Network equipment manufacturers, their roles in modern communication

Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) play an ever-increasing role in helping communications service providers (CSPs) to run their networks more efficiently and cost-effectively. They have invested in their services and software organisation to help offset the pricing pressures they face in the hardware market. The global market for network management systems (NMSs) was worth USD4.6 billion in 2008 and will grow at a CAGR of 3% to reach USD5.5 billion in 2013. This growth will be led by NMSs for residential broadband, the market for which is forecast to grow at a 5% CAGR. Mobile NMS spending will grow more slowly, at a 4% CAGR, although it will remain the largest NMS market. Growth in spending on business services NMS will also be slighly lower, with a 3% CAGR. Maintenance will account for almost all PSTN NMS spending, which will decline at a –9% CAGR.

The NMS market is dominated by the large NEMs Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which had a combined share of 65% of the market in 2008. Huawei continues to grow rapidly, and is now a solid fourth-place player. Motorola and Nortel Networks both managed to remain in the top six. Ericsson leads in mobile NMS, Alcatel-Lucent leads in residential broadband NMS and Cisco Systems leads in business services.

This 83-page report provides a detailed five-year forecast for NMS by service (mobile, residential broadband, business services and PSTN) and region (North America; the Caribbean and Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and the rest of the world). It also provides forecasts for telecoms software professional services: business consulting, telecoms software consulting, systems integration, outsourced operations and managed or hosted services. The report includes market shares for the leading suppliers overall and in each of the service areas. It also provides definitions and deployment scenarios for NMSs within a CSP environment, and includes analysis of the market drivers and inhibitors for growth in all segments.


This report is an extract from http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Reports/Network-equipment-manufacturers-strategies-market-review-/