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Dataquest Reports ATM Access Market Is Positioned for High-Speed Growth Through 2001
Business Wire - December 22, 1997 08:22
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 22, 1997--As carriers and enterprise users increasingly install Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) as the background protocol of choice, the worldwide ATM access concentrator equipment market will grow from $76.9 million in 1996 to $1.28 billion in 2001, according to Dataquest, a market research unit of Gartner Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:GART).
The market is forecast to nearly triple in 1997 to $205.4 million and nearly double again in 1998 to $375.5 million.
"1998 will be the watershed year for ATM access concentrators as ATM networks grow in size and traffic volumes begin to test product architectures," said George Hunt, director and principal analyst of Dataquest's Networking Worldwide program. "We expect interexchange carriers to choose ATM access concentrator vendors for extremely large contracts as they extend their ATM service offerings."
ATM access concentrators take legacy-user traffic from PBXs, front-end processors (FEPs), LANs, and video coders/decoders (CODECs), convert the traffic into industry-standard, 53-byte ATM cells, and transport the traffic upstream to larger ATM switches for transport across an ATM backbone. ATM access concentrators have applications both in the enterprise and public markets as customer-premises equipment (CPE) devices and service-provisioning equipment located in carrier central offices.
The high-speed ATM access concentrator equipment market is one of the fastest-growing market segments in wide area networking with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 58 percent. Dataquest projects the high-speed (greater than 2 Mbps) ATM access concentrator equipment market to grow from $65.2 million in 1996 to $1.06 billion in 2001. The low-speed (less than 2 Mbps) ATM access concentrator equipment market is forecast to grow from $11.7 million in 1996 to $221.2 million in 2001.
Additional information about this marketplace is available in the Dataquest Perspective titled "The ATM Access Horizon Looks Bright." This Perspective reviews ATM access concentrator market drivers, the companies and products which compete in this market including strengths and weaknesses by vendor, and features required for broad market acceptance. This Perspective also provides a comprehensive five-year forecast on the market.
To purchase this Perspective, or subscribe to Dataquest's Networking Worldwide program, please call 800-419-DATA. This Perspective can also be purchased via the Internet at gartner.com netwwwdq9715ab000l.html . More information about Dataquest's programs, descriptions of recent research reports, and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at dataquest.com .
Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group, Inc., has been providing global market research and consulting services for the high-technology and financial communities for 26 years. Dataquest provides worldwide market coverage on the semiconductor, computer systems and peripherals, communications, document management, software, and services sectors of the information technology industry.
As the world's leading authority on IT, GartnerGroup provides clients with a wide range of products and services in the areas of IT advisory services, measurement, research, decision support, analysis, consulting and training. Founded in 1979, with headquarters in Stamford, Conn., GartnerGroup is at the center of a global community of more than 9,000 client organizations served by analysts in 80 locations worldwide. Additional information about the company is available on the Internet at gartner.com .
CONTACT: Dataquest
Tom McCall, 408/468-8312
tom.mccall@dataquest.com
