Research and Markets: IP/CESR Market Update: Analysis of the Market Drivers and Restraints, Industry Trends and Competitive Environment

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a8fd3c/ipcesr_market_upd) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "IP/CESR Market Update" to their offering.

“With significant progress being made in Ethernet synchronization standards and implementation of the same in products, 2011 is poised to be the take off year for Ethernet for mobile backhaul, delayed mainly by the macroeconomic conditions and solidification of service provider migration strategy.”

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled IP/CESR Market Update provides an in-depth analysis of the market drivers and restraints, industry trends, and competitive environment in addition to the challenges and issues faced by participants. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following segments: carrier Ethernet Demarc, carrier Ethernet Access, carrier Ethernet Aggregation, and carrier Ethernet Service Edge.

Market Overview

Mobile Backhaul and Convergence of Networks Spearhead Growth in the IP/CESR Market

Mobile backhaul and convergence in the metro network are clearly the two most important drivers of the Internet Protocol/Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router (IP/CESR) market. Applications such as business services and IPTV infrastructure are expected to continue on an upward trajectory during 2010; however, real growth is being fuelled by the migration to next-generation backhaul equipment and convergence. In the past couple of years, and especially in 2009, vendors were focused on incorporating synchronization in their carrier Ethernet/IP MPLS solution to address the mobile backhaul market. From product feature perspective, this, along with carrier Ethernet operation, administration and maintenance (OAM), end-to-end management solutions and service assurance features, has enabled rapid adoption of carrier Ethernet for mobile backhaul.

"Besides its advantage of cost attractiveness, Ethernet also offers other advantages such as modular upgrade of bandwidth which allows service providers to align costs with growth," notes the analyst of this research service. "With significant progress being made in Ethernet synchronization standards and implementation of the same in products, 2011 is poised to be the take off year for Ethernet for mobile backhaul, delayed mainly by the macroeconomic conditions and solidification of service provider migration strategy." The expected growth in the mobile backhaul market is based on very strong drivers such as adoption of mobile broadband driven by wireless devices, especially smart phones such as the iPhone.

The greatest challenge for participants in the IP/CESR market is the lack of visibility into the migration strategy of communication service providers. Besides, the deployments are of an exceedingly complex nature and service providers are trying to address multiple goals simultaneously, such as capital and operational expenditure reduction and new service creation to generate revenue. In terms of the competitive landscape, the IP/CESR market is concentrated with the top three vendors constituting more than fifty percent of the market share. "In regions such as Asia Pacific this aspect is further magnified by the presence of strong regional vendors such as Huawei," says Raina. "It is vital for vendors to enhance portfolio depth especially related to mobile backhaul and convergence of networks."

Going forward continued mobile subscriber growth, mobile broadband, and upgrade to 4G networks will sustain market momentum. With vendors phasing their products into carrier Ethernet 2.0, the competition is set to intensify. Vendors in this market can capitalize on the opportunities in the rapidly growing applications and emerging markets by proactively addressing service provider requirements with regards to convergence and mobile backhaul and leveraging existing and new global or regional partnerships that provide breadth and/or depth to the product portfolio.

Market Sectors

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research: