In the recent months most discussions were about mobile deployments (based on 3GPP PCRF standards) but the fixed side is very significant as well.
"Policy management software systems will evolve from single function to multi-function solutions that support subscriber management, policy and charging control, and class of service.
Analysys Mason forecasts that the overall policy management market will grow from $876M in 2008 to $2.62B in 2013 at a CAGR of 27%".
Analysys Mason forecasts that the overall policy management market will grow from $876M in 2008 to $2.62B in 2013 at a CAGR of 27%".
See "Policy Management Market Evolution and Deployment Scenarios" - here.
I am not sure what is included in Kelly's market size actual and forecast, as the numbers for '08 and '09 seem rather large, even if I somehow include proprietary policy products offered by the big TEMs or even add the whole DPI market.
If we look at the major policy players like Bridgewater Systems and Camiant (now part of Tekelec, they sold policy management products for less than $10M each at '08 (see "Camiant Information Exposed (and Compared to Bridgewater)" - here).
The presentation also shows some deployment scenarios of policy servers with DPI (in fixed and mobile networks), and predicts that the ultimate deployment will be such "that policy enforcement functions will be embedded into the switching and router infrastructure and the policy management systems will span the entire infrastructure to address the needs of application aware network access and differentiated service management ".
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Thanks for some very timely reporting on the PM market. I see four groups of vendors perhaps converging on a solution: the pureplay PM guys; the OSS/BSS telecom software guys (e.g. Telcordia, Volubill, Orga, Comptel); NEPs like Cisco, HP, ALU; and DPI vendors (ALLT, Arbor, bivio).
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