Asia Pacific Leading Metro Ethernet Services Market According to In-Stat.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Asia Pacific (APAC APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing APAC Agricultural Policy Analysis Center APAC Asia and Pacific APAC Asian Pacific American Coalition APAC Adapted Physical Activity Council (American Alliance for Health) ) is leading the market adoption of metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). services, as Japan and South Korea companies are entering the mass adoption stage, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). The APAC market registered 0.632 million business metro Ethernet service subscribers in 2005, the high-tech market research firm says. Most of them were in Japan and South Korea, and consisted mainly of small and medium-size enterprises that value the cost-effectiveness of metro Ethernet services for inter-office connectivity and high-speed Internet See broadband. access. The number of metro Ethernet service subscribers among APAC enterprises is forecasted to grow to over 2.648 million by 2010. "As service providers realize that the bandwidth flexibility metro Ethernet offers to enterprise users is greatly welcomed by customers, they will put more effort into developing market opportunities around basic metro Ethernet connectivity in the next five years," says Victor Liu Zhoujiao, In-Stat analyst. Recent research by In-Stat found the following: * For service providers, marketing and customer education will play an important role in getting customers to understand and subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; metro Ethernet services. * A wide selection of value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. will help operators to generate sustainable revenue from customers. * In the international sector, major regional and international bandwidth providers position metro Ethernet as a good replacement of legacy frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , and will accelerate market adoption. The research, "Metro Ethernet Asia" (#IN0602774ANT), covers the market for metro Ethernet services in Asia. It contains regional forecasts of metro Ethernet service revenue and subscribers through 2010, along with breakdowns for four Asian markets: China, Japan, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , and South Korea. It also includes analysis of major market providers' strategies and customer perceptions. For more information on this research or to purchase it on line, please visit: http://www.instat.com/catalog/bcatalogue.asp?id=238. To speak with a sales representative, please visit: http://www.instat.com/sales.asp. The price is $2,995 (US). About In-Stat Technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals and market specialists, worldwide, rely on In-Stat's experienced staff and in-depth research to support critical business, product and technology decisions. In-Stat's insights are derived from both a deep technology understanding and comprehensive research, which examines each segment of the value chain for each market. Regular and ongoing end-user demand and primary research surveys underpin much of the analysis, enabling In-Stat to provide incisive incisive /in·ci·sive/ (-si´siv) 1. having the power or quality of cutting. 2. pertaining to the incisor teeth. in·ci·sive adj. 1. Having the power to cut. market knowledge and guidance on future market opportunities. In-Stat is a strategic segment of the $9 billion Reed Elsevier global information network, with access to an expansive worldwide electronic network, extensive technology databases and well-informed personnel. As a member of Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. , In-Stat is a division of the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. |
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