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• Average Brit spends 7 hours 9 minutes watching TV
• US small businesses to spend $280 bln on IT by 2012
• 35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008
• Total spending in network services to reach $9.1 bln in 2012 in Asia
• Telecom spending to reach $923.91 bln in 2008
• 4.2 mln Internet users signed up for fiber in Q1 2008
• EMEA router market generated $1.01 bln in Q1 2008.
• 44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peer
• US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008
• Asia telecommunications market will grow 36% in 2007-2011
• $1.5 bln spent on telecom and IT in Pakistan in 2007
• 19 mln new broadband lines in EU in 2007
• Colombian telecom market reached $5.48 bln in 2006
• US telecom industry to grow at 7.2%
• $17 bln worth of routers to sell by 2012
• IT market growth of 5% in 2008
• 19% of direct assistance users throught it was free
• Asia/Pacific telecom services market was worth over $215 bln in 2007
• UK SMB spending on managed security reached $42 mln in 2007
• US telecom to spend $347.5 bln on IT in 2008
• Telecom operations support spending to reach $46 bln in 2008
• Asia-Pacific softswitch architecture grew 36% in 2007
• Fibre Channel switch port shipments up 30% in Q3 2007
• Wireline voice revenues to decline 7%
• 60% of European broadband users wlould prefer an integrated fixed and mobile service
• 69% of telecom home pages do not allow customers to log in
• Asia-Pacific SMBs to spend $50 bln on telecom in 2007
• LAN switches up 6% over the next 5 years
• Telecom services grew 8.2% in 2006
• 4 bln phone lines globally
• US small and medium businesses to invest $241 bln into telecom infrastructure
• Global service provider market to surpass $9 bln in 2011
• 14% of spending on US wireline belongs to mid-sized businesses
• 71 mln fiber broadband users in 2009
• 19.5 mln unified messaging clients to ship by 2011
• Mobile data services spending to grow at 29% a year
• US SMBs to spend $16.6 bln on wireline voice in 2007
• Network admission control to generate $3.2 bln in 2010
• Asia Pacific telecom market to grow at 3.6% a year
• 55% of US organizations plan to buy network access control solutions
• Next-generation switches in Asia/Pacific to grow at 24% a year
• 300k LTE base transceiver stations to be installed by 2014
• WDM optical transport equipment up 56% in Q1 2007
• Enterprise spending on wireline data to reach $24.3 bln in 2007
• Eastern Europe enterprise network services up 0.1% in 2006
• IP VPN and Ethernet services generate 30% of wireline revenues
• Global telecom billing market to reach $6.6 bln by 2011
• $41 bln to be spent on telecom equipment in 2007
• High-end fibre channel up 15% in Q4 2006
• Indian SMBs spent over $5 bln on telecom in 2006
• 96% of Americans had a landline in 2005, 74% will have a landline in 2010
• Small and medium businesses to spend $6.7 bln on PBX in 2007
• Top router manufacturers: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel
• 10-Gig ethernet switches generated $1 bln in 2006
• PBX revenues to exceed $7.5 bln in 2011
• US telecom market up 9.3% in 2006
• Home networks to grow at 20% a year
• Telecom vendors earned $8.6 bln in the first half of 2006 in China
• 7.4 mln pagers in use in US in 2006
• Carrier Ethernet switch market to generate $2 bln in 2006
• DSL port shipments to double by the end of 2006
• Deployment of enterprise optical networking to grow 17% in 2006
• MSPPs to generate $1.2 bln in 2006 in Asia-Pacific
• Chinese IP server-based PBX revenues to reach $164.1 mln in 2006
• Cisco controls 70% of enterprise router markets
• Only 5% of US organizations use IPv6
