Sponsors: SMC
Host: Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m. New York / 7:00 p.m. London
Overview:
For years, North American cable operators have hungrily eyed the lucrative market for commercial telecom services. The estimated $130 billion market represents a huge financial opportunity for the cable industry. In particular, SMBs represent a budding opportunity, given that they spend up to an estimated $50 billion on telecom services annually.

Cable operators already pass the overwhelming majority of SMBs with their residentially oriented HFC networks, mainly with last-mile coax links. But, until quite recently, they have lacked the technological means to take full advantage of their geographic reach and coax delivery system. Now, with the development of the new Ethernet over Docsis (EOD) specifications, MSOs finally have that technological means at their disposal. The evolving EOD standard gives cable providers a number of ways to cater to business customers without the need for costly new fiber extensions.

EOD enables cable’s traditional HFC plant to deliver carrier-grade Ethernet service to SMBs and even larger companies. Specifically, cable providers can use HFC lines to deliver such point-to-point E-line services as Ethernet private lines (EPLs), Ethernet virtual private lines (EVPLs), and Ethernet Internet access, as well as such multipoint E-LAN services as multipoint Layer 2 virtual private networks (VPNs) and transparent LANs, among others.

In short, EOD enables cable operators to compete more fiercely with the incumbent phone companies for the SMB telecom services dollar, especially as MSOs set their sights more and more on midsized firms. And, as the cable industry gears up to roll out its next-gen Docsis 3.0 spec on a much wider basis, EOD promises to become a far more powerful tool over the next few years.

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