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Cost Considerations in 40G Networks

Off late, optical backbones and metro core networks are predominantly 10G, on the verge of moving to 40G. But the challenges in the previous move from 2.5G to 10G are minor compared to those of moving from 10G to 40G, and the challenges moving on to 100G are even more...

Tags: Infonetics Research, 10G, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-03-01

Cisco-Infonetics Session Border Controller

Cisco and Infonetics Research, the premier international market research and consulting firm specializing in data networking and telecom, invite to discover how Cisco's integrated Session Border Control SBC solution can help to control and manage real-time multimedia communications sessions at the borders between IP networks. This Webcast discovers how to...

Tags: Session Border Controller, Cisco Systems Inc., Infonetics Research

Webcasts 2007-12-01

Microsoft unified communications product may have slow uptake

Infonetics Research's latest Enterprise Telephony Report is out.One prediction made by Infonetics Research analyst Matthias Machowinski is a real eye-opener. And it is not the projection that while even increasing 1% in 1Q 2007, the first rise in six quqrtersTDM PBX phone system as opposed to IP PBX sales are...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, microsoft, Case Studies

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Infonetics: multiple location configurability is enterprise VoIP's killer app

Infonetics Research is out with User Plans for VoIP, North America 2006, a new study that among other findings, quantifies why enteprises are deploying VoIP. In other words, the drivers.conducted in-depth interviews with 240 small, medium, and large organizations that use VoIP products and/or services now or will by...

Tags: VoIP

Blog posts 2006-05-10

Infonetics Research: Enforcing Network Access Control: Market Outlook and Worldwide Forecast

Download this report from Infonetics Research to read about the maturation of the Network Access Control NAC market and the three types of NAC enforcement solutions that are available today: Network-integrated NAC enforcement devices (e.g., switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) NAC enforcement appliances SSL VPNs...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Network, SSL, Aventail Corp., Infonetics Research, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Network Security, Security

White papers 2006-01-01

Global optical network revenues down 10% in Q1 2005

Worldwide optical network hardware revenue decreased 10% to $2.3 billion between Q4 2004 and Q1 2005, a drop that was anticipated after the market surged 21% between Q3 2004 and Q4 2004, according to Infonetics Research. Typically many manufacturers are down in the first quarter of the year after showing...

Tags: Q4 2004, Q1 2005, optical network, revenue, Infonetics Research

Blog posts 2005-06-20

Asian telecom capex spending to grow 3% in 2005

Infonetics Research forecasts a 3% rise in Asian telco capital expenditures in 2005, bringing spending levels to $54.2 bln, compared to $52.4 bln in 2004. The spending increase paralleled a growth in carrier revenues, which were up 11% last year to $257.2 bln. Infonetics expects revenue to increase 6% this...

Tags: Infonetics Research, telecommunications

Blog posts 2005-06-13

Cable Over VoIP subs increased ten-fold in 2004

Infonetics Research calculates that at the end of last year, there were "close to half a million" North American VoIP over cable subscribers. That's up from 50,000 at the end of 2003."North American cable companies increased their investments in VoIP equipment to keep up with surging subscriber growth, nearly doubling...

Tags: cable

Blog posts 2005-02-03

VOIP ports to grow at 15% CAGR

Infonetics predicts that VOIP ports will enjoy a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 15% over the next five years in the high-end enterprise router category, defined as modular platforms switching OC-3 (optical carrier level 3, equal to 155.52Mbps) to OC-12 (three OC-3) speeds. In the midrange categoryhandling bandwidth between...

