Heavy Reading - What are the Drivers for Policy Management Deployment?

 

Heavy Reading conducted a survey for Tekelec (Camiant) on Policy Control. The results are published in a white paper -"Policy Control: Adapting For What’s Next", by Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading and is available for download here (Tekelec press release - here).

One of the survey's questions was about the drivers for deployment of policy management systems. The chart below shows that more than 50% of the network operator respondents scored as 4 (important) or 5 (critical):

See also "Heavy Reading Operators' Survey: "41% will Deploy PCRF in 12 Months" - (for Bridgewater) - for additional information from the survey - here.

Compare the above to real-life examples:

• Infonetics Research: Policy Servers Market to reach $471M in 2010 ; Bandwidth Management is the leading Driver - here
• Policy Management Personalization: Comptel Deployments  - here
• Allot: Use-Cases Implemented by Mobile Operators - here