Abstract
This report provides an overview of the Residential Video Telephony
application services market. It details the status of the market today, as
well as the migration through various stages of service integration and
unification. The report covers all of the major approaches to IP-based
applications service development and provisioning currently in the marketplace.
Service providers are in the midst of a gradual evolution from
circuit-switched infrastructures to IP-based packet-switched infrastructures.
While much of this evolution to date has taken place in the transport and
access parts of the network, there are now enhanced services that are being
developed and refined. In particular, the architecture of- and market for-
next-generation enhanced services is beginning to take shape.