Table Of contents
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 CURRENT APPLICATION OF NGN SOLUTIONS IN JAPAN
1.2 JAPAN'S NGN REQUISITES
2 KEY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
2.1 NGN TO INCREASE DEMANDS FOR SOPHISTICATED SERVICES, PRODUCTS
2.1.1 MARKET PLAYERS, GOVERNMENT HELP REALIZE NGN
2.1.2 POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR NGN SOLUTIONS
2.1.3 MARKET CHALLENGES FOR NGN SOLUTIONS
2.2 TOWARDS LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) 3GPP
2.3 JAPANESE OPERATORS SWITCH TO 3G NETWORKS
2.3.1 JAPAN TO SEE GROWTH IN LTE
2.3.2 LTE FOR EFFICIENT NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS
2.4 SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORKS (SON) TECHNOLOGY CONFIGURATION, MANAGEMENT
2.4.1 POSITIVE IMPACT OF SON
2.4.2 SON FOR OPTIMUM MANAGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION
2.4.3 POSITIVE IMPACT OF SON
2.5 VOICE-OVER-IP (VOIP) APPLICATION, MARKET IN JAPAN
2.5.1 CURRENT DEMANDS, DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FFTH MARKET
2.5.2 VOIP GAINING POPULARITY
2.5.3 POSITIVE IMPACT OF VOIP
2.6 CLOUD APPLICATIONS FOR PERSONAL, BUSINESS AND NETWORK SOLUTIONS
2.6.1 DOCOMO'S CLOUD-BASED TRANSLATOR PHONE
3 KEY NGN CHELLENGES AND ISSUES
3.1 FASTER REPLACEMENT RATE OF MOBILE MARKET MODELS
3.1.1 CURRENT MOBILE MARKET DEMANDS
3.1.2 POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR MOBILE MARKET TO SUSTAIN
3.1.3 FUTURE MOBILE MARKET TO REFLECT NGN STANDARDS
3.2 EVOLVING NGN COMPETITION LANDSCAPE IN JAPAN
3.2.1 NTT DOCOMO: MARKET EXPANSION THRU SMART
3.2.2 AU BY KDDI: IMPROVING ON IS FLAT, SERVICE CONTENT
3.3 INCREASING DEMANDS FOR SMARTPHONES
3.4 TRAFFIC GROWTH VOLUME MANAGEMENT
3.4.1 ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY THROUGH FEMTOCELLS
3.4.2 ACHIEVING QOS IN NGN
4 NGN PROSPECTS
4.1 TOWARDS JAPAN'S NWGN "NEW GENERATION NETWORK"
4.2 CONVERGED FUTURE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE (CFNA)
4.3 NETWORKS TO IMPROVE SOCIAL SERVICES, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
List Of Tables
Table 1 Mobile Gadget Launches in Japan 2011-2012
Table 2 Femtocell Commercial Deployments in Japan
List Of Figures
Figure 1 Next Generation Networks Solutions in Japan 2012
Figure 2 Japan Internet Traffic Demands Gbps 2007-2017
Figure 3 Japan Broadband Subscriptions 2007-2017
Figure 4 Japan User Growth in LTE 2008-2017
Figure 5 LTE Migration Phases 2005-2012
Figure 6 Projected Smartphone Users Share in Japan 2017
Figure 7 Broadband Subscribers by type of line 2007-2017
Figure 8 Japan FTTH Market Revenue Share 2012
Figure 9 Cloud for Personal, Business and Network Applications
Figure 10 Percentages of Mobile Phone Users in Japan 2002-2012
Figure 11 Japan Mobile Market Revenue Share 2012
Figure 12 Percentages of Internet Mobile Users in Japan 2013-2017
Figure 13 Evolution of Market Competition among Service Providers in Japan
Figure 14 NTT DoCoMo Competition Strategies 2012
Figure 15 KDDI Content/Media Business Sales 2007-2012
Figure 16 Smartphone Platforms Share in Japan 2012
Figure 17 Process of BCMCS provided by 1xEV-DO
Figure 18 Akari NWGN Research and Development 2006-2015
Figure 19 Converged Future Network Architecture
Figure 20 KDDI Congestion Control System