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Tuesday 2 December 2014

Global Nanosilver Inks Market - Industry Analysis, Trends and Forecast 2014 – 2020

Nanosilver inks are printing materials, ideal for printing electronic devices on papers or plastics. Nanosilver ink products are ideal for low viscosity printing, flexographic, a feature of gravure, and inkjet printing. These products are specifically engineered for high volume printing techniques such as gravure, offset, and flexographic and are gaining interest to satisfy the demand of high throughput processes, even though they are not in competition with inkjet inks in terms of commercialization and development. As inkjet processing is suitable for high-resolution printing, it is considered as the primary area of focus for a large number of nanosilver ink products available in the industry. Even though the price of printable nanosilver products is comparatively high in context to per weight unit bases, they still deliver a similar level of conductivity when compared with conventional materials, but with less number of materials. In addition, owing to its small size, nanosilver products eases up lower temperature sintering and intrinsically higher resolutions in printed patterns. Although nanosilver inks have been under development, these claims have however, not increased the consumption of printed nanosilver products on a large scale.
Large scale companies such as Agfa-Gevaert N.V. are focusing towards developing innovative nanosilver products in the printing industry. The company recently developed a nanosilver ink SI-P1000x having a superior performance which would allow the users implement miniaturization and certain key applications as well as reduce the cost of the materials used.
In addition to its outperformance with silver flake inks, SI-P1000x has been considered as an effective alternative for indium tin oxide (ITO) in display applications. The product would be available in bulk orders later this year. With emerging technologies and enhancement of alternatives, the market for nanosilver inks is becoming increasingly competitive with mature incumbents. Furthermore, fluctuating base metal prices have led to various manufacturers focus towards developing the appropriate technology and implement suitable market strategies in order to benefit from the changing market landscape. High price of nanosilver products have prevented its use in certain traditional electronic applications, and also haven’t gained any support even during the rapid increase of prices. As most of these modern electronic applications haven’t gained any momentum yet, the industry for nanoslver inks and pastes has to shift its focus towards existing products where nanosilver products have immediate and apparent competitive edge.
Large scale companies such as Bayer MaterialScience have developed nanosilver ink products for inkjet printing applications. Albeit the nanosilver technology plays a prominent role in the inkjet printing industry, such trends might not be seen for other printing techniques. In addition, conventional silver materials are being manufactured into inks which are compatible with printing techniques, such as flexographic and gravure, which lowers the importance of nanosilver technology in the printing industry. Even though it may take quite some time to bring down the prices of smaller nanosilver ink and pastes products as compared to huge quantities of conventional silver inks and pastes, the industry for nanosilver is expected to gain momentum over the next few years. Demand for nanosilver inks is also expected to rise as printing precision is gaining importance due to miniaturization of electronic products across certain applications. Nanosilver ink products possess the capability to produce finer, more reliable line widths as compared to conventional silver alternatives.
Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Bayer MaterialScience, Methode Electronics, Inc. are some of the manufacturers present in the nanosilver inks industry.


Sunday 30 November 2014

Telecom Expense Management Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 – 2020

