Market Trends

Albany, NY October 21, 2014--All telecommunication services (fixed line or mobile) are basically made up of a combination of hardware devices and embedded software that enables the hardware in undertaking various operations. Along with the embedded software, there are two other software applications that are critical for the proper management of the telecom network. These are OSS and BSS.

Dallas, Tex., October 21, 2014--New research reports from Parks Associates highlight the financial and business opportunities in the expanding markets for pay-tv and OTT services, digital content, cloud solutions, and connected Consumer Electronics (CE). The research firm's New Business Models for Connected CE reports 64% of U.S. broadband households have an Internet-connected CE and 55% have an OTT service subscription, an area poised for strong growth especially following HBO's announcement that it will launch a stand-alone HBO Go service.

Washington, D.C. October 20, 2014--The global market for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms and payloads is thriving, with recent assessments pegging its latest value at close to $20 billion and forecasts of up to $43 billion by 2020, accoridng to a recent report from Airborneusa.com

London, UK,  October 20, 2014--The results of the latest research conducted by Point Topic and Adroit Economics points to a Euro 40 billion opportunity for the SMEs in Europe by the end of the decade.  Extending work recently conducted for the European Commission BRESAT project has revealed significant potential for growth and productivity.

Dallas, Tex., October 15, 2014--New research from Parks Associates finds more than 46 million households worldwide will subscribe to a 4K UHD pay-TV service by 2018. Pay-TV providers will deploy this service as a differentiator, especially among younger consumers who are more likely to use new pay-TV features, such as TV Everywhere and cloud DVR, but also have slightly lower subscription rates for pay-TV services. In the U.S., 82% of consumers 18-22 have a pay-TV subscription, compared to 87% among older consumers.

Campbell, Calif., October 14, 2014—Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2nd quarter 2014 (2Q14) Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and digital terrestrial (DTT) set-top boxes (STBs) and over-the-top (OTT) media servers.

Amman, Jordan, October 10, 2014--A new report from the Arab Advisors Group provides an overview of data centers located within the GCC countries and their services. The research revealed that co-location services were the most common in the GCC region, offered by nearly all analyzed data centers.

Paris, France, October 9, 2014 - According to Euroconsult's newly published report, Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Market Prospects to 2023, 353 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to be launched over the next decade compared to 162 over 2004-2013. This will result in US$ 36 billion in manufacturing revenues over the period, an 85% increase over the previous decade.

London, UK, October 6, 2014--The latest milestone in the relentless march of high speed internet access was passed at the end of June this year as the total number of households with a broadband line came to 700.2 million, accoridng to Point Topic.

Cambridge, Mass. – October 6, 2014 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, released its Second Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds and broadband adoption across fixed and mobile networks, overall attack traffic, global 4K readiness, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation, and traffic patterns across leading Web properties and digital media providers.