Research
October 2008 – A Guide to 10G Ethernet Adapters and Controller Chips, 2nd Edition
Bob Wheeler, Jaq Bolaria
The market for 10GbE server connectivity remains extremely dynamic with rapid shifts in technology and vendor market share. Evaluating the long-term outlook for adapter and controller vendors requires an in-depth understanding of their products and roadmaps. Now in its second edition, “A Guide to 10G Ethernet Adapters and Controller Chips” provides a uniquely detailed look at the vendors and products in this emerging market. This report now offers complete chapters on the leading 10GbE NIC and controller vendors. Because OEMs source both board-level and chip-level products, we now include full coverage and comparisons for both 10GbE NICs and 10GbE controller chips.
Vertical Systems
September 2008 – Mid-2008 Market Share Results for U.S. Business Ethernet Services
The first half of 2008 saw continued rapid growth of Business Ethernet Services in the U.S., according to Vertical Systems Group's latest market share analysis. The number of installed domestic customer ports increased more than 16 percent for the six-month period ending June 30.
AT&T accounted for 21 percent of total ports, followed by Verizon with 15 percent, TW Telecom with 13 percent and Cox with 10 percent. Rounding out the top tier of Ethernet service providers with more than 5 percent share were Qwest (8 percent), Cogent (7 percent) and Time Warner Cable (6 percent).
Vertical Systems
The Connected 5,000: Making the Transition to Ethernet Services
The “Connected 5000” characterizes mid-size enterprises with business-critical T1 networks that are ready to take advantage of Business Ethernet Services in order to cost-effectively boost bandwidth and simplify network management. This paper addresses the drivers, advantages and obstacles to making this important transition.
Infonetics Research
September 2008 - Big quarter for IP router vendors Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Fujitsu, Foundry, NEC
Michael Foundry
Infonetics’ quarterly report, Service Provider Routers and Switches, shows Cisco posted a 15% gain in combined IP edge and core router revenue, giving them over half the worldwide market, a position they’ve maintained since 2005, despite growing competition. The biggest gain of the quarter was made by Fujitsu, who jumped from the #9 position to #6 worldwide. Huawei, Foundry, and NEC all posted strong double-digit gains in 2Q08, and Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent, the perennial #2 and #3 players (respectively) in the IP router market, each posted respectable single-digit revenue gains.
Forrester
September 2008 – The State of WAN Services Adoption in Europe: 2008
Phil Sayer, Robert Whiteley, Christian Kane, Allison Herald
The migration from legacy data services to IP-based wide-area network (WAN) services in Europe is now largely complete, led by the largest multinational firms. Over the past year we have seen a 20% reduction in the number of enterprises that have no plans for MPLS VPNs, from 33% to 13%. At the same time, the adoption of carrier Ethernet services in Europe has grown very rapidly, and the use of Internet VPNs to carry low-priority traffic has become almost universal. The top WAN project in Europe this year is the upgrading of branch office connectivity to support server centralization projects. Cost leads over quality in the supplier selection stakes, but service quality is the top driver for the use of multisourcing. Europe continues to buy more managed WAN services than North America, driven by cost saving and the simplification of operational management.
Forrester
August 2008 – Emerging WAN Services: Look Before You Leap
Robert Whiteley
As enterprises continue to migrate to emerging WAN services like Ethernet, it's easy to succumb to the path of least resistance by simply evaluating and migrating to the incumbent WAN provider's new offers. Think again. Forrester's evaluation of responses to Ethernet service requests for information (RFI) reveals few services providers are able to meet, or even understand, the service requirements of clients with rigorous network performance criteria. When contemplating major changes in critical telecommunications network services — such as migrating from traditional private lines to Ethernet — network infrastructure professionals must resist the temptation to make a hasty technology and service selection decision and instead, carefully assess providers' capabilities.
IDC
August 2008 – Worldwide Ethernet Switch 2Q08 Market Share Update
Petr Jirovský, Abner Germanow
This IDC update reviews 2Q08 end-user revenue for Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switching and shows the quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and year-over-year (YoY) changes. The information in this update stems from IDC's Worldwide Ethernet Switch QView service, which delivers a pivot table of end-user revenue, manufacturer revenue, and port shipments by vendor, layer, speed, form factor, power over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, and average pricing seven weeks after the close of the calendar quarter. For more information, contact your IDC representative.
IDC
August 2008 – Worldwide Datacenter Network 2008–2012 Forecast
Lucinda Borovick
This IDC study analyzes the key trends shaping the datacenter network market. This document also provides the worldwide market forecast for the enterprise datacenter network market in terms of end-user revenue. It segments the forecast into the following geographies: North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific, and the rest of the world (ROW). It segments the forecast by market and also by customer type. This study presents the key underlying trend assumptions used in the market forecast for enterprise deployments.
