Concurrent Enters the Fast Growing (30%+ CAGR) Transparent Cache Market

Concurrent unveiled a ".. new software-based video solution that enables fixed-line and mobile broadband operators to boost the performance of over-the-top (OTT) video services, while also creating new revenue opportunities and reducing operational costs .. Concurrent’s next-generation transparent caching solution optimizes the online video traffic being delivered over service providers' high speed data networks, while creating new revenue generation opportunities. Using Concurrent’s system, service providers can analyze Internet traffic in real-time to identify the most popular streaming video content and software downloads, including Apple iOS®, Google Android™, and Microsoft Windows® updates. Popular content is cached at the edge of the service provider’s network to enable subsequent consumer requests for the same content to be served locally, resulting in network bandwidth savings, faster data services, improved video quality, and enhanced service consistency. 

Concurrent’s transparent caching solution consists of an intelligent edge caching server, an Internet traffic analyzer, an integrated policy control system, and a video analytics package. The solution can be deployed as a stand-alone system or as part of Concurrent’s unified content delivery solution on the same hardware infrastructure. Customers already using Concurrent’s unified content delivery solution can apply a software upgrade to add transparent caching features to their current deployments. Concurrent will be conducting transparent caching trials with major service providers this summer.

Mukul Krishna [pictured], Senior Global Director, Digital Media, Frost & Sullivan’s said: “Frost & Sullivan's research on the emerging Global Transparent Caching Market has shown tremendous potential for rapid market growth, with market revenues to exceed half a billion dollars over the next three years at a robust 30 plus percent CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate). This growth is expected to be powered by CSPs’ investment in technologies to not only better manage their networks for video, but also eventually launch their own CDNs, as any business model for online video hinges on quality of experience and quality of service."

See "Concurrent Boosts the Performance of Over-The-Top Video Services" - here.

[F&S]: "PeerApp is the clear current market leader in the transparent caching industry"

According to Frost & Sullivan's Market Leader Profile on PeerApp "PeerApp has seen consistent growth for the last several years, with double-digit revenue growth in 2012 - despite a generally challenging economic climate. The company shipped their first solution in 2006, which makes it among the most experienced and respected participants in the industry. PeerApp has over 300 network operator deployments globally across both mobile and fixed networks. A number of these are tier 1 network operators. As a result, Frost & Sullivan appreciates the fact that PeerApp’s total deployment footprint is considerably larger than that of its nearest competitors, and their transparent caching technology has the widest reach within broadband cable, DSL and mobile network"

"PeerApp is the leading transparent caching vendor, with a market share of 27 percent by revenue in 2012".

Source: Frost & Sullivan

See "PeerApp Takes Top Honors for Video Delivery" - here.

[F&S] Transparent Caching Market to Reach $516M by 2017; Will Merge with CDN

A new report by Dan Rayburn [pictured], Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan Information and Communication Technologies finds that the "Global Transparent Caching Market ..earned $138.0 million in 2012, which will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.2 percent to reach $516.3 million in 2017 .. For now, however, the size of transparent caching technology deployments remains low as operators are yet to fully embrace the technology, owing to a lack of awareness ..Over the next few years, product lines will integrate to offer transparent caching solutions and content delivery network offerings on the same platform .. Once considered a cost-saving initiative, transparent caching is now viewed as an investment with demonstrable returns as it allows service providers to better monetize their video services.

Transparent caching also gained acceptance due to its ability to reduce infrastructure and bandwidth costs, and enhance performance by eliminating any potential delays associated with the Internet or content origin .. All leading vendors in this market grew through strategic acquisitions. As the landscape remains fragmented and technical evolution continues at a rapid pace, mergers and acquisitions will be the key to market leadership.

See "Increasing Internet Traffic Heightens Global Demand for Transparent Caching Solutions" - here.

