IDC's Latin America Semiannual Security Appliance Tracker provides quarterly data for the security appliance markets within enterprise networking (hardware-based firewalls, VPN, IDS - IPS, UTM, SCM). The product includes revenue for the network equipment vendors, an estimate of total market size (units and value), and an estimate of vendor market share per country. IDC provides unit and value segmentation by product category, vertical market, size of organization (small, midsize, and large), and type of channel (direct, distributor, VAR, SI, and other). The product covers Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela, with an aggregate total for the rest of Latin America.

This product covers the following segments of Latin America's security appliance market:

• Semiannual data with historical information from 2004
• Five-year annual forecast.
• Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela and the rest of Latin America
• Firewalls/virtual private networks
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Unified threat management
• Secure Content Management

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

• Vendor market share by product
• Vendors broken down by product families and models
• Product revenue by vertical market
• Product revenue by distribution channel
• Product revenue by size of company

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How big is the security appliance market per country?
2. Who are the three main competitors in this market?
3. What are the competitors' market shares in revenue?
4. Which vertical markets are adopting security appliance technology?
5. How is the security appliance equipment market changing quarter over quarter?

Note: Data is for illustrative purposes only.

IDC's Latin America Semiannual Security Appliance Tracker examines how vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the aggressive hardware-based firewall market. This product reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of the top vendors in this market, including 3Com, Check Point, Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, Nokia, and Symantec.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market.

• Excel analysis tool
• Interactive briefing
• Week 14: Historical analysis published
• Week 18: Forecast and forecast analysis published

Note: Data is for illustrative purposes only.

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.