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Market Research Report
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Softswitch RFP published by Mind Commerce Publishing LLC in December, 2007. This report consists of 27 pages and the price starts from US $ 1995.
Abstract
Overview
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) products in various forms has been
available for about a decade. To date, VoIP enjoys a market share of less than
10% of the US residential voice market. For a number of reasons, VoIP growth
is about to begin a dramatic, "hockey stick" growth curve. At the forefront of
this development is the softswitch. Firstly, legacy time division
multiplexing (TDM) switches such as the Lucent 5ESS or the Nortel DMS series
are no longer being sold in any quantity in the US market. The last "fleet"
sale of such switches was to the "old" AT&T in 1998. The giants of the
telecommunications switch industry (Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent, for example)
have long since moved on to promoting their VoIP-oriented softswitches.
Secondly, incumbent telcos large and small seek "investment protection" for
the billions of dollars of TDM switches in their inventories through various
technology band aids. However, the harsh reality is that the majority of
US-based TDM switches will have to be replaced in the next 5 years if their
service providers are to remain competitive as the telecom world moves to
Internet Protocol-based technologies. Finally, the emergence of new IP-base
service providers drives demand for all-IP networks utilizing softswitch for
voice services.
This boiler plate request for proposal (RFP) has been used by large and small
telecommunications companies in the US and Latin America including incumbent
network operators making the switch to softswitch. The use of this RFP spares
the services provider many man-weeks necessary to write its own detailed RFP.
More importantly, this RFP poses the right questions that can mean the
difference between triumph and disaster to the requesting party. Service
providers who have used this softswitch RFP for their multimillion-dollar
evaluations and purchases have expressed a high degree of satisfaction in the
RFP and the purchases they made based on the guidance contained in the RFP.
Target Audience
- Any organization interested in procuring a Softswitch
- Network operators migrating to next generation network (NGN) architecture
- Consultants and systems integrators assisting organizations in obtaining a
softswitch
- Providers of long-term NGN infrastructure such as IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS) equipment
NGN infrastructure providers including Softswitch, and related equipment such
as Session Boarder Controllers (SBC)
Table of Contents
- 1.0 General and Administrative Provisions
- 2.0 General Requirements
- 3.0 Purchaser Executive Summary
- 4.0 Class 5 Services Requirements
- 5.0 Class 4 Services Requirements
- 6.0 General Switching Platform (Class 4/Class 5) Information
- 8.0 Session Border Controller (SBC)
- 9.0 Billing Platforms
- 10.0 Warranties and Maintenance Contract
- 11.0 Implementation and Operation
- 12.0 Pricing
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