Paper, White Paper
2008
Abstract
Many operators and vendors in the mobile space were persuaded over the last decade or so into believing that significant numbers of customers were hungry for rich, IP-based multimedia services. Standards bodies and R&D labs around the world sprang into action, bringing us new protocols and Service Delivery Platform (SDP) architectures – with the promise that the old, expensive, almost craft-based model of circuit-based and Intelligent Networking (IN) infrastructure would rapidly disappear. The blunt truth is that 95 percent of current ARPUs in the mobile space are coming from Person-to-Person services like speech, texting and instant messaging. And it’s looking increasingly unlikely that those figures are going to change dramatically in the next few years. All this poses something of a challenge for those involved in the SDP space, irrespective of where they are in the value chain. There is a need for a more precise definition of what exactly a SDP is and what we expect it to be able to do for us.
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Published by: The Moriana Group. First posted: 08 Dec 2009. Last edited: 08 Dec 2009.