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dards compliance as their top times, 62% to 72% of service Nokia Siemens scores
criteria when choosing a packet provider respondents plan to highest for security, and
packet
optical transport network increase their 40G spending Alcatel-Lucent scores
equipment vendor. An unusu- each year between 2009 and highest for management
ally low number of providers 2011 and later, so Infonetics · an increasing number
A new Infonetics Research said they choose vendors recommends that manufactur- of service providers
study of incumbent and based on having that vendor’s ers be ready with right-priced plan to invest more in
competitive service providers equipment is already installed products to take advantage of packet optical transport
in North America, Europe, and in their network, suggesting an the expected expansion of 40G systems (POTS) products
Asia Pacific shows that 86% opportunity for non-incumbent expenditures.” in the next few years
expect their packet optical vendors. · service providers say
transport networks to save them Other highlights from the study the principal use of 40G
operational expenditures, of “Packet optical transport equip- include: over the next five years
which more than two-thirds ment – and 40G and later 100G · in a series of questions will be to aggregate 10G
expect OpEx savings of at least equipment, for that matter – can asking service providers flows, which reduces the
11% to over 50%, an important open the door for a vendor to to rate six packet optical number of ports needed,
driver in today’s competitive gain a service provider as a transport network and reduces management
environment. new customer for their opti- equipment vendors and operations costs
cal equipment, breaking the (Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, · 100G optical and 100G
Service providers participating buy-from-the-current-supplier Fujitsu, Huawei, Nokia Ethernet products
in the study, ‘Service Provider habit,” commented Michael Siemens Networks and will likely appear in
Plans for Packet Optical Howard, principal analyst of Nortel), Nortel scores about 2 years, first in
Transport and 40G’, named Infonetics Research. “Even highest for technology proprietary form, then in
product reliability and stan- in these troubled economic and product roadmap, standards form in 2011
Infonetics’ study is based on
formal interviews with 29
service providers in North
America, Europe, and Asia
Pacific and informal discus-
sions with these and many
other service providers during
the past 12 months. About 80%
of the study respondents are
the primary decision-maker
or have a lot of influence on
purchase decisions for packet
optical transport network
equipment. A packet optical
transport network carries
packet traffic, typically
Ethernet, on SONET/SDH
and/or WDM gear.
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