Frost Radar: Carrier Ethernet Services in North America, 2025

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This analysis benchmarks seven leading providers of carrier Ethernet services in North America.

The market is in a mature stage of the product life cycle. Negative Ethernet revenue growth rates are primarily due to price compression, market maturity, and increased usage of multiple underlay technologies with SD-WAN. Service providers interviewed for this analysis quoted 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps as the most commonly demanded configurations, with demand increasing for 100 Gbps.

Network service providers differentiate their offerings through additional services, including Ethernet on demand, optional security solutions, value-added services via a self-service portal, and investments in upgradation and expansion of their network footprint to reach more customers and turn up services quickly.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.