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Home > Market Research > Broadband & Fixed > Carriers and Ethernet Services: Public Ethernet in Metro & Wide Area Networks 2009-2014
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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Table of Contents
Chapter I
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Public Ethernet
1.2 Ethernet Gains, Legacy Loses
1.3 Forecast of Public Ethernet Services
1.4 Market Trends
Chapter II
BACKGROUND & INTRODUCTION
2.1 The Emergence of Public Ethernet
2.1.1 The Ubiquity of Ethernet
2.1.1.1 Data over Voice
2.1.1.2 Native LAN: Early Ethernet Services
2.1.1.3 Contemporary Ethernet Service
2.1.2 Public Ethernet Grows While General Market Declines
2.2 Ethernet Services: Conceptual/Technical Building Blocks
2.2.1 User Network Interface
2.2.2 Ethernet Virtual Connection
2.2.3 Service Parameters
2.2.4 Performance Quality Parameters
2.2.4.1 Frame Delay
2.2.4.2 Jitter
2.2.4.3 Frame Loss
2.3 Ethernet Topologies: E-line vs. E-LAN
2.3.1 E-Line
2.3.1.1 Ethernet Access
2.3.2 E-LAN
2.3.3 Other Typologies: Dedicated vs. Switched
2.4 The Data Networking Context
2.4.1 Packet Data Networking
2.4.1.1 Internet Protocol
2.4.1.2 Packet and Virtual Networks
2.4.1.3 IP VPNs
2.4.1.4 MPLS
2.4.2 Ethernet and SONET
2.4.3 Resilient Packet Ring
2.5 How to Look at the Ethernet Market
2.5.1 Ethernet’s Segments Defined
2.5.2 Wholesale Forecast Definitions
2.5.3 Carrier Ethernet vs. Public Ethernet
2.6 The MEF and Carrier Ethernet’s Five Attributes
2.6.1 Service Standardization
2.6.2 Scalability
2.6.3 Service Management
2.6.4 Reliability
2.6.5 Quality of Service
2.7 Pricing
2.8 Examples of Major Public Ethernet Applications
2.8.1 LAN Extensions
2.8.2 Layer 2 Virtual Private Network
2.8.3 Dedicated Internet Access
2.9 The Case For and Against Public Ethernet
2.9.1 Ethernet’s Drivers
2.9.1.1 The Importance of Video
2.9.2 Advantages of Public Ethernet
2.9.2.1 Reduced Cost
2.9.2.2 Ease of Use and Adoption
2.9.2.3 Scalability
2.9.3 Service Adoption Inhibitors
2.9.3.1 Inertia and Investment Requirements
2.9.3.2 The Service Provider Perspective: Reluctance to Invest
2.9.3.3 Fiber Connectivity and Service Availability Constraints
2.9.3.4 Copper’s Increasing Importance
2.9.3.5 Interoperability as a Barrier
2.9.3.6 Doubts Regarding Ethernet Remain, Dissipating
2.10 Changing Industry Structure
2.10.1 Industry Consolidation: The Market Context
2.10.1.1 Consolidation: The Enterprise Perspective
2.10.1.2 Provider Strategies: Incumbent vs. Challenger
Chapter III
TRENDS, APPLICATIONS & MARKETS
3.1 Working Together: Carrier Interoperability, Mergers, and Collaboration
3.1.1 Interoperability: The Current Problematic State
3.1.2 Interoperability: The Road Ahead
3.1.3 Service Interworking
3.1.4 Consolidation and Interoperability
3.1.5 The Road Ahead: Collaboration
3.1.5.1 Issues in Partnership and Collaboration: Pros, Cons
3.2 The Competitive Outlook
3.3 Widened Service Availability on Fiber and Copper
3.3.1 Fiber Expands, Slowly
3.3.2 The Importance of Ethernet Over Copper
3.3.3 Ethernet as Future Network Foundation
3.4 The Issue of Service Pricing
3.4.1 Costs Beyond Service Pricing: The Real Deal
3.4.2 Why Select Ethernet: Cost Vs. Transformation?
3.4.3 Tunneling: Potential New Market-Changer
3.5 Broadening of Applications and End Users
3.6 Product Substitution: Ethernet Gains and Legacy Loses
3.7 Ethernet's Growing "Maturity"
3.7.1 Quality of Service Issues
3.8 The Retail Customer Perspective
3.9 The Importance of Meshed, Any-to-Any Services
3.9.1 VPLS: New Face of E-LAN Emerging
3.9.2 EVPL
3.10 Layer 3 vs. Layer 2 VPNs
3.11 Public Ethernet Expanding Rapidly Into the Long Haul
3.12 E-line Will Continue Strong, Steady Growth
3.13 Wholesale Ethernet Grows Faster After Slower Start
3.14 Bandwidth Trends
3.14.1 Bandwidth Rates Rising Inexorably
3.14.2 More Low-End Customers Build Low-End Ethernet
3.14.3 "Step Functions" as Applications?
