BANGALORE, INDA: The service delivery platform (SDP) services and software market is forecast by Infonetics Research to grow to $4.6 billion in 2014.

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Shira Levine, directing analyst for next gen OSS and policy at Infonetics Research, said: "Mobile operators are feeling the pressure to roll out their app stores over the next 12 months, and they’re increasingly looking at service delivery platforms to manage the complexity associated with these third-party content ecosystems."

SDP purchases are increasingly being made on a global basis, with parent companies making decisions on SDP investments for its subsidiaries and in some cases, such as Telefonica, looking to build centralized SDPs that cover multiple countries.

"This is an opportunity for SDP suppliers, particularly those SDP services companies that are able to provide turnkey solutions on a hosted basis to help operators launch their app stores quickly and with minimal risk," explains Levine.

Oracle remains the worldwide revenue leader in the SDP software segment, and Ericsson maintains its leadership in the SDP services segment.

Huawei’s significant contract win at Telefonica and other smaller deals raised its position in the SDP market considerably in 2009.