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mhhf1ve
1/22/2016 8:19:05 PM User Rank Platinum
In just FIVE years?
I seriously doubt that many ISPs will be rockin Gigabit speeds...?
Fiber deployments are going to take a bit longer than that to really roll out to widespread locations. Sure, a few cities here and there may have it... but.. the MOST revenue? no, sir-ee-bob.
mpouraryan
1/27/2016 10:50:51 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: In just FIVE years?
Not if google has anything to say about it--Bandwith growth is a reality.
For me, though, it is V/R simply because providers have to figure out a way to continue to entice the consumers to be more "interested". What other way than V/R to do it.
mhhf1ve
1/27/2016 11:01:04 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: In just FIVE years?
Goog!e fiber will hardly be deployed in more than a handful of cities in the next five years. And the other ISPs aren't going to really be much better if they even match Google's fiber plans.
mpouraryan
1/27/2016 11:05:28 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: In just FIVE years?
I am aware of the slow progress. But the need for bandwidth will be even more. We're looking at 34 Billion iOT devices so I would humbly suggest that providers have to plan for it-=-and I view AT&T gradual rebuilt and increased bandwith rebuilding going on is trying to pre=empt the rise of Google.
Re: In just FIVE years?
What's more, the increasingly gaping maws of our collective demand for video will continue to suck up more and more and more substantial amounts of bandwidth (ambient video -- of all kinds -- especially, let alone OTT).
But, as mhh points out, more bandwidth is a lot more challenging to roll out than "more cloud." For that reason, my vote went to cloud.
Re: In just FIVE years?
I think it's a matter of Google sitting back, biding its time, and being careful as it dots every i and crosses every t with the communities it works with. Google knows it wants to -- and absolutely can -- take over the world; it's in no hurry. ;)
mhhf1ve
1/27/2016 12:41:10 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: In just FIVE years?
I don't actually think Google wants to be a fiber provider. I'll be very interested to see what kind of reaction Alphabet gets if it ever has to detail its ROI on Google Fiber. It's not easy to be a non-monopoly ISP -- there is a huge upfront investment and then intense competition with incumbents.
Re: In just FIVE years?
@mhh: I suspect most of the things Google does -- including Google Fiber -- are intended (at least for now) as loss leaders. You have to have your thumb in every pie if you want to rule the world someday (which I fully suspect is Google/Alphabet's goal).
mhhf1ve
1/27/2016 11:02:37 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: In just FIVE years?
I don't doubt bandwidth growth, but it's just not coming that fast. Fiber takes time to roll out.
Re: In just FIVE years?
@mhh: Indeed! Just look at how long (and how careful) the city-by-city Google Fiber rollouts have been -- and the difficult time Verizon has been having in Boston!
Data flows uphill -- to the cloud
I selected the cloud option in this poll because -- while, doubtlessly, those other choices will continue to make for substantial revenue streams indeed -- all of those bits of data from industrial IoT, video (OTT and otherwise), VR, and so on have to go somewhere!
mpouraryan
1/27/2016 11:43:00 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Data flows uphill -- to the cloud
Cloud though is being increasingly commodized thanks to Google & Amazon. Wouldn't you all agree that we have to be on the lookout for newer technologies?
mhhf1ve
1/27/2016 12:37:55 PM User Rank Platinum
Unified Communications..
I like how Unified Communications has 0% (right now) -- I think that fad ended a while back and fizzled. Messaging platforms (eg. Slack, Skype, etc) have taken over, and I haven't seen much innovation from the telco side on combining Voice with other functions...?
mhhf1ve
1/27/2016 12:46:02 PM User Rank Platinum
Video OTT
I think Video / OTT is a bit harder to quantify because not every service provider has the same (or will have the same) video / OTT strategy in 5 years. It's incredibly difficult to get into the content space with original programming, but Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/etc are trying to do it. Comcast is deep in it already because it owns a major media property. But other service providers don't.
Re: Video OTT
@mhh: Another area that Google is arguably winning in, with YouTube. They get tons of free "original" content care of their users, the videos are short, and there's a high ad impression to content minute ratio.
clrmoney
2/2/2016 3:11:23 PM User Rank Platinum
virtual income
There are many online income oppportunities and Payment options to receive money from like Paypal,Moneybookers, Payza, etc. and using other mathods of payments trogh these sites to pay for goods and services with credit/debit card like visa/master cards so I think it makes it easier doing things online.
freehe
2/27/2016 3:48:47 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: virtual income
They are several opportunities for video, Cloud and IoT. Companies will have to develop solutions to address bandwidth issues for video. Video can be used for employee and user training saving time, resources and money. Cloud and IoT can streamline and automate proceseses which also saves time, money and resources. All these help to boost revenue streams if implemented properly and provided the company has strong CEO and CIO.
dlr5288
2/28/2016 9:35:44 PM User Rank Platinum
The Cloud
No surprise that the cloud lead this poll.
I did vote for this because I do believe that the cloud will bring in the most revenue in the near future. Just because everyone is switching over to the cloud and it's becoming more and more essential to have the cloud on hand.
Even with the negatives of a tendancy to have a lack of security, the cloud is something that companies need to stay alive and ahead of the game.
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