Telecom/Datacom Test Equipment Markets to Grow At 10 Percent Rate, Top $1 Billion, Driven By New Technologies.the rapid spread of networking and the demands of multiple new communications technologies Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry , worldwide sales of telecommunications and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. test equipment will grow from $724 million in 1995 to $1.27 million by the year 2001 at a 10 percent compound annual rate, projects a new study just released by Frost & Sullivan. Protocol analyzers will increase their already dominant revenue share of the total market from 73 percent in 1995 to 75 percent in 2001 while shares of other test equipment categories correspondingly decline slightly in the same period, forecasts the report, WORLD TELECOM/DATACOM TEST EQUIPMENT MARKET. Bit and block error rate testers accounted for 21 percent of 1995 market revenues and transmission impairment measurement sets and butt sets 3 percent each, 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. the study. Market development is being spurred in large part by a wide variety of new technologies requiring protocol analysis including ATM, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , SONET and Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. . LANs and WANs of all kinds are meanwhile proliferating worldwide, requiring installation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting and monitoring, tasks in turn requiring protocol analyzers. Private networks are contributing the most to driving test equipment market growth, with the most rapid growth in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . Carrier networks meanwhile are expanding service regions and offerings. Governments worldwide are sponsoring major upgrades of national communications infrastructures. Equipment manufacturers continue to buy test equipment in steady streams. While government agency and defense end-users are facing budget cuts, they are also taking increased responsibility for network maintenance and so requiring more test equipment. End-users increasingly want testing to be so easy that non- technical personnel can manage networks as office managers in smaller companies assume such responsibilities. Private networkers particularly are demanding greater analysis capabilities. While direct sales forces are growing, most vendors use distributors to penetrate international markets, and will do so increasingly based on local operators' superior knowledge of local markets and the inability of most firms to afford sales offices in every country. Technological improvements like smaller, faster microprocessors and circuitry have brought smaller test units. Following development of portable units, hand-held instruments were developed, now shrinking in turn to pocket-sized devices. Besides shrinking, test equipment is becoming increasingly multi-functional. Field service personnel are particularly demanding such equipment to cut the number of separate items technicians need to take to job sites. Software-only protocol analyzers are becoming increasingly popular as microprocessors become more powerful. Dedicated analyzers are less necessary to meet demands of most end-users, although they will still be valued for higher capture and decode (1) To convert coded data back into its original form. Contrast with encode. (2) Same as decrypt. See cryptography. (cryptography) decode - To apply decryption. rates. Butt sets are reaching maturity in several regions due to application restrictions while transmission impairment measurement sets (TIMS TIMS Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry TIMS The Institute of Management Sciences TIMS Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner TIMS Transportation Information Management System TIMS The International Molinological Society TIMS Tuberculosis Information Management System ) are being phased out with the conversion to digital transmission technology. Frost & Sullivan is an international high-technology research firm. All Frost & Sullivan reports are based on extensive interviews with marketing and technical experts from selected companies in each market segment. Primary research is validated by thorough analysis of available secondary research. Frost & Sullivan is the leading publisher worldwide of high-technology research reports. Report: 919-30 Publication Date: January 1996 Price: $2495 CONTACT: Frost & Sullivan Jonathan Moore Jonathan Moore, son of international coach Aston Moore (former athlete and coach to Ashia Hansen) began his career his by gaining the English School’s title in 1999 and Gold in the same event in 2000. , 415/961-9000 Kristina Menzefricke, 44 171 730 3438 Nadge Keryhuel, 33 1 4742 9127 |
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