Tags: compound annual growth rate, OC-3

Blog posts 2004-09-03

Additional Resources

682,000 Wi-Fi phones sold in 2007

Sales of Wi-Fi phones increased by more than 60% in 2007, according to Infonetics Research. Last year vendors sold 682,000 Wi-Fi phones worldwide, compared to 358,000 in 2006. by AM

Tags: Phone, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecom & Utilities, AM

Blog posts 2008-03-27

VoIP: Cisco Goes to Number Two

Love ‘em or hate ‘em you most certainly have to respect the VoIP folk over at Cisco. According to Infonetics, they’ve just moved into the number two spot behind Avaya in worldwide IP deskphone and softphone shipments. Cisco grew at the expense of its competitors. "Cisco took...

Tags: VoIP, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Enabling the Mobile Worker

The percentage of North American small, medium and large organizations deploying Wireless Local Area networks WLANs will jump from 56% in 2005 to 85% by 2010 (source: Infonetics Research Study, 2006). But as the number of satellite and remote workers continues to increase, small businesses are uniquely challenged to keep...

Tags: Mobile, WLAN, Small Business, CDW Corp., Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

Webcasts 2008-03-01

Report: sales of carrier-grade routers and switches up 16% in 2007

That's the carrier-strength Cisco 12000 Series Router and its configuration. Suitable intro to a new report from Infonetics Research that says that worldwide sales of service provider routers and switches totaled $11.2 billion in 2007, up 16%  from 2006. The...

Tags: Router, Sales, Cisco Systems Inc., Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-26

ProCurve Power Center

Networks you can trust ProCurve Networking by HP provides secure networking products, services and solutions—for the changing needs of your business. Engineered for open-industry standards, our award-winning networking switches are affordable and scalable for businesses of all sizes. You can depend on ProCurve's 25 years of networking experience for your...

Tags: Network, HP ProCurve, ProCurve ProActive Defense ProCurve ProActive Defense, Utility Computing, Networking

Resource centers 2007-10-02

Analysts: pure play VoIP companies have "no future"

If you thought that the prospects for Vonage and other "pure play," non-bundled VoIP services were bleak, just wait until you read analysts comments contained in a newly published piece by Kelly Teal on xchange magazine's xchange online site.First, Kelly makes the point that margins for voice services have been...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Vonage

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Implementing Voice Over Wireless Networks: Realities and Challenges

Voice over Wireless Fidelity (VoWi-Fi) presents wireless network designers with a difficult challenge because introducing high bandwidth wireless applications such as VoWi-Fi can cause wireless networks to suffer a loss of Quality of Service QoS, and in many cases, fail. This is important today because, according to a January 2006...

Tags: Network, Voice, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2006-08-01

53 mln IPTV subscribers by 2009

Worldwide IPTV service revenue will skyrocket to over $44 bln in 2009, according to Infonetics Research. DSL providers account for the bulk of service revenue now, but cable broadband providers will also migrate to all-IP triple-play services in the next few years, possibly offering wireless services as well.Service providers anticipate...

Tags: IP television

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Router shipments up 14% in 2005

According to Infonetics Research, the global enterprise market shipped 14% more routers in 2005 than 2004. Despite that growth, pricing pressures actually caused a 3% decline in overall revenues to $3.3 bln, down from $3.4 bln in 2004. Secure router revenues on a YTY basis grew by 121% to $803...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, router

Blog posts 2006-02-19

Broadband subscriber growth in Q2 2005

Broadband subscriber growth (Cable Broadband + DSL) from to Infonetics Research:Asia Pacific: grew from 36.7 mln in Q2 2004 to 57.3 mln in Q2 2005 (56% increase)Europe: grew from 28.5 mln in Q2 2004 to 46.7 mln in Q2 2005 (64% increase)North America: grew from 33.1 mln in Q2 2004...

Tags: Q2 2005, Q2 2004, broadband

Blog posts 2006-02-08

Capex spending by public telecom carriers up 6% in 2005

Public carriers in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific have increased their capital expenditures two years in a row now, and are expected to increase them again for a third consecutive year in 2005, according to Infonetics Research. Carriers in the three regions are expected to increase their capital spending...

Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, telecommunications, carrier

Blog posts 2006-02-08