Edge router market invites more players

Edge router market invites more players

By Jim Duffy

Three trends are driving the edge router market: IP TV, carrier Ethernet and multiservice networking.

These are also the reasons that the edge router market is expected to grow 21% this year to just less than $3.2 billion, the same rate of growth for 2005, according to the Dell'Oro Group.

Edge routing is crucial in IP TV for Ethernet and broadband aggregation, and IP services delivery. Ethernet and broadband aggregation routers collect thousands of Ethernet and DSL access feeds from subscribers for connection to IP TV content.

IP service edge routers personalize those connections by identifying the subscriber and implementing video subscription policies and preferences to the user/content interaction.

For more on this story, pleaseclick here.

Jim Duffy is Network World's managing editor of service providers. He has 15 years of high-tech reporting experience, including 10 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at Electronic News and MIS Week. He can be reached at jduffy@nww.com.