

• 2.1 What constitutes a service delivery platform?
  • Figure 4: The Service Delivery Platform in an operator' s environment
• 2.2 General Benefits and market drivers of Service Delivery Platforms
  • Figure 5: A collaborative approach to content delivery
  • Table 1: Key market drivers for the deployment of service development platforms
• 2.4 The need for a new approach to content delivery
• 2.5 Benefits that can be realized through this approach
• 2.6 Integration of services to the OSS and BSS
• 2.7 Service Oriented Architecture
  • 2.7.1 Background
  • 2.7.2 What is SOA?
    • Figure 6: A basic SOA
    • Table 2: Key reasons why SOA is highly flexible
• 2.8 The Need for SOA in SDPs
  • 2.8.1 Background
    • Figure 7: The SOA enabled SDP approach
    • Figure 8: The Stove Pipe approach
  • 2.8.2 SOA and improved service delivery
• 2.9 Examples of services that could be delivered on SOA enabled SDP Platforms
• 2.10 Parlay and Parlay X API' s
  • 2.10.1 The Parlay Group
  • 2.10.2 The Parlay and Palay X API
  • 2.10.3 SIP and Parlay/Parlay X
• 2.11 JAIN (Java API' s for Integrated Networks)
  • 2.11.1 Background
  • 2.11.2 JAIN SLEE and SIP servlets
  • 2.11.3 The J2EE platform, SIP servlets and the JAIN SLEE
• 2.12 The differences and similarities between JAIN and Parlay
• 2.13 BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  • 2.13.1 Background
  • 2.13.2 BPEL and Orchestration
  • 2.13.3 BPEL and ESB
  • 2.13.4 BPEL vs Java based web services
• 2.14 The role of open standards in SOA based SDPs
• 2.15 The OMA and ADP
  • 2.15.1 The OSE (OMA Service Environment)
    • Figure 9: OMA service architecture
• 2.16 The Relationship between OMA,SIP and CAMEL (Customized Applications for Mobile Enhanced Logic)
• 2.17 The SDP Alliance

• 3.1 The Telco 2.0 initiative
• 3.2 Web 2.0
• 3.3 Web 2.0 application examples
  • 3.3.1 Flickr
  • 3.3.2 Vimro
  • 3.3.3 Netvibes
  • 3.3.4 Social bookmarking and Del.icio.us
  • 3.3.5 Bloglines
• 3.4 The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and SDPs
  • Chart 1: IMS network penetration (2007-2012)
  • Chart 2: Estimated increase in global voIP traffic 2006-2012
• 3.5 The IMS, SDPs and Convergence
• 3.6 Operator interest in IMS and SDP
• 3.7 Evolution of Service Delivery Platforms

• 4.1 Content and dumb pipes
• 4.2 Carriers that are expected to make the first move towards open standards and open access
  • 4.2.1 BT and BT Web 21C
  • 4.2.2 Deutsche Telekom
  • 4.2.3 Sprint
  • 4.2.4 Verizon Wireless
  • 4.2.5 Orange Labs/France Telecom
  • 4.2.6 Other notable service deployments
  • 4.2.7 SDP case studies and benefits associated with them
    • 4.2.7.1 AT&T
    • 4.2.7.2 Turkcell
    • 4.2.7.3 Orange Poland
• 4.3 SDP service enablers, solutions and related applications
  • 4.3.1 The Location enabler and related applications
    • Chart 3: Forecast for the number of GPS enabled subscribers 2007-2012
  • 4.3.2 The Presence enabler and associated applications
    • Chart 4: Percentage of mobile data revenues generated by different data applications (2012)
  • 4.3.3 The messaging enabler
  • 4.3.4 Convergent Charging and Content Management solutions
  • 4.3.5 User Profile and Management solutions
  • 4.3.6 Service resource management and assurance solutions
  • 4.3.7 Device Identification and Rendering
• 4.4 The Advertising application
  • Chart 5. Global Expenditure on Mobile Media (2007-2012)
  • 4.4.1 The need for parental control systems
    • Chart 6. Mobile Adult Content Market Forecast 2007-2012
• 4.5 Online Gaming
  • Chart 7. Global revenue forecast for key online gaming services (2012)
• 4.6 IPTV
  • Chart 8. Global IPTV Revenue Forecast (2007-2012)
• 4.7 Virtual PBX
  • Figure 10: The Oracle Virtual PBX implementation
• 4.8 Operator trends with regards to applications enabled through the use of an SDP

