RE: Nice25 Jul 2020 10:53
"In March 2020 we achieved a further design win with another Chinese OEM that is working on integrating their UPF control software running over DPDK to operate on top of our ACE-NIC for UPF data plane offload with delivery of the complete offering for testing planned during Q4 2020"
" In early June 2020 we received a further order directly from another Asian service provider planning to deliver their own UPF control and offload, with Ethernity's ACE-NIC, the UPF data plane. On a success case, with a deployment plan starting from second half of 2021, this may lead to 500-1000 ACE-NIC card sales in the two years following starting of deployment"
"Furthermore, the Company is engaged in ongoing discussions on 5G Central Units data plan offload by utilising the ACE-NIC to support security, header compression, reordering, and protocol offloading with a number of software VNF vendors and service providers. An analysis performed with a vendor shows that by utilising the ACE-NIC on a server for acceleration of 5G CU networking and security functions, it resulted in an estimated 70% to 80% CAPEX saving for the service provider in deployment of 5G central units elements"
"Our estimated total addressable market for the next five years for NIC cards required for acceleration of 5G UPF is $1.2Bn, which the Ethernity ACE-NIC product family can address. This is based on the assumptions that a 100Gbps performance will serve 10,000 5G users, and with the market analysis (depicted in the Annual Report) that forecasts a total of 3 billion users by 2025. Within this we anticipate a market need for 300,000 FACs for 5G UPF over the next 5 years, commencing in 2021 with growth ramping up exponentially from 2022"
With ACEnic-100 set to go in the CU and indeed broadly applied across the core the market grows substantially. With the other side of the network into tier two and end user wearable or integration now looking like a fpga opportunity the market can grow again.
Ethernity has a UPF but most of the product will not be using Ethernity UPF. They will have a direct sale plug and play for boutique applications which will be a premium product but most sales will come through third parties. These are trusted, established local vendors with ready access to market through established routes.
I believe that Ethernity through this network will secure the lions share of the business.
2021 will show the first signs of what is to come and I expect 2022 to show revenue 10 times higher and only a small increase in costs.I believe that 10 times previous year will be with us until at least 2026 with the royalty escalation and market explosion fuelling growth.
What we have now is small but what is to come is huge.