Abstract
“Since the advent of on-demand bandwidth at Ethernet speeds,
organisations expect high-speed access that is flexible, in terms of bandwidth
increments and quick deployments.” Margaret Hopkins, Analysys
Mason Associate
Product overview
Business data services continue to represent an extremely competitive area of
telecoms service provision, comprising 24% of the fixed telecoms market in
Western Europe. Bandwidth requirements continue to increase, while budgets are
static or declining. IP-MPLS VPNs have become standard for business data
networks, usually with several classes of service, and using Ethernet access
connections to provide flexible, high-bandwidth transport. Obtaining Ethernet
access to connect sites that do not justify the cost of fibre is a problem for
service providers, and is driving the roll-out of Ethernet over copper. As FR
and ATM become obsolete, carriers are keen to switch off their networks, but
demand is likely to continue for some time for specialist applications.
The 2500-word report accompanying the forecasts provides insight into customer
expectations and marketplace trends, based on interviews with end users, user
groups, vendors and service providers. The Excel forecasts give detailed
estimates of spend by service type and access technology for seven countries:
France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK, as well as
high-level forecasts for Western Europe as a whole.
Business data services in Europe: market drivers and forecasts 2008 - 2013 answers your key questions:
- Will demand for business data products persist in a slower-growing economy?
- What do customers really want from business data services?
- Which customers want Layer 2 Ethernet VPNs?
- How long will it be before FR and ATM networks can be switched off?
- How can customers be influenced to purchase by SLA, rather than by
specific technology?
- What new features do customers want from WAN service offerings?
Who should read this report
- Incumbent telecoms operators that are seeking to defend substantial
revenue from business data services
- Data network operators for which business data services are central
to business
- ISPs that are buying these services for backhaul, as well as
selling them to SMEs
- Unbundlers, cable operators and fibre-in-the-loop operators that
can target businesses to boost returns from residential networks
- Vendors supplying equipment to these operators
- Systems integrators that are procuring business data services for
their customers as part of managed service contracts
- Virtual network operators that are creating managed networks for
their customers by reselling capacity
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