HTRC: Route Control to Boom

SAN ANDREAS, Calif. -- The HTRC Group, LLC, a leading advanced IP service market research and consulting firm, announced the availability of the 2002 Route Control Study. "Uncertainty in the ISP market is driving many enterprises to multi-home key locations," said Greg Howard, Principal Analyst and Founder of The HTRC Group, LLC. "Enterprises are becoming more reliant on upstream Internet connectivity for VPNs, Web sites, and Web services." In our efforts to better understand the market for route control products and services, we asked 98 U.S. and Canadian based respondents with multi-homed locations (and with 1000 or more employees) about their current and future plans to use route control technology in their networks. The ranks of organizations with multi-homed locations are swelling with new recruits motivated by an uncertain ISP market and a heavy dependence on Internet connectivity for applications including remote access and site-to-site VPNs, Web site connectivity, e-Commerce, Web services, Multi-media, Multi-cast, and voice over IP. Route control solutions are best known for balancing traffic loads for multiple upstream Internet connections at multi-homed locations, easing configuration and management burdens. The VPN market continues to grow at fast pace, fueled by the need to increase low cost network connectivity. Many organizations plan to migrate away from private network connections to site-to-site VPNs, increasing their reliance altogether on Internet connectivity. Most plan to maintain a combination of private line and site-to-site VPN connections with the need to balance private line and public network traffic loads. HTRC Group LLC