Archive for the Telecom Category
$41 bln to be spent on telecom equipment in 2007
Telcos in 2007 are expected to spend nearly $41 bln on equipment, the highest annual level since 2002. However, this spending will be up only 1.6% from $40.4 bln in 2006. In comparison, telco equipmen...
High-end fibre channel up 15% in Q4 2006
High-end Fibre Channel switch sales grew more than 15% during Q4 2006. Storage equipment resellers quickly snapped up high-end switches as manufacturers dropped prices faster than the normal rate, Del...
Indian SMBs spent over $5 bln on telecom in 2006
Small and medium businesses in India spent over $5 billion on telecom equipment and services in 2006, 5% over 2005. Spending on telecom services such as Cellular services, IP Centrex services, local a...
96% of Americans had a landline in 2005, 74% will have a landline in 2010
The US Fixed Telecoms market was worth $117.0 bln at the end of 2006, with 172.2 mln total voice connections including VoIP. Research & Markets expects an overall decline in consumer fixed line penetr...
Small and medium businesses to spend $6.7 bln on PBX in 2007
The global small and medium business (SMB) segment for PBX (IP and TDM) is set to reach US $6.7 bln in 2007 - from about US $5.5 bln in 2005. Between 2005 and 2010, the cumulative growth rate will cro...
Top router manufacturers: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel
Dell'Oro Group ranked Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Huawei and Redback Networks as top service provider router vendors in 2006....
10-Gig ethernet switches generated $1 bln in 2006
10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch port shipments exceeded 100 thousand in Q4 2006, and annual revenues handily topped $1 bln during 2006. Cisco, Force10, Foundry, Nortel and Extreme Networks led the market, ...
PBX revenues to exceed $7.5 bln in 2011
According to Dell'Oro Group, total PBX revenues are projected to exceed $7.5 bln annually in 2011. Hybrid IP/TDM PBX revenues are predicted to decline starting in 2010, and by 2011, traditional PBXs a...
US telecom market up 9.3% in 2006
US telecom market grew 9.3% in 2006 to total $923 bln in revenue, and the worldwide telecommunications market grew 11.2% to total $3 trillion. The report forecasts growth for competing new broadband t...
Home networks to grow at 20% a year
The worldwide installed base of home networks will rise by over 20% CAGR from 2005 to 2010, driven heavily by Asia, and China in particular, reports In-Stat. Worldwide annual shipments for home networ...
Telecom vendors earned $8.6 bln in the first half of 2006 in China
The major telecommunications equipment vendors generated revenue of $8.6 bln in China during the first half of 2006 - 9% more than in the equivalent period of 2005. Nokia, Motorola and Huawei were the...
7.4 mln pagers in use in US in 2006
About 45 mln pagers were in use nationwide in 1999. Nowadays the total is 7.4 mln, down from 8.2 mln in 2005, according to The Paging Information Resource....
Carrier Ethernet switch market to generate $2 bln in 2006
Revenues in carrier Ethernet switch market are on track to surpass $2 billion in 2006, Dell'Oro Group says. Cisco, Alcatel, Hitachi Cable, Nortel and Lucent led the market....
DSL port shipments to double by the end of 2006
Shipments of DSL ports will more than double by the end of 2006, while shipments of customer premises equipment (CPE) will increase by over 72%. Having reached $31.8 mln in 2005, total market revenue ...
Deployment of enterprise optical networking to grow 17% in 2006
2006 is becoming a banner year for enterprise deployment of optical networks. Driven by regulatory requirements regarding how to manage, store, and recover data, as well as by company mergers, the wor...
MSPPs to generate $1.2 bln in 2006 in Asia-Pacific
MultiService Provisioning Platforms (MSPP) are the largest optical equipment segment tracked by IDC in Asia-Pacific and it continues to steal share from legacy SONET/SDH multiplexers. MSPPs post a sta...
Chinese IP server-based PBX revenues to reach $164.1 mln in 2006
IP server-based PBX revenue in the Chinese market will grow from $164.1 mln in 2006 to $479.5 mln in 2010, In-Stat says. Traditional PBX revenue in China will decline by a 31.8% CAGR through 2010....
Cisco controls 70% of enterprise router markets
In the first half of 2006 ZyXEL led the SOHO router market, capturing 16.8% revenue market share. Cisco continued to dominate the SMB branch office and enterprise router segments in the first half of ...
Only 5% of US organizations use IPv6
Only 5% of organizations interviewed have IPv6 in use today. The research also reveals that an additional 18% have expressed some interest in adopting IPv6 for their infrastructure in the next 12 to 1...
HomePNA 3 shipments to grow 200% in 2007
Migration is underway from the lower-speed HomePNA 2 to HomePNA 3, and worldwide shipments for HomePNA 3 will exceed 200% growth in 2007, In-Stat says. The number of whole-home DVR installations is ex...
IP PBX systems to reach 19.1 mln in 2006
Most PBX players have some level of relationship with Microsoft, and many of these ties have been strengthened in recent months. As dual-mode phones that operate on both cellular and 802.11 frequencie...
2.648 mln metro Ethernet subscribers in APAC
Asia Pacific (APAC) is leading the market adoption of metro Ethernet services, as Japan and South Korea companies are entering the mass adoption stage, reports In-Stat. The APAC market registered 0.63...
Carrier Ethernet switches up 50% in Q2 2006
Carrier Ethernet Switch market revenues grew 50% in Q2 2006, Dell'Oro Group says.CiscoAlcatelNortelSiemensLucent...
Fibre Channel SAN switches up 1.6% in Q2 2006
The Fibre Channel storage area network switch market grew 1.6% QTQ in Q2 2006, from $377.2 mln to $383.4 mln. McData, Brocade and Cisco Systems were virtually tied for share of core product revenue, G...