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delivery solutions, which in turn will accelerate the demand for Carrier Ethernet. This
???reinforcing??? cycle could result in exponential growth, very much like that forecasted in
Chapter 3, and perhaps, even mirror the Ethernet growth story in the LAN.
While the recent rate of growth for Carrier Ethernet (past couple of quarters) appears
to support??”in fact, even significantly improves upon the rosy projections made
by industry analysts, it would be disingenuous to assert that this trend can be linearly
extrapolated over the next few years with a great deal of certainity. Carrier Ethernet
is after all still very much in its infancy and as it becomes more widespread, attendant
challenges and issues would inevitably emerge, and effect subsequent deployment (by
either hastening or slowing it) in a non-linear??”and very difficult-to-predict manner.
It would be a more meaningful exercise to take a closer look at the underlying dynamics
of the Carrier Ethernet market. This will provide insights into how the demand for
Carrier Ethernet might grow and the current set of solutions evolve in the course of
the next three to five years.
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