In-Stat Finds AdvancedTCA Making Gains in Growing Open Standards Chassis Market.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- AdvancedTCA will make its mark in the steadily growing Open Standards Chassis (OSC) market over the next several years, according to In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). The AdvancedTCA portion of the OSC market will grow steadily from $221 million in 2004 to multiple billions of dollars in 2009, the high-tech market research firm forecasts. There are several drivers pushing along the AdvancedTCA and overall OSC markets. A recent driver is telecommunications providers that are attracted to OSCs in networking equipment because of potential cost savings.

"When you look at which types of companies are advocating standardized chassis, you find that they are mostly either chipmakers or Network Equipment Providers (NEPs)," said Eric Mantion, In-Stat analyst. "However, In-Stat expects to see service providers start to support these standards, as they become more aware of how these specifications can help improve their own bottom line."

In-Stat has also found that:

--The overall OSC market includes many platforms beside AdvancedTCA, including CompactPCI, CompactTCA, MicroTCA and IBM's BladeCenter.

--There is an extra layer of optimism surrounding OSCs since it seems very likely that merchant silicon makers will springboard off this platform to truly bring about the shorter time-to-market metrics that have been promised over the last several years.

--Standardized hardware can help to make the creators of equipment more profitable, while still driving the cost to service providers down, so that they too can improve their margins.

--While the communications market is expected to be the first area of growth for the AdvancedTCA, it will also start penetrating into other markets, such as military, medical/industrial, and, eventually, enterprise.

The report, "The AdvancedTCA Market Slowly Builds Momentum" (#IN0501810NT), examines the penetration of standardized chassis into many different types of networking-related equipment. Forecasts for the growth of standardized chassis through 2009 are included. All future revenues for a particular market are the product of the projected revenues for that entire market and the expected penetration rate of standardized chassis for that year. For more information on this report, please visit http://www.instat.com/catalog/Ncatalogue.asp?id=28 or contact Courtney McEuen at 480-483-4454 or [e-mail]. The report price is $3,495.

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