Are Webscale App Providers Shaping Nub Telecom Platform Trends?

Webscale Internet companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft together with Amazon) instantly are exerting a “markedly increased influence” on markets for communications service. Analysts at Heavy Reading instantly intend the webscale players equally good increasingly are shaping the marketplace for networking hardware, software together with services.

That volition travel a contentious signal of view, fifty-fifty if many telecom manufacture execs together with others intend that is true, to roughly extent.

Google together with Facebook are developing novel backhaul together with access platforms. Google Fiber does purchase industry-standard optical access networks equally well.

But Facebook to a greater extent than oftentimes than non is looking at opened upwards rootage platforms that tin terminate travel manufactured yesteryear supplied yesteryear manufacture suppliers.

Clearly, at that spot is comport on inwards damage of buying behaviour inwards the representative of Google Fiber, together with evolution potential inwards the opened upwards rootage efforts yesteryear Facebook.

At to the lowest degree roughly telecom manufacture professionals believe the webscale providers are "leading inwards networking innovation"; are "increasingly calling the shots"; increasingly "building out their ain telecom infrastructure" together with that "it's a affair of fourth dimension earlier 1 of these guys buys 1 of the big CSPs (communications service providers).”

A Heavy Reading analyst squad interviewed to a greater extent than than a dozen leading network infrastructure professionals at leading CSPs at the CTO, VP together with manager level, equally good equally to a greater extent than than 25 senior individuals inwards network equipment vendors at CTO, VP together with manager level; addition several leaders inwards primal telecom manufacture associations, standards bodies together with other specialist consultancies; together with roughly of the WICs themselves.

The main together with secondary inquiry was complemented yesteryear a Heavy Reading online survey, generating responses from 82 qualified respondents inwards network equipment vendors together with 57 from qualified respondents inwards CSPs.

Keep inwards heed that nearly one-half the 82 vendor respondents came from individuals from 1 vendor company.

Around one-half came from vendors from whom 2 or to a greater extent than (but no to a greater extent than than four) respondents supplied responses. Those companies from which 2 or to a greater extent than respondents participated include ADVA, Broadsoft, Casa Systems, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, F5, Huawei, HP, IBM, Infinera, Juniper Networks, Nokia, NetScout, Vasona Networks together with Radisys.

As you lot powerfulness expect, the online respondents identified Google equally the webscale actor posing the greatest threat to communications service providers.