Six providers have been named to Vertical System Group’s mid-year 2022 Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard, which consists of companies with 4% or more of the U.S. retail Carrier Ethernet market share.
They are, in order, Lumen – which repeats as top provider– AT&T, Spectrum Enterprise, Verizon, Comcast Business and Cox Business.
The Challenge Tier, which consists of companies with between 1% and 4% market share, consists of Altice USA, Cogent, Frontier, GTT, Windstream and Zayo.
The Market Player tier includes all providers with port share below 1%. A non-exhaustive alphabetical list includes: ACD, AireSpring, Alaska Communications, Alta Fiber, American Telesis, Arelion, Armstrong Business Solutions, Astound Business, Breezeline, BT Global Services, Centracom, Consolidated Communications, Conterra, Crown Castle, Douglas Fast Net, DQE Communications, ExteNet Systems, Fatbeam, FiberLight, First Digital, FirstLight, Flo Networks, Fusion Connect, Global Cloud Xchange, Great Plains Communications, Hunter Communications, Intelsat, Logix Fiber Networks, LS Networks, MetTel, Midco, Momentum Telecom, NTT, Orange Business, Pilot Fiber, PS Lightwave, Ritter Communications, Segra, Shentel Business, Silver Star Telecom, Sparklight Business, Syringa, T-Mobile, Tata, TDS Telecom, TPx, Unite Private Networks, Uniti, US Signal, WOW!Business and Ziply Fiber.
Carrier Ethernet Market Share
Analysis in the report included:
- Port shares are tightening between several of the leading providers.
- Dedicated Internet/cloud access (DIA) was the fastest growing Ethernet service for the first half of 2022. It is on pace to be the largest Ethernet service overall by year-end based on billable U.S. customer installations. Primary Ethernet DIA applications are connectivity for cloud services and managed SD-WANs.
- Market demand is rising for Ethernet services ranging up to 100+ Gbps. Customers requiring higher bandwidth connectivity are also evaluating alternatives to Ethernet, including wavelength and dark fiber services.
- Ethernet service providers continue to grapple with supply chain challenges, including lengthy lead times and shortages of the supplies necessary for customer deployments and backbone network operations.
- Lumen and Verizon are the only providers on the Leaderboard with MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet (CE) certification.