The speakers were Sandeep Agrawal and Nitin Bajaj, professionals currently working with TCS. Sandeep Agrawal is an Account Manager at TCS for the wireless and wireline customers of TCS. Nitin Bajaj is an Alliance Manager for a leading telecom equipment vendor.
The workshop discussed the new technologies coming in the near future. There is greater emphasis on software rather than hardware. New services and applications are being launched by the companies. Winning Formula involves hardware design, user interface, software and online services. Telecom value chain pyramid is:
Some of the equipment manufacturers are Nokia and Ericsson. JDSU and Agilent are Test And Measurement vendors. Examples of service providers are Airtel and Vodafone.
A shift in technology is taking place from GSM to3G.UMTS,WiMax,HSPD(High Speed Packet Data),LTE(Long Term Evaluation) will be launched in India in the near future.
The forces driving the telecom market are macroeconomy, regulation, disruptive technology, requirement for new services, customer diversity and structural changes.
The challenges faced by the service provider are retaining customers, introducing newer services, controlling infrastructure cost, moving to the new IP platform, ensuring good quality of services, quad play etc.
Main growth is taking place in the BRIC (Brazil,Russia,India,China) nations. India is number 2 in the mobile market according to subscriber base. There are many opportunities in the fields of Internet Multimedia Services(IMS) and SDP, Fixed Mobile Convergence and Network Transformation .
Some of the new technologies are:
- LTE(or 4G)(Long Term Evaluation)
- Rich Communication Suite
- VoIP Wireless WAN
- Mobile Application & NFC
- Network Sharing
- Unified Comm and Coll(UCC)
- Next Gen Service Delivery Platform(NGSDP)
- IPTV
- Fiber To Home