Adoption rates for U.S. retail Ethernet services will grow from $5.2 billion in 2012 to $9.2 billion in 2016, according to IDC.
High bandwidth applications such as data center connectivity, disaster recovery/business continuity, and data storage replication are the three primary applications driving adoption of Ethernet, IDC says.
Increasing enterprise use of 100 Mbps, gigabit or 10 gigabit services makes Ethernet a virtual necessity.
In a broad sense, even consumer Internet connections now use Ethernet, as Cisco data suggests, so the growth is not surprising.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
U.S. Ethernet Service Revenues $9.2 Billion by 2016
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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"... so the grow is not surprising." or "... so the growth is not surprising." ?
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