IP VPN services offer new features

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Today's focus:

IP VPN services offer new features

By Tim Greene

Over the next few months service providers are expected to add
new features to their VPN services, fleshing out their offerings
in the hope that they will ultimately become the industry's
dominant network service.

AT&T, Verizon and custom VPN service provider Blue Ridge
Networks say they will introduce capabilities to make more
efficient use of the access lines that connect to VPN services
and to give customers more flexibility in the type of technology
that runs over these lines.

These services are undeniably becoming more popular, according
to industry experts. In the U.S. alone, IP VPN services will hit
$5.8 billion in 2009, says Vertical Systems Group, up from $1.8
billion last year. Worldwide, businesses will spend $29.9
billion on VPN services in 2009, according to a report from
Infonetics. That is about 10 times what they will spend on VPN
gear for setting up do-it-yourself VPNs, the report says.

The touted advantages of VPN services as opposed to
build-your-own are they require less corporate manpower and
training, lighten maintenance and management burdens, and
support fully meshed networks without the complexity and cost of
virtual circuits that are required with frame relay.

The VPN services vendors seem to be making inroads. IP VPNs will
be eating away at hugely popular frame relay services, according
to a study by In-Stat. Frame relay service revenues in the U.S.
will drop below $7 billion by 2009 from $8.3 billion in 2004,
In-Stat says.

For more on this story, including some expamples of the features
service providers are adding to thier existing IP VPN services,
go to:
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081505-ip-vpn.html>

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