IDC's Network Life-Cycle Services provides strategic customer insights, competitive market share analysis, vendor profiles, and in-depth market forecasts for both the enterprise and service provider markets for consulting, integration, and support services. Leveraging ongoing interactions with customers, vendors, systems integrators, channel partners, and service providers, this program analyzes professional services opportunities around wireline and wireless network convergence, unified communications, datacenter networking, and enterprise mobility strategies on a worldwide and regional basis. For the service provider segment in particular, this program tracks carrier managed services and hosting contracts, market growth drivers, regional demand differences, and key alliances and partnerships.

• Worldwide enterprise network consulting and integration
• Worldwide service provider network managed services
• Worldwide unified communications professional services
• Worldwide virtualization and cloud migration services
• IPv6 migration and enablement services
• Enterprise mobility demand and vendor selection criteria
• Network service strategies for content and application enablement in the service provider market
• Datacenter network transformation
• OSS/BSS and network transformation services
• NEP strategies for moving up the services value chain in the telecom market

• Worldwide Enterprise Network Consulting and Integration Services Forecast and Analysis
• Worldwide Telecom Network Consulting and Integration Services Forecast and Analysis
• Worldwide Cloud Network Consulting and Integration Services Forecast and Analysis
• Worldwide Datacenter Network Services Forecast and Analysis
• Worldwide Service Provider Managed Services Forecast
• Worldwide Unified Communications and Collaboration Network Consulting and Integration Services Forecast and Analysis
• Carrier Infrastructure Outsourcing Forecast and Analysis

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

1. What impact will government broadband initiatives have on services around fiber deployment?
2. What impact will network sharing have on network services in the telecom market?
3. How must channel partners differentiate their services?
4. Which vendors may be best positioned to lead the mobile enterprise professional services market?
5. 5.How will datacenter virtualization and cloud adoption impact demand for network support and professional services?
6. 6. How will video impact enterprise and service provider networks?

IDC's Network Life-Cycle Services research examines how network support and integration service providers are positioning themselves to compete in the networking services market. This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of providers in the network support and integration services market. Companies covered include:

Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Aruba, AT&T, Atos Origin, Avaya, Bharti Airtel, BT Global Services, Capgemini, Ciena, Cisco, CSC, Dimension Data, ECI Telecom, Enterasys Networks, Ericsson, Extreme Networks, F5, Fujitsu Network Comms, General Dynamics, HP, Huawei, IBM, Infosys, Intel, Juniper, KPN, Level 3, Lockheed, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, NEC, Nokia, Northrop Grumman, Orange Business Services, Polycom, Qwest, Reliance, RIM, Riverbed, SAIC, SAP, Siemens, SingTel, Sprint, Swisscom, Tata Consultancy Services, Telecom NZ, Tellabs, Telstra, T-Systems, Unisys, VeriSign, Verizon, Vodafone, Wipro, and ZTE.

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