[F&S]: Network Recording Market to Reach $2B by 2020

A new analysis by Olga Shapiro, Frost & Sullivan on the network recording market (NRM) finds that the "..market earned revenue of $345.5 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach $2.04 billion in 2020. It covers the segments of 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) as well as 10 Gbps and above. The 1 Gbps market segment accounted for 47.2 percent of the total sales in the NRM in 2012 and the 10 Gbps and above segment contributed the remaining 52.8 percent .. Vendors have many reasons to feel optimistic about their prospects, with end users expanding their storage of network data in order to save data for longer periods (six months and more). End-user desire to capture all packets, and retrieve history data for analysis without any loss, will further thrust the NRM market's efforts, making the most of the rising network traffic

See "Frost & Sullivan: Proliferation of Bandwidth-hungry Applications Fuels the 10 Gbps Segment of the Network Recording Market" - here.

Who Led the Policy Management Market in 2012 - Take II

Well, we have a new (3rd) research and a new leader for the policy management software market in 2012.

Amdocs announced that leading analyst firm Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan has named it as the "top global policy rules vendor in 2012. According to their recently published "Global CSP Policy Management Strategy Definition and Solution Supplier Market Analysis," Stratecast awarded Amdocs a 15 percent revenue-based market share of the 2012 policy rules market, which Stratecast estimates will grow from $1.6 billion in 2013 to $2.4 billion by 2017 .. Stratecast estimates that the policy management market, which comprises policy rules/PCRF and policy enforcement technologies, will reach $3.9 billion by 2017".

Other reports named Openet (Infonetics, here) and Tekelec (Exact Ventures, here) as the leader for 2012.

See "Amdocs Leads in Global Policy Market Share, Analyst Firm Reports" - here.

[F&S]: CEM Market to Reach $2.5B by 2018 ($865M in 2011)

A new analysis by Olga Yashkova (pictured), Program Manager, Frost and Sullivan concludes that "The need to assess the quality of communication services from an end-user's perspective has presented the global customer experience (CE) monitoring market with immense growth opportunities. To understand the impact of broadband data proliferation and consumer desire to do everything on-the-go with network efficiency and quality of experience (QoE), service providers world-wide are turning to CE monitoring systems .. the market earned revenues of over $865.1 million in 2011 and estimates this to reach $2.54 billion in 2018".

"The link between customer churn and QoE has been clearly established, which is why CE monitoring solutions have become a necessity ..With new high-capacity radio frequency access technologies gaining ground, such as long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE advanced, there is a real need to understand customer experience with networks and services .. Vendors need to build cost-effective systems with high performance and scalability .. Advanced solutions that can collect relevant information and provide applicable metrics will help boost adoption".

See "Frost & Sullivan: Network Operators Count on Customer Experience Monitoring Systems to Solidify Consumer Loyalty Globally" - here.

[F&S]: MSSP Market to Reach $15.6B in 2016

A new research by Martha Vazquez (pictured), Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan concludes that "Enterprises are becoming increasingly exposed to organized cyber crime rings and for many businesses, the complexity of threats have compelled them to turn to managed security service providers (MSSPs). These types of external service providers enable organizations to maintain strong security while improving business efficiencies and minimizing costs".

"Although there are many benefits, MSSP vendors are typically challenged when trying to demonstrate the possible savings accrued through working with a trusted MSSP. MSSPs have to educate end users about the advantages of outsourcing security. In response to the escalating demand for broader platform support and more flexibility, MSSPs should also provide a wide range of new security technologies and enhanced security portfolios"

"..Analysis from Frost & Sullivan , Analysis of the Global Managed Security Service Providers Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $6.66 billion in 2011 and estimates this to reach $15.63 billion in 2016 .. The Frost & Sullivan study covers local, regional and global MSSPs such as Nuspire, IBM, Verizon, Dell Secureworks, Solutionary, BT Global Services, Deutche Telecom, MegaPath, and Windstream (formerly PAETEC)”.

See "Rising Complexity of Cyber Crimes Puts MSSPs under the Spotlight, Finds Frost & Sullivan" - here.

F&S: Transparent caching market to Reach $708M by 2015; PeerApp Leads

   
A "momentum" press release by PeerApp ("PeerApp Adds to Market Leadership Position by Passing 200-Operator Milestone" - here) quotes Dan Rayburn (pictured), Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan recent study (Dec '11) ‘Global Transparent Caching Market".

