| NOTAS: | I Vol.: Players .- 253 p
. II Vol.: Markets and issues at stake .- 98 p.
"Panorama of the backbone market (regulation, technologies, geographical deployment) and analysis of the structure of the world's leading 40 operators' international backbones. The backbone market's competitive landscape: - long-distance telephony's regulatory context; - technologies: restrictions inherent in current terrestrial (DWD, optic switching, MPLS, ATM, gigabit routing) and alternative (satellite, underwater networks) technologies; - market: principal economic indicators (average costs and prices); - world-wide maps: backbones, PoPs, hosting/location capacity, MANs." Players' strategies: - financing strategies and principal suppliers' involvement; - operators' growth and service development strategies. Profiles of the world's top 40 operators: - key data: directors, history, financial results, deployment strategy; - backbone architecture, leading suppliers, PoPs, points of peering, offer segmentation. |