"The datacenter network market is vibrant as network equipment becomes a key enabling technology for the real-time datacenter. IDC believes that the datacenter network has an important and unprecedented role to play in the datacenter of the future, driving revenue to $11.9 billion in 2012." — Lucinda Borovick, IDC research vice president, Datacenter Networks
July 2008 – Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN Services
Michael Howard
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports that organizations around the world are increasingly replacing their legacy frame relay, ATM, and private line legacy services with Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN services. In its latest Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN Services report, Infonetics shows worldwide Ethernet service revenue sequentially grew 33% to $12.5 billion in 2007, and IP MPLS VPN service revenue grew 20% to $13 billion. Both markets are forecast by Infonetics to grow strongly through 2011.
May 2008 - Key Issues for Enterprise Networking Infrastructure, 2008
Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa, Neil Rickard, Severine Real, Naresh Singh
Increasingly, networking application software is being integrated with hardware and new services are being delivered "out of the box." Understanding the expected transitions can help companies prepare for the future. Gartner identifies seven key issues for network managers.
May 2008 - 10 GbE: Its Time Is Coming
Andrew Reichman, James Staten
Ten gigabit per second Ethernet (10 GbE) represents the next level of enterprise network bandwidth, with vendors hyping it as the next great capability. But as an IT infrastructure and operations professional, you must strike a balance between constant operational improvement and sound financial decision-making. So far, 10 GbE has been a high-end luxury for firms that want maximum performance regardless of cost, but that's changing fast. The per-port pricing gap between 10 GbE and alternate network options is narrowing rapidly as more vendors increase the competitive pressure on pricing for related components. So where will this technology truly matter, and when? This report looks at the impact of 10 GbE on infrastructure applications and provides guidance for the most effective transformation of your network.
May 2008 - A Guide to High-Speed Interconnects, Fourth Edition
Jag Bolaria, Bob Wheeler
The report examines the leading high-speed interconnect technologies—including PCI Express, RapidIO, and HDMI—and provides an unbiased analysis of their strengths, future potential, and projected market position. In addition, within each interconnect, we examine the key vendors offering silicon products as well as the intellectual property to enable silicon. Within each interconnect we analyze market leaders and their products as well as identify technology leaders. We provide market forecast and share our picks for future winners in each interconnect segment.
April 2008 - Worldwide Datacenter Layer 4–7 Switch 2008–2012 Forecast
Lucinda Borovick
This IDC study analyzes the key trends shaping the datacenter Layer 4–7 switch market. This document also provides the worldwide market forecast for the datacenter Layer 4–7 switch market in terms of revenue. It segments the forecast into the following geographic segments: North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and the rest of the world (ROW). This study also presents the key underlying trend assumptions used in the market forecast.
"The network itself is playing a greater role in the design of a resilient, reliable, and available datacenter architecture. IDC anticipates the datacenter Layer 4–7 switch market will benefit, with revenue reaching $1.9 billion by 2012 as the datacenter transforms to meet the accelerating demands of network-based businesses." — Lucinda Borovick, IDC research vice president, Datacenter Networks
VDC Research
March 2008 - Power over Ethernet (PoE) Global Market Demand Analysis
Brian Greenberg
Despite widespread adoption by only a handful of applications, Power over Ethernet port count continues to grow. In the third edition of Power Over Ethernet: Global Market Opportunity Analysis, VDC found that shipments of PoE-enabled switch ports totaled approximately 47 million units in 2007.
March 2008 - Datacenter Networking: Foundation for Change
Lucinda Borovick
Presentation given at Direction 2008. Categories covered include:
Business Areas, Infrastructure, Services Provisioning, Consumer, Consumer Wireless and Mobile, Global IT and Economic Markets, Global IT Markets, Hardware, PCs, Storage Hardware, Workstations, Services, Integration Services, Services Provisioning, Software, Infrastructure Software, Web, Services Provisioning
March 2008 - Worldwide Telepresence 2008–2012 Forecast and Analysis
Nora Freedman, Abner Germanow, Lee Doyle, Courtney Munroe, Leslie Rosenberg
This IDC study examines the market outlook for telepresence for 2008–2012. These telepresence rooms use audio and visual technologies, interior design, and high-speed wide area network connections to mimic the experience of a face-to-face meeting, regardless of where the rooms are located.
"Competing vendors have certainly taken advantage of Cisco's marketing and presence in the market to help drive market adoption," says Nora Freedman, senior analyst in the Enterprise Networks group. "Yet telepresence is still a costly endeavor for organizations that require a solid business case for hard cost savings."
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