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Business Carrier Ethernet Services Market Update, 2019
01-Aug-2019
North America
Strategic Forecasting
A314-00-9B-00-00
IT03908-NA-SF_23454
Carrier Ethernet continues to be the de facto wide area network (WAN) connectivity service choice among businesses of all sizes, due to the benefits it offers: scalability, reliability, and cost efficient bandwidth. U.S. Business Ethernet market revenues exceeded $6.5 billion in 2018.
Frost & Sullivan defines business carrier Ethernet services as services sold by service providers to enterprises or businesses. Ethernet services include all Layer 1/2/3 services sold under different names, including transparent or native LAN, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), metro Ethernet, Ethernet private line (EPL), Ethernet virtual private line (EVPL), and virtual private LAN service (VPLS).
Ethernet services delivered over copper, hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC), SONET, DWDM, Layer 2 Ethernet switches, and multi protocol label switching (MPLS) are included in this study.
This study presents an in-depth analysis of the key trends impacting the Business carrier Ethernet services market, and includes market revenue forecasts, ports forecasts and market share analysis. The analysis is segmented by:
• Transport length (metro versus long haul)
• Service type (dedicated versus switched)
• Service configuration (point-to-point and multipoint-to-multipoint)
• Port speeds (10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1 GigE, 10 Gbps and 100 GE)
Executive Summary
Executive Summary (continued)
Executive Summary—Market Engineering Measurements
Market Definitions
Market Definitions (continued)
Research Scope
Notes on Revenue Forecast Segments
Market Trends
Market Trends (continued)
Market Trends (continued)
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Market Trends (continued)
Forecast Methodology and Assumptions
Total Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Total Market Revenue by Transport Length, U.S., 2017-2023
Total Market Revenue Breakdown by Dedicated vs. Switched, U.S., 2017-2023
Total Market—Dedicated Ethernet Revenue Forecast
Total Market—Ports Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Total Market—Percent Ports by Speed, U.S., 2017-2023
Competitive Analysis—Total Market Shares by Revenue, U.S., 2018
Total Market Share Comparison, U.S., 2016 & 2018
Metro Segment—Total Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Segment—Revenue Breakdown by Switched vs. Dedicated, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Segment—Dedicated Ethernet Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Segment—Switched Ethernet Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Switched Segment—Revenue Breakdown by Service Configuration, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Switched Segment—EVPL Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Switched Segment—EVP-LAN Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Metro Segment—Market Shares by Revenue, U.S., 2018
Metro Market Share Comparison, U.S., 2016 & 2018
Long Haul Segment—Total Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Segment—Revenue Breakdown by Dedicated vs. Switched, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Segment—Dedicated Ethernet Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Segment—Switched Ethernet Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Switched Segment—Revenue Breakdown by Service Configuration, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Switched Segment—EVPL Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Switched Segment—EVP-LAN/VPLS Revenue Forecast, U.S., 2017-2023
Long Haul Segment—Market Shares by Revenue, U.S., 2018
Long Haul Market Share Comparison, U.S., 2016 & 2018
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