The rapidly growing service delivery platform (SDP) market, including software and integration services, is forecast to hit $3.5 billion in 2010, according to a new report from Infonetics Research, "Service Delivery Platform Market Outlook."
A growing number of mobile and fixed-line operators are deploying SDPs or incremental services based on existing SDPs to remain competitive with facilities-based competitors, and to stave off competition from Web-based application providers like Google and Yahoo, the report states.
Offering new media-rich bundled services like IPTV, video on demand (VoD), video telephony, and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is the only way to thrive in the competitive communications environment. All these new services will require significant capex and opex for new hardware components and their integration into existing signaling, OSS, and BSS networks.
