Research and Markets has announced the addition of System Integration and Professional Services in IPTV Networks to their offering.

This report tracks why and how SI services for IP TV have undergone significant growth since 2003 based on profiles of Alcatel, Motorola, Thales, UTStarcom, Lucent, Myrio, Kasenna, ECI and many others. The profiles include a wide variety of integration and professional services that supplement each SI company's own product and service offerings. In general, SI companies have developed a variety of end-to-end services that match the size of the service provider, as a means to shorten the time-to-market. Yet, one of the biggest challenges for SI providers to solve is to integrate competitors' products into their end-to-end solutions, while correctly assuming or allocating responsibility for each company's piece of the Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Large companies have identified IP TV System Integration as a major business opportunity, first as a way of increasing the sale of their hardware and software products, and second as a significant source of revenue. Other examples of new SI services include advanced systems design, pre-integration, in-plant SLA verification, and personnel training and/or operations management. Besides rapid service deployment, the new SI services allow for faster customer service, earlier attention to marketing issues and more rapid achievement of high quality-of-service levels.

Topics covered in the report include:

• IP TV Network Architecture
• Opportunities in IP TV Networks
• Services Strategies
• Opportunities, Risks, and Recommendations
• Developer's Activity

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