The Ethernet and IP
MPLS VPN
services markets hit
£10.7bn last year, as users struggled to get more out of their
legacy
comms networks.
The growth has been charted by analyst Infonetics Research. It
said with corporate data traffic growing unabated, organisations
around the world are rapidly exceeding the capacity limits of their
legacy frame relay, ATM, and private line networks.
They are now increasingly replacing these legacy services with
Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN services, which are more flexible and less
restricted than their legacy counterparts.
After more than doubling in 2005 to £2.9bn, worldwide Ethernet
service revenue jumped another 65% in 2006 to reach £4.72bn, and IP
MPLS VPN service revenue grew 38% in 2006 to £5.5bn.
Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics, said, "Ethernet
and IP/MPLS are the layer 2 and layer 3 service protocols of choice
for today's data service networks.
“Small and medium businesses and remote and branch offices of
large businesses especially like Ethernet and IP MPLS VPNs because
they offer considerably more bandwidth with little or no increased
WAN costs,” he said.
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