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Infonetics: Global SDP Market to Reach $6.7B in 2019, Virtualization an Emerging Trend

Infonetics: Global SDP Market to Reach $6.7B in 2019, Virtualization an Emerging Trend Image Credit: Ifonetics

Infonetics projects the worldwide combined service delivery platform (SDP) software and services market for both mobile and fixed line to reach $6.7 billion by 2019according to a new report by technology market research firm Infonetics Research. Infonetics said that the SDP market  grew 13 percent in 2014, to just under $4.7 billion, driven mainly by API exposure platforms and enterprise and small- and medium-sized business (SMB) services.

Infonetics shared that operators are going beyond traditional APIs and exposing capabilities such as ringback tones, missed call notification, policy management, authentication and authorization, and subscriber analytics. The consumer opportunity continues to drive service delivery platform spending in emerging regions, while more developed markets are focusing investments on enterprise and SMB services, including the burgeoning M2M opportunity. Ericsson and Huawei are neck-and-neck at the top of the SDP revenue market share leaderboard, added Infonetics. 

Shira Levine, directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence at Infonetics Research
Virtualization is a hot topic throughout the communications industry right now, and the service delivery platform (SDP) segment is no exception. Though the majority of operators -- particularly Tier 1s in established markets -- continue to be most comfortable with on-premise solutions deployed on purpose-built hardware, we're seeing a growing interest in virtualizing the SDP on a private cloud, particularly among large multinational operators looking to better leverage shared resources. There is also emerging demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which provide operators with a lower-risk and more cost-effective way to trial different lines of business, such as mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) offerings and machine-to-machine (M2M) services.

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