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Datacraft Insight Forum
"Making the Most of IP Convergence for Asia's Enterprises"
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Together with IDC, Datacraft is proud to present Insight Forum, a series of interactive sessions with key decision makers designed to deliver independent insights and in-depth knowledge to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. The first in the series of Datacraft's Insight Forum is sponsored by Cisco and consists of presentations by industry experts to help you make the most of the IP Convergence wave for your enterprise.
Despite issues to prevent mass market adoption of this technology in the near term, the question is no longer "if IP converged network will be deployed", it is about "when it will be widely adopted" by the corporate sector, from the largest to the smallest companies.
In spite of market consolidation, Asian telecom carriers are now expanding product portfolios, reducing tariffs, and increasing support services to become more customer-focused. As a result, we are seeing a growing push in the IP space, specifically IP-VPN and value-added services. Carriers are becoming more creative, bundling and pushing other emerging technologies, including broadband access, to expand line-item growth.
A recent IDC survey of enterprises across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) revealed that there is an increasing trend among enterprises to route their data and voice traffic over IP networks and deploy IP-based services. Key highlights of this survey includes:
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Opportunities may lie with the manufacturing and the services/NEC sectors, as respondents from these industries showed the most positive interest in deploying broadband, Internet telephony, VoIP, IP VPNs and Internet datacenters over the next two years.
- Among those using VoIP, most were using it as their primary telephony communications, and/or for internal communications within their country. Furthermore, a third of those not already using VoIP plans to do so in the next couple of years.
- There was positive interest in and responses indicating plans to deploy IP videoconferencing and multi-conferencing, as well as the popularity of bundling IP videoconferencing with IP VPNs among current IP VPN users, which may present additional revenue opportunities to IP VPN service providers.
- There is no escape. IP Convergence is coming. How then can you ride the IP wave and make the most of it for your enterprise? Is IP the answer to today's productivity call as companies strive to improve financial bottom-lines, reduce costs and streamline business processes?
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