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.
Victor Liu Zhoujiao, analyst, In-Stat, said, “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.”
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.
Source:
In-Stat
