IDC's Korea Networks and Communications service offers strategic advice to help telecommunications carriers, systems integrators, and network equipment vendors to better understand the key trends that are instrumental in shaping the Korea telecom services and equipment markets. This service, in addition, assesses the emerging market opportunities and challenges, and provides insight into four special areas or themes, including NGN technology, Essential Data Network Technology, Converged Communication Technology, and Emerging Communication Technology. This intelligence service delivers not only a broad range of coverage of these current issues with useful insight but also provides the latest technology analysis.

This service covers the following segments of the *ENTER MARKET* market:

• Wireless markets and technologies
• Data network equipment
• Unified communications
• NGN products and services
• Converged services
• Application networking

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Basic: Market Overview Overall telecommunication services and equipment market
• Theme I: NGN Technology Carriers NGN & IMS strategies, IP telephony service & equipment, Broadband market focusing FTTH and Docsis 3.0
• Theme II: Essential Data Network Technology Router and switch, Wireless LAN and mesh network, Optical network
• Theme III: Converged Communication Technology Wibro & Wireless LAN, HSDPA & HSUPA service, Converged Service (TPS, IPTV, FMC etc)
• Theme IV: Emerging Communication Technology Unified communications, Application networking, RFID

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What is the market size and forecast for the overall Korea communication services and equipment market?
2. How are carriers deploying IMS? What IMS applications are being developed?
3. What is the current status of unified communication adoption in Korea?
4. Has Wibro service been successfully commercialized in the Korean market? How fast will the HSDPA service take over the 3G market in Korea?

IDC's Korea Networks and Communications service examines how service providers and equipment suppliers are positioning themselves to compete in the Korea telecommunications market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers, including:

Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Hanaro Telecom, Juniper, LG Dacom, LG-Nortel, Samsung Networks, SK Telecom, KT, KTF, and others.

Throughout the year, this service will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. Potential studies include:

This study provides a detailed five-year forecast of the overall Korea telecom services and equipment market including fixed-line and mobile sectors.

This study provides detailed analysis of the Korea unified communications market, including information on market size, growth, and segmentation.

This report discusses the overall view of the VoIP market and presents IDC's opinions about the market trends.

This study focuses on the fast growing broadband access services including FTTH and Docsis 3.0 based services in Korea.

This study examines the application networking market including Layer 4-7 switch and WAN optimization. This study provides market size and strategies of the leading vendors.

This study provides detailed analysis of wireless service and equipment including Wibro and wireless LAN with special emphasis on the impact of Wibro service launch as compared to wireless LAN and HSDPA service.

This study provides the market size of the converged communication services in Korea including IP TV and TPS.

* Minimum Package of IDC's Korea Networks and Communications should include a "basic" theme and 2 "selective" themes.

Note: In case of emerging technology theme, delivery contents may be changed.

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• Special client discount pricing on purchases of research from other services
• Complimentary admission to IDC's annual Directions conference, where you'll hear our latest forecasts and network with IDC analysts and other industry professionals
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