New deployments boost
availability of fiber access to business services, however more than one
million commercial buildings remain in the "Fiber Gap".
The availability of business fiber continued to climb in 2011, with facilities available to 20.5% of commercial buildings across Europe, and 31.8% of commercial buildings in the U.S., according to new research from Vertical Systems Group. These metrics are an indicator of the penetration of direct fiber supplied by one or multiple network Service Providers in commercial buildings with twenty or more employees. Buildings that are not fiber-connected comprise the "Fiber Gap".
Throughout the world, direct fiber is the preferred access technology for higher-bandwidth business network services, particularly Carrier Ethernet. Advantages of fiber connectivity include ease of provisioning, operational simplicity, bandwidth scalability and lower costs per bit as compared to other alternatives.
"Access to business fiber has more than doubled between 2005 and 2011, both in Europe and in the U.S., however more than one million buildings in these markets are still not fiber-connected," said Rosemary Cochran, principal at Vertical Systems Group. "Domestic and global Service Providers will continue to strategically broaden and deepen their fiber infrastructures. A challenge for businesses caught in the fiber gap is to determine when their building sites will be connected via fiber to these service networks."
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Vertical Systems Group:
U.S. Business Fiber Penetration Rises to
31.8%
Small and medium
business sites benefit most from increased availability of direct
fiber.
BOSTON,
MA, MARCH 16, 2012 -- Availability of optical fiber
facilities extends to 31.8% of U.S. commercial locations with twenty
or more employees, according to latest research from Vertical Systems Group.
Fiber-connected buildings enable tenants to access network services
using direct fiber connections that provide bandwidth up to
multi-gigabit per second rates. U.S. fiber penetration for 2010 was
27.7%.
"Direct fiber is the preferred access technology deployed for business services like Ethernet and IP VPNs, and for connectivity to the Internet and cloud-based applications," said Rosemary Cochran, principal at Vertical Systems Group. "With the majority of larger U.S. buildings already fiber-connected to one or more networks, service providers widened their fiber footprints in 2011 to cover more small and medium locations through new construction, strategic partnerships or acquisitions."
Detailed statistics and comprehensive analysis of fiber
penetration trends in the U.S. and European markets are available exclusively
through
Vertical Systems Group's ENS(Emerging Networks
Service). Research content covers the period 2004 through 2011, and includes quantification by customer segment (Large Enterprise and
SMB) and building segment (20-50 employees, 51-100 employees,
101-250 employees and 251+ employees). Contact us
for subscription information and pricing.
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Vertical Systems Group:
2011 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD
Emerging demand for secure global access connectivity to Cloud
services drives Ethernet expansion beyond regional market boundaries.
BOSTON,
MA, MARCH 5, 2011 -- Vertical Systems Group announces that
seven companies achieved a position on the 2011 Global Provider
Ethernet Leaderboard according to year-end research on enterprises
with multinational networks. The Leaderboard includes the following
providers (in rank order based on port share): Orange Business
(France), Verizon (U.S.), Colt (U.K.), AT&T (U.S.), NTT (Japan),
Level 3 / Global Crossing (U.S.) and BT Global (U.K.). The Global
Provider Leaderboard ranks companies with four percent (4%) or more
of retail business Ethernet ports installed at sites outside of the
provider's primary home country.
Additionally, three providers attained a position in the next or
"challenge-tier" of the Global Provider Ethernet market (in alphabetical order
based on port share):
Reliance Globalcom (India), Tata Communications (India) and
T-Systems (Germany).
Other providers delivering Ethernet services outside of their home
countries include (in alphabetical order): AboveNet, Airtel, Cable &
Wireless Worldwide, CAT Telecom, CenturyLink, China Telecom, Cogent
Communications, Easynet Global Services, euNetworks, Exponential-e,
GlobeNet, GTS, GTT, Interoute, KDDI, Korea Telecom, KPN
International, Masergy, PCCW Global, SingTel, StarHub, Swisscom,
Telecom Italia International, Telefonica Worldwide, Telenor, Telkom
Indonesia, Telkom South Africa, Telus International, TM and others.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its fourth quarter 2011 (4Q11) Service Provider Routers and Switches vendor market share report, which analyzes the IP edge router, IP core router, and carrier Ethernet switch (CES) market segments and the manufacturers within them.