• HomePNA 3 shipments to grow 200% in 2007
• IP PBX systems to reach 19.1 mln in 2006
• 2.648 mln metro Ethernet subscribers in APAC
• Carrier Ethernet switches up 50% in Q2 2006
• Fibre Channel SAN switches up 1.6% in Q2 2006
• 41% of telecom revenues comes from large firms
• Top phone peeves for Americans: automated service, bad manners, being put on hold
• 35% of all Cisco Fibre Channel switches sold are now 4 Gbps switches
• 145 mln households worldwide to have a home network by 2010
• DOCSIS 3.0 equipment to reach 60% of CMTS market by 2011
• 185.5 mln DSL ports to ship in 2010
• Fixed public networks to generate $660 bln in 2010
• 20% of urban Chinese have a home network
• $14.93 bln spent on mobile equipment in China, India and Korea in 2005
• Europe to overtake US in digital TV penetration by 2010
• Telecoms to invest $4 bln in service delivery platforms
• Consumer network storage to generate $1.2 bln in 2011
• $2.7 mln worth of intelligent network products sold in 2005
• Global telecom vendors saw revenues rise 8% in 2005
• Asia-Pacific Ethernet market generated $676.5 mln in 2005
• 7.1% of US households have no phones
• Ethernet switches to grow at 5% a year
• Italian telecom market generated 36 bln euros in 2005
• Top telecoms respecting online customers: Verizon Wireless, CenturyTel, T-Mobile
• Gigabit Ethernet switch spending to increase at 1.8% a year
• Ethernet switch revenue reached $1.07 bln in Japan in 2005
• Service provider router revenue up 43% in 2005
• Avaya maintained 41% of North American call center market in 2005
• 8.4 mln unified messaging seats shipped in 2005
• Chinese telecom revenue down 6.7% in 2005
• Speech recognition telephony up 1.6% in 2005
• EMEA LAN switch market down by 2.9% in Q1 2006
• 84 mln Americans to subscribe to bundled services by 2010
• Global optical transport market up 9% in Q1 2006
• Fibre Channel SAN switch market up 3% in Q1 2006
• Media gateways and class 4/5 softswitches to generate $8.4 bln by 2010
• DSL access multiplexer ports up 2% in Q1 2006
• $10.1 bln will be invested in IP Multimedia subsystems over the next 5 years
• Fixed public network grew 0.6% in Japan in 2005
• 84% of US households pay for some of their TV
• 23 mln cable customer premise equipment units shipped in 2005
• Ethernet switches revenue down 2% in Q1 2006
• Fixed public network services up 3.1% in China in 2005
• Switches to generate $17.7 bln by 2009
• ATCA revenues to reach $790 mln in 2007
• Asia-Pacific telecom equipment market to generate $47 bln in 2007
• Western European fixed network services down 1.7% in 2005
• Fixed network services in Switzerland down 2.6% in 2005
• Fixed network services in Sweden down 0.7%
• Fixed network services in Spain up 3.8% in 2005
• Fixed network services in Czech Republic down 0.8% in 2005
• Finnish fixed retail services up 3.1% in 2005
• Belgian fixed retail services down 2.5% in 2005
• Fixed network service revenue down by 0.7% in 2005 in Ireland
• Fixed telecom revenues down 0.1% in Greece in 2005
• Fixed telecom revenues flat in Portugal in 2005
• North American softswitch market up 110% in 2005
• Global optical networking market to grow 12% a year
• Asia Pacific wireless telecom to generate $242 bln by 2010
• Fixed telecom in Netherlands down 2.6% in 2005
• Service provider routers up 43% in 2005
• Hosted PBX market to reach $1.3 bln by 2009
• DSLAM vendors to ship 89.1 mln ports by 2010
• Enterprise routers and VPN generated $8 bln globally in 2005
• Intelligent network products to grow at 1.8% a year
• CMTS revenue up 15% in Q3 2005
• Optical network hardware market flat in Q3 2005
• IP PBX revenues up 10% in Q3 2005
• US wireline telecom to decline by 8.5% in 5 years
