Driving Trends in Information and Communication Technology ― Markets and Technologies

摘要

This paper presents an analytical study of the development of the information and communication technology (ICT) market from the marketing as well as from a technological point of view. The trends and their impact on the information communication networks and consequently smart networks are discussed. Despite the current global economic disaster in almost every single industry, there are still a lot of business opportunities within the JCT industry, e.g., revenue-generating new features, applications and value-added services, soft-switches, plug-and-play network elements, network security, e- and m-business, micro-payment systems, personalized blue-tooth bandwidth applications and web-based add-ons. Moreover, there are still enormous business chances to adapt, to optimize, and to exploit in the already existing network-infrastructures in Eastern Europe as well as in the Third World.