European, Middle Eastern and African market for LAN switches continued to decline in port shipments and revenues compared to the previous quarter. The overall LAN switch market in EMEA declined by 1.4% to 16.2 mln ports in Q3 2004, compared with 16.4 mln in Q2 2004, and revenue decreased 6.1%...
European, Middle Eastern and African market for LAN switches continued to decline in port shipments and revenues compared to the previous quarter. The overall LAN switch market in EMEA declined by 1.4% to 16.2 mln ports in Q3 2004, compared with 16.4 mln in Q2 2004, and revenue decreased 6.1%...
Online-advertising revenue was a record $2.37 bln in Q2 2004 as the industry continued to push past the levels reached during the dot-com boom, according to IAB. Interactive Advertising Bureau said revenue in the quarter ended June 30 was up 43% YTY and up 6.2% QTQ. First-half revenue was $4.6...
US Commerce Department said revenues in information services rose 4.4% to $230.09 bln in the April-to-June quarter from the previous three months, reversing a 5.2% drop in the January-to-March quarter. Broadcasting and telecommunications, the largest component of information services, grew 4.3% in Q2 2004 with revenues of $127.93 bln. Publishing...
Q2 EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) results from IDC show that the EMEA WLAN market declined by 10% QTQ in Q2 2004 but is up 188% YTY, reaching a total end-user revenue of $320 mln. Price erosion and lower shipments of access points and add-on clients are the main cause...
Spending on Linux servers grew in double digits for the eighth straight quarter in Q2, according to IDC. YTY revenue grew 48.9% and unit shipments were up more than 38%. QTQ revenue was down 8.1% and unit shipments down 8.4%. A recent survey of 195 North American chief information officers...
Worldwide WLAN hardware revenue reached $719.5 mln in Q2 2004, up 3% from Q1 2004, and will grow 9% to $786.2 mln by Q2 2005, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly market share service, Wireless LAN APs, Switches and NICs. The analysts say competition further eroded ASPs and Cisco took top...
Worldwide enterprise router revenue totaled $859 mln in Q3 2005, up 8% over Q2 2005 and 3% over Q3 2004. Unit shipments are up 3% sequentially and 27% annually. Secure router revenue jumped 21% between Q2 2005 and Q3 2005, and has more than doubled since Q3 2004. Cisco dominates...
Asia/Pacific's server market went up by 22% in Q2 2005 from Q2 2004 and revenue by 16%. Blade servers registered excellent growth, to account for 4% of the units shipped, Gartner reports.
VOIP service revenue in North America will grow 18x between 2004 and 2009, from $1.24 bln to $23.4 bln, according to Infonetics Research. More than $62 bln will be spent on VoIP services over the 5-year forecast period. VoIP subscriber growth is skyrocketing right along with revenue growth: Infonetics is...
PC shipments to Europe, the Middle East and Africa grew 20.3% in Q2 2005 compared with Q2 2004. But revenue grew just 8% for the same period, despite the strong shipment growth, Gartner noted.
Revenue for wireless LAN equipment was flat in Q2 2005 due to seasonality, but was up 17% YTY, In-Stat reports. Total worldwide Wi-Fi revenue for Q2 2005 was $741.3 mln, up from $613 mln in Q2 2004. Quarter over quarter revenue was up by less than 1%. The market is...
Q2 2005 shipments of servers in Latin America grew by 17% on Q2 2004, to over 52,400, but revenue fell 11% as sales of high-end systems declined. Hewlett-Packard shipped the most machines, and IBM made the most revenue, Gartner said.
The member revenue numbers for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America for the the first half of 2005 saw the industry accumulating $1.8 bln in revenue at the end of Q2 2005, representing an increase of 10.2% from Q2 2004 and continuing a two-year growth trend. Industry revenue for the...
According to IDC, the worldwide security appliance market grew factory revenue 16.6% YTY to $613 mln dollars in Q2 2005, marking the 9th consecutive quarter of double-digit YTY growth. Standalone firewall/VPN appliances dropped from 68%% of the overall security appliance market in Q2 2004 to 51% of the worldwide security...
During Q2 2005, close to 102,000 security appliance units were shipped in Western Europe, according to IDC. This was the first time quarterly unit shipments of security appliances in the region exceeded 100,000, following growth of 27% over Q2 2004 and 7% over Q1 2005. Revenue generated from Q2 2005...
Worldwide layer 2-3 Ethernet switch revenue increased 10% to $3.7 bln and ports jumped 11% to 66 mln between Q1 and Q2 2005, according to Infonetics Research. Worldwide L2-L3 Ethernet switch revenue is forecast to hit $16.4 bln in 2008. Worldwide layer 4-7 switch revenue is up 33% from Q2...
Worldwide enterprise router revenue totaled $791 mln in Q2 2005, up 4% from Q1 2005, but 7% lower than in Q2 2004, says Infonetics Research. Despite the mixed revenue picture, overall demand for routers is solid, with a 6% sequential and 13% yearly increase in unit shipments, and an expected...
According to IDC, factory revenue in EMEA server market systems grew at 2.4% YTY to $4.0 bln in the Q2 2005, the lowest growth rate recorded in nine consecutive quarters of positive revenue growth. The Euro picture of the EMEA server market is slightly gloomier, as the market declined 2.0%...
Server unit shipments grew by 10.9% in Q2 2005, the lowest unit growth in more than two years, IDC says. Linux servers posted their 12th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with YTY revenue growth of 45.1% and unit shipments up 32.1%. Microsoft Windows servers showed strong growth, as revenues grew...
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