According to Ovum RHK, the enterprise Ethernet services market in Asia-Pacific reached $5.5 billion in 2006 and will grow at a 12% CAGR to reach $10.9 billion by 2012.

According to the report, Point-to-point Ethernet-over-fiber connections will remain dominant through 2012, but will lose share to Ethernet over copper (EoCu); architectures based on next-generation SDH, MPLS, and WDM will account for roughly the same share of revenues in 2012 as today.

Ovum RHK forecasts strong demand growth through 2012 for enterprise Ethernet services in Asia-Pacific. Growth in ports in service and revenues has been strong through 2006, and both will advance at double-digit rates through 2012.

The Asia-Pacific market for these services is currently dominated by Japan- which claimed approximately 83% of 2006 revenues.