Carriers in India have already drawn up plans for deployment of more than 14.9 million Class 4 NGN ports and over 4.1 million Class 5 NGN lines, making it one of the top Nextgen Voice markets over the coming few years. In majority of the cases, vendors have already been finalized.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
1. Indian Telecoms Market: An Overview
1.1 Macroeconomic Overview
1.2 Indian Telecommunications Scene
2. Consumer VoIP Scene in India
2.1 Factors Limiting Consumer VoIP Potential in India
2.2 Progress Made By Small VoIP Providers
2.3 Prospects of Class 5 NGN Projects in India
3. Class 4 NGN Projects in India
3.1 Evolution of Voice Networks
3.2 Indian Carriers Deploy NGN Voice
3.3 Softswitch: The Most Mature PSTN Transformation Technology
3.4 Details of NGN Voice Projects in India
3.4.1 BSNL
3.4.2 MTNL
3.4.3 Bharti Airtel
3.4.4 Reliance Communications
3.4.5 Tata Communications
3.4.6 Tata Teleservices
3.4.7 Vodafone
3.4.8 Others
4. Challenges for Vendors
4.1 The Wireless Factor
4.2 Switch Obsolescence?
4.3 Technical Requirements Versus Pricing
4.4 Vendor Prospects
4.4.1 Nokia Siemens Networks
4.4.2 Alcatel-Lucent
4.4.3 ZTE
4.4.4 Huawei
4.4.5 Genband 4.4.6 Sonus Networks
4.4.7 Acme Packet
4.4.8 Veraz Networks
4.4.9 Cisco
5. Market Size and Forecasts
5.1 Market Shares
5.2 Projections
FIGURES AND TABLES
Table 1.1: Wireline and wireless subscribers of leading service providers in India
Table 1.2: Top 10 Indian telecom operators (by revenues)
Table 5.1: Volume of Class 4 and Class 5 NGN equipment to be deployed by each carrier in India
Figure: 5.1: Market share of Class 4 NGN trunk projects completed in India
Table 5.2: Breakdown of Class 4 NGN equipment by vendors
Figure: 5.2: Market share of Class 4 NGN trunk ports in pipeline in India
Figure 5.3: Projected cumulative Class 4 NGN ports in carrier networks 2008-2012
Figure 5.4: Projected cumulative Class 5 NGN lines in carrier networks 2008-2012
Table 5.3: NGN Class 4 softswitch and media gateway revenue projections
Table 5.4: NGN Class 5 softswitch revenue projections