3.15 International Growth as NA Catches Up
Chapter IV
SERVICE PROVIDER PROFILES
4.1 AT&T Corporation
4.1.1 Network Architecture
4.1.2 Services Offered
4.2 Cogent Communications
4.2.1 Network Architecture
4.2.2 Services Offered
4.3 Cox Cable
4.3.1 Network
4.3.2 Services Offered
4.4 Global Crossing
4.4.1 Network Architecture
4.4.2 Services Offered
4.5 Level 3 Communications, Inc.
4.5.1 Network Architecture
4.5.2 Services Offered
4.6 Optimum Lightpath
4.6.1 Network Architecture
4.6.2 Services Offered
4.7 Reliance GlobalCom (Yipes)
4.7.1 Network
4.7.2 Services Offered
4.8 tw telecom
4.8.1 Network Architecture
4.8.2 Services Offered
4.9 Verizon Communications
4.9.1 Network Architecture
4.9.2 Services Offered
Chapter V
MARKET FORECASTS
5.1 Methodology
5.2 Definitions and Forecast Segmentation
5.2.1 Definitions
5.2.2 Segmentation
5.2.2.1 Breakdown by Topology
5.2.2.2 Breakdown by Regional Domain
5.2.2.3 Wholesale vs. Retail
5.2.2.4 Breakdown by Bandwidth Level
5.3 Market Forecasts
5.3.1 Total Market
5.3.2 Market by Topology
5.3.3 Market by Regional Domain
5.3.4 Retail vs. Wholesale
5.3.5 Bandwidth Levels
Table of Figures
Chapter I
I-1 Total US Public Ethernet Revenues, 2009-2014
Chapter II
II-1 User Network Interface
II-2 Frame Loss
II-3 E-Line Point-to-Point Service Type
II-4 E-LAN Multipoint-to-Multipoint Service Type
II-5 Typical IP Network
II-6 Managed Packet Network, Virtual Private Line
II-7 Resilient Packet Ring Technology
II-8 LAN Extension Using E-LAN Services
II-9 Illustration of VLAN Tag Support
II-10 Dedicated Internet Access
II-11 Data vs. Video Traffic, 2005-2010 (Tbit/s)
II-12 Three-Year Total Cost Savings for Ethernet Private Line
Chapter IV
IV-1 Level 3’s National Backbone Network
Chapter V
V-1 Total US Public Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-2 US Public Ethernet Access Service Revenues, 2007-2014
V-3 US Public Ethernet E-Line Service Revenues, 2007-2014
V-4 US Public Ethernet E-LAN Service Revenues, 2007-2014
V-5 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Application/Topology, 2005-2012
V-6 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Topology, 2009-2014
V-7 US Public Metro Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-8 US Public Wide-Area/Long-Haul Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-9 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Geography/Region, 2007-2014
V-10 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Region, 2009 and 2014
V-11 US Public Ethernet Topology by Regional Market, 2007-2014
V-12 US Retail Public Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-13 US Wholesale Public Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-14 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Retail/Wholesale, 2007-2014
V-15 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Retail/Wholesale, 2009-2014
V-16 US Public Ethernet Revenues >1Gbit/s, 2007-2014
V-17 US Public Ethernet Revenues >100Mbit/s – 1Gbit/s, 2007-2014
V-18 US Public Ethernet Revenues >10Mbit/s – 100Mbit/s, 2007-2014
V-19 US Public Ethernet Revenues =10Mbit/s, 2007-2014
V-20 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Bandwidth Level, 2007-2014
V-21 Percentage Revenues by Throughput Level, 2009 and 2014
V-22 US Public Ethernet Total Port Estimates by Throughput, 2007-2014
Table of Tables
Chapter I
I-1 Characteristics of Ethernet Service Varieties
Chapter II
II-1 SONET and Ethernet Defined Transmission Rates
II-2 Characteristics of Ethernet Service Varieties
II-3 Typical Price Range for E-Line Services
II-4 Typical Price Range for E-LAN Services
Chapter III
III-1 Comparative Strengths of Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs
Chapter V
V-1 Total US Public Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-2 US Public Ethernet Access Service Revenues, 2007-2014
V-3 US Public Ethernet E-Line Service Revenues, 2007-2014
V-4 US Public Ethernet E-LAN Service Revenues, 2007-2014
V-5 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Application/Topology, 2007-2014
V-6 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Topology, 2007-2014
V-7 US Public Metro Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-8 US Public Wide-Area/Long-Haul Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-9 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Geography/Region, 2007-2014
V-10 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Regional Domain, 2007-2014
V-11 US Public Ethernet Topology by Regional Market, 2007-2014
V-12 US Retail Public Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-13 US Wholesale Public Ethernet Revenues, 2007-2014
V-14 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Retail/Wholesale, 2007-2014
V-15 Percentage Ethernet Revenues by Retail/Wholesale, 2007-2014
V-16 US Public Ethernet Revenues >1Gbit/s, 2007-2014
V-17 US Public Ethernet Revenues >100Mbit/s – 1Gbit/s, 2007-2014
V-18 US Public Ethernet Revenues >10Mbit/s – 100Mbit/s, 2007-2014
V-19 US Public Ethernet Revenues =10Mbit/s, 2007-2014
V-20 US Public Ethernet Revenues by Bandwidth Level, 2007-2014
V-21 Percentage Revenues by Throughput Level, 2007-2014
V-22 US Public Ethernet Total Port Estimates by Throughput, 2007-2014
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