Tae - can we add another $3 billion to the market cap?
The Ascent Of Gigabit Ethernet
By Joe McGarvey
1:30 PM. EDT
High-speed Gigabit Ethernet technology may not become
available until 1997, but market research firm Dataquest
Inc. anticipates that a market worth nearly $3 billion will
emerge around the high-speed networking technology by
the end of the century.
Despite a slow start, Trudy Barker, an analyst with the
San Jose research firm, said the Gigabit Ethernet market
will reach $2.9 billion by the year 2000.
Barker predicted that Gigabit Ethernet, which moves
data through corporate local area networks, or LANs, at
speeds of 1 gigabit a second, will make a significant
impact on the networking market, although the
technology's success also will depend on the
development of Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM,
technology.
"Barring any lurking killer applications for ATM, Gigabit
Ethernet will become the dominant backbone technology
in the near-term planning horizon," said Barker.
According to Barker, ATM technology will play a
significant role in the wide area network, or WAN, arena
and in environments that require a single network to carry
voice, video and data communications. Gigabit Ethernet,
said Barker, will be widely deployed in environments that
are data-intensive.
Dataquest can be reached at www.dataquest.com.
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