"The carrier router and switch market hit a record-high $14.5 billion in 2011, up 8% over 2010, making it the second largest telecom market segment after mobile RAN infrastructure," notes Michael Howard, Infonetics Research's co-founder and principal analyst for carrier networks.
"Yet paradoxically, 2011 results show signs of a slowdown in the market's overall growth rate," Howard continues. "Why? Because despite continued double-digit percent annual growth in the largest market, Asia, and the smallest market, Latin America, the two mainstays of carrier routers and switches, North America and EMEA, are slowing. Still, the fundamental market drivers will pace the overall market forward, with growing fixed broadband traffic and exploding mobile broadband traffic on 3G and LTE networks pushing many service providers to upgrade their access, aggregation, and core networks, including mobile backhaul."
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Vertical Systems Group:
2011 U.S. Business Ethernet LEADERBOARD
Ethernet port base rises
31% in 2011 on solid market demand and more competitive service
pricing.
BOSTON,
MA, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 --
Year-end 2011 results for
Vertical Systems Group's U.S. Business Ethernet
Leaderboard are as follows (in rank order based on port share): AT&T, Verizon, tw telecom,
Cox, XO, CenturyLink (includes Qwest and Savvis), Time Warner Cable, Level 3 (includes Global Crossing), and Cogent.
As the foremost benchmark for measuring Ethernet market presence in
the U.S., Vertical's Leaderboard
ranks Service Providers that hold four percent (4%) or more of billable port
installations.
The following six Service Providers comprise the next or
"challenge-tier" of the U.S. Ethernet market based on port share (in alphabetical order):
Abovenet, Charter Business, Comcast Business, Optimum Lightpath,
Reliance GlobalCom and Windstream (includes Paetec).
Other providers delivering Ethernet services in the U.S.
include (in alphabetical order): American Telesis, Bright House
Networks, Cincinnati Bell, Expedient, FiberLight, Frontier, Integra,
Lightower, Masergy, Megapath, NTT America, Orange Business, Sidera
Networks, SuddenLink, Virtela, Zayo Group and others.
"The second half of 2011 saw solid follow through of new network rollouts and add-on deployments.
High speed service availability and decreased pricing were major
market drivers," said Rick Malone, principal at Vertical Systems
Group. "Our research also shows a clearer stratification among
providers competing for Ethernet business in the U.S. The Leaderboard companies comprise the top tier of the
market, accounting for a combined total of more than three-quarters of U.S.
Ethernet service ports. The challenge-tier providers have
attained market presence just below the Leaderboard threshold.
Numerous other providers
are also selling or planning to offer Ethernet services in the U.S."
Vertical's year-end market analysis quantifies thatEthernet port growth for 2011 was 31%.
Market shares for the U.S. Leaderboard are calculated using the base
of enterprise installations of Ethernet services, plus input
from Vertical's surveys of Ethernet Service Providers.
Detailed Ethernet market share results and in-depth analysisare available
exclusively through Vertical Systems Group's ENS(Emerging Networks
Service) Research Programs.
About Vertical's ENS Research
Programs
Vertical Systems Group'sENSResearch Programs
feature web-based access to hundreds of research topics plus
analyst support for your ad hoc requests or consultations. As
a comprehensive "real world" resource for business or product
planning,
ENS covers customer
migration across all broadband network services to provide you with
more defensible analysis as compared to discrete market forecasts.
Research Tracks include @Ethernet, @Access,
@Dedicated IP VPNs, @Fiber, @Frame Relay, @Private Lines, @ATM, @STATFlash and more.
Contact us for subscription information and pricing.
About Vertical Systems Group
Vertical Systems Group ( www.verticalsystems.com)
is recognized worldwide as a leading market research and strategic
consulting firm specializing in defensible quantification of the
networking industry. To speak with an analyst at Vertical Systems
Group, contact Erica Ambrose at +1.781.352.0700 or
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