Infonetics Research forecasts that "
The mobile network optimization market, including 2G/3G optimization and 4G SON software, is forecast to grow to almost US$3.0 billion by 2015".
According to
Stéphane Téral (pictured) "
Both segments of the market are growing as telecom operators race to reduce their opex and capex, but SON is about to skyrocket: we forecast global SON software revenue to grow at an 84% CAGR from 2010 to 2015, and 2G/3G optimization software revenue to grow at 4%". Infonetics' market size chart shows a minor total growth in 5 years - so the SON market is very small.
A month ago,
ABI Research forecasted that "
In 2016, mobile network operators will spend more than $1.8 billion on web/video optimization" (
here)
.
Other findings:
- 78% of the world’s mobile subscribers are on 2G networks, the rest are on 3G, with 4G networks just getting started
- 2G/3G optimization software makes up the majority of the overall MNO market, while SON software is growing the fastest, driven by growing LTE network rollouts
- Smaller specialist vendors* in the mobile network optimization market are being increasingly squeezed by larger equipment suppliers** happy to throw in software as a value-add to the infrastructure they sell to telecom operators
While I do not have the report itself, I can see that Flash Networks, a major optimization player, is missing from specialists list and as well as the video caching/CDN vendors. I believe that getting content closer to the user technology will prevail, while other content manipulation/optimization techniques will be supersede by the client/server logic and pre-optimized content.
See "
Mobile network optimization / self-organizing network (SON) market nearing $3B by 2015" -
here.
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*Specialist vendors:
Actix, Aricent, Arieso, Ascom, Astellia, Axis Technologies, Bytemobile, Celtro, Commsquare, Eden Rock Communications, Infovista, InterDigital, Intucell, Mentum, Newfield Wireless, Plano Engineering, Reverb Networks, Schema, Symena, Theta Networks, TTG International, Tulinx, Vector, and
Xceed Technologies
** Tier 1 mobile infrastructure vendors with mobile network optimization tool:
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks, and
ZTE
The slides below are taken from a presentation made by Anders Lundqvist (pictured), Master Principal Architect, Oracle (here). Oracle announced recently its PCRF product - Oracle's Policy Controller (covered here), part of its Communications Service Delivery. 
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