SaConverged services will drive Carrier Ethernet deployments

Visiongain: Carrier Ethernet has gained momentum worldwide and deployments will expand in 2007, particularly as service providers look towards converged services and mobile operators increase their focus on HSDPA.

Revenues from Carrier Ethernet services have already started to replace those that would originally have been commanded by mainstream WAN technologies – a trend that will gain even stronger traction in the medium term, as standards are further refined and services become more commoditised and competitive. Visiongain estimates that Carrier Ethernet will realise revenues in excess of $2 billion by 2009, with revenues relatively evenly distributed across the world’s main regions.

Carrier Ethernet has over the past year seen rapid development from standards bodies, vendors and service providers. Originally a technology that started out for the MAN, it has now become an offering that traverses borders and continents.

Continuous and aggressive technical developments have made Carrier Ethernet even more viable to a larger market space. Although certain challenges present themselves as inhibitors, the benefits have proven their weight and driven the technology to become one of the highest priority services for today’s service providers,.

The strongest drivers will be the ubiquitous nature of Carrier Ethernet to offer converged services; its ability to offer flexible and granular levels of bandwidth increments in shorter re-provisioning times; and its competitive pricing for higher bandwidths that can be used to meet the application needs for end customers.

Carrier Ethernet is no longer a threat to any segment, but an opportunity that must be availed to remain a competitor in the market,.

This report analyses the current status of Carrier Ethernet products, services and players. The report discusses Carrier Ethernet within the wider telecoms landscape, comparing it to competing and complimentary technologies. It identifies and covers main drivers and inhibitors, Carrier Ethernet’s place on the technology map, key applications for various markets, and details the market evolution through 2011. Carrier Ethernet report 2006-2011: Market analysis and forecasts

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