Market Researches - 18/11/06

A few set of market information released this week:

• According to In-Stat, almost 20m WiMAX subscribers would be counted worldwide by the end of 2010 (from 220k in 2006). Most of those subscribers are in the APAC region.

• According to Dell'Oro, worldwide DSLAM port shipments decreased 5% in 3Q06.

• Dell'Oro forecasts that the wireless mesh nodes shipments will generate more than $90m in revenues in full-year 2006.

• Dell'Oro has released its Carrier Ethernet Switch report, saying that Carrier Ethernet Switch revenues would exceed $2bn in 2006. Cisco and Alcatel are leading the market.