If an old sentiment about cable companies holds true in this new era of communications – that cable executives tend to move slowly when evaluating new technologies but act swiftly once a decision is made – then 2007 is likely to be the year that MSOs (multiple system operators) take major strides in their run toward offering high-bandwidth voice and data business services. And recent movements suggest that carrier Ethernet is the technology horse MSOs are betting on to access and serve those business customers....

Vertical Systems Group, for its part, forecasts $5 billion of cumulative revenue for Ethernet services below 10 Mbps. “And this growth in popularity is among small and medium businesses, among remote and branch offices of large businesses,” says Louise Wasilewski, vice president business development for Narad Networks. “These are the very customers that cable operators are very well positioned to target and to serve because of the nature of the hybrid fiber coax plant that cable operators already have in place.”

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