At the time of this writing, there are positive signs that commerce is recovering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for June reaching 50.1 (up from 40.7 in May[i]), the S&P 500 now approaching levels seen back in February, while the Nasdaq recovered from the COVID induced drop in mid-June.
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The communication and collaboration market is clearly and indisputably seeing heightened interest and demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lingering impacts of these unprecedented times are expected to accelerate adoption of newer technologies like Extended Reality (XR) and increase growth rates of more established markets like video conferencing hardware, which is forecasted to approach US$4 billion by 2025, up from US$2.4 billion in 2019.
A Government Investment Strategy Blueprint
At this challenging time, the role of the Telco has never been so important. They are key to retaining any semblance of normalcy in a COVID affected social and enterprise setting. More importantly, they are a key actor that will be crucial in enabling nations to manage the transition out of COVID-19 related stagnation but also in providing a resilient national infrastructure and stimulate GDP growth. There are numerous strategies that governments can utilize to invest in stimulating growth by strengthening the Telco position. This paper outlines some of those available levers.
With cellular modules getting more attention for their role in IoT solution security, ABI Research offers this first of a series of educational blog posts covering cellular modules. In each post, ABI Research analysts provide their insights on cellular modules and their impact on IoT solution security in critical areas of the IoT value chain.
As pay TV and OTT service providers battle to gain market share, they are investing heavily in premium content, advanced equipment, and technologies that support low latency and offer a better user experience. Despite efforts to maintain and gain subscribers, service providers are increasingly challenged by piracy and illegal content streaming. With a number of ways to illegally view video content, service providers are unfortunately poised to lose millions of subscribers each year, as well as billions of dollars in potential revenue.
It is no surprise that the COVID-19 outbreak has led to panic buying of items such as toilet paper and sanitizing supplies. However, this buying behavior has led to a massive need for trucks to help restock stores, shrinking the capacity available for other products. The result is a historically tight trucking market that has dropped 20% in volume in just the last two weeks.
5G and Cloud-Native networking Market Overview
Based on findings from a recently commissioned Cloud-Native Networking for a 5G Era report, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are seeking to transform their network infrastructure, automate operational processes, and transform internal mindsets to capture new growth. The transformation is being driven, in part, by a growth of user data demand, a massive increase in connected devices, an overly complex network, and new Business-to-Business (B2B) revenue growth increasingly tied to 5G adoption. A question of significance for CSPs is how to embed a degree of agility in networks and scale up the emerging enterprise use cases in a way that is sufficiently impactful and not disruptive. This is particularly important for new 5G-centric use cases (e.g., network slicing and 5G private networks) that will almost certainly consist of network elements and services that traverse different technology domains.