Infonetics Research: Telecom product market healthy, with accelerating growth in 2011

ANALYST NOTE "Businesses and service providers around the globe are starting to spend again on telecom and datacom equipment and software in 2010, and indications right now are that spending will accelerate through 2011 as the global economy stabilizes. Long-term growth in telecom product spending through 2014 will be fueled by a wide variety of segments, from data center infrastructure and security in the enterprise, to broadband CPE and next gen OSS and policy software on the service provider side," explains Jeff Wilson, principal analyst at Infonetics Research.

The report tracks 11 major categories of equipment

The report tracks 11 major categories of equipment and software split by enterprise vs. service provider spending, including 3 enterprise categories: network security, enterprise networking products, and enterprise telephony and unified communications; and 8 service provider categories: broadband aggregation hardware; broadband CPE; IPTV and IP video; optical network hardware; service provider VoIP and IMS equipment; carrier routing, switching, and metro Ethernet; service provider mobile and wireless infrastructure; and next gen OSS and policy software.

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