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Router market set for continued growth

20/03/2006 18:28:01

The global enterprise router market will grow significantly between now and 2012, a report from Frost & Sullivan suggests.

Last year saw the market's worldwide revenue reach $7.3 billion – and this is expected to rise to $12.2 billion in six years' time.

Forming the bedrock of this expansion will be VoIP, video conferencing, instant messaging and video streaming, suggests the report – although new, highly efficient network equipment must be invested in by companies if they are to capitalise fully on what is available.

Frost & Sullivan's Shirley Hunt explained: "The high-end router market is driven by the demand for global communications.

"Large corporations require high-performance equipment that can handle the wide variety of networking protocols and technologies that are used in the enterprise global network."

She proceeded to explain that network upgrades to facilitate these technologies will necessarily be carried out gradually so as not to disrupt existing ways of doing business – and that this is the one challenge which "slows the penetration of new high-performance routers into existing enterprise networks".



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