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.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor shares for the following technology areas and segments. Measurement for this tracker is in ports (LAN switch) and units (router, WLAN), and end-user and manufacturing revenues.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• WLAN
• LAN switches
• Routers

Segmentations:

• 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, controller/router/switch, and NIC
• Shipments, manufacturing and end-user revenues for LAN switches, routers, and WLAN

Geographic Scope

• Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine)
• Middle East and Africa (Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, and UAE)
• Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom)

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Preliminary data: week 7 after period closes
• Historical data: end of the second calendar month after period closes