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Carriers and Ethernet Services, Public Ethernet in Metro and Wide Area Networks, 2011-2016
a market research report
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Ethernet, the world’s primary computer-to-computer
protocol with interfaces on well over a billion computers worldwide, is
now being offered by nearly every US service provider as a metro or wide
area service. These publicly available Ethernet services have been among
the communications market’s fastest growing segments, with carriers
enjoying revenue growth in the range of 25 percent annually as
enterprises large and small opt for these new services offered in an
array of speeds and reach.
Carrier Ethernet services, which was a $3.2 billion market in 2010,
offers the enterprise customer the chance to tie locations together in
what appear to be virtual LANs that can stretch across a metropolitan
area, a region, a nation, or the world. These widely available Ethernet
services offer significant advantages in cost and simplicity and in
facilitating convergence—and are often touted as a replacement for
legacy data solutions like private line and frame relay.
This Insight study projects market size, growth, and revenue, including
segmented breakdowns of point-to-point and anyto- any services as well
as by interface levels ranging from 10 Mbit/s to the emerging 10 Gbit/s
standard. This report provides insight into this emerging arena that
will fundamentally shape the communications market of the future.
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Report Excerpt
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The MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum), the major industry trade and standards group
developing and advocating for enhanced public Ethernet services, promotes
the term “Carrier Ethernet” while INSIGHT Research has adopted the term
"Public Ethernet" rather than "Carrier Ethernet" to contrast our view of the
total market with the MEF classification and what is implied in their
definition.
The MEF classification excludes longstanding 1990s-originated Native and
Transparent LAN (local area network) services lacking QoS (quality of
service) and other required "Carrier Ethernet" features. INSIGHT, on the
other hand, includes such services in our review of the market and in our
market projections since most of the native and transparent LAN services
have long since been upgraded with QoS and other features and thus are a
vital part of the total market picture.
INSIGHT’s use of the term “public Ethernet” refers to any Layer 2 public
network carrier service that extends Ethernet beyond the LAN and connects to
customers across Ethernet interfaces. Public Ethernet may be marketed as
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, VPLS, or a variety of other
names. INSIGHT’s definition does not, however, include routed Layer 3 IP-VPN
services, which also can be described as carrying IP (Internet protocol)
over Ethernet. Our use of the phrase “public Ethernet services” includes
relatively longstanding though upgraded legacy transparent or native LAN
services, whether asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)-based within the network
core or using an Ethernet over fiber (or SONET) architecture. Our definition
also includes newer services from small and large carriers that variously
deliver end-to-end Ethernet directly over optic fiber, encapsulate Ethernet
packets over SONET (synchronous optical network) or transmit it over dense
wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) wavelengths or over multi-protocol
label switching (MPLS).
The US Ethernet market can be segmented and revenue estimates calculated —as
INSIGHT has in this updated report—in various ways.....
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Market Segmentation
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Total US Carrier Ethernet Access Revenues:
by Topology:
E-Line
E-LAN
Access
by Regional Domain
Metro
Wide-Area
Access
by Type of Sale
Retail, Wholesale
by Bandwidth Level
greater than 1Gbit/s (includes 10Gbit/s, 40Gbit/s, and 100Gbit/s)
greater than 100Mbit/s up to and including 1Gbit/s
greater than 10Mbit/s up to and including 100Mbit/s
up to 10Mbit/s
US Carrier Ethernet Total Port Estimates by Throughput
greater than
1Gbit/s (includes 10Gbit/s, 40Gbit/s, and 100Gbit/s)
greater than 100Mbit/s up to and including 1Gbit/s
greater than 10Mbit/s up to and including 100Mbit/s
up to 10Mbit/s
Sample Monthly Pricing for:
In-Metro E-Line and E-LAN Services
Dedicated Internet Access
Average Price Range for E-Line and E-LAN Services
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Table of Contents
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Chapter I
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Ethernet Market Trends
1.2 Ethernet Market Forecast
Chapter II
BACKGROUND & INTRODUCTION
2.1 The Emergence of Public Ethernet
2.1.1 The
Ubiquity of Ethernet
2.2 Ethernet Services: Building Blocks
2.2.1 User
Network Interface
2.2.2
Ethernet Virtual Connection
2.2.3 Service
Throughput Parameters
2.2.4
Performance Quality Parameters
2.2.5
Bandwidth Profile
2.3 Ethernet Topologies: E-line vs. E-LAN
2.3.1 E-Line
2.3.2 E-LAN
2.3.3 Other
Typologies: Dedicated vs. Switched
2.4 The Broader Data Networking Context
2.4.1 Packet
Data Networking
2.4.2
Ethernet and SONET
2.4.3
Resilient Packet Ring
2.5 The Public Ethernet Concept
2.5.1
"Carrier Ethernet" vs. "Public Ethernet"
2.5.2
Ethernet Segments Defined
2.5.2.1 Bandwidth Levels
2.6 The MEF and Carrier Ethernet’s Five
Attributes
2.6.1 Service
Standardization
2.6.2
Scalability
2.6.3 Service
Management
2.6.4
Reliability
2.6.5 Quality
of Service
2.7 Public Ethernet Pricing Fundamentals
2.7.1 Costs
Beyond Service Pricing: The Real Deal
2.8 Examples of Basic Public Ethernet
Applications
2.8.1 LAN
Extension
2.8.2 Layer 2
Virtual Private Network
2.8.3
Dedicated Internet Access (DIA)
2.9 The Case For and Against Public Ethernet
2.9.1
Ethernet’s Drivers
2.9.2
Advantages of Public Ethernet
2.9.3 Service
Adoption Inhibitors
2.10 Evolving Industry Structure/Market Players
2.10.1
Industry Consolidation: The Market Context
2.10.3
Provider Strategies: Incumbent vs. Challenger
2.10.4 Issues
in Partnership and Collaboration
2.11 The Retail Customer Perspective
2.12 The Current Market Context
2.12.1 Public
Ethernet Grows While General Market Declines
2.12.2
Effects of Economic Slowdown
Chapter III
TRENDS & MARKETS
3.1 Intensified Market Focus on
Interoperability
3.1.1 Carrier
Ethernet Exchanges Move Forward, Slowly
3.1.2 Private
E-NNIs Supported by Evolving Standards, Slowly
3.1.3 The
Road Ahead: Collaboration?
