{"id":3135,"date":"2005-03-29T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/multiservice-market-rebounds.html"},"modified":"2005-03-29T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T08:04:05","slug":"multiservice-market-rebounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/multiservice-market-rebounds.html","title":{"rendered":"MultiService Market Rebounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><place w:st=\"on\"><city w:st=\"on\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">SCOTTSDALE<\/span><\/city><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">, <state w:st=\"on\">Ariz.<\/state><\/span><\/place><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">, March 29, 2005 &#8211; The MultiService switch market rebounded in 2004 with worldwide sales of $2.3 billion, an increase of 9% from 2003, reports In-Stat (http:\/\/www.in-stat.com). Sales to service providers accounted for about 90% of total MultiService switch sales in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;2004 was a turnaround year as service providers began spending to replenish capacity in their networks, add capacity for broadband aggregation, and offer new services, such as MPLS IP VPN and Ethernet services,&quot; says Henry Goldberg, In-Stat analyst. &quot;Wireless service providers were a growing, important market for MultiService switch vendors, as they purchased this equipment for Radio Access Network backhaul and other applications.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by In-Stat found the following: <\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">In-Stat forecasts 7% growth in worldwide MultiService switch sales in 2005, and a CAGR of about 6% over the next five years.\n<p \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">The MultiService switch market is mature, and In-Stat expects growth rates in sales to gradually decline over time as the products face stiff competition from routers as service providers evolve to MPLS networks.\n<p \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Nortel held the leading position in sales for the fourth consecutive year, attaining a market share of 34% of total MultiService switch sales.\n<p \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 29, 2005 &#8211; The MultiService switch market rebounded in 2004 with worldwide sales of $2.3 billion, an increase of 9% from 2003, reports In-Stat (http:\/\/www.in-stat.com). Sales to service providers accounted for about 90% of total MultiService switch sales in 2004. &quot;2004 was a turnaround year as service providers began spending to replenish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}