euromicron, one of the leading vendors of network infrastructures, is on the way to the next stage in its growth. “Agenda 500” is the name of the strategy which has been proclaimed by the euromicron’s Executive Board and for which it has budgeted an annual investment of between 3 and 5 million euros. The company is thereby pursuing its goal of achieving annualized sales of €500 million on a value-oriented foundation in 2015. The main contribution to that in the 2- to 3-year phase of integration is to be made by organic growth in the market for network infrastructures, a segment of lasting economic importance, before the company aims in 2015 to make a large strategic investment like the acquisition of telent in 2011.
The current discussion about the use of the technology called “vectoring” or “VDSL2” to expand high-speed, highly available data networks illustrates the great importance – including to the economy – of the market in which euromicron, the expert for network infrastructures, operates. For instance, BITKOM urges policymakers to recognize the opportunities offered by important growth fields, such as broadband expansion, and to lay the foundation for further digitization of the German economy. Only if that is done can the ICT industry play its role as a job engine and create 12,000 new jobs in the course of the year. (Cf. http://www.bitkom.org/de/markt_statistik/64086_75227.aspx)
The permanently growing demand for bandwidth is obvious. Studies like that by Cisco (Cf. Cisco VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast 2012) on developments in global IP traffic prove that very precisely. Trends such as big data, cloud computing or the Internet of Things are driving market growth and make life and work more secure, more convenient and faster – yet high bandwidth is also needed for the necessary data networks.
Network infrastructures – a gigantic growth market
Global IP traffic has increased 8-fold in the past 5 years and by 2016 global IP networks will transfer 12.5 petabytes every five minutes. The equivalent in gigabytes of all films ever made will ten pass through worldwide IP networks every 3 minutes, i.e. 1.2 million minutes of video content will be transferred over the networks every second. That is being accompanied by an explosion in the number of smart digital terminal devices, reflecting future user behavior. Whereas the number of company PCs is forecast to increase by 39 percent between 2010 and 2015 (the increase in private PCs is already 69), the number of tablets used worldwide is to increase by a hefty 2,170 percent over the same period. 3.4 billion Internet users are then forecast for 2016.
All that illustrates the enormous need to expand and modernize existing network infrastructures and create new, highly available networks. At the same time it is necessary to convert company’s “old technology” – networks, terminal devices, systems and applications – to state-of-the-art, high-speed networks. euromicron assumes responsibility for advising customers on and planning and implementing the “new” technology.
As a result, the market for network infrastructures is continuously growing and also driving demand for euromicron’s products, solutions and services.
euromicron excellently positioned in this growth market
euromicron is the specialist group for planning, advising on and implementing state-of-the-art, future-oriented network infrastructures. In-depth know-how and vendor-independent solution competence in communication, control and monitoring in the Gigabit age are united under one roof. euromicron’s customers benefit from precisely tailored solutions, products made in Germany and the comprehensive footprint of the medium-sized group. On the basis of powerful broadband networks, euromicron builds the data highways that private enterprises and public organizations need as they move to a successful future.
“We have continuously enhanced our qualifications for our market over the past years and, as part of our Group’s integration phase, will work unswervingly to build our skills and expertise and keep them fit for the future. Every customer is provided with the ideal solution for it so that it has everything it needs for communication and data transfer,” says Thomas Hoffmann from euromicron’s Executive Board.
Alongside the acquisition of smallish specialist companies, the establishment of Competence Centers is to help make the Group’s know-how available to the market.
Cultivation of key markets by Competence Centers
With the launch of the integration phase in 2012, cross-group teams were formed for important areas defined as future topics, such as data centers, active technology or unified communications. They have the technical expertise and numbers to help access new markets and strengthen the overall company’s market position.
In the field of data centers, for example, the focus of the URM Competence Center is on euromicron’s own structured cabling system URM®, which is being permanently developed further as part of the Group’s ongoing innovation initiative. URM enables high operational reliability and investment protection and is regarded as groundbreaking for future-proof fiber-optic cabling infrastructures and the move to the next generation of broadband.
As part of the current integration phase up to 2014, these and other measures are intend to achieve organic growth in sales of 5% to 10%, after which – following completion of the phase of operational realignment, creation of a strong foundation and the Group’s strategic further development – sights will be set on the €500 million sales mark in subsequent years. The market for network technology form a solid basis for that.
euromicron AG (www.euromicron.de) is an all-round solution provider for communications, transport, data and security networks. euromicron’s network infrastructures integrate voice, video and data transport wirelessly, via copper cable and by means of fiber-optic technologies.
euromicron builds its leading applications, such as security, control, healthcare or surveillance systems, on the basis of these cutting-edge network infrastructures.
Founded on its expertise as a developer and producer of fiber-optic components, euromicron AG is a strongly growing, highly profitable group that is listed on the stock market, has a medium-sized character and focuses on operational growth, integration and further market penetration, internationalization and expansion.