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Carrier Infrastructure The Current Analysis Carrier Infrastructure module covers the significant companies, technologies, and strategies that are shaping the world of the carrier, Internet service provider, and network service provider in the public network environment. This module provides coverage in four market segments: Carrier Core Switch/Routing, Carrier Edge Switch/Routing, Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet Access and Aggregation Routers, and Mobile Backhaul for Radio Access Networks.
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Follow the links below to read free newsletters, highlights, analyst news flashes, telebriefing replays, and samples of recent Current Analysis Competitive Intelligence from the Carrier Infrastructure module. Ciena Adds to Its Carrier Ethernet Line to Enable Carriers to Expand Service Delivery - 4/20/2009 Alcatel-Lucent Steps Further into the Mobile Core - Offering Its End to End LTE Solution - 4/1/2009 Nortel Bankruptcy Filing Casts Doubt on Future Path – The Carrier Networks Perspective - 1/14/2009 Alcatel-Lucent Continues on its Whirlwind Set of Strategic Shifts – Hedges for No Surprises During a Lean 2009 - 12/12/2008 Cisco Unveils the ASR 9000 to Navigate Tomorrow’s Ethernet Services Edge – the Viking Has Landed - 11/11/2008 Juniper’s “Green” Investment Pays Dividends as Its MX-series and T-series Gains Visibility - 11/4/2008 Mobile Backhaul Evolution: Why the Transport Network is Changing and How Vendors are Responding - 10/22/2008 Nortel less Carrier Ethernet less Optical Infrastructure less LTE Equals What? - 9/17/2008 Alcatel-Lucent’s New CEO and Chairman to Tackle Big Challenges - 9/3/2008 Brocade to Acquire Foundry Networks to Conquer WAN to SAN and Points In Between - 7/21/2008 NXTcomm08: Foundry Announces 320 Gbps Trunks, MPLS-Layer 2 Interworking, and BGP Stability Features - 6/16/2008 Juniper Launches New Mobile Backhaul Solution to Capture Growing Market Momentum - 4/1/2008 Cisco Delivers New Access Service Router Series to Recast the Network Edge - 3/4/2008 CeBIT: Extreme and Soapstone Demonstrate Dynamic PBB-TE Provisioning and Services - 3/4/2008 Juniper Steps Boldly to Meet Carrier Challenges – Puts JUNOS Control Plane Outside the Box - 2/25/2008 Ericsson and Redback to Grow Silicon Valley-based IP Unit - 2/5/2008 COVERAGE DESCRIPTION
The Current Analysis Carrier Infrastructure module covers the significant companies, technologies, and strategies that are shaping the world of the carrier, Internet service provider, and network service provider in the public network environment. This module provides coverage in four market segments: Carrier Core Switch/Routing, Carrier Edge Switch/Routing, Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet Access and Aggregation Routers, and Mobile Backhaul for Radio Access Networks. Core Switch/Routing focuses on switching and routing technologies used by Internet and network service providers at the core of the carrier network to provide backbone services. Technologies covered include IP routing systems (referred to as Terabit or scalable routers) as well as traditional and next generation ATM and MPLS-based systems. Carrier Edge Switch/Routing focuses on switching and routing technologies used by Internet and network service providers at the edge of the carrier network to connect to enterprise customers. Technologies covered include IP routers targeted at the edge of the carrier network as well as both traditional and next generation systems supporting ATM and MPLS. Carrier Ethernet covers next generation platforms that address the needs of carrier Ethernet service delivery and high density Ethernet aggregation. Carrier Ethernet routers provide Ethernet services with MPLS switching support, traffic engineering, rich QoS support, OA&M capabilities, are scalable and can support thousands of customers and services. Services include Ethernet virtual leased line (VLL), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), other Ethernet services such as high speed internet access, IP-VPN, and high density Ethernet aggregation. Support for triple play and emerging IPTV are key market drivers. The Carrier Ethernet Access and Aggregation Router market segment is comprised of next generation platforms that have been specifically designed to address the needs of carrier Ethernet service delivery at the access layers of the service provider’s network. These routers provide Ethernet services that support stringent traffic engineering, tiered or hierarchal QoS, and integrated OA&M capabilities. They also provide scalable solutions ranging to address the needs of smaller Points of Presence (PoPs) to the very large high density PoPs. The platforms in this segment are available in cost and footprint optimized configurations that enable a service provider to right-size its locations to match current and projected traffic and service needs. Typical services required by service providers are Ethernet virtual leased line (VLL), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), other Ethernet services such as high speed Internet access, IP-VPN, and Ethernet aggregation. The Mobile Backhaul for Radio Access Networks market consists of radio access network (RAN) access and aggregation infrastructure, which is used to support wireless wide area network services using licensed RF spectrums in the case of GSM/UMTS and CDMA2000 networks, license-exempt spectrum for metro-scale WiFi, and WiMAX for high-speed data and voice over IP (VoIP) services based on the 802.16 standard and alternative technologies. The mobile operator’s approach to establishing an effective RAN backhaul network strategy will depend largely upon the types of services the operator offers or plans to offer as well as current factors such as the multi-generational aspects of the base stations currently deployed at its cell sites, the availability of specific access (backhaul) transport infrastructures at its disposal, and the new equipment being considered that will enable it to offer new high value data and video-rich services. |
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