Currently, traditional carrier transport networks make up
the largest segment of the DDoS prevention appliance market in terms of global
revenue.
Deployments of DDoS prevention appliances to protect data
centers are rapidly rising; revenue for the data center segment will surpass
that of the carrier transport segment in 2012.
Without a doubt, the number-one driver for the DDoS
prevention market is the attacks themselves. From the Iranian elections, to
Wikileaks and the Anonymous army attacking anything with a whirring fan, DDoS
attacks have been big news for the last two years,” said
Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research.
The rise of botnets and easy-to-use tools (like LOIC) for
launching attacks means that there are more DDoS attacks pushing greater
volumes of traffic, initiated by a wider variety of attackers than ever before.
As a result, revenue for DDoS prevention appliances is
growing fast, particularly in the mobile network segment, which will see the
most explosive growth as it rides the compound wave of a transition to IP and
data, massive increases in capacity, and a new role as a juicy and highly
visible target for attacks.
Recently
Infonetics announced that the global network security appliance and software
market grew 6.4 percent in 3Q11 over 2Q11 to $1.46 billion.
Market leader Cisco increased its network security
appliance and software revenue 4.5 percent in 3Q11, easily maintaining its #1
position with close to 1/3 of global revenue.
Juniper’s network security appliance and software revenue
jumped 22 percent in 3Q11 moving them back into 2nd place ahead of Check Point.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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