Due to historical reasons the DS market is highly fragmented and the fast growth of the business lead manufacturers and players to be very concentrated on the business development.
Many DS Software and Hardware platforms have been developed with different technical software and hardware approaches.
On the other hand different players are showing up in the business arena and they are promoting different part of the business: network builders, network operators, content producers and more.
There is the need of hardware and software standardization in term of technological classification, use and specification.
There is the need of inter-operability of networks which would allow content exchange and sharing.
There is a lack of unique market metrics, segmentation by application, to continuously measure the business size and growth.