Strategic Research Initiative
An Alternative Future of Broadband: Open and Neutral?
A Proposed Client-driven Market Assessment and Research Report
Why participate in the research?
- To identify opportunities for investment and innovation.
- To gain a strategic advantage in the future of broadband.
- To gain a unique and simplified perspective on the Broadband Ecosystem.
- For early insights in to an alternative future of broadband.
- To understand the many ways to monetize fiber investments.
- To understand how future broadband business, technical and financial architectures intertwine.
- To understand the actions of AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Spectrum, T-Mobile/Sprint.
- To understand the biggest threat to U.S. Broadband Incumbents.
- To gain clarity from the hype around 5G, Cloud, Edge, IoT, Smart City, Municipal Broadband, etc.
- To understand the relationships amongst U.S. Telco, Cable and Mobile operators and their relationships with Cloud/Web Companies.
- To understand how the future of broadband fuels the 4th Industrial Revolution.
- To understand where Brand battles are waging and build strategies for success.
- For a unique and simplified perspective of the entire broadband ecosystem, major trends and expected future scenarios.
Questions Answered
- What is broadband and why should we care?
- Who will drive the U.S. Future of Broadband? Cable, Telco, Mobile Incumbents? Municipalities? Private Equity?
- Who’s winning: Cable, Telco or Mobile? Amazon?
- Is there a new and replicate-able broadband model that private equity firms will race to implement?
- Why are Facebook and Google dependent on the growth of broadband? What are they doing about it?
- Why did GoogleFiber struggle? What can we learn?
- Does the Future Broadband Network minimize the role of the Public Internet?
- Is Municipal Broadband a Wave or a Ripple?
- Are there unique architectural options for a Municipal Broadband network?
- How do Net Neutrality and Privacy apply to broadband?
- Is there a ‘Gigabit Land-grab’ underway?
- Is ‘Open Access’ the answer? Or part of the answer?
- What are the cash flow and branding issues of open and neutral communications?
- What does the future broadband network look like?
- Where’s the “Edge” in the future broadband network?
- Are there alternative broadband architectures that can drive local, regional and national economies?
- How do residential and commercial multi-dwelling buildings (MDU) participate in the new broadband network?
- Who’s going to win the home? The Broadband Provider or the Cloud Company?
- What’s the relationship between Fiber, 5G, Cable and Fixed Wireless?
- What about rural broadband? Not broken, Never fixed?
- What role does CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center) have?
- What role does SD-Access have? SD-WAN?
- What role does 5G, Wi-Fi, CBRS have?
- What role does Fixed Wireless Access have? Niche or Common?
- Where does the RAN fit in to the new broadband network?
- What’s the role of Open Source Software?
- What are the 10 challenges to broadband nirvana?
Who should participate in this research?
- Individuals and organizations who’s future depends modern broadband.
- Cable Operators, ILECs, Mobile Network Operators, Middle-mile providers, Co-Lo providers, data center companies, fixed- wireless operators, Neutral host providers.
- Cloud Companies, Edge Companies, SaaS providers who need high speed secure access to customers.
- Vendors in broadband, fiber, 5G, LTE, CBRS, Wi-Fi, Cable, CPE, Data Center, Cloud, IoT, Smart City.
- Private Equity Investors who are interested in long term, repeatable infrastructure-like opportunities.
- City Leaders seeking an understanding of broadband and how to transform their communities
- Data Center and Real Estate Owners (Residential and Commercial)
- Anyone looking to establish a leadership position in the future of broadband.
Uses of Research
- Marketing/Product Marketing:
- For promotion purposes
- Support your vision and product roadmap with independent analysis
- Co-branded lead generation reports, ebooks, whitepapers, etc.
- Webinars, internal and external presentations,
- Thought leadership and Messaging for each market: Large Incumbent, ILEC, Cable, Mobile, Municipal and Alternative.
- Create compelling visions and solution roadmaps for each market segment.
- Drive outbound and inbound (e.g Field Enablement/Sales Training) Materials
- Use cases and business cases for Slicing, FANS, CORD, SD Access, xPON, etc.
- Plus 5G, CRAN, FWA, CBRS etc., etc.
- Plus Smart City, IoT, Data Center, Edge etc., etc.
- Addressing CXO business drivers.
- Use cases and business cases for Slicing, FANS, CORD, SD Access, xPON, etc.
- A unified story and messaging framework for all access technologies:
- Fixed and Wireless
- Telco, Cable, Mobile, Satellite, WISP, Municipal and Alternative.
- A unified story and messaging framework across access and cloud/edge.
- To gain an insightful view of the U.S. Service Provider Market.
- U.S. Telco v. Cable v. Mobile
- U.S. Broadband Provider (Telco v Cable v Mobile) v. CloudCo (FAANGS, etal.)
- An understanding of why the Big Incumbents (Telco/Cable/Mobile) are doing what they seem to be doing.
- Strategic Uses of the term “5G”. What the MNO’s have been using 5G for the last decade and what they intend for the future.
- What the Web/CloudCo’s are doing and why?
- Does Cloud vs. SP = Dems vs. Reps?
- What cities are doing and why?
- What are the 10 barriers to cities and to an alternative broadband future in the U.S.?
- How do you overcome each of them?
- What’s the future of Cell Tower REITs in the future of broadband?
- For promotion purposes
- CTO, R&D, Engineering/Product Management
- Drive R&D and technology investments, technology strategies and partnerships
- Understand customers’ business drivers to map and drive technical architectures and investments.
- Drive/Justify product/solution roadmaps
- Strategy Teams
- Early mover advantage in the Future of Broadband
- Broadband Ecosystem Development
- Understand U.S. big incumbents’ strategic drivers
- Drive acquisition strategy
- Blindside protection
- Private Equity Investors
- Early knowledge and first move advantage in to an emerging $100+ billion investment opportunity.
- Create an investment model that can be replicated across the country and elsewhere.
- Understand the industry forces and dynamics of the broadband network and how they impact other investments.
- Learn how to structure broadband infrastructure investments for long term success.
- Municipal Leaders
- Gain an understanding of what “broadband” is: Scope, Issues and Risk, value to community, architectural options. Etc.
- A plan to transform your community with the Future of Broadband.