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Vertical Systems Group:
Mid-2011 U.S. Business Ethernet LEADERBOARD
Competition heats up as
demand
for Ethernet services remains strong in the first half of the year.
BOSTON,
MA, AUGUST 16, 2011 --
Vertical Systems Group's Mid-Year 2011 U.S. Business Ethernet
Leaderboard expanded to include nine providers, according to new
research on enterprise installations of Ethernet services. The nine
providers (in rank order) are AT&T, Verizon, tw telecom, CenturyLink/Qwest,
Cox, Time Warner Cable, XO, Cogent and Level 3. The U.S. Leaderboard
ranks service providers that hold four percent (4%) or more of
billable retail ports.
"Competition heated up in the
U.S. market during the first half of 2011, with very strong
enterprise demand that is tracking the 30+% port growth we
quantified for 2010," said Rick Malone, principal at Vertical Systems
Group. "Also as expected, service provider consolidation
is having a measurable impact on the market. CenturyLink made its
Leaderboard debut in fourth position as a result of its merger with
Qwest. Among the pending Ethernet-related transactions we're
watching for the second half of the year are Level 3's acquisition
of Global Crossing, and Windstream's acquisition of Paetec."
Key results of Vertical's mid-year 2011 share analysis:
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The top three U.S. Ethernet
Leaderboard providers - AT&T, Verizon, and tw telecom - held
their respective positions in the first half of 2011.
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AT&T widened its lead over its closest
competitior, Verizon. -
CenturyLink entered the Leaderboard
in fourth position due to its merger with Qwest, which moves Cox
to fifth position. -
The port share differential between
the fourth and the ninth positions on the Mid-2011 U.S.
Leaderboard is only 3.1%.
Other providers delivering business Ethernet services in the U.S. market
include the following (in alphabetical order): AboveNet, Charter
Business, Comcast Business, Covad, Expedient, FiberLight, Frontier,
Global Crossing, Lightower, Masergy, NTT, Optimum Lightpath, Orange,
Paetec, Reliance Globalcom, Savvis, Sidera Networks, Sprint,
SuddenLink, Windstream, Zayo Group and others.
Detailed Ethernet market share results and in-depth analysis
are available
exclusively through Vertical Systems Group's
ENS
(Emerging Networks
Service) Research Programs.
About Vertical's
ENS Research
Programs
Vertical Systems Group's
ENS
Research Programs
feature web-based access to hundreds of research topics, plus
analyst support for your ad hoc requests or consultations. As
a comprehensive "real world" resource for business or product
planning,
ENS covers enterprise customer
migration across all broadband network services, providing more defensible analysis as compared to discrete market forecasts.
Research Tracks include @Ethernet,
@Access,
@Dedicated IP VPNs, @Fiber,
@Frame Relay,
@Private Lines,
@Broadband,
@ATM, @SURVEYFlash,
@STATFlash and more.
About Vertical Systems Group
Vertical Systems Group ( www.verticalsystems.com ) is recognized worldwide as a leading market research and strategic
consulting firm specializing in defensible quantification of the
networking industry. To speak with an analyst at Vertical
Systems Group, contact Erica Ambrose at +1.781.352.0700 or
eambrose@verticalsystems.com.
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