In this year's look forward, Stratecast provides several views voiced by our analyst teams of likely developments in the multiple dimensions of the communications marketplace, including those tied to: Big Data, business services, cloud, connected home, consumer services, the operations & monetization functions, and secure networking. These prognostications are what form this, our 2016 Predictions report. The complex interactions between what customers want, what technology can presently support, what business is willing to deliver, and what regulation will allow, all combine to make the prediction process more of an art than a science.