Paper Info
Title
Value-added Services for Fibre to the Home - Market Potential, Time Horizons and User Groups.
Abstract
Currently, telecom operators are developing large-scale projects in the internet broadband sector in cooperation with utility companies and public institutions. The roll-out of fibre to the home network infrastructure is often justified by the supposed increasing user demand for high-bandwidth applications. Starting from a user-oriented perspective, however, it is important to consider the utility of fibre networks for future users and to explore those killer applications that can convince end-users to migrate from their current connections to high-bandwidth networks. By means of an international expert survey, this paper tries to identify value-added services that benefit from fibre's network potential in terms of high speed, symmetry and low delay. In contrast to initial expectations, video delivery applications were found less convincing by the experts whereas health monitoring, online content storage and management services, and desktop sharing were identified as the most promising fibre applications. In terms of timing, content storage and management systems and desktop sharing are identified as more market-ready than health monitoring applications. Whereas the health monitoring and desktop sharing are mainly seen as a service only for the consumer and business market respectively, content management systems are considered useful for business as well as for consumer purposes.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
ICE-B
next generation networking,jitter,bandwidth,optical fibers
Field
DocType
Citations 
Market potential,Next-generation network,Telecommunications,Computer science,Broadband,Public institution,Low delay,Management system,Content management system,Marketing,The Internet
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
tom evens1428.33
Lynn De Vlieger200.68
Elke Boudry301.35
Pieter Verdegem4796.61
Lieven De Marez531132.22
Erik Vanhauwaert621.08
Koen Casier7175.89
Jan Van Ooteghem8225.87
Sofie Verbrugge97819.21
Bart Lannoo1038738.47