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Please contact:
Jeff Claudino
Director of Sales, Insider Research Services
619-229-9940
or via email at:
claudino@lightreading.com |
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| Home Gateways: Door Opens for SPs to Realize Value-Adds |
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As service providers search for ways to distinguish their services from the competition – especially in a world in which one service provider looks more and more like another – the need to provide those customers with bundled services and other value-added services becomes increasingly clear.
A home gateway is the key convergence device at the heart of the digital home – an environment in which personal computers, TV, video, music, telephony, and automated home systems all converge to make daily life (theoretically) simpler and more fun. Home gateways offer a wide range of value-added services to customers to achieve high levels of satisfaction.
One bright spot in the VoIP market continues to be the fast-growing digital home gateway segment, as more telcos use them to bundle broadband services. Most analysts agree that broadband connections to deliver converged services – voice, video, high-speed Internet, home monitoring, and automation services – will grow at a healthy clip from 2010 to 2013.
It is widely accepted that broadband households have a high propensity to adopt home networks, and, as such, broadband subscribers are the primary candidates for gateway products designed to distribute Internet bandwidth and multimedia applications. This leaves home gateway vendors with questions about how quickly the broadband market will grow and how quickly consumers will adopt the sophisticated equipment they are putting into the market.
While modem and router shipments remain strong, the importance of home gateways grows more prevalent with their ability to support multiplay services and become the primary interface between service providers and end users.
Home Gateways: Door Opens for SPs to Realize Value-Adds provides an in-depth look at the home gateway market and a comparative analysis of solutions, including: setup, installation, and graphical user interface (GUI); security; and support/upgrade. It also examines market drivers, challenges the market faces, and trends to expect in the industry. The report provides a competitive analysis of nine of the top vendors in the home gateway market.
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| Sample research data from the report is shown in the excerpts below: |
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 Table of Contents (lri0809toc.pdf) |
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| Historically, home broadband was available through modems providing basic data transfer. The following excerpt shows that gateways are intelligent devices that provide integrated capabilities, including home networking, security, quality of service (QoS), wireless access, voice, and more. |
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| [click on the image above for the full excerpt] |
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 Companies analyzed in this report include: 2Wire Inc.; Actiontec Electronics Inc.; Bewan Systems SA; Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO); D-Link Systems Inc.; Jungo Ltd.; Netgear Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR); Thomson SA (NYSE: TMS); and Westell Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: WSTL). |
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