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Ethernet Services

Joel Stradling
Senior Analyst Business, Telecom Services Europe

David Hold
Senior Analyst Business, Telecom Services U.S.

Oct 18, 2006

Carrier Ethernet is clearly a high growth market presenting new opportunities to carriers. In this telebriefing, Joel Stradling and David Hold, both Senior Analysts in Business Network Services at Current Analysis, not only examine the drivers of interest in Ethernet, but also highlight service evolutions and aspects of the most competitive offers

Current Analysis examines the key questions to help make sense of today’s market and understand where it is heading tomorrow. We answer questions such as:

  • What are the key features in the Ethernet portfolios of the major vendors?
  • What are the main buying criteria for prospective customers?
  • What is the impact of emerging service and equipment standards?
  • Is there a threat to traditional data network service revenues?
  • How should carrier NGN promote Ethernet in both transport and for services?

Telebriefing Contents


- Introduction
- Agenda
- Ethernet Services Overview: Background
- Ethernet Services Overview: Advantages
- Ethernet Services Overview: MEF & Standards
- Ethernet Services Overview: NGN & Ethernet
- Ethernet Services Overview: Drawbacks
- Ethernet Services Overview: Competing Approaches
- Ethernet Services Overview: Ethernet Versus IP VPN in Europe
- Ethernet Services Overview: Incumbents versus Alternative Players in Europe
- Ethernet Services Overview: Aspects of a Competitive Offer (Europe)
- Ethernet Services Overview: Potential Weaknesses (Europe)
- Current Analysis Ethernet Product Assessment
- U.S. Carrier Ethernet Offers: AT&T
- U.S. Carrier Ethernet Offers: Verizon Business
- U.S. Carrier Ethernet Offers: BellSouth, Qwest, Time Warner, Masergy
- U.S. Carrier Ethernet Offers: Sprint, Others, Cable MSOs
- General Findings
- A Unique Selection of Country-level Offers (Europe)
- VSNL (Pan-European Offerings)
- Orange Business Services: ‘Ethernet Link’
- BT Global Services ‘LAN/SAN Extension’
- Interoute
- COLT Telecom ‘LANLink’and ‘Switched Ethernet VPN’
- Next Steps & the Future of Carrier Ethernet
- Conclusions


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Featured Product Intelligence
Ethernet Services (U.S.)
► AT&T
► Masergy
► Qwest
► Sprint Nextel
► Time Warner Telecom
► Verizon Business
Click here to find out whose service is rated best.
Services are evaluated on availability, E-Line service, E-LAN services, VPLS, reliability, pricing, and platform.

Featured Product Intelligence
Ethernet Services (Europe)
► BT
► Colt Telecom
► Interoute
► Orange Business Services
► Verizon Business
Click here to find out whose service is rated best.
Services are evaluated on geographic network and service presence and reach, service content, quality, variety and flexibility, and sla guarantees and performance parameters.