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For vendors and investors, Expert consults on telecommunications business opportunities, markets, competition, and products. He interviews recent and prospective purchasers to determine demand drivers and market segment requirements. His strategy studies enable him to provide strategy to gain competitive advantage; advice concerning market entry and prospects for success; projections of likely customer response to new products or services launched; guidance for product or service design (features and pricing); and guidance on strategic partners.



Expert consults on the internet, web hosting, ecommerce, cellular, paging, voice mail, wireless data communications, network management systems, packet networks, AIN, POS/OLTP, multimedia, video-conferencing, high speed switched data services, switched digital services, T1 networks, SMDSs, frame relay, ATM, VSATs, LANs, wireless LANs, and ISDN.

Expert has given presentations on topics such as network management, telecommunications technology and management, and the use of voice response.



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His research forecasted the Consumer ISP market including revenues and accounts for 2006 to 2010. We interviewed key vendors (e.g., Verizon, BellSouth, and Earthlink) and identified the forces impacting the transition of the consumer market to mostly broadband.He researched real-time enterprise communications software products for applications such as voice, data, video, email, instant messaging and related firewalls load balancing, and security.He researched a leading cable company’s telecommunications offerings to businesses including progress, key technology, and future directions. This report described how the cable industry is positioning itself to support enterprises with national footprints for voice, data, and video services and to offer advantages over traditional carriers.He researched IP VPN deployment for an international network. A well-known networking technology vendor had a positive experience with outsourcing its worldwide data network to an IP VPN supplier. The benefits achieved included: one management interface; provider incentives to deliver customer-set SLAs for different network services; partial network resiliency against outages; and easier management of adding and removing network locations in a network with numerous local ISPs.He resrearched a major Hospital that deployed VOIP. The hospital had a good initial experience with its hosted-VOIP solution from Level 3 Communications (Level 3) using Cisco IP telephones. The hosted-VOIP solution offered a uniform dial plan, cost savings, easier management and attractive value-added features for multi-location organizations seeking to centralize some services and thereby reduce the cost of functions formerly performed at local offices.