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Burgeoning Copper-Based Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Market to Reach Nearly $630 Million by 2011, Heavy Reading Reports

"Operators have installed more than $4.5 billion worth of carrier Ethernet switch/router equipment in recent years for traffic aggregation and transport, and they are now increasingly evaluating and deploying CEAP solutions to add new customer end-points to leverage metro network investments," said Stan Hubbard, senior analyst at Heavy Reading and author of the Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Quarterly Market Tracker. "Growth in the Ethernet over TDM access circuit and Ethernet over bonded copper pair equipment markets primarily has been driven by efforts to extend Ethernet services to more enterprise locations, but copper-based vendors also see emerging opportunities to address cell site/WiMax and DSLAM backhaul applications."

Heavy Reading has identified 77 equipment manufacturers that sell nearly a dozen major types of wireline equipment for Ethernet access, including the three types of next-gen solutions the research firm tracks in the Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Quarterly Market Tracker: Ethernet over TDM access circuit, Ethernet over bonded copper pair, and Ethernet over fiber switch/demarcation platforms. At least 15 companies sell copper-based CEAPs directly and/or in partnership with system integration companies and network equipment providers such as Ciena, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, and Tellabs.

Heavy Reading estimates RAD and ANDA led the Ethernet over TDM access circuit market in 1Q08, with approximately 20 percent share each. Other suppliers with more than 10 percent share include ADVA, Ceterus, and Overture. Hatteras and Actelis led the field of players that supply Ethernet over bonded copper pair platforms, with an estimated 38 percent and 29 percent share, respectively, in 1Q08. Adtran has emerged on the scene in recent quarters and captured a 20 percent share in 1Q08.

Heavy Reading's Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Quarterly Market Tracker delivers quarter-by-quarter revenue and market-share breakouts for each copper-based CEAP supplier and revenue projections through 2011. The quarterly tracking service also analyzes each vendor's market strategy and identifies and analyzes customer wins, providing granular insight into this emerging market sector unavailable from other sources. It provides a comprehensive list of more than 120 operators and other entities around the world that have purchased CEAP platforms.

Heavy Reading's Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Quarterly Market Tracker is being rolled out in phases to provide complete coverage across the CEAP space, including Ethernet over fiber solutions in addition to the copper-based platforms currently examined in detail in the report.

The tracker provides in-depth analysis of 11 vendors that are now generating sales from CEAP products. These include: Actelis Networks, Adtran, ADVA Optical Networking, Aktino, ANDA Networks, Ceterus Networks, Hatteras Networks, MRV Communications, Overture Networks, RAD Communications, and Zhone Technologies. Heavy Reading plans to add coverage of other vendors in coming quarters.

The Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Quarterly Market Tracker is distributed in a convenient, plug-and-play PowerPoint format. Quarterly reports may be purchased individually, or as part of an annual subscription service.

For more information, or to receive a PowerPoint demo of the Carrier Ethernet Access Platform Quarterly Market Tracker, please contact:

    Dave Williams
    Sales Director, Heavy Reading
    858-485-8870
    dave.williams@heavyreading.com

    Press/analyst contact:
    Dennis Mendyk
    Managing Director, Heavy Reading
    201-587-2154
    mendyk@heavyreading.com

About Heavy Reading

Heavy Reading is an independent market research organization offering quantitative analysis of telecom technology to service providers, vendors, and investors. Its mandate is to provide the comprehensive competitive analysis needed today for the deployment of profitable networks based on next-generation hardware and software.

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