Ethernet First Mile Solutions Over Bonded Copper Show Enormous Growth in New Customer Survey

Infonetics: ; New EFM Standard Delivers Scalable Ethernet Bandwidth over Existing Copper Loops. Shows continued expansion and market growth potential for Ethernet Over Copper in the First Mile, as service providers offer an increasing array of bandwidth-intensive services and applications. The BLC market leader and the first company dedicated to building total-delivery solutions for voice, data and content services worldwide. The worldwide total Ethernet Access Device segment quadrupled between 2004 and 2005, and is forecast to jump from $91 million in revenues to nearly $682 million by 2009.

Ethernet services are expected to generate more than $5 billion in U.S. service revenues by 2009. With IP-based voice, video and network-based content services providing new revenue opportunities for service providers, the ability to offer Ethernet-based access services that can accommodate innovative, high-value application services is critical to income growth.

Despite an ever-growing need for bandwidth, only 11.7% of commercial buildings in the U.S. with 20 or more employees have access to fiber, . With Zhone's extended rate Ethernet over Copper solutions, service providers can significantly reduce the need for trenching and installing expensive fiber connections while capitalizing on the latest 5.7 Mbps per pair capabilities.

Not only is Ethernet increasingly at the core of nearly every business network - no matter the size - it is also the foundation transport technology for higher layer application services (voice, video, and more) based on TCP/IP. Small and medium-sized businesses as well as corporate branch offices are seeking a way to make the WAN like their LAN and extend their Ethernet (and IP-based applications) infrastructure to connect to customers, business partners and the corporate home office.

The recognized leader in the rapidly growing Ethernet over Copper market, Zhone Technologies just announced its new EtherXtend(TM) solution, which delivers cost-effective, high-bandwidth Ethernet services over existing copper loops throughout a carriers' serving area. Zhone's EtherXtend offers the broadest range of scalable EFM solutions in the industry, with support for T1, E1 or DSL connections, providing up to 5.7 Mbps per copper pair. By combining multiple copper pairs using Zhone's copper bonding technology, carriers can deliver data rates over 45 Mbps over existing copper loops. Zhone was the first vendor to deliver products in the fast-growing bonded Ethernet over copper market, and Zhone still leads that market today.

Ethernet Over Copper in the First Mile Publ 20060424