 Wide Area NetworkingThis newsletter is sponsored by PlateSpin Where To Find Affordable Disaster Recovery Network World's Wide Area Networking Newsletter, 06/12/07Users and service providers divided over Metro Ethernet inhibitorsBy Steve Taylor and Jim MetzlerToday, we’ll wrap up the discussion of primary inhibitors for Metro Ethernet adoption. Last time around, we mentioned that the two primary inhibitors from the user perspective are high service prices and managing/troubleshooting. Interestingly, the users and service providers are very sharply divided here. Users are concerned about price, while service providers’ top two perceived concerns are reliability (cited by 55%) and managing/troubleshooting (cited by 48%). From the user perspective, reliability came in third, being cited by 32% of the respondents. Users were much less concerned about security than the service providers thought they would be. In fact, only 31% of the users cited security as a major inhibitor compared to 40% of the service providers. An equal number of users had a problem with high equipment prices (31%), while only 18% of the service providers thought this was a major problem.
For most of the above questions, it appeared that the users are a bit more laid back about the inhibitors than are the service providers. However, some of the more major inhibitors from the users came in the form of the service not being needed (21% of users vs. 11 % of service providers) and “other” concerns (again 21% of users and 8% of service providers. For those of us who have been in the WAN field for many years perhaps one of the most surprising results was the lowest ranking inhibitor. Literally for decades, bandwidth efficiency has been a major concern – trying to make every bit-per-second into useful capacity. But the table seems to have turned on this one. Only 8% of both the users and the service providers interviewed saw “high packet overhead” as an inhibitor. As a reminder, this report by Kubernan is available at Webtorials.
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| Contact the author: Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail. This newsletter is sponsored by PlateSpin Where To Find Affordable Disaster Recovery ARCHIVEArchive of the Wide Area Networking Newsletter. BONUS FEATUREIT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICESTo subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007 |
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