BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the
fundamental need for voice communications is a constant,
satisfaction with existing platforms and the ongoing erosion of
traditional TDM models is driving communications service providers
(CSPs) to adopt new voice strategies that address cost structure,
system architecture and service delivery. A Heavy Reading study
commissioned by Alianza and Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT)
finds that 77 percent of CSPs will consider a Cloud for Voice
Platform (CVP) as a solution to the challenges in the voice
communication space within the next three years. The findings are
shared in a new white paper, Migrating Service Provider Voice
Infrastructure to the Cloud.
The online study, conducted in the first half of the year
solicited feedback from CSPs in North, Central and South America ranging from the state of their
voice business, overall satisfaction with current voice platforms,
and network evolution options and plans.
A key conclusion from the study is, while CSPs remain committed
to the delivery of voice services, the limitations of current voice
platforms are challenging their ability to deliver nimble
strategies to meet customer demands. In response to this, the
survey shows, CSPs will embrace cloud solutions for infrastructure
and are receptive to the new CVP solution for voice platform
evolution. The white paper notes, the strong showing for CVP is due
to attributes including, low TCO (total cost of ownership), zero
CapEx requirements, and a more agile service delivery model.
In 2013, Level 3 announced Carrier Cloud Voice Solutions, a
wholesale voice solution as part of a partnership arrangement with
Alianza. The solution combines Level 3's Enhanced Local Service and
Alianza's Cloud Voice Platform for a complete VoIP solution for
service providers to launch voice services or replace aging
networks and legacy wholesale services. This solution addresses
complete service provider requirements for a full suite of VoIP and
Unified Communications services for residential and business
customers.
Key Facts:
- 36 percent of respondents believe their current voice platform
will reach end of life in the next three years
- Adoption of a Cloud Voice Platform ranks among the top three
priorities for voice platform evolution
- For some CSPs, the emerging Cloud Voice Platform model
represents the most sensible approach for addressing their TCO and
platform evolution requirements
- CSPs remain committed to voice services because it enhances
their overall services portfolio: 81 percent of respondents view
voice as driving adoption or growth of other services
Key Quotes:
Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst,
Heavy Reading
After years of deploying traditional voice
network platforms, CSPs are ready to shift to the cloud. By
adopting a cloud voice platform, CSPs can reduce operating costs
and enhance service innovation while delivering a service model
that benefits customers and their evolving voice communications
needs.
Kevin Dundon, Executive Vice
President, Alianza
Heavy Reading's study reveals pain in
today's voice networks. Increasingly communications service
providers are recognizing the benefits of a cloud voice platform
and see how the cloud can provide simplicity and a better business
model to meet the needs of their customers.
Shaun Andrews, Senior Vice
President Voice Services, Level 3, Communications
Voice is a
critical aspect of how we do business. It can also be an expensive
investment, consuming a significant amount of capital and the time
of internal resources to deploy, manage and upgrade. As the study
shows, CSPs have an opportunity to provide a comprehensive
cloud-based voice solution as existing platforms begin to reach
their end of life cycle, enabling customers to focus on growing
their business not voice communications.
Resources:
- Heavy Reading White Paper: Migrating Service Provider Voice
Infrastructure to the Cloud
- Carrier Cloud Voice Brochure
- Carrier Cloud Voice Video
About Heavy Reading
Heavy Reading, the research
division of Light Reading, offers deep analysis of emerging telecom
trends to network operators, technology suppliers and investors.
Its product portfolio includes in-depth reports that address
critical next-generation technology and service issues, market
trackers that focus on the telecom industry's most critical
technology sectors, exclusive worldwide surveys of network operator
decision-makers that identify future purchasing and deployment
plans, and a rich array of custom and consulting services that give
clients the market intelligence needed to compete successfully in
the global telecom industry.
About Alianza
Alianza radically transforms
communications delivery so that service providers thrive with
strong margins, better service, and elegant management. Alianza's
Cloud Voice Platform is a web-scale, turnkey virtualized software
solution that enables cable, mobile, telco and other broadband
providers to customize rapidly, launch and profit from VoIP and UC
services. The power of Alianza's cloud delivers a lower total cost
of ownership and a clear business case for VoIP with a zero-CAPEX,
success-based SaaS model. This new way to deliver voice service
untangles service providers from the restraints of old-school voice
networks and accelerates innovation and growth.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications,
Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500 company that provides local,
national and global communications services to enterprise,
government and carrier customers. Level 3's comprehensive portfolio
of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure
solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area
Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and
cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 500
markets in over 60 countries across a global services platform
anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected
by extensive undersea facilities. For more information, please
visit www.level3.com or get to know us on Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.
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based on management's current expectations or beliefs. These
forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and
are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of
which are outside Level 3's control, which could cause actual
events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the
statements. Important factors that could prevent Level 3 from
achieving its stated goals include, but are not limited to, the
company's ability to: increase revenue from its services to realize
its targets for financial and operating performance; develop and
maintain effective business support systems; manage system and
network failures or disruptions; avert the breach of its network
and computer system security measures; develop new services that
meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; manage the
future expansion or adaptation of its network to remain
competitive; defend intellectual property and proprietary rights;
manage risks associated with continued uncertainty in the global
economy; manage continued or accelerated decreases in market
pricing for communications services; obtain capacity for its
network from other providers and interconnect its network with
other networks on favorable terms; successfully integrate future
acquisitions; effectively manage political, legal, regulatory,
foreign currency and other risks it is exposed to due to its
substantial international operations; mitigate its exposure to
contingent liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of
its debt obligations. Additional information concerning these and
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