Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/l3728v/leveraging_a) has announced the addition of the "Leveraging a Reconstituted Service Assurance Market " report to their offering.

Like many aspects of the telecom industry, the service assurance sector is undergoing profound change. Driven by both opportunity and competition, communications service providers (CSPs) are looking ahead to prepare for a very different future organizationally, operationally, technically and, perhaps most of all, with regards to their service portfolios.

The door to opportunity has been opened by data - lots of it. How adept CSPs are in collecting, correlating, and analyzing the data, and sharing the intelligence derived from it, will determine a CSP's ability to meet this future.

The task of supporting CSPs in this effort has historically fallen to suppliers of both test systems and service assurance solutions. This report looks at how the aspirations, priorities and strategies of these suppliers differ from those they held just three years ago; and notes that suppliers have begun to come together to better enable the exploitation of the opportunity before them and their CSP customers.

This report shows that much of the money, through acquisition, is going to three efforts:

  1. Extending test technologies to the full service life-cycle; and, in the process, attempting to redefine service assurance;
  2. Combining test and assurance technologies into platform solutions;
  3. Unifying the sources of network, control and user data, in order to generate a more complete picture of the user experience.

This report examines some of the key changes to the assurance market, including:

  • The blending of test and operations environments
  • Analytics as a staple of service assurance solutions
  • Organization-wide access to customer and network intelligence
  • The recombination of user-plane and control-plane data for customer experience visibility
  • The evolving network probe market

Key Topics Covered:

1. Leveraging a Reconstituted Service Assurance Market

2. Executive Summary

3. Introduction

4. The Pre-Reconstituted Service Assurance Space

5. Big Bets Placed on Broad Solutions

6. Unified Assurance Requires More than Technology

7. Assured Quality is the VoLTE Differentiator

8. Reconstituting Service Assurance

9. The Last word

Companies Mentioned:

  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • EXFO
  • Ericsson
  • MYCOM OSI
  • NetCracker Technologies
  • NetScout
  • Spirent

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