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U.S. broadband has reached the end of its growth phase. Now, the industry faces the challenge of shifting from building infrastructure and acquiring customers to creating sustainable business models. In a maturing market, how must operators adjust their service offerings in order to keep revenue on a growth track?

On the surface, cloud or IT infrastructure service initiatives appear to be attractive offerings for telecom service providers, but are they? Cloud or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) explicitly involves network services and hosting/IT infrastructure services. However, telecom operators have been slow to adopt these new services.

Though much has been said and written about SDN (software defined networking), little has been said about its business case. At a high level the board members of the Open Networking Foundation including Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, and Verizon view SDN as a means to reduce their costs and increase service delivery velocity. A more detailed view of the SDN business case can be developed by digging into the cost structures of these large service providers.

Whether standalone entities or branch offices of large enterprises, medium-sized business establishments have been the neglected stepsisters of the telecom services market. Now, those businesses are moving in a major way to Carrier Ethernet services, thanks to improved quality and reliability as service providers finally overcome tough technical obstacles to delivery.

New, more sophisticated IP services are emerging, as are the associated service delivery platforms to meet the changing use and nature of the Internet. And a number of underlying trends also are driving service providers to emphasize service monetization, better network scaling, and better resource utilization in their business models. Read more

Software Defined Networking (SDN) began as a conceptual extension of data center virtualization and as such its true form has been tough to visualize. Now, as SDN use cases are being revealed on the web and in public forums, it is becoming clearer what SDN is, how it will be implemented and who will benefit or be hurt by its adoption.

Software defined networking architecture that has its origins in data center networks is a promising approach for upgrading or building out metro networks. How will SDN be integrated into the service provider's business case?

Kennedy Akamai's "The State of the Internet" report provides hard data on Internet attack traffic, IP address usage and the Internet's performance. Akamai's data is no small sample. Over

Kennedy Cloud computing service delivery has a strong business case that includes cost reduction, service acceleration, and improved service delivery quality and reliability. Before

Kennedy There are multiple business cases for mobile data offloading, including those for mobile data subscribers and mobile and broadband network operators. The business cases are driven