FREE Telecoms Whitepaper - Service Delivery Platforms
Leveraging current network infrastructure to offer next-generation person-to-person services
Mobile operators and vendors were persuaded over the last decade into believing that significant numbers of customers were hungry for rich, IP-based multimedia services. Standards bodies and R&D labs brought us new protocols and Service Delivery Platform (SDP) architectures – with the promise that the old, expensive, almost craft-based model of circuit-based and Intelligent Networking (IN) infrastructure would rapidly disappear.
In the last year or two, that optimistic vision has begun to be severely eroded by hard facts from the marketplace – leading to a major reassessment of what is going to be required of a Service Delivery Platform.
The industry cannot afford to focus just on data and content based services - the blunt truth is that 95 percent of current ARPUs in the mobile space are coming from Person-to-Person services like speech, texting and instant messaging. And it’s looking increasingly unlikely that those figures are going to change dramatically in the next few years. Download paper to read more...
