Howard氏はこう続けた。「サーバー・ストレージ・スイッチハードウェアと比べると、はるかに大きな投資が常にソフトウェアに対して行われています。それは、NFVへの投資の約80%を占めています。」 NFV市場のハイライト詳細
- サービス事業者は、長期 (10~15年) にわたる仮想化ネットワークへの転換期のまだ早い段階にいる。
- NFVプロジェクト向け外部委託サービスの収益は、2014年から2019年にかけて71%の複合年間成長率 (CAGR) で成長すると予測される。
- IHSの予測では、データの管理・配布に用いられる映像コンテンツ配信ネットワーク (CDN) 機能のうちソフトウェアだけで成り立つ製品の収益は2015年から2019年にかけて30倍に成長する。
NFV Market to Grow More than 5-Fold Through 2019, Says HIS Campbell, CALIFORNIA (July 20, 2015) -IHS today released excerpts from its IHS Infonetics NFV Hardware, Software, and Services report, which forecasts the global network functions virtualization (NFV) hardware, software and services market to reach $11.6 billion in 2019, up from $2.3 billion in 2015. "NFV represents operators' shift from a hardware focus to software focus, and our forecasts show this. We believe NFV software will comprise over 80 percent of the $11.6 billion total NFV revenue in 2019," said Michael Howard, senior research director for carrier networks at IHS.
"The software is always a much larger investment than the server, storage and switch hardware, representing about $4 of every $5 spent on NFV," Howard said. MORE NFV MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
- Service providers are still early in the long-term, 10- to 15-year transformation to virtualized networks
- Revenue from outsourced services for NFV projects is projected to grow at a 71 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2019
- Revenue from software-only video content delivery network (CDN) functions for managing and distributing data is forecast by IHS to grow 30-fold from 2015 to 2019