Telecom Trends

TELECOM TRENDS: 2013 India has emerged as one of the youngest and fastest growing economies in the world today. One of the sectors that has shown the signs of profitability and contributed significantly to the country's economy is the telecom industry. In fact, the Indian telecom market has gained recognition as one of the most lucrative markets globally. The vast rural market holds a huge potential to drive the future growth of the telecom companies. Further, the government's initiatives for increasing the telecom connectivity in rural areas, are also likely to aid the telecom service providers to extend their services in the unconnected rural areas. Upcoming trends for 2013 1. Fiber focus : FTTX With bandwidth demands growing in enterprise networks, fiber-optic technology development is keeping pace. Fiber access is one of the most important technologies in the next generation network. It increases the access layer bandwidth and builds a sustainable-development access layer network. From finding ways to minimize power-hungry LAN elements to more robust cabling to emerging new standards, optical communications technology should continue to offer an effective, efficient alternative to copper for a growing variety of enterprise network requirements. Service providers across the world therefore, are developing new network architectures to deliver high-bandwidth services to the last mile, which are included in the umbrella term FTTx. This includes fibre-to-the-curb, fibre-to-the-node, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and fibre-to-thepremises. 2. Arrival of 4G An acronym for Long Term Evolution, LTE is a 4G wireless communications standard developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) that's designed to provide up to 10x the speeds of 3G networks for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, notebooks and wireless hotspots. 4G technologies are designed to provide IP-based voice, data and multimedia streaming at speeds of at least 100 Mbit per second...