Carrier Ethernet Still Ramping; By Ray Le Maistre

Light Reading reported that Heavy Reading’s research analyst Stan Hubbard said the market for carrier Ethernet infrastructure is still set to nearly double during the next five years, but the value of the market by 2012 will be somewhat below previous expectations due to increasing vendor competition and prevailing economic conditions. Hubbard said the market is on course to being worth more than $2.1 billion this year, but 2012 has been adjusted to be worth $3.74 billion, compared with the previous forecast of about $4.3 billion. Although 2012 is slated for a slight decline, Hubbard noted that the numbers still represent an immense amount of business to be won in the coming years.