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FROST & SULLIVAN: NEXT GENERATION INTERNET CHALLENGES INDUSTRY TO CAPTURE
Growing Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- It's the blind date you await with both anticipation and apprehension. You've heard the rumors, but will it live up to expectations? When will it show up at my door? What will it look like? How will it affect my life? It's the Next Generation Internet (NGI). The NGI is a combination of high speed Internet technologies which are being rapidly developed in order to meet Internet-wide demands for broader bandwidth and richer Web applications. The government's Next Generation Internet Initiative and academia's Internet 2 Initiative seek to develop high performance network technologies and revolutionary key network-based applications, which can then be applied to the consumer-level Internet, creating the NGI. Companies across all segments will need to strategically assess how this new level of Internet performance will affect both themselves and their industries to keep from falling behind.
US Market for Next Generation Internet/Internet 2 Technologies, strategic research by Frost & Sullivan www.frost.com ), examines technologies and applications which are most directly affected by the push to provide broader bandwidth across the Internet. In addition to giving detailed analysis of two submarkets of the NGI technologies -- both network infrastructure and end-user targeted -- and applications. Network infrastructure technologies encompass such issues as IP vs. ATM, networking hardware and consumer connection technologies. Network applications will encompass applications to be developed specifically for use over the high performance network.
The US Market for Next Generation Internet/Internet 2 Technologies provides insight on the most pressing challenges addressing the various segments in this growing industry. The US Market for Next Generation Internet/Internet 2 Technologies then goes on to provide strategic insights for a range of service providers and applications developers.
In an age of information, the Internet is the preeminent conduit through which information is sent and received. There is universal agreement that the Internet will be indispensible to business in the future, if it isn't already. Insight into how this vital information network will evolve is imperative to the future success of businesses. Companies which most effectively take advantage of the possibilities which NGI presents will find themselves with significant competitive advantage over other players in their fields.
The US Market for Next Generation Internet/Internet2 Technologies also contains an overview of the strategic market drivers, as well as the challenges facing companies within the NGI market.
"A primary market driver for the NGI market is the demand for differentiated quality of service, and the desire for access to greater volumes of information. Conversely, a major challenge presents itself in a lack of established standards and the tenuous timeline for commercialization of broadband Internet," says Patrick Hee , Frost & Sullivan IT software/hardware analyst. US Market for Next Generation Internet/Internet 2 Technologies offers successful strategic suggestions on how to not only integrate changing technology, but also stay ahead of the competition.
Companies participating in this market include: 3Com Corporation, Advanced Network & Services, Inc., Ameritech Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Applied Theory Communications, Inc. , AT&T Research Labs, Bell Atlantic Corporation, Bellcore, Bell South Corp., Cabletron Systems, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, FORE Systems, Inc., GTE Internetworking, International Business Machines Corporation, IXC Communications, Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc., MCI WorldCom Corporation, Newbridge Networks Corporation, Nexabit Networks, Inc., Nokia Research Center, Nortel (Northern Telecom Limited), Novell, Inc., Qwest Communications Intl. Inc., R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, SBC Communications, Siemens Corporation, Sprint Corporation, StarBurst Communications, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc., Telebeam, TeleGlobe, USA International, Torrent Networking Technologies, and Williams Communications
This IT industry study has integrated the proven Frost & Sullivan strategic research philosophy into the entire research process, which involved expert analysts in the IT markets. Critical phases of this research included: identification of industry challenges, strategic recommendations, planning and market monitoring. All of the vital elements this system help the market participants navigate successfully through the Next Generation Internet market.
Frost & Sullivan is an international marketing consulting company that monitors the IT industry for market trends, market measurements and strategies. The ongoing research is utilized to update a series of research publications such as #5433, Electronic Commerce, and to support industry participants with customized consulting needs.
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Report: 5182-70 Publish Date: October 1998 Price: $3450
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