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Carriers and Ethernet Services, Public Ethernet in Metro and Wide Area Networks, 2011-2016

Carriers and Ethernet Services, Public Ethernet in Metro and Wide Area Networks, 2011-2016

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Market Study
Published: September 2011
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Research from: Insight Research
Sector: Broadband & Fixed

Ethernet, the world’s primary computer-to-computer protocol with interfaces on well over a billion computers worldwide, is now being offered by nearly every US service provider 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 25 percent annually as enterprises large and small opt for these new services offered in an array of speeds and reach.

Carrier Ethernet services, which was a $3.2 billion market in 2010, offers the enterprise customer the chance to tie locations together in what appear to be virtual LANs that can stretch across a metropolitan area, a region, a nation, or the world. These widely available Ethernet services offer significant advantages in cost and simplicity and in facilitating convergence—and are 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 anyto- any services as well as by interface levels ranging from 10 Mbit/s to the emerging 10 Gbit/s standard. This report provides insight into this emerging arena that will fundamentally shape the communications market of the future.

Market Segmentation
   
Total US Carrier Ethernet Access Revenues:
      by Topology:
           E-Line
           E-LAN
          Access
      by Regional Domain
          Metro
          Wide-Area
          Access
      by Type of Sale
           Retail, Wholesale
      by Bandwidth Level
           greater than 1Gbit/s (includes 10Gbit/s, 40Gbit/s, and 100Gbit/s)
           greater than 100Mbit/s up to and including 1Gbit/s
           greater than 10Mbit/s up to and including 100Mbit/s
           up to 10Mbit/s

US Carrier Ethernet Total Port Estimates by Throughput
      greater than 1Gbit/s (includes 10Gbit/s, 40Gbit/s, and 100Gbit/s)
      greater than 100Mbit/s up to and including 1Gbit/s
      greater than 10Mbit/s up to and including 100Mbit/s
      up to 10Mbit/s

Sample Monthly Pricing for:
      In-Metro E-Line and E-LAN Services
      Dedicated Internet Access

Average Price Range for E-Line and E-LAN Services

Report Excerpt
 
1.1      Ethernet Market Trends
The MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum), the major industry trade and standards group developing and advocating for enhanced public Ethernet services, promotes the term “Carrier Ethernet” while INSIGHT Research has adopted the term "Public Ethernet" rather than "Carrier Ethernet" to contrast our view of the total market with the MEF classification and what is implied in their definition.

The MEF classification excludes longstanding 1990s-originated Native and Transparent LAN (local area network) services lacking QoS (quality of service) and other required "Carrier Ethernet" features. INSIGHT, on the other hand, includes such services in our review of the market and in our market projections since most of the native and transparent LAN services have long since been upgraded with QoS and other features and thus are a vital part of the total market picture.

INSIGHT’s use of the term “public Ethernet” refers to any Layer 2 public network carrier service that extends Ethernet beyond the LAN and connects to customers across Ethernet interfaces. Public Ethernet may be marketed as transparent or native LAN, Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet, GigE, metro Ethernet, Ethernet private line (EPL), Ethernet virtual private line (EVPL), Layer 2 virtual private network (VPN), Ethernet access, VPLS, or a variety of other names. INSIGHT’s definition does not, however, include routed Layer 3 IP-VPN services, which also can be described as carrying IP (Internet protocol) over Ethernet. Our use of the phrase “public Ethernet services” includes relatively longstanding though upgraded legacy transparent or native LAN services, whether asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)-based within the network core or using an Ethernet over fiber (or SONET) architecture. Our definition also includes newer services from small and large carriers that variously deliver end-to-end Ethernet directly over optic fiber, encapsulate Ethernet packets over SONET (synchronous optical network) or transmit it over dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) wavelengths or over multi-protocol label switching (MPLS).

The US Ethernet market can be segmented and revenue estimates calculated —as INSIGHT has in this updated report—in various ways.....

 

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