Carrier Ethernet is a major new market segment with strong revenue growth forecast and many developments and choices yet to be made in terms of architecture, systems, equipment and technology.
Understand the Carrier Ethernet marketplace, opportunities within it and evolution timescales driven by service provider requirements in one comprehensive strategic report.
Key Coverage
- Evaluate and quantify the opportunities and threats emerging with Carrier Ethernet
- Understand the key market drivers and the main strategy options
- Identify key players, potential partners and identify current and evolving competitive positions in the value chain
- Understand the Carrier Ethernet marketplace, opportunities within it and evolution timescales driven by service provider requirements
- Benefit from unbiased analysis and data free from industry hype and understand the drivers and inhibitors on Carrier Ethernet
- Utilise clear, reliable business intelligence to support recommendations to clients
Market Data
- A definitive perspective on the emerging Carrier Ethernet network market
- Detailed Carrier Ethernet evolution forecasts 2007-2012
- Quantify the potential revenues in different technology segments
- In-depth discussion of network evolution and solution integration trends
- Comprehensive vendor profiles
- Key case studies of indicative carriers
- Track the latest developments in market segmentation and vendor positioning
Forecasts
- Overview of global revenues
- Baseline view on network equipment market
- Segmentation by equipment type: OTN-WDM, NG-SDH/SONET, Ethernet, CESR, IP/MPLS
- Regional variance: drivers, differences (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific)
Key issues addressed
- What are the key revenue opportunities in the Carrier Ethernet network market?
- How will Carrier Ethernet fit in the broader packet transport network market?
- What role is played in the access, edge, metro, core and backhaul networks?
- What are the indicative strategies and plans of leading carriers?
- What are the strategies, plans and solutions of significant vendors?
- How do the strategies and solutions of significant vendors compare?
- How will Carrier Ethernet evolve to a mainstream network infrastructure?
- Where do the biggest opportunities for technology vendors, system houses and operating carriers lie?
- Where are the best investment opportunities?
Companies Covered
BT, NTL, Orange France Telecom Group, T-Com, Telenor, ADVA, Alcatel-Lucent, Atrica, Ciena, Cisco, ECI, Ericsson, Extreme, Gridpoint, InfoVista, Lightstorm, Meriton, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, Operax, Overture, Soapstone, Tellabs, TPACK, World-Wide Packets
Who should read this report
Incumbent, alternate and mobile carriers, network operators and service providers
- Understand the opportunities, challenges, architectures, solutions and realistic timelines of the Carrier Ethernet network market
- Help evaluate the wider strategic impact in the context of NGN transformation
- Identify the strategies, business models, solution options and technologies to maximise flexibility and minimise costs
- Assess the technologies enabling Carrier Ethernet and the suppliers providing them
- Analyse partnership opportunities with equipment suppliers and device vendors
Network systems, device, semiconductor and control/management software vendors
- Understand the Carrier Ethernet marketplace, opportunities within it and evolution timescales driven by service provider requirements
- Identify key players, potential partners and identify current and evolving competitive positions in the value chain
- Monitor the displacement between different network technologies
- Assess operator and service provider demand
- Understand competitors' positioning and product differentiation
Consultants, analysts, regulators, investment houses and venture capitalists
- Benefit from unbiased analysis and data free from industry hype and understand the drivers and inhibitors on Carrier Ethernet
- Base future investments and business decisions on unbiased market study and primary data
- Ascertain the impact of Carrier Ethernet on the regulatory environment
- Utilise clear, reliable business intelligence to support recommendations to clients
- Provide clients with clear business intelligence, case studies and vendor profiles to support recommendations and investment.
