Business market stoked for Ethernet services

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Business market stoked for Ethernet services

By Jim Duffy

There might be no hotter data service now than Ethernet. The
worldwide market for Ethernet services was $2.5 billion in 2004
and is expected to more than double this year, according to
Infonetics Research. From there, Ethernet service revenue is
expected to jump another 276% by 2009 to $22.2 billion.

Many billows are stoking this fire.

On the customer side, companies are hungry for more bandwidth
and looking to reduce WAN costs. Ethernet offers a way to do
both because of its bandwidth capacities and relatively
inexpensive prices per bit.

On the service provider side, carriers also are looking for ways
to connect their various sites with higher bandwidths at an
inexpensive price per bit, and Gigabit Ethernet point-to-point
wholesale services meet this demand.

On the equipment side, carrier-class improvements have been made
to Ethernet products that are enabling service providers to
offer new Ethernet services, including those with QoS and
service-level agreements. These are usually the chief selling
points of the traditional private line, frame relay and ATM
services that they are now beginning to replace, Infonetics
says.

For the complete story, including what the top five sources of
Ethernet service ports based on enterprise customer
installations, according to Vertical Systems Group, are go to:
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Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider
equipment coverage
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has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over
12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at
Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at
Electronic News and MIS Week. He can be reached at
<mailto:jduffy@nww.com>.
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