Abstract
Ethernet, the protocol that is ubiquitous in enterprise local area networks,
is now being offered by service providers as a metro or wide area service.
These publicly available Ethernet services have been among the communications
market' s fastest growing segments, with carriers enjoying revenue growth in
the range of 30 percent annually as enterprises large and small opt for these
new services that are being offered in an array of speeds and reach.
Carrier Ethernet offers the chance to tie customer locations together in what
appear to be virtual LANs that can stretch across a metropolitan area, a
region, the nation, or the world. Carrier Ethernet offers significant
advantages in cost and simplicity and in facilitating convergence- and is
often touted as a replacement for legacy data solutions like private line and
frame relay. This Insight study projects market size, growth, and revenue,
including segmented breakdowns of point-to-point and any-to-any services as
well as by interface levels ranging from 10Mbit/s to the emerging 10Gigabit
standard. This report provides insight into this emerging arena that will
fundamentally shape the communications market of the future.
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