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Excerpt:
Retail Ethernet Bonanza
Telecommunications Online,
08/20/07
Offering expanded
bandwidth, flexibility, and lower cost than existing legacy FR or
ATM services, retail Ethernet services continue to gain the mind
share of both large and small enterprises alike.
And
Vertical Systems Group’s Mid-Year 2007 Market Share Results for U.S.
Business Ethernet Services market analysis supports that thesis.
Vertical’s analysis points out that despite some slight declines
from incumbent service providers, shows that yes Ethernet’s appeal
is indeed on the rise.
Not surprisingly, AT&T
and Verizon Business are the top two Ethernet service providers,
while competitor Time Warner Telecom came in as the third largest
provider. ...
Perhaps one of the
surprising points of the analysis was that Cox slid into the fifth
place spot with an 8.9 % Ethernet port share. This was the first
time an MSO has been noted as a top-tier Ethernet player. What’s
more, both Cox and competitive provider Cogent, which took fifth
place with 8.6% market share, beat out incumbent Qwest down from a
9.9% port share at 8.4%.
Still, Rosemary Cochran, Principal & Co-Founder of Vertical Systems
Group, cautions that all service providers face some inescapable
challenges in delivering a successful Ethernet service.
“We
see three market gaps, which are fiber, speed and pricing,” she
said. “If you have fiber, it’s easy to offer any service. It’s a
speed issue; if you’re starting at 10 Meg it makes it kind of
difficult to migrate some of those lower end sites, and if you’re
priced relatively higher then it makes it harder to sell.”
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