Frost & Sullivan reports on European T&M.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

Fiber Optics and Communications, January, 2006

With considerable advancements in technologies such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), synchronous optical network (SONET), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), the European telecommunication industry is seeing accelerated growth.

"Internet Protocol (IP) Everywhere" is the new buzzword in the telecommunications industry, and, in the progress towards convergence, service providers are competing aggressively to offer triple-play (telephony, data, and video services) to their customers.

At the recently concluded Broadband World Forum (Europe) in Madrid, Telecom Austria announced the launch of triple-play services by the end of this year. In continuance with this trend, more countries are promising to deploy triple-play services in...