• 5.1 Nokia-Siemens Networks
• 5.2 Ericsson
• 5.3 Alcatel-Lucent
• 5.4 Other System Integrators
• 5.5 Oracle
  • 5.5.1 Indicative Oracle SDP deployments
• 5.6 Hewlett-Packard
• 5.7 IBM
• 5.8 Aepona-Appium
• 5.9 Mobile Cohesion
• 5.10 JnetX
• 5.11 Telcordia
• 5.12 Overall Vendor Strategies
• 5.13 Vendor Revenue Share during the year 2006
  • Chart 9. SDP Market 2006, by vendor share

• 6.1 Drivers for Service Revenue through the use of Service Delivery Platforms
  • Chart 10. Total network value vs. number of users
• 6.2 The Service Delivery Platform Shifts Competition from price
• 6.3 Fixed Operators and SDPs
• 6.4 Cable Operators and SDPs
• 6.5 MVNO' s and SDPs
• 6.6 Wireline vs Wireless Operators
  • Chart 11. Broadband Penetration, per 100 inhabitants, throughout selected countries
  • Chart 12: Estimated percentage comparing global wireless and fixed voice lines (2009)
  • Table 3. Comparison of fixed and wireless operators in the delivery of next generation network applications
• 6.7 SDP Revenue Forecast (2007-2012)
  • Chart 13. Revenue forecast for global sale of SDP platforms (2007-2012)
  • 6.7.1 System Integration Revenue Forecast (2007-2012)
    • Chart 14: Forecast expenditure on SDP intergration 2007-2012
  • 6.7.2 Wireless and Wireline operator investment in SDPs
    • Chart 15. Forecast revenues from wireless and fixed carrier investment in SDP infrastructure 2007-2012
  • 6.7.3 Investments in SDPs according to geographical area
    • Chart 16. Regional investments in SDP hardware and software 2007-2012
• 6.8 Cost of an SDP platform

Companies mentioned in this report

• 3 Indonesia
• Accenture
• Access Industries
• Acision
• Aepona-Appium
• Alcatel-Lucent
• AMP' d Mobile
• AT&T
• Atlantic Bridge Ventures
• Boost Mobile
• BT
• ChangingWorlds
• Cibenix
• Cisco Systems
• Contec Innovations
• Deutsche Telekom
• Disney Mobile
• Eircom
• Elisa
• E-Plus
• Ericsson
• Flickr
• France Telecom
• Fresh Mobile
• Google, e-bay and Amazon
• Helio
• Hello_MTV
• Hewlett-Packard
• Hutchison CP Communications
• IBM
• ID&T
• iTunes
• jNetX
• Korea Telecom
• KPN
• LogicaCMG
• Lotus
• Microsoft
• Mobile Cohesion
• MobileWorld
• Nokia-Siemens Networks
• Openet
• Optimus
• Oracle
• Orange
• Page Plus
• SDP Alliance
• Shanghai Telecom
• Siemens
• SK Telecom
• Sprint
• Sprint-Nextel
• Sun Microsystems
• Symbian
• Telcordia
• Telecom Italia
• Telefonica
• Telenity
• Telenor
• TeliaSonera
• Telmex
• Telstra
• T-Mobile
• Turkcell
• Ulticom
• Verizon Wireless
• Vimpelcom
• Vimro
• Virgin Mobile
• Vonage
• Xiam
• Yahoo