Digital Lifescapes

Wireline telecommunications data services is a growing business communications category that includes expenditures on wide area network (WAN) data transport services. These enterprise communication services include dedicated cable, DSL, network-based IP VPN, T1, frame relay, ATM, and Ethernet services. MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) service is also part of this group. It's a high-performance telecom network offering that directs and carries data from one network node to the next with the help of labels -- making it easy to create virtual links between distant nodes. According to the latest market study by In-Stat , MPLS network services are becoming more popular and business spending will reach $2.4 billion in 2015. “MPLS is communication protocol agnostic and highly scalable,” says Greg Potter, Analyst at In-Stat. It was designed to provide a unified data-carrying service for both circuit-based clients and packet-switching clients. A number of different technolo...

Most traditional wireline data services spending by U.S. businesses has been consistently falling in 2009, according to the latest market study by In-Stat . However, there are a few exceptions to this trend. Overall, In-Stat expects a nearly 2 percent decline in U.S. business spending on wireline data services -- which represents the first time this market has declined in the 10 plus years In-Stat has been tracking it. Wireline data services include expenditures on wide area network (WAN) data transport services, as well as, dedicated Internet access (which includes cable and DSL), network-based IP VPN, private line, frame relay, ATM, and Ethernet services. Note, the category does not include managed services, such as, hosted IP telephony, LAN infrastructure, security, and other managed service solutions, which are tracked separately by In-Stat. "Ethernet Services and IP VPN services are among the lone bright spots in the market," says David Lemelin, In-Stat analyst. Spending...