[Dell’Oro]: Flexible NFV Licensing Causes Modest EPC Market Growth

A new report by Chris DePuy [pictured], VP, Dell’Oro Group finds that "the Wireless Packet Core Equipment market is forecast to reach almost $5.5 billion by 2019. The faster-growing portion of the packet core market, the Evolved Packet Core segment, is expected to grow nearly 25 percent from 2015 to 2019.

.. We expect that as NFV-based packet core systems are adopted by service providers, more flexible licensing terms will emerge that change pricing dynamics icenses that transfer from one system to another and pay-as-you-go licensing are catalysts to adopting annualized billing, which differs from perpetual licensing terms common today .. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Cisco, Huawei, Nokia and ZTE seen benefitting in the market overall"

See "Evolved Packet Core Revenues to Grow Nearly 25% by 2019, According to Dell’Oro Group Forecas" - here.