Are Webscale App Providers Shaping Amount Telecom Platform Trends?

Webscale Internet companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft together with Amazon) forthwith are exerting a “markedly increased influence” on markets for communications service. Analysts at Heavy Reading forthwith recall the webscale players likewise increasingly are shaping the marketplace for networking hardware, software together with services.

That volition move a contentious request of view, fifty-fifty if many telecom manufacture execs together with others recall that is true, to or together with then extent.

Google together with Facebook are developing novel backhaul together with access platforms. Google Fiber does purchase industry-standard optical access networks every bit well.

But Facebook generally is looking at opened upwards rootage platforms that tin move manufactured past times supplied past times manufacture suppliers.

Clearly, at that topographic point is comport on inward damage of buying demeanour inward the instance of Google Fiber, together with evolution potential inward the opened upwards rootage efforts past times Facebook.

At to the lowest degree or together with then telecom manufacture professionals believe the webscale providers are "leading inward networking innovation"; are "increasingly calling the shots"; increasingly "building out their ain telecom infrastructure" together with that "it's a affair of fourth dimension earlier ane of these guys buys ane of the big CSPs (communications service providers).”

A Heavy Reading analyst squad interviewed to a greater extent than than a dozen leading network infrastructure professionals at leading CSPs at the CTO, VP together with manager level, every bit good every bit to a greater extent than than 25 senior individuals inward network equipment vendors at CTO, VP together with manager level; addition several leaders inward substitution telecom manufacture associations, standards bodies together with other specialist consultancies; together with or together with then of the WICs themselves.

The main together with secondary query was complemented past times a Heavy Reading online survey, generating responses from 82 qualified respondents inward network equipment vendors together with 57 from qualified respondents inward CSPs.

Keep inward heed that close one-half the 82 vendor respondents came from individuals from ane vendor company.

Around one-half came from vendors from whom 2 or to a greater extent than (but no to a greater extent than than four) respondents supplied responses. Those companies from which 2 or to a greater extent than respondents participated include ADVA, Broadsoft, Casa Systems, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, F5, Huawei, HP, IBM, Infinera, Juniper Networks, Nokia, NetScout, Vasona Networks together with Radisys.

As you lot mightiness expect, the online respondents identified Google every bit the webscale thespian posing the greatest threat to communications service providers.