• Business networking equipment generated $27 bln in 2004
• Enterprise router revenue reached $859 mln in Q3 2005
• Service provider router and switched generated $1.86 bln in Q3 2005
• 37% of Americans to cut the cord by 2009
• EMEA routet market up 12.3% in Q4 2005
• EMEA LAN switch market up by 10.6% in Q4 2005
• 3 mln phone users in Ghana
• Telecom industry spending up 8.9% in 2005, up 10.2% in 2006
• Telecom services shoppers prefer Google
• Router shipments up 14% in 2005
• Telecom spending up 9% in 2005
• Ethernet switch market up 3% in revenue in Q4 2005
• Almost 20% of current wireless users plan to cut the cord in the next 12 months
• Capex spending by public telecom carriers up 6% in 2005
• 36.9 mln DLC/MSAN ports to ship by 2009
• Telecom market in Portugal to reach 6 bln euros in 2009
• 62% of US small businesses prefer single bundled telecom solution
• 210K unbundled lines in UK
• 76% of Americans signed up for do not call list
• Application acceleration market reached $301 mln in 2005
• Ethernet switch market up 9.9% in Q2 2005
• Mexican telecom market to reach $26 bln by 2010
• 1 mln unbundled phone lines in UK by year-end 2006
• 16.9 mln IP DSL set top boxes to sell by 2009
• IP multimedia subsystem equipment sales will generate $5.6 bln in Western Europe by 2010
• Global metro Ethernet market to reach $26 bln in 2008
• North America to account for 43% of business gateway market in 2007
• Number of Hungarian wireline subscribers drops to 3.5 mln in Q3 2005
• Global central office switching market to drop 17% in 2005
• Global mobile telecom infrastructure market to reach $47.9 bln in 2005
• Asia-Pacific IP video services to grow at 80% a year
• 20.5 mln PON subscribers by 2008
• 140 mln phone subscribers in Africa by 2009
• Asia-Pacific telecom revenue reached $7.6 bln in 2004
• EMEA softswitch revenues to reach $1.8 bln by 2009
• Global telecom services and equipment market reached $1.44 trillion in 2004
• Global voice traffic up 14% in 2004
• Global market for wireless operations support systems to generate $13 bln in 2005
• North American Ethernet switch market up 15% in Q2 2005
• Ethernet switch sales up 15% in Q1 2005
• Fiber-optic and wireless broadband access systems to generate $16.3 bln in 2005
• 7.5 mln global households have video on demand
• EMEA service provider router market up 23% in the first half of 2005
• Western European wired telecom revenues up 3.2% in Q1 2005
• EMEA Ethernet switch revenues up 1.4% in Q2 2005
• 41% of large US business to increase telecom spending in 2005
• Ethernet switches up 11% in Q2 2005
• Extension line shipments to grow 6% in 2005 in Western Europe
• Telecom TV market to reach $600 mln by 2009
• PBX/KTS market up 12% in Q2 2005
• Eastern European telecom market up 4.2% in 2004
• By 2007 more than 50% of telecoms expect VOIP to constitute more than 50% of traffic
• Optical network hardware generated $2.7 bln in Q2 2005, 10% growth
• Global service provider router and switch sales up 10% in Q2 2005
• L2-L3 Ethernet switch revenues up 10% in Q2 2005
• Telecom and datacom equipment generated $57.5 bln in 2004
• Worldwide router sales up 4% in Q2 2005
• Network storage market up 16.1% in Q2 2005
• 83% of US companies to use high-speed lines for WAN services by 2009
• 16.5 mln extension lines shipped in Western Europe in 2004
• Japan switching systems market to fall in 2005 and 2006
• 2.37 bln minutes spent on international calls in the US in 2003
• Telecom services and equipment to generate $1.81 trillion by 2009
• Intelligent network products down to $2.8 bln in 2004
• Optical transport equipment up 10% in Q2 2005

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