Overview:

Ethernet services are rapidly emerging as a low-cost, high-bandwidth service both in metropolitan areas, as well as an alternative for the WAN. Traditional service providers, as well as an emerging crop of start-up providers are rapidly expanding their service offerings, giving enterprise IT architects access to services across a greater range of geographies, with a growing set of options for bandwidth, access methods, and service level agreements.

This market analysis provides an overview of key trends in the Ethernet services market, including common service features, and a detailed feature matrix describing how service providers differentiate their service offerings in the following areas:

• Size of market targeted
• Vertical focus
• Geographies served
• Value proposition
• Key partners
• Service availability
• Engineering assistance
• Bandwidth speeds
• Availability of, or plans for higher-speed services (above 1 Gbps)
• Service provision times
• QoS/CoS feature availability
• SLAs
• Access types (e.g. Layer 1/2/3)
• Resiliency schemes
• Size of largest installations
• Provisioning technologies
• Plans for next-generation metro Ethernet technologies

Vendors covered in this market analysis include:
AT&T, Cogent, Global Crossing, Level 3, MASERGY, Orange Business Services, PCCW, Reliance Globalcom, Sprint, Vanco, Verizon Business

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