The folks at Vertical Systems Group are predicting that Ethernet business services will hit $40.2 billion in revenue by 2014, the result of double-digit growth over the next few years.  I believe it for a couple of reasons.

One, these folks have been following the carrier market for more than two decades and they know what they’re doing. In my reporting days at Network World, I routinely turned to Rosemary Cochran and Rick Malone for analysis of the news of the day and they never disappointed.

Two, when I talk to end users about the WAN services they use (typically as part of my work recruiting speakers for Network World’s IT Roadmap events), I consistently hear about carrier Ethernet. And what I hear is nearly universally good.  The services are easy to implement  – it’s just Ethernet, after all – and offer great performance.

Carrier Ethernet is an area that should be ripe for some good case studies, as it’s a real success story. I know (because I wrote them) that NTT America has churned out a couple, on clients including Internet radio station Pandora and hosting company SoftLayer, resulting in some good coverage.

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