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ENTERPRISE EQUIPMENT
Networking Becomes Strategic |
 | ENTERPRISE EQUIPMENT: Growth All Over
There was a continuous adoption of technology across all major verticals |
| NETWORK INTEGRATION: NOCs Take the Center Stage
Expansion projects fuelled growth, and enterprises realized the benefits of remote management services |
| ROUTER: It's Cisco All the Way
In a market driven by large and complex network deployments, Cisco remains unbeatable |
| SWITCH: Switching on to Fast Track
Sales of Fast Ethernet switches exceeded those of Gigabit Ethernet switches in 2004-05 |
| VOICE SOLUTION: Enterprise Warm Up to IP
While BPO companies provided a fillip to IP telephony, growth in overall in traditional voice solution was flat |
| WLAN: Up the Popularity Chart
The market moved up on the back of several factors including the drop in equipment prices |
| NETWORK MANAGEMENT: Managing Gets Lucrative
Network management services with guaranteed bandwidth savings were the flavor last year |
| AUDIO/VIDEO CONFERENCING: Boardroom to Courtroom
Government was the key driver of conferencing equipment market |
| NETWORK
STORAGE: New Titan Comes to Town
The year saw EMC inch past HP in revenues to become the new leader |
| NETWORK SECURITY: Networks Get Security Aware
While vendors offered one-box solutions, organizations moved towards managed security services |
| STRUCTURED CABLING: The Mercury Rose for Copper
Cat 6 continued to be the dominant standard, with an estimated 48 percent share of the market |
| MODEM: Long Live DSL
Dial-up started its exit, as the market saw a barrage of high-speed Internet access technologies |
CARRIER EQUIPMENT
On Fast Track |
| CARRIER EQUIPMENT: Expansion Re-invented
With operators on expansion overdrive, business picked up across all segments |
| WIRELESS EQUIPMENT: Storm After the Lull
The growth rate skyrocketed on expansion orders from both the private and government operators |
| WIRELINE SWITCH: Shrinking Pie
Slowdown in deployment of wireline networks affected all switch vendors |
| BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE: The Curtain Goes Up
As operators walked the talk, the market saw significant movement |
| OSS/BSS: Half-throttle
Focus was largely on billing, infrastructure management and service level management; revenue assurance is yet to gain speed |
| TRANSMISSION: Rosy Picture
Nortel continued to lead the market while ECI Telecom emerged as the number two player |
| T&M: New Techs Drive Growth
Deployment of 2.75G networks and the launch of MPLS services by some operators pushed spend |
| TELECOM SOFTWARE: Faster, Higher, Stronger
The going seems to be just right for the Indian telecom software industry with a firm focus on broadband and
next-gen networks |
| TELECOM CABLE: Sunny Days Again
Telecom cable industry grew by an incredible 115 percent to reach an all-time high level |
| VSAT: Value Down, Volume Up
ISRO's EduSat project and e-gov initiatives were growth boosters |
| MOBILE HANDSETS: GSM Up, CDMA Down
Aggressive plans of GSM carrier paved way for explosion in the GSM market |
| FIXED PHONE: The Fixed Line Unplugged
Growth was mainly in FWTs but wired phones will see action |
BPO
Offshoring Comes Full
Circle |
| BPO:
Offshoring Comes Full Circl!
Ireland and Wales are reemerging as attractive locations-this time, as a consolidated regional European hub |
| BPO: Value in Specialization
The value chain lies between buyer needs-current and future-and vendor's capability to satisfy them |
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Waiting in the Wings |
| CDMA 1X
EVDO: Finally Making Business Sense
CDMA 1x EVDO offers operators the opportunity to tap high value enterprise customers |
| HSDPA: Big Brother Wireless
HSDPA would enable operators to deliver advanced mobile broadband services and applications |
| WCDMA: Wide Band Data on the Move
WCDMA capacity is relatively cheap, costing less than half the price of an equal voice capacity expansion in a GSM network |
| IP TV: Entertainment will Rule
IPTV offers service providers the opportunity to improve profits by offering customers enhanced levels of personalized and interactive entertainment |
| 10G COVER COPPER: Copper's 10G Avatar
Much ahead of the ratification-due next year-vendors launched 10G-over-UTP solutions last fiscal |
| VDSL: Future of Wireline Broadband
Demand for streaming video and video-on-demand services over broadband are expected to give an impetus to VDSL |
| IP SAN: Beyond the Rev-up
The very fact that the biggies too offered IP SAN solutions spoke of the tech's growing acceptability-and demand |
| ZIGBEE: The New
Bluetooth?
It would facilitate low-cost communication between multiple devices |
| MPLS: Getting into Access
IP networks can improve tremendously with the adoption of MPLS |
| GLOBAL ANALYSIS: The West is Looking Up To the East
In terms of the size of business deals and dominance the action shifts from the west to the east |
| EMERGING COMPANIES: New Kids on the Block
Companies don't become big overnight. You can see them coming up only by watching them closely |
| TELECOM POLICY: A Take All You Can Year
Government policy was benevolent towards the telecom sector in the past year. However, while the overall picture looks good, there is a lot of work to be done if the sector wants to achieve all that it has planned |