3.2 Explosion in Ethernet for Cellular
Backhaul
3.2.1 Data
Roaming: Wireless Game-Changer?
3.2.2
Pseudo-wire as Cell Backhaul Modality
3.2.3 Booming
Broader Wholesale Market
3.3 Hybrid Networking Becoming New High-End
Norm
3.4 Evolution to Switched Ethernet/Multipoint
Topologies
3.5 Ethernet End-Users "Democratize," Though
Still Paced by Top Verticals
3.5.1 Low-End
Customers Build Low-End Ethernet
3.5.2
Ethernet Applications Proliferate
3.5.3 "Cloud"
Computing Cloudy Though Growth Clear
3.6 Bandwidth Growth Pivotal Market Driver
3.6.1
Bandwidth Recap
3.6.2 New
High-Bandwidth Levels Wait
3.7 Performance Monitoring Standards Bolsters
Market, Slowly
3.8 Pricing Stabilizes But Varies Radically
3.8.1 Costs
Beyond Service Pricing: The Real Deal
3.9 The Competitive Outlook
3.9.1 Widened
Availability on Fiber, Copper, and HFC
3.10 Ethernet Access Moves Toward Dominance
3.11 Public Ethernet Expanding In the Long Haul, and Short
3.12 International Growth as North America Catches Up
Chapter IV
SERVICE PROVIDER PROFILES
4.1 AT&T Corporation
4.1.1 Network
Architecture
4.1.2
Services Offered
4.2 Cogent Communications
4.2.1 Network
Architecture
4.2.2
Services Offered
4.3 Cox Cable
4.3.1 Network
4.3.2
Services Offered
4.4 Level 3 Communications, Inc.
4.4.1 Level 3
Background
4.4.2 Global
Crossing- Background
4.4.3 Network
Architecture
4.4.4
Services Offered
4.5 Optimum Lightpath
4.5.1 Network
Architecture
4.5.2
Services Offered
4.6 Reliance GlobalCom
4.6.1 Network
4.6.2
Services Offered
4.7 tw telecom
4.7.1 Network
Architecture
4.7.2
Services Offered
4.8 Verizon Communications
4.8.1 Network
Architecture
4.8.2
Services Offered
Chapter V
MARKET FORECASTS
5.1 Methodology
5.2 Definitions and Forecast Segmentation
5.2.1
Definitions
5.2.2
Segmentation
5.3 Market Forecasts
5.3.1 Total
Market
5.3.2 Market
by Topology
5.3.3 Market
by Regional Domain
5.3.4 Retail
vs. Wholesale
5.3.5 Market
Forecasts By Bandwidth Level
Table of Figures
Chapter I
I-1 Total US Public Ethernet Revenues, 2009-2016
Chapter II
II-1 User Network Interface
II-2 Frame Loss
II-3 E-Line Point-to-Point Service Type
II-4 E-LAN Multipoint-to-Multipoint Service Type
II-5 Typical IP Network
II-6 Managed Packet Network, Virtual Private Line
II-7 Resilient Packet Ring Technology
II-8 LAN Extension Using E-LAN Services
II-9 Illustration of VLAN Tag Support
II-10 Dedicated Internet Access
Chapter IV
IV-1 Level 3’s National Backbone Network
Chapter V
V-1 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Topology
V-2 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Regional Domain
V-3 US Public Ethernet Revenues, Percentages by Regional Domain
V-4 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Retail/Wholesale
V-5 Percentage Revenues by Throughput Level
Table of Tables
Chapter I
I-1 Characteristics of Ethernet Service Varieties
Chapter II
II-1 SONET and Ethernet Defined Transmission Rates
II-2 Characteristics of Ethernet Service Varieties
II-3 Comparative Strengths of Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs
Chapter IV
IV-1 AT&T Ethernet Services
IV-2 tw Telecom’s Ethernet SLAs
Chapter V
V-1 Total US Public Ethernet Revenues
V-2 US Public Ethernet Private Line Service Revenues
V-3 US Public Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service
Revenues
V-4 US Public Ethernet E-LAN Service Revenues
V-5 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Topology
V-6 Metro Ethernet Revenues
V-7 Long-haul Ethernet Revenues
V-8 US Public Ethernet Access Revenues
V-9 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Regional Domain
V-10 US Retail Public Ethernet Revenues
V-11 US Wholesale Public Ethernet Revenues
V-12 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Retail/Wholesale
V-13 US Public Ethernet Revenues > 1 Gbit/s
V-14 US Public Ethernet Revenues >100Mbit/s – 1Gbit/s
V-15 US Public Ethernet Revenues >10Mbit/s – 100Mbit/s
V-16 US Public Ethernet Revenues <=10Mbit/s
V-17 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Bandwidth Level
V-18 US Public Ethernet Total Port Estimates by Throughput
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