The results are shown in Figure 3.2. By 2007, 84 percent of the respondents
will offer packetized voice as an Ethernet service, and 84 percent will offer Ethernet
Private Line. In 2007, several other popular offerings involve data storage and recovery:
storage backup (72 percent) SAN extension (64 percent), and data-center mirroring
(72 percent). Security services offered are also popular: stateful firewall (80 percent),
encryption (68 percent), DoS prevention (72 percent), and URL filtering (48 percent).
Figure 3.1 Worldwide Ethernet services revenue in 2006
EMEA
32%
Asia Pacific
43%
North America
21%
CALA
4%
Worldwide Ethernet Services Revenue
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Video services are popular, with triple play offered by 64 percent, broadcast video by
60 percent, video on demand by 52 percent, and video conferencing by 48 percent.
The breadth and variety of service offerings exemplify one of the primary strengths of
Ethernet: the ability to provision and deliver new services faster because Ethernet at
Layer 2 is agnostic and impervious to services riding on Layer 3 IP or other protocols
at Layer 4 and above.
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