Infonetics: Carrier Routing/Switching Sales Rise in Q2
The global service provider router and switch market, including carrier Ethernet switches and IP edge and core routers, grew 4% in 2Q12 from the previous quarter, to $3.5 billion, according...
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Infonetics: Optical Network Spending up 15% Sequentially in 2Q12
The global optical network equipment market-WDM and SONET/SDH-grew 15% in 2Q12 from the previous quarter, but is down 10% from the year-ago 2nd quarter, according to new analysis released by...
NSN Tracks a 54% Rise in Mobile Data in India over 7 Months
Mobile data traffic in India spiked 54% between December 2011 and June 2012, according to a newly released MBit Index report from Nokia Siemens Networks. The report aggregates real data...
Vertical Systems Group: Mid-2012 U.S. Business Ethernet LEADERBOARD
Vertical Systems Group's Mid-2012 results for the U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard are as follows (in rank order based on port share): AT&T, Verizon, tw telecom, CenturyLink, Cox, XO, Time Warner...
Dell’Oro Forecasts LTE Equipment Revenues to 2016
The Mobile Radio Access Network (RAN) LTE equipment market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 50 percent over the next five years,...
Dell’Oro: Wireless LAN Market to Expand by Over 50 Percent in 2016
Overall Wireless LAN market revenues are forecast to reach almost $10 billion in 2016, an increase of 54% over 2011 revenues, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The...
Parks Associates: AsiaPac to overtake North America in LTE Subscriptions
The Asia & Pacific region is poised to overtake North America this year in number of 4G/LTE subscribers, thanks to large gains in South Korea and Japan, according to a new report from Parks Associates....
Infonetics: Carriers Like 100GE, MPLS, SDN, But Not So Much 40G
A new Infonetics survey of global carriers on their SDN, 40G/100G, and MPLS Control Plane Strategies finds a strong interest in software-defined networking (SDN) to simplify network provisioning. "The networking...
Infonetics: Global Market for IP/MPLS and Ethernet Services Surges Ahead
Both IP MPLS VPNs and Ethernet services grew at a combined 13% in 2011 to just over $50 billion, fueled by surging data traffic, cloud services, and cost-cutting initiatives, according...
Infonetics: Mobile Services to Hit $976 Billion by 2016
Infonetics Research is predicting that the mobile services market worldwide will grow to $976 billion by 2016, with the bulk of the growth coming from mobile broadband services. The firm's...
Gartner Predicts Public Cloud Services to Grow $200 Billion by 2016
Gartner is forecasting that worldwide IT spending will reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion -- a slightly faster growth pace than...
Infonetics: Demand for DDoS Prevention Solutions is Hot
Sustained DDoS activity will drive the market for DDoS prevention appliances to 24% growth in 2012 over 2011, according to a new report from Infonetics. “While the market for dedicated...
Cisco Forecasts 4X Global IP Traffic by 2016
By 2016, annual global IP traffic is forecast to be 1.3 zettabytes – (a zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes, or a trillion gigabytes), according to the newly issued...
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