WinterGreen Research announces that it has published
a new study Digital Crosspoint Switches and Buffers: Market Shares,
Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has
541 pages, 166 tables and figures. Market growth is related to the
explosion of digital information and video that needs to be transported
over public and private networks.
Worldwide digital communication and data center communication
markets include digital signals for video as well. Digital information
may represent data or voice traffic. A large number of protocols
particularly those specific to the data center are supported by digital
crosspoint switches. Markets are poised to achieve significant growth
as equipment manufacturers find ways to design crosspoint switches and
buffers into products, giving significant new functionality.
Digital crosspoint switches are used in high rate data transfer
situations to support integration of information in data centers and by
carriers. Broadcast quality video transport of data on the Internet is
evolving new applications including those at every level of the supply
chain, creating demand at the high end for crosspoint switches.
High
quality, high speed data and video transport is part of the evolution
of broadband networks. Data within the data center is being moved to
storage devices and through networks. Data is moving across regional
and international locations at a more rapid pace.
According to Susan
Eustis, lead author of the WinterGreen Research team that prepared the
Digital Crosspoint Switches and Buffers market research study, “With
breakthrough 10 Gbps port capacity, the next generation digital
crosspoint switch devices enable a next generation level of performance
and architectural options for higher density system designs. These 10
Gbps devices are used to implement the 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps port
capacity. High speed data infrastructure for40 Gbps and 100 Gbps port
capacity is being built almost exclusively from 10 Gbps crosspoint
switches. The ability to achieve 40 Gbps data transport and routing
devices by stringing together 4 10Gbps devices is less expensive than
going to a 40 Gbps device.”
Any technology has an adoption curve. Components that start at
market prices are subject to economies of scale. They are priced
accordingly. Customers have shipments in 1 gig. These devices are
getting mature. The price is dropping substantially. The same is
happening for 10 Gbps devices.
Companies seem to feel that there is a little life left in the 10
Gbps crosspoint devices due to the recent technology breakthroughs
giving some market life to these devices before 25 Gbps and 28 Gbps
devices roll into full product release. Full product release is sure to
drive prices down for the new units, making it attractive to use
smaller crosspoint switches linked together to gain capacity.
Communications
semiconductors demand is increasing. Evolving technology for broadband
access is increasing data rates. The increase in network traffic is in
part because of the Internet and voice over IP. High speed video
transport has become more feasible and is being used more.
A quantum increase in the quantity of data that is being transmitted
has occurred. Broadband communications networks are supported in part
by advanced digital crosspoint switch devices that permit interconnect
functioning to be efficient. They are part of an overall market for
network infrastructure equipment and communications semiconductors that
offer attractive long-term growth prospects.
Networks are moving to embrace a universal Ethernet protocol. As
network bandwidth requirements continue to accelerate, more systems
require solutions for high-speed signal integrity problems. Crosspoint
switch connectivity product lines sell into carrier and enterprise
networking applications.
Products address an increasing need to transport signals at ever
increasing speed. Units go across fiber, cable, and copper backplane
applications. Incumbent telecommunications carriers, integrated
communication service providers, cable multiple service operators, and
data center managers are among those worldwide who continue to upgrade
and expand legacy portions of their networks. The aim is to accommodate
new service offerings. A further aim is to reduce operating costs.
The upgrade and expansion cycle requires the development of a
variety of new equipment created from advanced semiconductor solutions.
The development of new, next-generation networks is an ongoing effort
for both service providers and enterprise data centers.
This study
illustrates the digital crosspoint switch market driving forces. It
describes the principal competitive factors that impact the success of
digital crosspoint switches as they are used to provide chips for high
speed data integration management solutions. Market opportunities are
addressed in the comprehensive market study that lays out strategy
considerations in considerable detail: Markets at $260.7 million in 2011
are anticipated to reach $901.1 billion by 2018.
WinterGreen Research is an independent research organization funded
by the sale of market research studies all over the world and by the
implementation of ROI models that are used to calculate the total cost
of ownership of equipment, services, and software. The company has 35
distributors worldwide, including Global Information Info Shop, Market
Research.com, Research and Markets, Bloomberg, and Thompson Financial.
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