Asia Pacific (APAC) is leading the market adoption of metro Ethernet services, as Japan and South Korea companies are entering the mass adoption stage, reports In-Stat. The APAC market registered 0.632 million business metro Ethernet service subscribers in 2005, the high-tech market research firm says. Most of them were in Japan and South Korea, and consisted mainly of small and medium-size enterprises that value the cost-effectiveness of metro Ethernet services for inter-office connectivity and high-speed Internet access. The number of metro Ethernet service subscribers among APAC enterprises is forecasted to grow to over 2.648 million by 2010.
"As service providers realize that the bandwidth flexibility metro Ethernet offers to enterprise users is greatly welcomed by customers, they will put more effort into developing market opportunities around basic metro Ethernet connectivity in the next five years," says Victor Liu Zhoujiao, In-Stat analyst.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
- For service providers, marketing and customer education will play an important role in getting customers to understand and subscribe to metro Ethernet services.
- A wide selection of value-added services will help operators to generate sustainable revenue from customers.
- In the international sector, major regional and international bandwidth providers position metro Ethernet as a good replacement of legacy frame relay, and will accelerate market adoption.
The research, ‘Metro Ethernet Asia’, covers the market for metro Ethernet services in Asia. It contains regional forecasts of metro Ethernet service revenue and subscribers through 2010, along with breakdowns for four Asian markets: China, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. It also includes analysis of major market providers' strategies and customer perceptions.
This research is part of In-Stat's Asia Networking/Telecom Service, which has been developed to identify specific opportunities for infrastructure equipment manufacturers and technology providers in these exciting markets. Focused on analyzing and forecasting key market and service segments, this research provides a by-country extension of In-Stat's highly regarded networking services. Dynamic Asian markets, including China, India, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, are sized and scoped for segments including VoIP, WiMAX, consumer and business WiFi and FTTX. From the manufacturing perspective, competitors, business models, market shares of key suppliers, industry agendas, shipment/deployment of infrastructure equipment and products are analyzed. On the services side, market dynamics, buying behavior, business models, and deployment plans are examined.
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