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As carriers and enterprise users install Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) as the background protocol of choice, the ATM access concentrator market will present a wealth of opportunities for value-added resellers and network integrators.
The worldwide market for this equipment tripled last year, reaching US$205.4 million, according to Dataquest, a San Jose, CA-based market research firm. This year, it is predicted to nearly double to US$375.5 million, and will reach a whopping US$28 billion by 2001.
"This (1998) will be the watershed year for ATM access concentrators as ATM networks grow in size and the traffic volumes begin to test product architectures," says George Hunt, director and principal analyst of Dataquest's Networking Worldwide program. "We expect interexchange carriers to choose ATM access concentrator vendors for extremely large contracts as they extend their ATM service offerings."
ATM access concentrator equipment from companies such as 3Com Corp., Newbridge Networks and Sentient Networks takes legacy traffic from PBXs, front-end...