2005 Broadband Predictions
Bruce's Thoughts on The Coming Year

2005 will mark a critical decision point for billing software vendors over their investment or lack there of into Operational Support System (OSS) capabilities and/or companies. OSS vendors will respond by changing their focus to moving closer to managing the network such as developing policy server offerings. The policy server will be tomorrow what today's OSS attempts to provide.

PPPoE, fueled by widespread deployments of Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), will make a strong come back as a means of managing access to the Internet.

Broadband will take huge steps to becoming a commodity and in highly competitive markets within the US it will reach $19.95 per month for 1.5 Meg down and 300 k up.

Plasma monitors will surpass 7 feet while new manufacturing techniques will be introduce to allow LCD monitors up to 60" and directly compete with more expensive and less energy efficient Plasma monitors.

Enough with the endless hype, VoIP will fail once again to be the technology of the year. Deployments and market trials will continue for VoIP but residential last mile POTS service will remain as it did each of the past several years and its VoIP replacement is at least 18 to 24 months away.

Can Birds-Eye.Net help you or your Company?
Receive your Birds-Eye.Net articles and white papers hot off the presses by adding our RSS feed to your reader.

 

(C) Copyright Birds-Eye.Net, All rights reserved.
It is against the law to reproduce this content or any portion of it in any form without the explicit written permission of Birds-Eye Network Services, LLC. Federal copyright law (17 USC 504) makes it illegal, punishable with fines up to $100,000 per violation plus attorney's fees.