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Research and Markets: Strategically Exposing Network Assets in an SDN EnvironmentResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8j2spb/strategically) has announced the addition of the "Strategically Exposing Network Assets in an SDN Environment" report to their offering. Communications service providers(CSPs)appear on the cutting edge at the moment, and poised for a breakthrough in innovation. Their prospects have not looked this good in a long time. Business analysts first began questioning the relevance and value of the CSP (News - Alert) business model in earnest around the time of the initial AT&T Bell System divestiture in 1984. By the time competition was intrduced, through a spectacular regulatory fiasco known as the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CSPs were openly described as operationally inflexible and culturally adverse to change. They were advised to evolve or die. Yet, here we are in 2014 pondering the same dynamics of competitiveness and flexibility. And here they are-AT&T, Verizon (News - Alert), China Mobile, and Vodafone-all safely among the largest public companies in the world. How CSPs will safely and strategically manage access to their network assets is the focus of this report. This report will also review recent advances in SDN development that bring the industry closer to its goal of enabling innovation through asset exposure. Deployments and partnerships around API management, as well as the role of open source and a look at just how big open source might become in telecom are also examined in this report. Key Topics Covered: 1. Introduction 2. SDN Advances 3. SDN Standards also Advance 4. Open Source (News - Alert): Invited Guest or Enemy at the Gate? 5. Drivers for Exposing Assets 6. Valuable Network Assets 7. Exposing the Application Programming Interface (API) 8. Secure Exposure 9. The Last Word For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8j2spb/strategically |
