ET4066 ET5066 Project Management in Telecommunication Services

Videotext (i-mode/minitel) as an architectural innovations for telecommunications services

Platform Innovation Radical Innovation

Packet switching

Wireless telephony

Architectural i-mode (and

Incremental Innovation Innovation videotext)
Consumer electronics

Web applications

Domotics/Home networks as an architectural innovation

Platform Innovation Radical nnovatson

Local area networks

Appliances engineer -
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Dornotics/Home
networks
Archilectufal
Incremental Innovation Innovation
Consumer electronics

Web applications

Innovations types in telecommunications services Platform Innovation

Platform innovations improve the performance of the telecommunication service without

disturbing the industry structure. Because of this, they weaken the relative positions of small
firms due to scarcity of financing as well as technical and managerial talent.
The introduction of digital transmission in the 1970s was a platform innovation.
Frame relay and the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) are platform innovations of packet
switching along the "connection-oriented" paradigm.
Innovations types in telecommunications services Radical Innovation
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The paradigms of telecommunication services are defined by both the technology and the
market context through value chains, one can appreciate that radical innovations are frequently
because they change the way telecommunications problems are understood and resolved.
The introduction of modem in the 1950s was a radical innovation because it allowed the
transmission of digital data among computers over the analog networks.
Another radical innovation is packet switching.

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