A new study conducted by Infonetics Research has shown relevant evidence regarding the popularity and acknowledgment around Ethernet networking technology.

 

The study's findings indicate more than a fifth of service providers interviewed have stopped deployment and over half have slowed deployment of SONET/SDH gear in their access networks.

 

The study also revealed that the percent of service providers offering Ethernet over WDM for metro Ethernet services increased from 70 percent in 2007 and will reach to 85 percent by 2008.

 

Based on research conducted with 27 top tier service providers in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the study points to the Ethernet transport tunnels as an essential ingredient of the services and optical transport layers.

 

Ethernet (Industrial Protocol) reduces costs involved in engineering and installation and increases the return on investment (ROI).

 

"The most telling finding in the study is that the vast majority of service providers we interviewed have a strategy for using Ethernet instead of SONET/SDH for accessing and collecting customer traffic," says Michael Howard, principal analyst of Infonetics Research and lead author of the study.

 

"Ethernet as a carrier class technology has made considerable progress; almost 90% of service providers participating in the study believe Ethernet is mature for carrier class deployments, which is much different from the attitude of two years ago."