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Carriers
Move Up Value Chain with Internet Data Centers
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., August 15, 2001
- The Internet Data Center (IDC) has emerged as the key vehicle
for carriers to move up the value chain by offering new services
to their data networking customers, according to Cahners In-Stat
Group (http://www.instat.com).
The IDC is a next generation Central Office designed to meet the
new economy demands of e-business. The high-tech market research
firm reports that carriers are expected to be filling their existing
IDC capacity and building new IDCs over the coming years, resulting
in a significant increase in worldwide carrier IDC revenues for
co-location, managed hosting and applications, storage and content
delivery services.
"For the past couple of decades, carriers
have been evolving their networks from voice to data and converged
multimedia networks. The next stage in this evolution is to offer
value-added services for data customers," says Henry
Goldberg, Senior Analyst
with In-Stat's Voice and Data Communications Group. The IDC offers
a set of outsourced Web site and data management services for businesses,
which relieve them of IT staff requirements or having to operate
their own corporate data center. Along with these services, carriers
also bundle data networking services to provide connectivity from
the IDC to other company sites, remote users, or business partners.
"Carriers have various competitive advantages that they can bring
to the IDC market, when competing against specialized non-carrier
companies providing similar services. These include bundling of
a range of data networking service options, end-to-end Service Level
Agreements (SLAs) for applications, an established customer base
for networking services, carrier-class IDC reliability, and financial
soundness," says Goldberg. Carriers that effectively exploit all
these strengths should be well positioned to win market share from
the non-carrier competition.
In-Stat has also found that:
- Carriers may offer one or more of
the following services in the IDC: co-location, managed hosting:
dedicated or shared, applications services, storage services and
content delivery services.
- Worldwide carrier IDC revenues are
estimated to grow at a 56% CAGR from 2001 to 2005.
- The benefits of outsourcing include:
reduced in-house IT staff and data center requirements, reduced
capital and operations costs by taking advantage of service provider
economies-of-scale and quality-of-service (QOS) guarantees on
Web sites, applications availability and performance.
The report, "Emerging
Internet Data Center Strategies of Carriers," (#TX0105MS)
profiles ten carriers that are leading Internet Data Center service
providers. Their service strategies and Internet Data Center deployment
plans are discussed. In addition, the report also profiles two leading
suppliers for the building and management of Internet Data Centers.
To purchase this report or for more information, please contact
Erin McKeighan at 480.609.4551;
emckeighan@instat.com.
The report price is $2,995 USD.
Cahners In-Stat Group (http://www.instat.com)
covers the full spectrum of digital communications research from
vendor to end-user, providing the analysis and perspective that
allows technology vendors and service providers worldwide to make
more informed business decisions.
In-Stat is a unit of Cahners Business
Information (http://www.cahners.com),
a leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions
to business professionals and a member of the Reed Elsevier plc
group.
For more information,
contact:
Henry
Goldberg, Senior Analyst - Voice & Data Communications Phone:
480.609.4510
Email: hgoldberg@instat.com
Kirsten Skedd,
Marketing Manager
Phone: 480.609.4534
Email: kskedd@instat.com
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