IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Networks Tracker provides quarterly market share data on a country-by-country basis for companies that need to constantly monitor market changes in terms of market players' performance, product trends, and country market developments. The tracker also provides quarterly vendor and market assessment in each technology and segment for unit shipments and value of shipments. Clients are supplied with Microsoft Excel pivot tables that provide simple data access and the ability to create thousands of analytical views.

This service covers the following markets and segments:

• Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and other EMEA.
• WLAN
• LAN switches
• Routers
• Enterprise VoIP equipment (IP PBXs)

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Technology: 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10/100 Ethernet.
• LAN switch form factor: Modular, fixed-managed and fixed-unmanaged, and Layer 2, 3, 4-7 LAN switches.
• Router segments: High-end, midrange, low-end, SOHO, and residential.
• WLAN: AP, wireless routers/gateways, bridges, wireless switches, mesh nodes, PCI cards, PC cards, and USBs.
• Shipments and end-user revenues for LAN switches, routers, IP PBXs, and WLAN

This service addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What are the quarterly shipments and revenues for the leading networking hardware vendors by technology and form factor?
2. Where is the market growth occurring by vendor and country?
3. What are the best-selling technologies for Cisco, Nortel, HP, 3Com, and other vendors?
4. How is the IP PBX market performing?
5. How is the WLAN market performing?

IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Networks Tracker examines how vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the network hardware sales market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of providers in this market, including:

3Com/H3C, Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Allied Telesyn, Avaya, Belkin, Buffalo, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, D-Link, Draytek, Enterasys, Ericsson, Extreme, F-5, Force 10, Foundry, Fujitsu, Hirschmann, HP Procurve, Huawei, Juniper, Lancom, Linksys, Microsoft, Mitel, NEC-Philips, Netgear, Netopia, Nortel, Shoretel, Siemens, Sitecom, SMC, Thomson, Motorola, and ZyXEL.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. Potential studies include:

Routers are segmented by ASVs.

Shipments and revenue by quarter, vendor, technology, form factor, and country.

The results are delivered eight weeks after quarter end.

The results are delivered in Excel pivot tables for maximum flexibility. In addition, the tracker provides a summary with quarterly assessment and performance analysis for the market in question.

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.