This latest edition of Analysys Research's Business Data Services report provides updated forecasts of spend on business data services, identifying the sectors that are deploying new advanced networks and the applications that will be key drivers of future growth. The report discusses the current state of the market and the migration from leased lines and FR to IP VPNs, DSL and Ethernet. Recommended actions for incumbent carriers, established data carriers, IP carriers, Ethernet carriers and systems integrators are included.

This report assesses business spend across two dimensions ? services and technology ? and the detailed approach taken to forecasts results in over 1500 data points. The data annex shows spend by a number of categories, including:

• size of enterprise: large (500+ employees), medium (20?499 employees) and small (0?19 employees)
• country/region: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Western Europe
• point-to-point circuits, layer 2 VPNs, IP VPNs and Internet access
• Ethernet, FR, ATM, BB and SDH leased lines and other
• management of VPNs
• access connectivity for VPNs
• spend per user
• spend per organisation.

Business Data Services: growth opportunities and forecasts 2005?2010 answers your key questions:

• Have the market drivers for data services changed over the last few years?
• What do corporate customers really want from their data networks?
• Are there different requirements in different sectors?
• What do smaller companies want from their data networks?
• Are Ethernet and DSL having the predicted impact on enterprise networks?
• How are oversupply and consolidation affecting the data services market?