The study ".. named PeerApp as the world's largest pure-play caching vendor .. PeerApp is rapidly growing in a very exciting market space .. Operator deployments of transparent caching solutions like PeerApp's will cause the market to grow from $140M in 2011 to $708M by 2015".

The chart below (from "F&S: Video Delivery, Caching and CDN Markets CAGR (2010-15): 40%" - here) shows F&S revenue forecast (May '11) for transparent cache AND video CDN.

Akamai to Offer Products for Operator's Own Content Delivery

    

Dan Rayburn (picture), EVP StreamingMedia.com and Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan says in a recent blog post that "multiple telcos have told me that Akamai has discussed with them the possibility that Akamai may get into the software licensing business by providing telcos and carriers with Akamai's own CDN technology to enable telcos to build out their own content delivery services .. It makes sense that Akamai is looking at offering an LCDN ("Licensed CDN") product as all of the major carriers are now partnering less with pure-play CDNs and working to add their own content delivery solutions and transparent caching platforms to their network".

See "Akamai Developing A Licensed CDN Offering For Telcos and Carriers" - here.

See also "Why Should Telcos Build their Own CDN?" - here and posts on Verizon (here), BT (here and here). See also "F&S: Video Delivery, Caching and CDN Markets CAGR (2010-15): 40%" - here.

Nevertheless, with its product offering Akamai will join a growing list of vendors already offering Caching/CDN solutions, including: Alcatel-Lucent (here), Cisco (here), Juniper (here), Ericsson (here), Bluecoat (here), Huawei (here), PeerApp (here), Oversi (here), Bytemobile (here), BTI (here) and Allot (here).

Back to Akamai's move: "With many carriers starting to spend serious CAPEX dollars on their own content delivery build-outs, some are telling me that they don't see the need to allow Akamai to take up more space inside their network .. As soon as carriers and ISPs build and deploy their own CDN solutions, which we have started to see them do thanks to the success of services like Netflix .. Akamai's servers become less important for some of these carriers".

F&S: Video Delivery, Caching and CDN Markets CAGR (2010-15): 40%

  

Dan Rayburn (picture), Principle Analyst, Frost & Sullivan presented during the content delivery Summit conference (held last week in New York) the firm forecast global revenues, during 2010-2015, for video content delivery solutions and transparent caching (chart 1) and video CDNs (chart 2). Both market are expected to show an annual growth of 38-40%,

Good news. Related posts:

• Why Should Telcos Build their Own CDN? - here
• Video Caching Market Finally Growing - here
• Alcatel-Lucent: "Cache in Routers is more than Nice to Have" - here
• Cache Deployment: BT's Wholesale Content Connect Service and Net Neutrality - here
   
  
  

Frost & Sullivan: Mobile Operators Should not Impose Bans or Surcharges to VoIP

 

A new research from Frost & Sullivan "Impact of Mobile VoIP on Next Generation Cellular Networks" recommends mobile operators - "Don’t fight them, join them" - regarding Over-The-Top  (OTT) VoIP application providers.

See press release "Mobile VoIP Poised to Become the Principal Transport for Various Access Technologies, Says Frost & Sullivan" - here.

Major findings:

• At end of 2008, approximately $605.8 million of mobile VoIP revenues were generated in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. This is expected to grow to $29.57 billion by 2015
  
   
• Many cellular operators have prohibited the use of mobile VoIP over their cellular networks, with some imposing a surcharge to avoid cannibalisation of their circuit-switched voice revenue streams ..Recent surveys indicate that nearly 60 to 70 per cent of the major European mobile operators prohibit or restrict the usage of VoIP over their popular mobile broadband data plans

The bottom line:

"When the operators migrate to an all-IP IMS network, they should drive innovative services such as multimedia telephony, high definition voice, integrating voice with context-based information about the user, and the device from a converged presence-enabled address book," concludes Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst Saverio Romeo. "This will enable them to differentiate their services from mobile VoIP start-ups."

Related posts: 

• Is it Possible to Block Skype with DPI ? - here  
• The Economist: Data Mobile Operators Should Adopt "Smart Pipe" strategy - here