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U.S. business spending on communications services will be lead over the next four years by business Ethernet services, principally Gigabit Ethernet, stemming from ongoing growth in cloud computing, this according to the latest market review by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
Notably, data communications spending is growing at an escalating rate. This year, enterprise data communications spending is expected to grow by about three percent, and rates will increase every year, reaching nearly six percent annual growth in 2016. Cloud computing seems to be driving much of the increased spending, as enterprises essentially “outsource” applications from local servers to cloud-based data centers.
In the data communications services market, growth in cloud services is driving data center traffic and boosting demand for networks that can handle that traffic, as per a new study by TIA. Companies are trading up to business Ethernet as cloud computing and high bandwidth connectivity to data centers are increasingly in demand.
Also, for enterprises with less extensive bandwidth requirements, Internet protocol virtual private networks (IP VPNs) are gaining share at the expense of frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), both of which are falling precipitously. IP VPNs offer greater flexibility, lower costs and ready access wherever there is an Internet connection, TIA says. Leased lines are maintaining a major presence, as they are used in dedicated IP VPNs, a growing component of the market. Data services as a whole rose 1.8 percent in 2011, TIA adds.
Much of the growing demand near term however, is being driven by mobile backhaul. In 2012, Ethernet based mobile backhaul will account for 40 percent of physical connections of all types of mobile backhaul in the world. It’s projected to become 95 percent of the mobile backhaul connections market by 2015.
Wednesday, May 30th
11:00 a.m. New York/4:00 p.m. London
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Service providers can now take advantage of new Ethernet OAM tools to lower the cost of service and gain greater visibility into network performance. This Webinar will chart the real-world progress of Ethernet service management, examining the hurdles that need to be overcome to allow operators to access data about network performance on an end-to-end basis, including sharing that information across multiple networks. The session will provide an overview of the key OAM standards such as IEEE 802.lag, ITU, Y.1731, Y.1564 and MEF 17. Register Here
