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The Carrier Ethernet market
is expected to grow from $1.4 billion in 2007 to nearly $6 billion in 2012,
according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation.
With metro-area Ethernet services now available from virtually all major data
service providers and wide-area Ethernet about to get a shot in the arm from the
dominant carriers, the market is poised to take off.
According
to Insight Research’s market analysis study, “Carrier
Ethernet Services 2007-2012,” the term carrier or public Ethernet refers to
any Layer 2 public network carrier service that extends Ethernet beyond the LAN
and connects to customers through Ethernet interfaces. The carriers are
marketing their Ethernet services under various names: transparent or native
LAN, Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, GigE, metro Ethernet, Ethernet private line (EPL),
Ethernet virtual private line (EVPL), Layer 2 virtual private network (VPN),
Ethernet access, virtual private LAN service (VPLS), as well as a variety of
other names.
Until
recently, “metro Ethernet” was the largest portion of the market as carrier
Ethernet sales were primarily been between points within a metropolitan area.
This is expected to change, however, as major incumbents—particularly AT&T and
Verizon—introduce long-haul Layer 2 VPNs.
“Insight’s research suggests that the many-to-many E-LAN service will be the
fastest growing part of carrier Ethernet because the economic advantages of
Ethernet actually increase exponentially (as opposed to proportionally) in
relation to the number of points connected,” says Robert Rosenberg, president of
Insight Research. “And though we expect to see an accelerating pace of Ethernet
adoption across the board, we are not ready to predict that Ethernet is ready to
‘take over the world.’ Generally speaking, private line and frame relay
customers are not ready to or interested in deserting longstanding services, so
the migration to Ethernet is going to be slow and steady,” Rosenberg concluded.
“Carrier
Ethernet Services 2007-2012” examines carrier Ethernet market spending and
usage patterns by topology (E-line, E-LAN, and access), regional domain (metro,
wide-area, and access), retail/wholesale, and various bandwidth levels.
An
excerpt of this carrier Ethernet services market research report, table of
contents, and ordering information are online
http://www.insight-corp.com/reports/PES07.asp. This 145-page report is
available immediately for $3,995 (hard copy). Electronic (PDF) reports can be
ordered online.
For more
information please contact:
Ms. PJ Conger, Marketing Director
973-541-9600
pj@insight-corp.com
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