A new survey by Springboard Research, mentioned in this ZDNet Asia report, noted that data communications equipment will continue to form the largest share of revenues in the region with network security investments are also expected to escalate. The report by Springboard Research also stated that the public sector enterprise networking market will grow 13 percent between 2009 and 2013 in the Asia-Pacific.
“Nupur Singh Andley, associate research manager of connectivity at Springboard, said in the report: ‘With the increase in the usage of applications, cloud and outsourcing services, data and network security will assume high priority.’
“The research firm also revealed that education will receive a large bulk of the total public sector spending on networking equipment, followed by healthcare, utilities and defense.
