Service Provider Core Router Market Entering the 100 Gigabit Era, According to Dell'Oro Group

Latest Technologies Offer Significant Speed Boost for Internet Backbones

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Aug 03, 2011, 09:00 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the Service Provider Core Router market is expected to grow at double-digit rates over the next four years as service providers around the world upgrade the capacity of their Internet backbone networks with 100 Gigabit Ethernet technologies. Dell'Oro Group forecasts the Service Provider Core Router market to grow by almost 60 percent to over $4 billion in 2015.

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"We expect 100 Gigabit Ethernet interface shipments to ramp this year and to become a mainstream technology by next year. Service providers will be able to boost the data rates on their networks significantly, in many cases by a factor of ten," said Shin Umeda, Vice President of Routers research at Dell'Oro Group. "In the past, transitions to higher data rates have been a key factor in the growth of the Service Provider Core Router market, and we believe that 100 Gigabit Ethernet will support a similar market expansion," added Umeda.

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