(Part II, Chapters 5 through 15, describe most of the solutions in use today.)
??¦But Will Slowly Converge to Fewer, Optimized Solutions
The demand for Carrier Ethernet, which is projected to grow exponentially, will intensify
the competition amongst Service Providers, who in turn will have to invariably
respond with differentiation and/or lowering prices. They, in turn, will have to seek out
ways to lower their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and optimize the delivery of Carrier
Ethernet services and raise profitability. As a result, they will seek out solutions that
will offer both a higher probability of differentiation, and aligned with new revenue
generating opportunities (supporting new applications), as well as the lowering of their
cost structure. This will mean that it will no longer be possible to employ legacy delivery
solutions that entail more overhead, limited in terms of new Carrier Ethernet
capabilities and not positioned to scale. With time, and additional fiber deployment,
the preferred solutions will minimize overhead (i.e., transport natively) and provide a
higher level of functionality (switching, etc.). These solutions will necessary represent a
subset of the current (category of ) solutions in the market.
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