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ENTERPRISE NETWORKING
The Billion-dollar Smile
For the first time, Indian enterprises invested more than a billion dollars in networks |
 | ROUTERS: Year of the King
Cisco continued its overwhelming dominance of the router market, but others were active too |
| MPLS: A Slow Start but...
With operators increasingly offering converged services over IP, the future is bright |
| ENTERPRISE SWITCHES: More Managed Switches
Layer 3 and Layer 4 switches begin to gain momentum |
| BROADBAND EQUIPMENT: As Slow as Before
But action can be expected later this year as service providers start 'hungama' plans |
| WLAN: Wireless Takes Root
Growing awareness and price drops made WLAN the fastest-growing LAN-product segment |
| NETWORK SECURITY PRODUCTS: Security, First and Last
A new holistic approach by enterprises and corporates drives up the market by 30 percent |
| NETWORK SECURITY SERVICES: Playing the Catch-up Game
Professional and managed services were growth drivers in 2003–04 as security gets outsourced |
| NMS: To Be Powered by Telcos
With broadband connectivity catching on, telecom will contribute significantly to NMS' growth |
| NETWORK INTEGRATION: Behold the New Savior
With margins on product sales declining, network integrators are moving to networking services |
| VSAT: Up, Up, and Away
Despite competition from terrestrial and wireless connectivity, the VSAT industry grew quite a bit |
| VOICE SOLUTIONS: IP Spreads Its Tentacles
It finally makes headway as many existing customers go into IP-based upgrade mode |
| NETWORK STORAGE: New Driver Hops Onboard
As companies become more cost conscious, data management will start pushing up revenues |
| MODEMS: Finally, Broadband Bites In!
But it's not yet time to write off dial-ups completely |
| STRUCTURED CABLING: Swinging Fortunes
Cat 5e commands 50 percent of the international market now, but that could change in the future |
CARRIER
EQUIPMENT
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Socialist Growth
Consumers—and not businesses—drive the growth, creating a boom time in wireless |
| CARRIER SWITCHES & WIRELESS EQUIPMENT: All About Pure Growth
With minimal wireline, it was all about wireless |
| TELECOM CABLES: Holding on for Dear Life
Still reeling from the impact of the 2003 crash, vendors are now busy revamping their strategies |
| OSS/BSS: Grown with the Wind
Phenomenal growth in the mobile subscriber base helped OSS/BSS grow |
| TELECOM TURNKEY: The Fall and Rise...
Thanks to GSM-CDMA controversy the rising market dipped by 2.4 percent |
| MOBILE PHONE: A Ring-away Success
With a growth of about 568 percent, the mobile handset industry has broken all records |
| FIXED PHONES: The Thin Silver Lining
Mobiles have hit the fixed phone business hard, but low rural tele-density offers an opportunity |
| T&M EQUIPMENT: A Cyclic Low
Typical of T&M business, sales dropped last fiscal after two years of good growth |
| TELECOM SOFTWARE: The High Side of Software
All telecom software majors have registered good growth in the last fiscal |
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