Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: September 2009
Product Code: R464-1512Description The carrier Ethernet application segment addresses a wide set of carrier needs that require capabilities available on products that fall within traditional switching and routing, wired and wireline access, and optical networking technology segments. Carrier Ethernet spending is growing solidly and will continue to do so through 2014, driven by the growth in bandwidth requirements in the metro that comes with triple-play and 3G/4G wireless builds, the rollout of E-Line and E-LAN Ethernet services, and the associated need for both highly scalable and low latency solutions. In this report, Ovum investigates network trends, applications, and competition in the carrier Ethernet application segment.
Table of Contents - Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Ovum view
- Key messages
- Carrier Ethernet is not a product segment
- Ethernet becomes the new “network currency”
- Equipment to support carrier Ethernet applications will expand significantly through 2014
- Implications of carrier Ethernet’s rise
- Market segment description
- Carrier Ethernet capabilities cross many segment boundaries
- Market segment analysis
- Major market developments
- Video, broadband data, and wireless applications drive carrier Ethernet market from $7.7 billion in 2008 to $27.8 billion in 2014
- Opportunities to exploit
- Market threats to guard against
- Competitor analysis
- Carrier Ethernet capabilities available across multiple product segments
- Competitor ratings
- Full-service vendors that can build solutions comprising multiple products have an edge
- Full description of market segment
- Carrier Ethernet cuts across many product segments
- Common metrics (table stakes)
- Technology metrics vendors use to pursue differentiation
- Market drivers and inhibitors
- Demand for carrier Ethernet driven by mobile backhaul, business Ethernet, and triple-play applications
- Inhibitors
- Competitive threats and opportunities
- Threats
- Opportunities
- Market trends
- Market is transitioning to IP/optical
- Technology innovation
- Market events
- Select product announcements
- Technology breakthroughs
- Partnerships and acquisitions
- Miscellaneous
- Select public wins and losses
- Operators upgrading infrastructure to support Ethernet services
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Carrier Ethernet product listing
- Table 2: Additional carrier Ethernet vendors by product segment
- Table 3: Competitor ratings
- Table 4: Select deployments over the last three quarters (4Q08-2Q09)
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Products included in Ovum’s carrier Ethernet market segmentation
- Figure 2: Carrier Ethernet forecast by technology, 2006-2014
- Figure 3: Carrier Ethernet spending by region, 2006-2014
- Figure 4: Vendor global carrier Ethernet positioning
- Figure 5: Competitive market segments
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