I remember back when Cisco first introduced the concept of an "Experience Provider" as a vision of how legacy service providers could potentially move up the value-chain and thereby become a source of new value -- for all their stakeholders in the marketplace.

When that forward-looking view of their business model evolution failed to materialize, much of the SP market analysis seems to have returned back to physical infrastructure -- building better networks, rather than creating better business opportunities for new growth.

I agree with your assessment; the common view today is somewhat myopic. Therefore, I'm wondering, will any SP dare to pursue a broader business development agenda in 2014?