Report Predicts That Market For Integrated Access Devices To Reach More Than 1.6 Million Units.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new report from Communications Industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. Researchers (CIR (Committed Information Rate) In a frame relay network, the average transmission rate in bits per second (typically Kbps) for a virtual circuit. It defines the maximum rate that the network can handle under normal conditions. ), the market for broadband integrated access devices could expand to more than 1.6 million devices by 2003 (see chart on page 4). CIR claims that three key factors are driving this market: The rises of large, technology-savvy Completely Connected Enterprises (CCE CCE Cornell Cooperative Extension CCE Corporate and Continuing Education CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE Commission de Coopération Environnementale CCE Centre for Continuing Education CCE College of Continuing Education CCE Certified Computer Examiner ). Like other businesses, these large companies will deploy integrated access devices to leverage legacy services to best meet their internal needs as well as to use broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. for improving customer interactions and service delivery. The growing reliance of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on e-commerce. This will result in anything less than 1 Mbps access being inadequate for their purposes and hence growing demands for broadband access platforms. The emergence of multi-tenant offices. This opens up opportunities for tenants to be offered a range of sophisticated telecommunications services by a single service provider across an integrated access platform. The report (Beyond T1/E1 1999-2000 Volume 2, US Business Markets) notes that these trends are already leading vendors to change their broadband integrated access product strategies, since previous generations of integrated access devices lacked the ability to support key applications for the CCE and SME market segments. The new CIR cites products such as the Promatory/Nortel Intelligent Multiservice Access System (IMAS IMAS International Mine Action Standards IMAS Intelligent Multiservice Access System (Promatory Communications) IMAS International Museum of Art and Science (McAllen, Texas) ) and the Lucent "Stinger" as products that are pointing the way for the next generation of integrated access devices and says that it also believes that other companies such as Cisco, Alcatel and ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. will do well in this market, which now expects "the functionality of an integrated access device to be the same as that once found only in multi-million dollar ATM central office switching gear."
Broadband Integrated Access Systems,
US Market Potential
(Units in Installed Base)
Conservative Optimistic
Year Scenario Scenario
2000 384,974 530,232
2001 553,845 856,234
2002 586,799 1,214,840
2003 1,010,675 1,664,810
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