The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Chandrasekaran says the Australian market was worth an
estimated US$187.4 million in 2008, growing four percent from the year
before with projected growth of 5.3 per cent in 2009, with a CAGR of
4.3 percent expected from 2009 to 2015, to gross revenues of US$252.2
million by end-2015.
He also reports that the New Zealand market was
worth an estimated US$28 million in 2008, growing 23.7 percent from the
year before with projected growth of 9.2 percent in 2009, with a CAGR
of 4.7 percent expected from 2009 to 2015, to gross revenues of US$38.6
million by end-2015.
Frost & Sullivan reports that firewall and IPSec VPN (Internet
protocol security virtual private network) solutions continued to be
the dominant choice, accounting for the bulk of revenues last year at
74.6 percent (US$1.34 billion), and that this trend is likely to
continue through to 2015.
The SMB segment contributed slightly more than one-third to the total
revenues in 2008, and Chandrasekaran says he expects this percentage to
rise over the next few years.
“More and more SMBs are beginning to install at least first-layer
perimeter defence on their corporate networks as converged or
integrated security appliances have made network security affordable
for smaller businesses. By 2015, SMBs will account for approximately 45
percent of the revenues.”
Chandrasekaran also says he believes that the banking sector will
continue to be the biggest spender on network security moving forward,
mainly due to rising regulatory compliance. Moreover, he says,
“following the loss of public confidence in the banking system after
the financial debacle of September 2008, the last thing any CIO would
want is a security breach to further dent the confidence of existing
and potential customers.”
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