Telecom expense management is a solution whereby business organizations can effectively manage their telecom networks. Such a solution encompasses people, technologies and processes that are needed to govern the network. With the help of telecom expense management, it is possible to maintain an accurate inventory of all the network elements in an organization including server, wiring panels, laptops, cell phones and others. Also, using telecom expense management solutions it is possible to estimate future network costs by building the telecom budget in advance. Another advantage of the telecom expense management is that it enables indentifying the issues in the security infrastructure, thereby optimizing the existing network infrastructure.
The telecom expense management is segmented on the basis of solutions into usage management, sourcing management, reporting and business management, ordering and provisioning management, invoice and contract management, inventory management and dispute management among others. On the basis of service delivery modes, the telecom expense management is segmented into complete outsourcing delivery mode, managed services delivery mode, licensed software and hosted services. The telecom expense management market is segmented on the basis of end-users into SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) and Large Business organizations. On the basis of verticals, the telecom expense management market is segmented into manufacturing, healthcare, retail, BFSI (Banking Financial Services and Insurance), automotive, transportation and logistics, and media and entertainment among others. The telecom expense management market is segmented on the basis of regions into North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Rest of the World (RoW).
The increasing adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is one of the major factors fuelling the growth of telecom expense management market. The employees today are taking the advantage of mobile phones and other portable devices in keeping themselves connected with the corporate network. This is also encouraged by business organizations as it enables employees to carry out work related tasks at their convenient locations thereby enhancing productivity and increase revenues. Such Business Organizations constantly look for solutions to address the issues associated with BYOD such as data security, plans and usages of individual BYOD device, application control and other business related policies. Telecom expense management solutions cost-effectively addresses changes in BYOD inventory such as monitoring individual device costs and their usage plans. It also helps in controlling application policies to avoid any illegal applications that affect the data security thereby contributing to the growth of the market. Another factor fuelling the growth of telecom expense management is increase in the demand for telecom expense management solutions in business organizations. Most of the business organizations are taking initiatives in reducing costs pertaining to communication networks. Telecom expense management enables business organizations to collect and analyze information by providing visibility in the expenses involved. It also enables organizations in effectively managing change processes related to inventory and service level on daily basis.
However, the interoperability issues with the telecom expense management solutions are adversely affecting the growth of this market. As the enterprises are becoming sophisticated in carrying out their operations using BYOD devices, telecom expense management solution efficiencies are affected in delivering high value functionality and interoperability with the Human Resource (HR) information systems and ERP. Such limitations restrict their use thereby restraining their growth potential.
Some of the major players in the market are Dimension Data Holdings, Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited, Valicom, Econom Group, Computer Sciences Corporation, CGI Group Inc., Accenture Plc., Tangoe Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation.



Service Provider Edge Router Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 – 2020

A router is a network device used to forward packets from one network to another. These routers are configured by entering values to the internal routing tables, based on which the router forwards the packets to the desired destination. Factors that determine the line on which the packets will be forwarded are line cost, congestion and traffic load. The service provider edge routers are configured to forwards packets received from one service provider to the other. These routers are capable of handling wide range of protocols such as Border Gateway Protocols (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). These routers ensure that the service provider’s network is connected with internet, external network or a wide area network.
In order to provide connectivity between networks, the service provider edge router primarily need to follow Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is basically an exterior gateway protocol which is intended to exchange routing information between different autonomous systems on the internet network. BGP enables the router to decide the communication path based on the rules set-up by the network administrator and network policies. BGP is sometimes used for routing packets within an autonomous system. Such type of protocol is termed as Interior Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP). Conversely, for internet applications this protocol is referred as Exterior Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP).
Primarily, the service provider edge router deploys an External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP) that is widely employed over the Internet to ensure connectivity with the networks in the remote sites. The prime function of a service provider edge router is to provide communication between service provider’s network and the autonomous systems, and networks of other service providers.
The market for service provider edge router is driven by the rising number of internet subscription across the globe. Moreover, the major share of demand for internet subscription is from emerging countries of Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Thus, the demand for expansion of network increases to provide highly available connectivity, which results in demand for edge routers in the network. In addition, the on-going deployment of high speed LTE networks across North America and Europe is further boosting the growth of the service provider edge router market.
Currently, the major challenge with the service providers is to balance video services, wireless services and cloud services. Owing to this challenge, the companies are offering edge routers that are capable of aggregating multiple IP networks into a single IP edge to provide video services, wireless services and cloud services. This provides tremendous growth opportunities for the existing players such Cisco Systems, Inc. and Juniper Networks, Inc. Moreover, the upcoming trend of transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a potential opportunity for the new players to enter into the market.
The service provider edge router market is highly competitive with players such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent S.A., Juniper Networks, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., and ZTE Corporation dominating market. Cisco Systems, Inc. and juniper Networks, Inc. are the leading edge router providers competing in this market. These companies are continuously upgrading their existing edge routers to gain a competitive edge over other players in the market. However, Players such ZTE Corporation, Huawei technologies Co. Ltd. and other regional players are consistently expanding their business into this market and increasing the competitive rivalry in the market.