European Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market

Frost & Sullivan, January 2012, Pages: 36

This research titled European Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market provides a comprehensive overview of key market drivers and restraints. Revenue forecasts and discussions on competitive structure are included. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: 1 gigabit test equipment (1GbE), 10 gigabit test equipment (10GbE), and 40/100 gigabit test equipment markets (40/100GbE).

Market Overview

Explosion in Data/Video to Promote Demand for Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment in Europe

The gigabit Ethernet (GbE) market is growing rapidly, driven by maturing technologies and business models, and increasing market awareness of both the availability of such services and their specific benefits. The hype around cloud technologies has also contributed to the growing demand for GbE. “Bandwidth growth is expected to be pushed by the increasing mobile and Internet bandwidth usage—which includes traffic generated by videos, gaming, and peer-to-peer applications, triple-play applications, inter-data centre traffic, and traffic between data centres and enterprises,” notes the analyst of this research. “The evolution of access network to gigabit Ethernet is expected to drive the growth of10Gb Ethernet in the metro network.”

The market is being driven by converged data and applications such as data, voice, audio, gaming, and social networking sites. According to the IEEE P802.3ba specification, 100G and 40G are well aligned with the projected need for more network bandwidth because of multiplay deployments. Another positive trend will be the increased need for monitoring and security that will impel the need for network analysis and hence, gigabit Ethernet test equipment.

Commoditisation of 1GbE Prices Threatens Market Prospects

Despite being far from a mature market, commoditisation of 1GbE prices continues to erode overall revenue per port. This will prove a significant challenge to market prospects.

“Time-to-market will emerge a critical aspect of product differentiation, as over time the competition starts offering comparable features,” adds the analyst. “As products get standardised, they enable interoperability while simultaneously creating a competitive environment.” This is triggering the need for high investments in R&D. Vendors are continuing to invest in R&D to stay ahead of their competitors, even while keeping track of service providers’ infrastructure upgrades and new service enablement. Factors like price, geographic coverage, customer service and multi-functional product capabilities will also play an important role in ensuring competitive success.

Market Sectors

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:

- 1GbE test equipment market
- 10GbE test equipment market
- 40/100GbE test equipment market

1. Executive Summary

1.1 Market Overview

1.2 Revenue Analysis

1.3 Competitive Analysis

2. European Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market

2.1 Market Overview and Definitions

2.2 Market Engineering Measurements

2.3 Market Drivers

2.4 Market Restraints

2.5 Revenue Forecasts

2.6 Competitive Structure

2.7 Market Share Analysis

3. Decision Support Base

4. About Frost & Sullivan

List of Figures

- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Market Drivers Ranked in Order of Impact (Europe), 2011-2015
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Market Restraints Ranked in Order of Impact (Europe), 2011-2015
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Revenue Forecast (Europe), 2007-2015
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Competitive Structure (Europe), 2010
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Company Market Share by Revenue (Europe), 2010
- Decision Support Database: Number of Internet Subscribers (Global), 2002-2012
- Decision Support Database: Telecommunication Spending by Business Subscribers (Global), 2002-2012
- Decision Support Database: Telecommunication Spending by Government Subscribers (Global), 2002-2012
- Decision Support Database: Telecommunication Spending by Residential Subscribers (Global), 2002-2012
- Decision Support Database: Total Broadband Subscribers (Global), 2002-2012

List of Charts

- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Revenue Forecast (Europe), 2007, 2010, and 2015
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Competitive Structure (Europe), 2010
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Market Share of Participants (Europe), 2010
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Market Engineering Measurements (Europe), 2010
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Revenue Forecast (Europe), 2007-2015
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Revenue Forecasts of 1, 10, 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment (Europe), 2007-2015
- Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market: Company Market Share by Revenue (Europe), 2010

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