Heavy Reading, the prestigious market research division of CMP's Light Reading, launched a brand-new service that tracks one of the telecom industry's most dynamic and important emerging product sectors: the Ethernet backhaul market. The new tracker provides granular market data, including forecasts for key product types such as Ethernet microwave, Ethernet in the First Mile, and Ethernet-enabled base stations.
This special Heavy Reading product delivers a global perspective on the transition of cellular networks from TDM-based backhaul to IP/Ethernet-based backhaul. Distributed in PowerPoint format, this market tracker provides forecasts through 2011 for the adoption of new Ethernet capabilities throughout the cellular network; considers the relative prospects for different types of Ethernet backhaul technology; and analyzes which features cellular operators will require in the future.
The tracker also highlights key vendor wins in the Ethernet backhaul space, providing granular insight into this emerging market sector unavailable from any other source. Heavy Reading's new Ethernet Backhaul Quarterly Market Tracker delivers a global perspective on the rate at which cellular networks in different regions of the world will undertake the transition from TDM-based backhaul to IP/Ethernet-based backhaul. It also forecasts carrier requirements for features such as ATM, IP/MPLS, pseudowires, and native Ethernet switching through 2011.
The tracker considers the different drivers for the technology and provides forecasts for the adoption of new Ethernet capabilities in RAN nodes, in the last mile, and deeper in the aggregation and metro transport parts of the network. The quarterly tracking service also highlights key vendor wins in the Ethernet backhaul space and assesses the implications for vendor positioning, providing granular, global insight into this emerging market sector unavailable from other sources.
The transition to Ethernet backhaul will take place in the context of the availability of high-performance, low-cost, widely available carrier Ethernet services from wireline service providers on the one hand, and the willingness of cellular network planners to outsource their Ethernet backhaul service requirements or build these new networks themselves on the other. The first edition of this tracker singles out the following vendors as being at the forefront of the transition to Ethernet backhaul in cellular networks: Alcatel Lucent, Ceragon, Huawei, RAD Data, and Tellabs.
Unique in both its focus on the transition to Ethernet and the scope it takes in depicting that transition across L1, L2, and L3 across the cell site, aggregation, or hub and metro networks, the first edition of the Ethernet Backhaul Quarterly Market Tracker includes forecasts for the penetration of ATM, IP/MPLS, as well as TDM- and ATM-variant pseudowires across the network.
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